Ezra Pound Quotes

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

The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

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.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

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

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population—ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

Instead of condemning Israel, the underdeveloped countries should take it as an example of how to build an advanced, prosperous nation.

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful...

I don’t think everybody fully appreciates the consequences of slower growth, which are very serious. You need growth to have the resources to build the infrastructure, housing, to uphold the standard of living.

We are to give money of which we have to little for land of which we have too much.

Nation building cannot be done on the cheap.

Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I'm confident we can swing it. But it's going to be tremendously expensive - the infrastructure and so on.

Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.