Angela Merkel Quotes

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

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

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

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.'

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

You never have to change a book for budget.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

My buildings are all on budget.

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

Hoarding money is not like hoarding grain or food supplies. Moses' advice to the Pharaoh was the right advice for the dark years of Egypt. The Pharaoh had to store up in the seven good years to tide one over for the seven bad years. Egypt needed huge stocks of grain and staples to help its people pull through a severe drought. The ultimate reserve fund for a king is a healthy, vibrant and skilled population

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.