When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

When it’s all said and done, I’m held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there’s nothing I would rather do than grant everybody’s wishes. Unfortunately, I’m not in that position.

Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.

Schwarzenegger’s budget is smoke and mirrors; we need a governor who will be more serious and frank and honest with the voters.

Not only did I not get it done, but I’m over budget too. I’m like a politician.

Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn’t include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

We’re in a very different world now. We demand accountability for spending. … We should look and demand accountability for every one of these tax breaks of which there are many in this budget.

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we’ll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our...

They were overlooked in the budget last semester, and it would not be fair to shoot them down due to a technical error.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

We’re on a very limited budget and it (daily operations) cost a lot.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

You used reports of a projected surplus in the budget to basically promise everything to everybody. In fact, you took credit for everything except raising our property taxes.

Compared to other fiscal and budgetary years, at the start of the [budget process,] we have been at 22, 20, and 18 percent so we are below where we have been in the past couple...

It’s one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush’s budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with ‘Hey, look over there, it’s Saddam Hussein.’

Every penny that we lower it, that’s $5 million from the budget.

It’s insane to try to balance the budget.

The luxury of having a larger budget wasn’t about spending $100,000 mixing with fancy Hit Factory mixers to get radio songs. But we knew if something wasn’t right, we could afford to go back in...

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It’s a budget chip that’s moving forward gradually.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my...

It doesn’t matter whether funding comes from a dedicated budget or from R&D. The trend is to remove funding from commercial ties to better comply with new industry trends. Some companies still rely on marketing...

By the look of things the budget for players has changed too.

I’m always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I think the Budget is going to be positive. The last government numbers up until December point to a small deficit and, pushing it out to the full year, the deficit should be less than...

That was probably their catering budget for three or four days.

It would be fiscally irresponsible for us not to have the ability to cut days. We were elected by the community to manage the budget.

It is true that we have such a rich budget because we want to try as much as possible to qualify Ghana 2008.

It’s a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn’t have picked a better guy to hype the space program.

How can we vote when we saw nothing of the last budget?

When the city has a good budget, we can plant a lot of trees, but when times are tight, you don’t plant anymore than you have to.

I think the FEMA budget should be dramatically increased. And I say that as a conservative who’s not reflexively for more government spending. The department has always tried to do homeland security on the cheap.

You can go back years and place blame, but the bottom line is that we have a budget before us, and we need to be responsible to the taxpayers.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care...

We have serious constitutional concerns about how the legislature drafted this portion of their budget. And I would not venture to speculate on whether the governor will veto this item.

among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn’t. There is something sobering about sending away that much...

If you don’t have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it’s given to you! If you don’t have an idea, you can’t even know how much money you need… This is...

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

We didn’t budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped – kind of stuck in the ’50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

If there’s a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we...

It’s still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other...

It’s an off budget year, so there is not as much going on in that regard. However, there may be a desire to spend some of the higher revenues that are coming in. It will...

[Yet for a state such as Washington, which has no personal income tax and takes nearly half of its revenue from sales taxes, a dramatic decrease in its tax base would spell disaster.] Sixty percent...