[Sen. Richard Cohen (DFL-St. Paul), who authored legislation calling for inflation to again be considered in state budget projects, was less tactful.] We knew that if you don't budget for inflation it will catch up with you, ... Three dollars a gallon for gas was not predictable, but rising costs were certainly predictable. We had an ostrich-buries-his-head-in-the-sand approach to the budget because we were trying to get through the session without admitting we had to raise taxes.
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Related In the past, when we had the more difficult budget years, it was considered successful if we were ab... CARLOS BRACERAS For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Hai... KATHERINE DUNHAM The Harmon fund was set up to do some things that our budget wouldn't allow. Ten years ago we were l... DICK HARRIS We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;... RICK PERRY We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we contin... CANDACE SMITH We had been paying for it actually all along. When we were a state agency it was a transfer from our... ANDY WESSELS In 1993 we had an economy coming out of recession, we had unsustainable budget deficits in the proje... MAX SAWICKY Annual increases in line with the inflation rate will help companies plan and budget for postal cost... GENE DEL POLITO The current budget reflects this administration's current priorities. They wanted a budget that give... ANDREW ROSS We put together a budget for what we thought we would raise and spend on the convention and whatever... GREGG HARTLEY We were students on a limited budget. We had to move. JALAL FARZANEH It is not advisable to have an alternative budget without knowing how much you are budgeting for. It... BERNARD BALIKANI I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ... LINDSAY THOMPSON You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this las... RICK PERRY See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some... DONNA SHALALA We were asked to give a 20 percent group discount, so we had to reduce our budget and try to do more... SEAN WHETSTONE We?re going to have to budget $10,000 for gas. JOANNE VAVREK These were all things that we are just putting out there that are going to be in his budget. We were... LYDIA LENKER I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... CHRIS CHRISTIE We noticed that, too, as a team. You can become predictable. Teams kind of picked up on it. When we ... ANTONIO BRYANT Our projects in the future, we will be looking at very closely to determine how most efficiently to ... JOE SHIPMAN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we ba... JOHN KASICH However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even th... TIM BISHOP Based on the budget we were looking at, this levy will be used for the operating budget, salaries, r... WADE ESTEP I think we will eventually need to have an operating budget referendum but the problem is I don't th... LUCY MATHIAK When we'd look at our budget for the last couple years, we were unable to pay our operating services... WENDY KRAJEWSKI I just didn't feel it was necessary for the homeowners association to pay for this, especially if we... CRAIG CIVALIER Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democrat... CLAY RICHARDS The budget was approved in the state you presented it, meaning that it would be able to sustain its ... CDE KARIMANZIRA We simply disagree with the audit's conclusion that the CPA provided less-than-adequate controls ove... BRYAN WHITMAN It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class... GEORGE CARLIN We are looking at that next budget because, as much as this budget did to fund projects and some oth... DEBRA MILLER We don't have money in our budget for technology. We had to find an economical way to meet our stora... GEORGE MURPHY We have to work within a budget. We feel we are doing that safely and securely and we evaluate this ... DEE DEE SHORT When you adjust it for inflation, a year ago we were looking at gasoline prices that were cheaper th... DANIEL YERGIN What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We always had this window to try to get him fit with the maximum amount of rest we could afford befo... DR PETER GREGORY When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we wou... ROBERT MORGAN The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget. DEBBIE ALLEN We revised the budget based upon September and October taxes that had been collected. When I am look... JULES GAUDIN It will be a lot of help to the budget, ... Now we can get some things the budget didn't cover. JAMES HOOD What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro... LEWIS BLACK But we haven't come up with any measures to deal with the matter. The wage hike is impractical becau... ALEX PADILLA The last year we had to vote on and make some very, very severe cuts in the budget, and that was har... JACK JACKSON We were about one-third into the year and we had maybe 65 to 70 percent of our budget receipts ... f... BOB BOWEN There's always a financial risk. You don't budget to make money on it - or, we never make money - we... BRUCE SEVY We have the same amount in the budget, but we will be able to get more streets done, DENISE GRIFFIN I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget d... JENNIFER GRANHOLM Congress usually puts aside every budget from the President and will write their own. We will be wor... BILL BRUINS We were trying to get K.B. coming off a screen, but everybody in the state of Tennessee knew what we... MARC HIGDON Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollar... SAM EWING We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues. ANGELA ADAMS If the funds must come from the state budget, the buy-back cannot be realized this year because ther... INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS Down the road we may call Charlie for budget consultation. He is so familiar with the budget we may ... DARRYL GRENNELL We are facing a national crisis. We had a very serious situation before Katrina, ... It is very frig... BERNARD SANDERS A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However,... ANDRZEJ WAJDA Price was probably the main driver; we had a fixed budget. GRANT GRIFFITHS It's expensive to travel for that long with such a large group of people, but we had three core valu... DOUG WOOLARD We are trying to set up a budget that you can address, that you can look at and see where things are... MANAGER HENRY DURANT The school was opening in September. The budget was set. We went into the dormitory and found kids t... HANK FORD I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right a... KURT SCHRADER Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I realized we had created a Jesus who's safe for the whole family. But if we were honest, we'd ask, ... JEFFERSON BETHKE We were having the annual board meeting on the same date the president's budget was released - Feb. ... MARILYN BLACK To say the truth, I am worried and wonder how far our Agriculture can go with budget allocation of l... SOTONYE ANGA we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI It ends up resulting in a reduction in what we're able to accomplish, because we have to make adjust... DAVID MONTANYE Going back to 1970, we usually budget around 91 cents a gallon. We added an extra 30 cents per gallo... JUSTIN JONES [Ellin was looking for a rapper who had not yet made it, but had the talent to do so.] As we were wr... DOUG ELLIN Damon brought me the information and the guarantees were in line with the budget we had. I had no id... BRUCE VAN DE VELDE The increases were just higher than we thought. As we did last year when we asked for budget increas... BECKY COFFEY We didn't have the largest marketing budget for the comedies to begin with, and what we had, we spli... JOHN LANDGRAF It's classical mythology, Cohen," said the minstrel. "I thought everyone knew. He was chained to a r... TERRY PRATCHETT Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL With the budget cuts, we felt there was a real need for an organization to focus on fund-raising pro... JANET BERRY Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reduci... FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, a... SKITCH HENDERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... This is a good budget that will allow us to have the money we need to fix social Security for over t... JOHN KASICH From the start, it was very difficult to budget because we had no way of knowing how expensive the t... ANNE BARTON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the ... DANIEL KEYS MORAN If we had to go to a lower percentage increase with this budget we would not be able to offer the sa... BETH BYE For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. M... IRVINE WELSH It's a very big jump, I am surprised. We had expected a 50 percent average increase. It will be good... ARFAN KARNIODY We understand their claim to fame is not raising the budget. But we're concerned with all the money ... ROBERT HOUSER Positively, ... Is my budget in jeopardy? Yes. I predicted a $1.80 cost per gallon without predictin... FRED RUSSELL We made it clear that we need to balance our budget for 2006. EVERTON MOORE Up until last year's budget, when New Jersey started to reduce the structural gap between revenues a... RICHARD MARINO We had to rent a Budget truck to take the overflow, and the trailer was full. We didn't want to leav... JAMES SANDERSON We don't count on the booth money for our operating budget, but it always funds one of our major pro... GEORGE SHOLL Just admit it, Tim, you raised taxes, ... He broke ties in the Senate, folks. That was his only duty... JERRY KILGORE I was happy with that. We were in a funk for better part of three quarters and (Union Local) had a l... KURT CLIFFORD We will include in the budget submission an estimated 70 billion dollars. The actual figure, when we... JOEL KAPLAN This year we have not done a thorough enough job going through the budget to look for reductions. A ... TOM FIORENTINO
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