Famous Quotes & Sayings

The $12 billion being saved in student loan provisions is a significant percentage of the $40 billion in total savings over five years.

John Chiang

The $11.3 billion record tax receipts will narrow the state's budget gap and will help us to get our fiscal house in order.

Joshua Bolten

The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure. We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.

That's the Republicans' hole card. Bringing home a couple billion for the labs.

Martin Rees

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.

The problem is that $2.2 billion will not do it in any way, shape or form.

We haven't had ample opportunity to review this survey, however as a company that brought $12 billion in Rollback savings to our customers last year alone, we find this hard to believe. But given our pledge to everyday low prices, we'll look into this.

The prediction as of right now is that it's going to cost between $23 billion and $25 billion, but I think it's going to be a lot more than that.

Ayad Allawi

The problem with foreign debt emerges as the most serious obstacle. We are indebted in billions of dollars,

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

Bill Gates

Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,

Jeffrey Sachs

While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

We realized we can't spend a billion dollars and do this ourselves.

We hope that all 55 blocks will be snapped up. We expect over $7 billion dollars investment within 24 months.

We have surpassed expectations by considerably exceeding the estimated overall financing gap of around US$1.2 billion, of which $1 billion is in grants.

Jeff Mathews

Out of the $1.4 billion in labor cost savings target, the company let this opportunity skip away over $10 million (severance costs), clearly reflecting the fact that the issue is not money but the company is intent on driving this work group into the ground and keeping the heel of its boot on each of our throats.

Christopher Flavin

Rising demand for energy, food and raw materials by 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians is already having ripple effects worldwide.

Michael King

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Restructuring is always positive. The problem is that the scale of job cuts doesn't match with the seriousness of the situation ... and the 120 billion yen disposal of stocks, land and other holdings is too small,

Tom Ridge

requesting some $36.2 billion clearly communicates this administration's commitment to investing in our Homeland Security.

Fred Anderson

remains very strong, with over $4.3 billion in cash.

It doesn't have to be some sort of brand new, $1 billion stadium like what was planned for New York.

I tell my parents, 'The university just raised a billion dollars,' and their jaws just drop. It's validation of what we already are and an investment in what we are going to become.

Dick Costolo

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

Edward Kennedy

This new finding means an extra $49 billion in profits for drug companies, but the legislation still does nothing to reduce the exorbitant prices that drug companies charge.

We think that the eventual savings from the deal will only be in the $7 billion pretax range, compared with GM's estimate of $12 billion.

We are waiting for project clearance for 100 billion rupees for an integrated township near Delhi. It is from a state government.

We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time.

We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, markets, products & services. Our exports continue to grow with New Zealand export sales for the first half up over 19 percent on the same period last year

Bernie Sanders

We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

The Medicaid waiver is the selling out of our $4.6 billion Medicaid program to private, out-of-state HMOs.