#billion

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? ↗

— Greg Dworkin

#countries #day #earth #earth day #mark

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. ↗

— Max Delbruck

#any #billion #carries #cell #experience

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#carbon #cent #committed #cost #country

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#billion #cost #estimated #kyoto #kyoto treaty

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. ↗

— John Malkovich

#along #billion #each #get #go

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#china #got #hit #hit record #know

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

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

#britain #debris #debts #dollars #extent

Congress: Bingo with billions. ↗

— Red Skelton

#bingo #congress

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. ↗

— John Spratt

#ago #billion #clinton #clinton administration #country