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If I drop a billion dollars here, It will make a million People happy." -- Irak.Ibrahim Hussain Didi
Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA." -- Thad Cochran
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like." -- Carl Icahn
Don't marry a man because he has a billion dollars. Divorce him for it." -- Jarod Kintz
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually." -- John M. McHugh
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." -- Richard Branson
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day." -- James Wolfensohn
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary." -- Everett Dirksen
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales." -- Calvin Klein
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe." -- Robert Casey
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts." -- Michael Enzi
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people." -- Samantha Bee
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform." -- Jim Wallis
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports." -- Manmohan Singh
Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects." -- Michael K. Simpson
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past." -- Karl Rove
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office." -- Jason Patric
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually." -- George Soros
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars." -- Warren Buffett
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness." -- Tim Bray
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war." -- Jim Cooper
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts." -- Gordon Sinclair
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century." -- Oliver North
There's a hurricane coming to Florida, and there will be high winds. I should probably turn off my ceiling fans, to try to mitigate the billions of dollars in damages the storm will incur." -- Jarod Kintz
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year." -- Russ Carnahan
The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year." -- Richard Neal
The homeless are still homeless and the poor are still poor but yet we still find billions and billions of dollars to fund senseless Wars & Space Programs. Sadly...such is the way of the Asinine politician!" -- Timothy Pina
Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond." -- Herb Kohl
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry." -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars." -- Paul Hoffman
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does." -- Pete Conrad
In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense." -- Jennifer M. Granholm
Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security." -- John Hoeven
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts." -- A. Philip Randolph
You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?" -- Rick Perry
And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security." -- Michael Chertoff
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon." -- Kim Dae Jung
If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country." -- Veerappa Moily
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based." -- Louis Gerstner
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity." -- George Soros
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have." -- Mark Steyn
The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds of thousands of people while at the same time cutting billions of dollars from programs that would provide opportunity to young Americans." -- Steven Donziger
Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return." -- David Mixner
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do." -- Solomon Ortiz
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it." -- Chris Christie
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck." -- Preet Bharara
Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time." -- Kurt Vonnegut
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms." -- Sheldon Whitehouse
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year." -- Haley Barbour
I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their great storytelling. It's the multiplayer aspect of that type of game, where people get together to shoot each other and have fun. And it's very much gameplay; it's like 'Gran Turismo' or one of these racing games." -- Nolan North
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack." -- Bjorn Lomborg
Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office." -- John Kasich
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat." -- Michael Pollan
A billion dollars isnt what it used to be. -- Nelson Bunker Hunt
....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be. -- J. Paul Getty
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars. -- Sean Parker
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. -- J. Paul Getty
If I had a billion dollars I would...oh wait...already do. -- Zach Braff
Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA. -- Thad Cochran
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. -- Carl Icahn
I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues. -- Jeb Bush
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. -- Steve Guttenberg
[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare -- Lawrence Lessig
I value your friendship. I value it at one billion dollars. We should sell it. -- Jarod Kintz
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. -- George M. Humphrey
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs. -- Bernie Sanders
If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years. -- Henry Ford
On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more. -- Carlos Slim
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. -- Richard Branson
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. -- Michael Moore
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. -- James Wolfensohn
If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat. -- David Cross
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. -- Woody Allen
I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars! -- Paul Reubens
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. -- Steve Jobs
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. -- Robert Casey
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. -- Michael Enzi
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. -- Daniel Ek
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. -- Martin Luther
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. -- Manmohan Singh
A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform. -- Jim Wallis
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. -- Samantha Bee
Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. -- Michael K. Simpson
The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song. -- Patrick Carney
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding. -- Jay Leno
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. -- Jason Patric
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. -- Steve Jobs
Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that. -- Harry Reid
For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. -- Bernie Sanders
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies. -- Tory Burch
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year. -- Tom Tancredo
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich. -- Tony Robbins
The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number. -- Mitt Romney
Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. -- Ben Carson
The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks. -- Eustace Mullins
[Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion dollars. He was not popular in Virginia. -- Donald Trump
Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. -- Ben Carson
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. -- Warren Buffett
Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country? -- Malcolm X
Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars. -- Marsha Blackburn
Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. -- George Clooney
Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was. -- John C. Malone
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated. -- Malcolm X
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. -- Craig Kilborn
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war. -- Jim Cooper
If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars. -- Mindy Kaling
If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000. -- Peter Thiel
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ass you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with $20 and a pack of Newports who'd try to screw your whole neighborhood. -- Donnell Rawlings
The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more. -- Will Rogers
In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families. -- Joni Ernst
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. -- Oliver North
I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool. -- Sean Parker
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government. -- Sam Levenson
Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year." -- Mike Fitzpatrick

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