Allocation Quotes

Athletics is a luxury.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

There's no shortage of projects we want to build. There's a shortage of money.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Everybody wants a seat at the table, but nobody wants to give up space.

We must bite the bullet and provide the resources to make programs come alive.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

You give the money where you want it.

I'm just a piece of the pie, a slice of the pound cake.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

It cost money to fix things so that I would know his bill would not pass. I believe that with $200,000, I can pass our bill.

There is a supply for every demand.

You put your time where your priority is.

Who's next?

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Without sufficient funds, nothing could be efficiently done.