Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Slaughter

Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the last three months,

Tom Daschle

But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,

But look at the alternative. You could have an entire city devastated, $20 billion dollars of damage. Or you could contain the problem, make it manageable.

Alex Berenson

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Muhammad Yunus

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Barack Obama

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

The governor is focused on passing the budget, and if all goes well, he will have directed $3.8 billion to education in four years, more than any other governor has done.

The governor has saddled the state with a billion dollars in new hidden taxes just to protect his relationship with a special interest group. Minnesotans deserve better.

When you get thousands, or millions or billions of them together in one spot, it is a fantastic, deafening chorus.

When you factor in expansion of nine present plants, there's a total (production) capacity of 6 billion gallons possible.

Alexander Haig

There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.

Kurt Braunohler

There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

There are 5 billion people in the world in countries that are poorer than Mexico.

Margaret Turnbull

There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.

Caitlin Moran

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

Robert Torricelli

There are 3.5 billion credit card solicitations sent out every year, ... That's 41 for every man, woman and child.

There are 2,6 billion people in the world who have no toilets, ... They are toilet-less and what we are trying to do is to build capacity for field engineers to go down to the farms, to the rural areas, to build ecological sanitation.

Tom Logan

There are 1.1 billion people throughout the world that drink unsafe drinking water, ... and until those 1.1 billion people have safe water, we're going to be putting in wells.

Roger Goodell

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

Ralph Goodale

There are in every year, year-end adjustments that do take place, ... Sometimes those adjustments can be as high as seven or eight billion dollars depending on the circumstances.

Debbie Stabenow

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Without reform, we are destined to relive the past all over again: $22 billion deficits, higher car taxes and the threat of bankruptcy,

With the closing of these funds we can continue to invest in those information technology startups that have the potential to be billion dollar international companies.

We will invest 1.1 billion dollars in India, of which 150 million dollars would be for providing leasing and financial solutions to the company's customers and partners,

We will have enough vaccine in about a year for 1 billion doses.

Fernando Ferrer

While Mike Bloomberg has spent three-and-a-half of his four years ... trying to spend $1.2 billion of our money on a West Side football stadium, between 500,000 and 800,000 New Yorkers ... remain uncovered, including 290,000 children,

Michael Specter

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

With a 60 percent profit margin, even after spending $10 billion on promotion and development, the participants still stand to make an $8 billion profit.

With $7 billion in cash, they are on more of a level playing field.

With 1 billion Muslims, 16 million Jews and (millions) of Orthodox Christians, that's a lot of people fasting around the world,

We can?t risk Russia?s main treasure for a billion dollars.

We conservatively estimate that this business could range in size from $4 billion to $5 billion in 2001.

We have been investing steadily in the industry and expect to invest $20 billion a year over the next five years.