#dollars

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' ↗

— Lewis Black

#cable #company #dad #dollars #father

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#creation #designed #dollars #efficient #environment

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#burden #continue #does #dollars #economy

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#another #because #community #cost #council

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#believe #dollars #i #i believe #life

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

#billions #comfort #continue #dollars #give

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#compliments #country #dollars #ever #few

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#colleges #dollars #education #few #fits

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. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#bill gates #billion #dollars #easily #even

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

#bit #dollars #either #enterprise #i