#billion

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

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One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aid #been #billions #development #dollars

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#billions #country #deficits #fiscal #future

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. ↗

— David Cameron

#going #into #millions #pounds #spend

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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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

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The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

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Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA. ↗

— Thad Cochran

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