Budget Quotes

You're talking about an infinitesimal amount, probably less than, you know, five-tenths of 1 percent of the overall budget... It can be done. - Trent Lott

Young adults can learn a valuable financial lesson planning for prom expenses. With a budget, they can still have the night of their lives while avoiding the nightmare of overspending. - Debra Pankow

You'll almost certainly spend all the rest of your pay, but your daily expenses will adjust themselves, magically, to the amount of money in your account. You will budget mentally, without having to write everything down. - Jane Bryant Quinn

You would have thought I asked for an increase in our budget of a million dollars. They were giving me a hard time about changing from ham to turkey. - Chris Dailey

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them. - Daniel Keys Moran

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. - Don Siegelman

You sit down and work out a budget -- and it's not a four-letter word despite what people think. - Laurie Campbell

You should not be thinking about cuts that will set us back. I would not vote for a budget that would set us back. - Ronald Goldstein