Sentence examples for courageous budget from inspiring English sources

Today, Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes.

Mr Ayrault called it "a courageous, responsible budget - a budget of conquest".

What's courageous about a budget that sticks all the responsibility for closing the budget deficit on the middle class?

Mr. Ryan's budget isn't courageous.

So the mayor of London Boris Johnson pledge to keep the Olympics within its current budget is decidedly courageous.

Regular readers know that I consider the blueprint for Medicare reform in Paul Ryan's 2011 budget to be courageous, admirable, and a great service to the country.

Ryan, chairman of the House budget committee, personifies "courageous political leadership – a powerful elected official willing to issue a proposal, willing to take a stand, willing to face the political perils".

Robert Greenstein, executive director of the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, praised the budget as "bold, courageous and honest" but acknowledged that it takes on "one vested interest after another, and that will require all of the president's skills to get through Congress".

Prime budget candidates for a courageous chancellor would be an end to relief on mortgage-interest payments (raising £3 billion), and on that for married couples (£3.5 billion).

To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician -- more honest, more courageous -- please don't examine his administration's budget.

As Ronald Reagan's own budget director said, there's nothing "serious" or "courageous" about this plan.