- American Taxpayers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billions Of Dollars Quotes
Sayings on money at a scale that reshapes nations.
These quotes look at what it means when sums this large enter public life, whether through philanthropic giving, bank bailouts, or the cost of inequality. Pair with Government quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact that many of them have paid the money back, nor should we be.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Clinton ratcheted up military aid to Colombia. Plan Colombia, as the assistance program was called, provided billions of dollars to what was, and remains, the most repressive government in the hemisphere.
- Germany
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
- Becoming
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020