Quotes about billion
billion confident sum time
I am now confident that the sum could have $1.5 billion by the time of Genoa, Gordon Brown
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If companies know we're going to enforce the law, you'll see more compliance. And $6.5 billion says we're going to enforce the law, Andrew Cuomo
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I fear that a storm which could have cost tens of billions of dollars may cost more than 100 billion to repair. A storm that could have cost us hundreds of lives will probably cost us thousands of lives.
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I don't think they can build an earthquake-proof canal. . . . Pumping several billion dollars into a Peripheral Canal is money that could be spent on water transfers and efficiencies.
billion money shock
I don't think the valuation will shock anybody, but $1 billion is still money where I come from.
billion business connection human paying
I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting. Craig McCaw
billions floating help money people seeing
People are seeing that we don't have enough money to help our own people. But we are floating billions over seas.
billion government lay people raise state taxes trust upside
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee. Carl Paladino
billion course diesel ethanol goal produce ultimately year
Our goal of course is to ultimately produce one billion gallons of bio diesel and ethanol by the year 2008.
billion last middle quarter third
Over the last 12 quarters, we've been between $4 billion and $6 billion each quarter and in (the third quarter) we're effectively right in the middle of that band.
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Paper costs money...you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that up to $3 billion in savings are possible. Giovanni Bisignani
billion cost health percent program sure
Our program would cost between $50 and $65 billion to make sure 95 percent of all Americans have health insurance. We can get this right, Bill Bradley
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Our priorities for 2006 will include completing the transition to a fully competitive retail market in Texas, converting to an open model in our wholesale business, improving the commercial capacity factor of our generating plants and managing our collateral exposure to reduce postings by $1 billion by year-end.
billion demands less spending ways
Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.
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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
billion consume country currently exists four gasoline growth huge per potential uses within
Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.
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Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods. Joel Fuhrman
billion million perhaps
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
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The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back? Phil Gramm
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. Barack Obama
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year. Bobby Jindal
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Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list. Eduardo Paes
billion dollar environmental fee fund funds impose issue landfill produce state
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over. Ed Rendell
billions column cost federal nobody placing type
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt. Leonard Lance
billions expect
When I go to a place like this, I expect to see the billions of stars.
billion few people screens transmit
When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information. Yuri Milner
billions civilization concentration develop embrace emerged facebook helped huge human next population possibly propel social
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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We never had a billionaire brand in music; the closest thing we had was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson sold 750 million records. I think we're gonna set the tone for other youngsters to make more money and see that a billion dollars can be accomplished. Birdman
billion built cost encouraged growth low reflecting seemingly shares trading view
Trading at 12 times 2005 earnings, shares are reflecting a seemingly bearish view of Pfizer's growth prospects, in our opinion. With these low expectations built into the shares, we are encouraged that Pfizer's $4 billion cost restructuring will stabilize near-term earnings.
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There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. Tom Shadyac
billion complement telescopes visible
It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets. Seth Shostak
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Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world. Vint Cerf
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If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example. Beeban Kidron