Thabo Mbeki Quotes

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.

With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

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

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.

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.

Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.

It is weird because a lot of people don't realise, I would struggle for budget. There are moments with the people I work with sit there and think what have we got to do to make people realise that if Billy doesn't get sponsorship he won't be racing.

When I arrived at Liverpool, the budget was £20m gross. When I left, it was £17m, but still people said I must win the title. Manchester United had around £50m more every year, but they said I must compete against them.

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.

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

We need to address significant funding gaps when it comes to implementing the SDGs.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.