Cutbacks Quotes:

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

- Joan Rivers

source: Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

topic: Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels, Slacker, Aerosmith

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

- Steven Tyler

topic: Tunnels, Light, Insightful, Slacker, Aerosmith

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

topic: Art, Wall, Bricks, Brick Wall, Cutbacks

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

- Eric Cantor

topic: Horse, Fighting, Agency, Earmarks, Cutbacks

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

- Allen Klein

topic: Cutbacks, Layoff

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

- Robert Townsend

topic: Business, Tunnels, Light, End Of The Tunnel, Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for the poor, young people and the elderly.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Responsibility, Elderly, People, Business Models, Cutbacks

Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners with protectionism, devaluations, cutbacks on imports. But is there going to be a dramatic change? TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

- Gary Shilling

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Growth, Trying, Eras, Dramatic Change, Protectionism

We have also seen an economic crisis that is very serious within Venezuela, we are seeing cutbacks, I believe even more are coming in terms of electricity. Government employees no longer work on Fridays, and that has not been enough.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: www.univision.com

topic: Friday, Believe, Government, Cutbacks, Government Employees

Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.

- Lakshmi Mittal

topic: Cutbacks

The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

- Richard D. Wolff

source: "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

topic: Self, Decision, Voting, Board Of Directors, Cutbacks

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Class, People, Cutbacks, Little Money

Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

- Jeffrey Zaslow

topic: Real, Book, Inspiration, Obsessing, Cutbacks

The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

- Barry Diller

topic: Thinking, Years, Ideas, Losing Money, Worst Times

The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

- Robert Pollin

topic: Believe, Yield, Oil, Sustaining Life, Cutbacks

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

- Henry Waxman

topic: Military, School, Politics, Cutbacks

Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start!

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Friday, Couple, Night, Cutbacks

I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

topic: Mean, Self, People, Cutbacks

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

- Jonathan Sacks

topic: Past, Government, Gaps, Cutbacks, Secular Society