“There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world. right now.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingStuffRight NowScriptsTinyTraditionalPursueBudgetsIf I CouldReally Great Author:Joe Swanberg
“The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.” ThinkingSaidHomeInterestingCareersWorstRight NowAuthorityProjectsLateCriticismBudgetsCredibilityProposalVegasLas VegasStonehenge Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over the next decade or two, it adds significantly to it. So it's somewhere around $600 billion. We call for approximately cutting that in half and instead putting those dollars into true security here at home.” TwoHomeNextHalfCuttingSecurityExampleRight NowWeaponsProgramDollarsAddDefenseDecadesNuclearBillionsBudgetsDepartmentNuclear Weapons Author:Jill Stein
“I don't want to revisit history or try to re-interpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that we've had in the last, you know, since 2001, which has been an utter disaster, I don't think it's benefited us. Half of our discretionary budget, right, it's like 54% of our discretionary budget right now is being spent on the military. This is not working.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingHas BeensLastsGivenHalfMilitaryRight NowStartingDisasterBudgets Author:Jill Stein
“Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.” ProblemGovernmentInterestDealsGroupsRight NowConcernedRateCorruptionBudgetsFixedRoughRough TimesInterest RateGovernment CorruptionBudgetingHarding Author:Amity Shlaes
“We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America if they think we're headed to the road to Greece. And that's where we're going right now unless we finally get off this spending and borrowing binge. And I'll get us on track to a balanced budget.” IfsThinkingAmericaCompanyRight NowEntrepreneurTrackSpendingSavingBudgetsBalancedGreeceSavingsBorrowingBingeLife SavingBalanced Budget Author:Mitt Romney
“Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that you lay out a predicate right now, Donald Trump has recreated the Republican Party in his image.” IdeasPresidentPartyCenturyTrumpRepublicanRight NowLaysBudgetsRanBalancedRepublican Party20th CenturyFranklinBalanced Budget Author:Mark Shields
“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.” LooksKindMeanTalkingToo MuchCuttingRight NowSpendingBillionsWorriedBudgetsSpending Cuts Author:Paul Ryan