Budget Control Act

Famous quotes containing the words budget, control and/or act:

    “We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron- clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life until they can control it.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Think of those barren places where men gather
    To act in the terrible name of rectitude,
    Of acned shame, punk’s pride, muscle or turf,
    The bully’s thin superiority.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)