“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.” PeopleSaidHardFactsFilmTurnsMillionsTvsTomorrowOffersProgramAccountsDollarsSeriesLots Of MoneyPackagesMillion DollarsHard ThingsBank Accounts Author:Roone Arledge
“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.” HumorPoliticalHateMessagesProgramDollarsCoreSpiteFundPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.” StatesLosesPayMillionsTaxesProgramDollarsIncludingAvailableCreditBillionsIncomeTreatedRangeHouseholdIncome TaxPuerto RicoRico Author:Pedro Pierluisi
“If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.” IfsWantSocialPayTalkingSecurityProgramDollarsCongressBillionsMessRetirementSocial SecurityObamacareMedicare Author:Mike Huckabee
“Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?” DoeHelpingNationsGoalAchieveStyleReturnMoonResourcesProgramDollarsBillionsHelping OthersMake SenseTrailsApollo Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.” MayPlansProgramDollarsDebtRisingCollectivesDeficitStimulusAnnualsNational DebtHamstrings Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.” KnowsShouldYearsAbleSufferingQualityCompanyGainsProgramCrisisDollarsImprovementDelusion Author:W. Edwards Deming
“If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.” IfsWantDemocracyCuttingProgramVoteDollarsDemocratBillionsVeteran Author:David Cross
“Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.” WarHomeJobsPoorClassPlansMiddleProgramDollarsIraqBillionsFinanceWelfareMiddle ClassExpensesAsiaTaxpayersManufacturing Author:Ron Paul
“Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.” YearsUsedSecretExampleDemandMajorsProgramElectionDollarsPrioritiesPresidentialAgencyExtrasMore MoneyGood ExamplesPresidential ElectionSecret ServiceYear OneElection Years Author:Susan Davis
“Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.” MillionsProgramDollarsReleaseRebelliousMillion DollarsTheatricalSundance Author:Yony Leyser
“Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs” QualityEconomicChildhoodDevelopmentReturnTaxesResearchProgramDollarsInvestmentExtraordinaryHigh QualityEarly ChildhoodTax DollarsReturn On Investment Author:Robert Greenwald
“Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over the next decade or two, it adds significantly to it. So it's somewhere around $600 billion. We call for approximately cutting that in half and instead putting those dollars into true security here at home.” TwoHomeNextHalfCuttingSecurityExampleRight NowWeaponsProgramDollarsAddDefenseDecadesNuclearBillionsBudgetsDepartmentNuclear Weapons Author:Jill Stein
“Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or less. For example, I think mortgage refinancing can cost - now, it's probably hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So, in other words, they are allowing you to bid on what people are going to type, and that is the AdWords program. So you own certain terms, and then your ads show up as opposed to someone else's.” PeopleThinkingShowsCertainTermExampleTypeCostProgramDollarsAllowingEnginesAdsGoogleMortgageSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“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.” LittlesBitsPresidentPayLittle BitProgramDollarsHearingBillionsThese DaysFundPresident ObamaObamacareMedicareBiden Author:Paul Ryan
“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'” PeopleTwoRunningThreeFatherSpaceCompanySonDadProgramDollarsBillionsMarsMonkeysCablesSpace ProgramColonizing Mars Author:Lewis Black
“Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.” PeopleTalkingEconomicDevelopmentNeededProgramDollarsInvestingVariousBillionsEconomic Development Author:Muhammad Yunus
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.” I CanScienceSpaceBusinessOne ThingPromiseTaxesProgramDollarsJust OneSpace ExplorationOuter SpaceSpace ProgramRocket ScienceTax Dollars Author:Wernher von Braun
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.” MenNeedsStatesProblemGovernmentSchoolFormSocialResultsMarriagePovertyFailingCrimeTerribleDrugMen And WomenProgramAbuseDollarsDrivenPregnancyStableExpansionFederal GovernmentPhysical HealthDrug AbuseHealth ProblemsFragmentationSocial ProgramsTeen Pregnancy Author:Maggie Gallagher
“The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.” YearsHas BeensActionJobsSocialPolicyAreasProgramDollarsImmigrationFrustrationThrustAccommodateSocial ServiceBeneficiariesFestering Author:Sharon Pratt Kelly
“Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.” FactsHelpingSocialSecurityBalanceProgramDollarsAddDebtScalesEnormousImmigrationBudgetsAssistanceStrainSocial SecuritySlidesMedicareImmigration ReformAccelerateLarge ScaleAmnestyInsolvency Author:Jeff Sessions
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.” YearsGovernmentResultsWasteProgramAbuseDollarsCreditBillionsCardsAgencyFederal GovernmentBureaucracyEntitlementCredit CardMisuseGovernment BureaucracyMismanagementEntitlement ProgramsGovernment AgenciesGovernment Waste Author:Chris Chocola
“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.” MenWantIdeasEndsReasonDoneSciencePoliticalPresidentSuccessfulMoonProgramScientistDollarsResponseDecadesBillionsObjectivesFlightPigsApolloFiascoPresident KennedyBay Of Pigs Author:Carl Sagan
“The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.” Has BeensHardWholeInspirationRomanceScienceValuesSpaceEducationGrowing UpGreaterGrowingGenerationsDisciplineProgramAccountsImportanceDollarsEngineeringInputSpace Program Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.” MenNeedsShouldBelieveStatesEnoughHomeCareJobsI BelieveNationsSocialUnitedUnited StatesFocusCuttingAirMilitaryCreationTrainingMen And WomenResourcesProgramDollarsInvestmentIraqTake CareStrikesBillionsTroopsVeteranInfrastructureInterventionInvolvementCrumblingOur VeteransSocial ProgramsJob TrainingMilitary InterventionCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Janice Hahn
“We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.” PeopleWorldHumansStillsWarCountryProblemEarthAmericaUsedChallengesLeaderAcceptingPowerEnvironmentCuttingRightsWorstIgnoranceColdOughtProtectWeaponsRainProgramStandingDollarsEnvironmentalHuman RightsBillionsForestsIgnorantAround The WorldGlobal WarmingOther CountriesCold WarViolationAcidTrue LeaderOzoneAcid RainOzone Depletion Author:Jimmy Carter
“Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.” ShouldNationsUnitedInvolvedProgramDollarsCorruptionOilAdministrationFraudInvestigationUnited NationsTaxpayersHype Author:John Ensign
“Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.” FirstsBelieveLongProblemSocialGoalTermStepsSecurityProgramAccountsFundamentalsDollarsLong TermFirst StepsSocial SecurityFundingUndermining Author:Patty Murray