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Budgets are blueprints and priorities. -- Kevin McCarthy
Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities. -- Jeff Merkley
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. -- Mike Pence
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms. -- William E. Gladstone
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. -- Martin Filler
I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets. -- Julie Harris
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. -- Thomas Sowell
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them -- Katherine Mansfield
It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on -- Ben Horowitz
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets. -- Park Chan-wook
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels -- George Bush
You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented. -- Louis C. K.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. -- Thomas Sowell
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. -- Carly Fiorina
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct. -- Robert Rodriguez
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth. -- Rand Paul
Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced. -- Kevin Mitnick
In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts. -- Louise Slaughter
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. -- Austan Goolsbee
When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value. -- Tim Walz
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone. -- Wendy E. Long
When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely. -- Robert Zoellick
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real. -- Charles Vest
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. -- Freeman Dyson
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future. -- Bob Riley
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding. -- Lisa Ling
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world. -- Marcy Kaptur
I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. -- Faye Dunaway
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren. -- Ben Stein
I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere. -- Mark Cuban
We need to increase education budgets. -- Malala Yousafzai
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets. -- Jo Walton
Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films. -- Sam Neill
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. -- Matt Taibbi
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin -- Herbert Hoover
Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller. -- Colleen Atwood
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students. -- Arne Duncan
I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever. -- Lauren Shuler Donner
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets. -- Michael Schudson
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets. -- Shimon Peres
I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented. -- P. Chidambaram
You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience. -- Tony Visconti
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features. -- James Marsh
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA. -- Ted Cruz
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed. -- William J. Clinton
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down. -- Martin Scorsese
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films. -- Andrea Arnold
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. -- Katherine Mansfield
Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets. -- Rick Scott
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life. -- Mitt Romney
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line. -- Bill Gurley
It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies. -- Micah Baldwin
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals. -- Shirley Knight
Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat -- Narendra Modi
In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around. -- George Kaiser
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets. -- Bruce Boxleitner
It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on. -- Ben Horowitz
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. -- Julius Rosenberg
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine. -- Gore Vidal
There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. -- Julius Rosenberg
I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets. -- Ian Anderson
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts. -- Vivek Wadhwa
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut. -- Thomas P. Campbell
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. -- Steven Spielberg
I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties. -- Jamie Dimon
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom. -- Jason Blum
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes. -- Mike Pence
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. -- Eric Cantor
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. -- Fred Wilson
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. -- Amity Shlaes
God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets. -- Michael S. Horton
The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio. -- Queen Latifah
For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored. -- Bernie Sanders
If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people -- Ralph Siu
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences. -- Harvey Mackay
I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents. -- Jabari Asim
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers. -- Matt Cartwright
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P -- Ralph Nader
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. -- Paul Gillmor
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me. -- Lynda Resnick
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities -- John Warren Kindt
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder. -- Frank Gehry
In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets. -- Nicholas Sparks
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us. -- Rand Paul
The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets. -- Robert Kane Pappas
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist. -- Nicholas Sparks
Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices. -- Janet Yellen
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
You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me? -- Roy Scheider
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. -- Matt Taibbi
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation. -- Pat Robertson
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. -- Gary Locke
The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets. -- Brad Bird
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income. -- Harry Browne
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent. -- Paul Bettany
But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference. -- John Landis
The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas. -- Jean-Claude Trichet
Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities. -- Dennis Hastert
The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime." -- Ace Hood
I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive. -- Tom Golisano
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. -- Stuart Symington
Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic. -- William J. Clinton
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it. -- Robert D. Kaplan
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets. -- Bill Gates
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together. -- Robert M. Gates
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch. -- Heath Ledger
[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers. -- Paul Laxalt
The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities. -- Lawrence R. Klein
If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer. -- William H. Macy
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
The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin. -- Scott McCallum
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is. -- Brett Ratner
Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems. -- Jeb Bush
If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all. -- Hans F. Sennholz
You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs. -- Bill Gates

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