Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Harry Reid

The president often says it is the responsibility of elected officials here in Washington to face today's challenges and not to pass them on to future generations. Yet it is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health-care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Firm orders from the two launch customers are valued at approximately $5 billion at list prices.

The really positive thing long-term is, the core of our infrastructure of the $5 billion to $8 billion tourism industry remained intact, ... As odd as it may sound right now, we are optimistic that this recovery is not only going to happen, its going to happen well and we're going to have a great city going again.

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.

Fred Wilson

The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

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,

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.

Andrew Forrest

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.

We're talking big numbers. With just a 10 percent reduction, we can save more than $50 billion a year.

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 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.

David Gerrold

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

Ben Parr

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

Seth Shostak

The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.