Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will allocate up to half a billion dollars for this purpose next year.

We can't keep up. We're four and a half billion dollars short on the construction side. If that's what you have to trade for five more students, then that's maybe what it takes to trade.

We know that the global problem is probably $600 billion or more in magnitude, of which China represents 60 percent of the global problem. It's being manufactured in China, counterfeiting and piracy. It's being exported around the world and certainly into the U.S. market, so the U.S. companies are very concerned.

Melissa McCarthy

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms.

James D. Watson

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

John Smith

Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.

David Thomas

You know, $2 trillion is a lot. Even at his current pace, it would take Kobe Bryant more than 74 billion games to take 2 trillion shots.

Helene D. Gayle

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less than $2 per day are women and girls. We are often told to never treat a person like a statistic.

We give big tax cuts to the oil industry in this country even though they are making billions of dollars in profits.

Tom Holt

We are not sure just how much money we are going to get for this program this year because of all the billions needed for the Katrina recovery,

We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.

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.

We had unintentional inventory declines in the second and third quarters, which is what you would typically get in a recession. I think companies will need to build $50 billion per quarter in inventories, even if the demand growth rate is just 3.5 percent.

Marco Rubio

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

Nicholas Negroponte

We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,

We have better than $8 billion in funds available.

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

Scott McNealy

We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our R&D investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

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.

we'd be talking about $4.5 billion as a lot of money - and it is a lot of money.

Peter Piot

We are entering a new phase in the global response to AIDS. I am convinced because of political commitments, because of the money that is now increasing in a big way -- eight billion dollars (6.6 billion euros) this year -- that we are starting to see results. But in order to really reverse the tide of this epidemic we need also to focus more on children, not only adults.

Francis Collins

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

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

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.