Billions Quotes - Page 2

• In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

  Jane D. Hull

  Running, Years, Twenties

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• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  John Spratt

  War, Cost, Kingdoms

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• In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

  Elton Gallegly

  Average, Years, California

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• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Japan, Iraq, United States

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Soul, World

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Paul Gillmor

  Hurt, Years, Oil

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Years, People

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

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Kyoto, Cost

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

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• Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Money, Business

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• One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

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• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Years, Drug, Colombia

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• With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Years, Sea, Investment

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• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Islam, Looks, Followers

  "'How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen'". www.outlookindia.com. November 15, 2001.

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• I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Movie, Dollars, Actors

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• Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Years, Program, Puerto Rico

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

  Gary Miller

  America, Care, Hospitals

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• Congress: Bingo with billions.

  Red Skelton

  Bingo, Congress

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• The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Pet, World

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• 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

  Marijuana, Organization, Mexico

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• Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

  Richard Gere

  Practice, People

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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  A. R. Ammons

  Stars, Four, Hundred

  A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Stars, Powerful, War

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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• I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

  Maurice Strong

  Decision, Program, Projects

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

  David Cameron

  Pounds, Welfare, Millions

  "David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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