Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Thornburgh

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

Feeder-calf prices could hold in the mid-$90s at the lows if exports are back to 2.5 billion lbs. and corn prices remain in check. If exports fail to grow, prices will trend lower.

As the residential market shows signs of softening, the nonresidential market is in excellent position to pick up the slack in construction activity. Nonresidential construction not only represents billions of dollars in economic activity, but also generates a lot of related spending in furnishings and interior decor.

A trend yield near 150 bushels, then, would produce a 2006 crop of 10.92 billion bushels.

At that time we have to mail out 6.8 billion dollars to the various shareholders.

At $7 billion annually, video games are larger than the film industry. Technologies like simulations used by the military are a booming area.

At the top line, we are forecasting revenues in the range of $32.2 to $32.6 billion for the full year.

Jeff Goodell

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

Do they think that the current defense budget will sustain Northrop Grumman as a viable competitor over the next 10 years? An $8 billion company cannot survive in a world of $40 billion companies.

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few years are due to wind speeds lower than we thought they were.

Kenneth Lay

Currently, there are only a handful of large private sector companies operating in the $300 billion worldwide water market, and there are tremendous opportunities for future growth as the water industry moves toward privatization and consolidation.

Credit card companies are really looking hard at this industry. It's been $30 billion in cash sales, but they want to see that $30 billion in credit.

Cruise and containers can happily coexist. The container port is a vibrant and essential component of Brooklyn's varied waterfront. By bringing both aesthetics and billions of dollars in economic activity, it provides Brooklyn with a worthwhile use for her storied piers, and brings much-needed wealth to our local economy.

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.

There have been one or two of these storms a century. If we were to get another one there could be $100 billion of damage, the same level as Katrina.

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.

We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about $25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised $100 billion if we wanted that money.

We're very excited about exiting the fiscal 1997 year at a $10 billion run rate,

We're very concerned that this $3 billion is going to go to people who have inside status.

We're very concerned that this $3 billion is going to go to people who have inside status.

We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very low temperatures for 4.5 billion years.

We see a $US2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity. This sale was largely unanticipated by the market.

We see a $2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity. This sale was largely unanticipated by the market.

We scan around a billion emails a week and usually see about two targeted viruses. Now we're seeing a sharp rise which is very concerning.

Bill Clinton

You give me 300, 400 billion dollars a year, I'll show you a good time, too.

Paul Watson

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

Richard Lamm

We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.