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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
Dalai Lama

Humans, Handful

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, Before, Known

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack Obama

Country, Energy, Another

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama

Moving, Help, Down

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton

Education, Great, Freedom

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates

Down, Put, Poor

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

America, Year, Office

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Abdul Kalam

Dream, Nation, Act

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Life, Justice, Nothing

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
Donald Trump

Business, Mean, Country

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Good, Help

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Faith, Religion, Freedom

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Love, Worth, Anybody

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

Money, Dollars, Count

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Humanity, Problem

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

Money, Real, Pretty

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
Dave Barry

Western, Miles, Oregon

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?
Rick Perry

Rainy, Last, While

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug Coupland

Nothing, Fact, Almost

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
Yuri Milner

Important, Few, Times

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug Coupland

Two, Around, Earth

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

Start, Dollars, Airline

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

Movies, Bragging, Dollars

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Country, Nation

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner

Life, Age, Making

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.
Paul Ryan

Mean, Talking, Fast

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.
Paul Ryan

Tell, Days, President

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Parents, President

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein

Experience, Year, Run

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

Today, Around, Three

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