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)

    “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
    —Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)

    “And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
    As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
    This pantomime
    Of compensating act and counter-act,
    Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
    My ablest time.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)