Surplus Quotes

You've got a surplus so far for the year of just under an inch, which is good. - Mike Berry

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position. - Kenneth Lay

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 can argue that it's in everybody's interest to maintain a positive spin, but the point is the fundamentals in Indonesia and across the region are healthier than the case in 1997-98, particularly with most of the countries running current account surpluses and not dependent on borrowings from overseas. - David Cohen

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. - Orville Wright

With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned. - Angela Veitch

With the stronger trade surplus, I would have expected the Canadian dollar to do a little bit better, except of course at the same time the U.S. trade deficit came in smaller than expected. As a result it's been positive for the U.S. dollar. - Carolyn Kwan

With the 2004 and 2005 fire season having been relatively less active than normal, surplus funds sit in this account and can be rescinded without hurting the program. - Scott Milburn

With supply just not arriving quickly enough, it is increasingly looking as though it will take a severe downturn in economic growth and copper demand growth to tip the market into surplus. - Adam Rowley

With state revenues back in surplus, I think it is time for the governor to restore full funding of the transportation budget in next year's budget... Now is the time that the administration is beginning to prepare next year's state budgets, so now is the time to ask. - Mark Norris