Budget Adjustment Quotes

I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

We have no choice but to make our local government fit the size of our local economy. We must all bear our share of the pain.

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.

They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.