Billions Quotes

• 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

  Money, Business, Dollars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Weather, Foundation

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. April 06, 1999.

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• 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

  Running, Country, Years

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• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Marty Meehan

  Benefits, Pushing, Republican

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• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

  Marty Meehan

  Years, Oil, America

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• We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

  Albert Wynn

  Moving, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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• Billions and billions.

  Carl Sagan

  Astronomy, Cosmology

  Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan (1999). “Carl Sagan: a life”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Vic Snyder

  Country, Journey, Iraq

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• 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

  Years, Issues, United States

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Administration, Helping

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• It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

  David Korten

  People, Interesting, Assets

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

  Thad Cochran

  Dollars, Half

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• A billion saved is a billion earned.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Saved

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• 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

  Believe, House, Pounds

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• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  Jim Ramstad

  Years, Records, Hours

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• Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Energy, Valleys

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• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  Chris Matthews

  Giving Up, Islamic, People

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• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Powerful, Business

  "The Great Getty". Book by Robert Lenzner, 1985.

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• It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

  Mike Thompson

  Years, Two, People

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• Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

  John Lukacs

  Chinese, Super Power, Superpower

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• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Dollars, Want

  "Lost and Found: Richard Branson’s Virginity" by Carrie M. King, www.blinkist.com. October 27, 2017.

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