We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

One of them said: "As soon as the canals at Vicksburg are finished, we are going to cut a canal across the upper part of Florida.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"We have to give them guarantees that we have taken the power not to cut everything but in order to improve."

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

"To get to a bare bones budget unfortunately, we had to cut what makes school special, like art,music and library."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

What I do, I cut this in strips,and then we gonna cut this...

VOA: standard.other

Gentle, gentle, certain areas. Please just don't cut here.We don't cut here.

VOA: standard.other

"we were really concerned because we don't have strong global alliances that the other countries or cities have, so I think that might be one of the reasons we got cut,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

We cannot cut a deal with mother nature."

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"Already we have identified substantial savings, and in the days and weeks ahead, we will continue going through the budget, line by line, and we will identify more than 100 programs that will be cut or eliminated,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.25