Ron Schiller Quotes

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.

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.

Difficult economic conditions require us to face difficult economic choices.

As Secretary of Defense my job would be much easier if I didn't have to put up with [budget] cuts.

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

As a model, I look at clubs like Brighton and the success they've achieved gradually on a sustainable budget. I want to take a similar approach.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

I've been making the NHS's case that we need significant and sustainable funding increases to meet the demographic challenges we face, and the prime minister completely appreciates that.

As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.

As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.

Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.

Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.

We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees.

If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.

Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.