I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that.… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks,… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for… — Pete Conrad Copy Share Image
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's… — R. Stanley Williams Copy Share Image
No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Smart mobile phones connect you with 1 billion users worldwide, basically for free - you don't pay for the phone, you don't… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image