“When our Homeland Security Alert System goes to orange, our state and local governments' budgets go into the red. I fear the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress are sacrificing homeland security and other needs in favor of deep tax cuts that will have little or no positive effect on the economy.”
Mark Udall
“Social Security should not be a resource for negotiators over the federal budget deficit,”
William Novelli
“Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.”
Ed Loyd
“It's not unusual for a university to get attacked. It's a combination of open access policies and low security budgets.”
Avivah Litan
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.”
George W. Bush
“Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.”
Katherine Mansfield
