Budgets Quotes - Page 15

• If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.

  Ralph Goodale

  Doubt, Use, Ifs

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• The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

  William Vickrey

  Depression, Holy Grail, Insane

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

  William Vickrey

  Balance, Achieve, Produce

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

  William Vickrey

  Doe, Levels, Produce

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  William Vickrey

  Impact, Government, Poor

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

  William Vickrey

  Real, Government, Rallying Point

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, House

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

  Atom Egoyan

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Movie, Breathing, People

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• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  Walter Karp

  Military, Risk, Special

  Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”

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• What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

  Walter Karp

  Powerful, Military, Cities

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• Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.

  Phil Keoghan

  Ideas, People, Imagination

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• I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

  Christine Gregoire

  Giving Up, Scratches, Able

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• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Charles M. Vest

  Helpful, Made, Taxes

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Book, Heart, Ideas

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• The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

  David Stockman

  Party, Lasts, Republican

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• As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Hands, Weather, Giving

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• Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

  Pete Hegseth

  Defense, Hawks, Exclusive

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• Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

  Herman Kahn

  Military, Thinking, Welfare Programs

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

  Sue Kelly

  Airports, Benefits, Economy

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• I still have access to enough money to live on in order to avoid bankruptcy for at least a few years as long as I stick to my budget Still, there's no amount of money in the world that makes one feel content with having no self respect. There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

  Patrick Stump

  Stupid, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

  Michael McCaul

  Rights, Years, Usa

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• The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Government, Appreciate, Support

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• One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

  Paul Broun

  Medicine, America, Doctors

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

  John L. Lewis

  Mother, Baby, Economic Inequality

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