Famous Quotes & Sayings

What are the results and how much money have we saved? ... What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?

We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.

Tommy Thompson

We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die,

When all the numbers are counted, consumers could have given retailers an early holiday present, ... Last year Black Friday spending on our cards totaled $3.6 billion. We could cross $4 billion this year.

Steve Case

We went from one million to 20 million subscribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN.

Sandra Tsing Loh

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

The private sector really is who we turn to put on the games, so we will have to generate about $1.7 billion from the private sector. We've got off to a great start.

Rick Perry

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

Tom Allen

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Ivan Glasenberg

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

With carryover supplies of corn expected to be more than 2 billion bushels, producers should plan to make some sales sometime from January to May.

With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.

With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'

With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China, this is such an extremely critical issue that there was a very high level of interest on the part of the governmental officials who attended.

With all the real and pressing problems facing this state, the last thing we need to do is raise taxes $2.4 billion to create a new government-run bureaucracy to replace our current system of preschools.

Eike Batista

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

We've had real good corn sales this past month and export inspections are averaging what we need to reach the USDA goal of 1.85 billion bushel estimate for the year.

We've had our first test and we've failed miserably. We have spent billions of dollars in revenues to try to make our country safe and we have not made nearly enough progress.

Warren Farrell

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

We insure over $1.7 billion of jewelry throughout the country.

We expect further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 billion up from $1.9 billion in 2005.

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.

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.