Bob Riley Quotes

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

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

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

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

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

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

We all have to sacrifice to reduce the debt, but we can’t sacrifice our future.

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

You make budget cuts based on what you want to accomplish. You have to decide what is our priority going forward as a country. You cannot do it on the backs of any one group of people... There has to be some balance.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

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

How well we spend education dollars is just as important as how much we spend.

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

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

You have to spend a lot of money to build strong sides.

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.