#billion

So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#american people #before #billion #brought #every

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

#billion #century #combat #dollars #fact

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ago #almost #astounding #bang #been

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. ↗

— John Prescott

#been #billions #central #central government #deprivation

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#big #billion #bottom #bottom line #companies

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#between #billion #bills #currency #dollar

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

#annually #beneficiaries #benefits #billions #commodity

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

#being #billions #children #concepts #consensual