Government Quote by William Vickrey Download Open image “The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.” — William Vickrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Impact Indicators Politics Poor Revenue
The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our… — Jim Jeffords Copy Share Image
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important for a government than getting its budget through. — Annastacia Palaszczuk Copy Share Image
I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented. — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country… — Maya MacGuineas Copy Share Image
Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.” — Keith Davis Copy Share Image
A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch,… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image