Famous Quotes & Sayings

If Medicare could negotiate directly with drug companies it could save the federal and state governments hundred of billions of dollars and cut insurance premiums.

If Love Field is closed, we would not have our corporate headquarters in Dallas. Dallas would lose 5,000 jobs, $15 million in direct taxes, and $3 billion a year in economic impact.

Rose George

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.

It's a matter of pride to know that this will be Italy's stage when two billion people watch the opening ceremony.

It's a matter of pride to know that this will be Italy's stage when 2 billion people watch the opening ceremony.

It's better for the environment, we get to keep billions of dollars cycling through our economy instead of going to countries that aren't particularly friendly to us and by the way, it's cheaper,

It's interesting that in a nation of 1.2 billion people, we're talking about a labor shortage. It's important to realize that it's a relative situation.

It's absurd, ... on the order of billions if not trillions to one. It's crazy.

It is reconstruction where the pledges are highly inadequate because reconstruction would require billions of dollars... for houses, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, colleges and police stations, roads and bridges,

Tamar Jacoby

It's going to cost billions and take five to 10 years. But do we want to get a grip on this or not? I think we do.

Susan Collins

It's going to take billions of dollars, but I want to make sure that money is not wasted.

It's going to be seen by, I'm told, as many as a billion people, which is tremendous,

It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.

Naveen Jain

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

Don Nickles

It's probably the most expensive, intrusive regulation ever promulgated certainly by the Department of Labor, maybe by government entirely. It's costs are in the billion and billions of dollars.

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.

It's kind of hard for a $60 billion market cap to slip under the radar but the stock is cheap and cash flow is going up.

It's a logical tidying up of their portfolio. With 2 billion euros worth of restructuring costs for Mercedes and Smart this year, it makes perfect sense.

In the world in which we live today, everybody needs a foundation in math and science. What we're talking about is the success of our next generation. We face the fundamental fact -- we won the Cold War, capitalism prevailed, and we have 3 billion new competitors.

Patrick J. Kennedy

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

In the future 15 years, the population of China will reach 1.46 billion and the GDP will double, the pollution load will increase by four to five times,

Instead of money being spent on infrastructure projects, it has been spent propping up the pension system to the tune of billions of marks.

Instead of fighting frantically over this pie, there is an opportunity to grow it to 40,000 billion yen or 100,000 billion yen.

Instead of worrying about who gets credit for our recent successes, maybe these Washington Democrats should be spending more time preventing the federal government from shortchanging us by $2 billion on hurricane relief.

Insurers benefited from the rising short-term interest rates to generate $40.7 billion on their investment portfolio in the first nine months of the year.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.

In our view, the remaining $2.7 billion of firm value is an implicit valuation for the rest of the product categories. We find it hard to understand why segments such as consumer electronics and toys should be valued at such a high level.

Alan Stern

In a real sense, this is not just a 4 billion-mile journey, but also a journey 4 billion years back in time.

Fidel Castro

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.

Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.

In the next five years we will most likely spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion in Brazil on development. We will be creating a footprint that is very strong.

Jacob Lew

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.