Budgets Quotes - Page 20

• Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

  Caroline Knapp

  Order, Psychics, Cake

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• Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

  David Knopfler

  Views, Wonderful, Week

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• States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

  John Kitzhaber

  Requirements, States, Balanced

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• I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

  Patrick McHenry

  Writing, Reform, Needs

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• A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

  Grace Napolitano

  June, Office, Benefits

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• I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Pressure, Clinton

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• Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Thinking, Needs, Remember

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 12, 2009.

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• As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Organization, President, Dollars

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• I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

  Oren Peli

  Dirty, Character, Thinking

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• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Blood, Sitting, Sugar

  "Mary-Louise Parker Discusses The End Of Weeds". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 3, 2012.

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• He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

  Reince Priebus

  Jobs, Pride, Cutting

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• Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Long, Choices

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• I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

  Rob Portman

  Strong, Years, Records

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• Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.

  Christina Romer

  Fall, Turkeys, Office

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• If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

  Christina Romer

  Running, Thinking, Class

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• There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Want, Helping, Film

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• I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Favors, Want, Reducing

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

  Spider Robinson

  Men, Apollo, Mars

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• Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

  Steven Rattner

  Successful, America, Long

  "More Chips For Tax Reform". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.

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• Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

  Steven Rattner

  Children, Thanks, Social

  "Stop Stealing From Our Kids" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

  Ving Rhames

  Lunch, Differences, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

  Donna Shalala

  Mistake, Years, Together

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• Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

  Eriq La Salle

  Trying, Nineteen, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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