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This is a bill that is bipartisan, bicameral and tri-institutional. Jim Leach
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This is a debate the American people need to have, but I think we have more important priorities right now -- getting tax cuts, getting this economy moving, getting an education reform package, patients' bill of rights -- these are, I think, higher priorities for the American people,
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This is a $300 billion issue. We have a duty. Gordon Brown
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This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work, Dennis Hastert
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They thought once they got the bill into conference, they'd be fine. They miscalculated.
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It's more a matter of people being satisfied with the job that Bill Nelson is doing and they're eager to return him to office. But unfortunately for Katherine Harris, money can't buy credibility.
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It strikes me as being unique that a company can see half a billion dollars in income go away and see it as a relatively small impact on earnings per share.
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It's not perfect and should be closer to $2 billion, but the five-year program satisfies the federal government, which won't threaten to withhold $1.4 billion of federal transportation funding. Projects held up for years without funding will get done.
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It's not particularly substantial. Especially if you look at it from the point of view of the more than 450 billion pounds of government spending every year.
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It's normal to do that and it's good to be ready should this happen. But for the time being we have 140 million birds killed or dying or have died because of avian influenza, with $10 billion of costs ... and it is still there (in Asia) that we are having contamination to human beings. Jacques Diouf
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For Bill it was always more about character and integrity than wins and losses. Harvey Smith
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Foreign investors in China remitted profits worth 250 billion US dollars to respective countries in the 1990-2004 period.
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For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard. Ike Skelton
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For each 1 percent pay raise, is about $600 million -- so $1 billion just won't cut the mustard.
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Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. Bernie Sanders
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For creditors, bills are just a number, ... It's not going to take them long to forget about the Hurricane Katrina deal.
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For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year. Nancy Gibbs
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For all Bill Gates' billions, he can't buy hipness. He isn't cool, except in a proto-geek way.
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For a kid who doesn't play a lot, Bill has been great. Ron Hunter
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For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.
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For a company doing about $19?$20 billion in sales, this is not a big float. Richard Hastings
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It's the strongest, most comprehensive enforcement bill we have seen in a generation or more. It goes about 70 percent of the way to getting us to actually enforcing the law, if it were ever implemented.
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It's not that unusual in the context of Bill Wrigley taking over where there might be some unanticipated personality clash. Given the fact that there's no stated explanation, there might be some type of clash in philosophy or idea about strategy. It's a little sudden, for sure.
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It's not the worst thing in the world to send back money to folks, I've never had a gripe about it. The worst thing to do is to send back money to folks when you didn't pay the bills you had and that's what I'm against. Rod Smith
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It's not easy to get 60 votes on a controversial bill like this, but we're working on it. Arlen Specter
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It's the largest town in the state, and yes it's expanding, and some people don't realize it's a community over 20,000 people with $2.5 billion in value, and if you compare our fire department to the level of services we're providing now, they're just not adequate.
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They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. Marion Nestle
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They are still riding the early wave of one of the strongest trends in consumer banking, which is online bill payment.
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You don't replace the kind of production you get from a player like Bill Thomas. He is a one-of-a kind player.
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You can't just do a 180 shift overnight to renewable energy. We need companies to invest and consumers fed up with energy bills to create the demand.
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This plant is extremely important on Long Island if we want to keep the lights on, clean up the environment and keep our bills down.
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There was clearly corruption in the city. But there's corruption in every city. If you look at the people that Bill Campbell brought in, he had no reason to suspect the corruption.