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Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

Ben Sweetland

We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going to create 344,000 jobs each month starting in August, and things are going in the opposite direction.

Lawrence Mishel

Call it the trillion dollar war.

Bob Herbert

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

Jeremy Siegel

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

David R. Gergen

I can-with my plan-these are Social Security Administration numbers, they ran my numbers-get us to full solvency within 75 years and beyond for less than the $3.7 trillion debt that we're already in.

Chuck Hagel

This feature was very important to us because the nature of our e-mail database is such that we have a trillion tiny data files, a system which is less than ideal for a file-based storage system. The files are poorly positioned to do any streaming onto tape.

Jeff Berliner

The last president to pay off the national debt was Tennessee's Andrew Jackson, ... Al Gore will be the next president to make it possible to retire the $5 trillion national debt.

John Tanner

Red dwarfs can live maybe a trillion years or so. Since the beginning of the universe, the red dwarfs that have formed, none of them have died.

Charles Lada

Well, the real John Kerry, in my book, is the man who voted for $1/2 trillion in tax increases in Washington, D.C., and I think that's relevant in the context of the Senate elections.

Bill Weld

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Richard Peterson

We will build factory with production volume of 2.5 million tons per year and Rp3 trillion of investment.

Cholil Hasan

How do people in an existing network operate? We estimate that business process transactional services could become a half a trillion dollar market in the next couple of years, and the whole IT industry itself is only $1.2 trillion.

Paul Horn

It is highly likely that the 2 trillion yen buying in August reflected the market's expectations that Koizumi's victory will support the stock market, and that foreign buying could take a respite this month.

Osamu Takashima

Eighty percent of the consumer dollar is controlled by women, and women earn $4.4 trillion a year.

Faith Popcorn

The travel and tourism industry worldwide is a $6 trillion economy.

Vincent Wolfington

Currently the federal government does share royalties with coastal statesmore than $3 trillion to date, in fact. Changing this amount only increases the budget deficit and diminishes the benefit the rest of the nation receives from these national resources.

Scott Milburn

Considering that we spent more on marketing in the digital media sector and set aside 1.3 trillion won in incentives for our employees after scrapping stock options, our actual operating profit should be around 2.8 trillion won.

Chu Woo Sik

Five years ago we set a goal of having $1 trillion in assets under management by the year 2005. We've reached that goal four years ahead of schedule. When we sat that goal, we had $125 billion in customer assets.

Dan Hubbard

Without direct financial intervention by the federal government we could soon see the financial liquidation of the airline industry, ... That is a very serious problem.  Aviation represents 10 percent of our gross domestic product. That's $700 billion dollars of a $7 trillion economy and the underpinning of mobility on which our whole economy depends.

James Oberstar

[The ultimate question is,] How do people in an existing network operate? ... We estimate that business process transactional services could become a half a trillion dollar market in the next couple of years, and the whole IT industry itself is only $1.2 trillion.

Paul Horn

The ball can change hands a thousand-plus times, but it will never lose that DNA. The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion, so it's virtually impossible.

Joe Orlando

The budget surplus is $5.6 trillion. Two and a half trillion of that is put aside for Social Security and paying down the national debt, ... That leaves $3.1 trillion in surplus. That's after we've taken care of all existing spending. We're only asking that half of that, [$1.6 trillion] out of the $3.1 trillion, be used for tax cuts.

Lawrence Lindsey

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

Dennis Kucinich

When you look at our budget situation today, this is just a fiscal calamity, ... We're looking at, for the next five years, half a trillion dollars of budget deficits.

Stephen Moore

Total client assets were a record $1.246 trillion as of month-end January, up 17% percent from January 2005 and up 4% from December 2005.

Charles Schwab Corp

Kerr-McGee has booked less than (1 trillion cubic feet of oil equivalent) as proven, which means we have the potential for a fivefold increase to existing proved reserves in this field alone.

Dave Hager

Physicists have known that dark energy could become negative and the universe could collapse sometime in the distant future, perhaps a trillion years. But now we see that we might be not in the beginning, but in the middle of the life cycle of our universe.

Andrei Linde

The $1 trillion mark has always been something to achieve, and others have come close. But it must be pretty heady to be the first $1 trillion asset manager. Not even the behemoths like Vanguard can say that.

Denise Valentine

[The U.S. has $17 trillion of unfunded liabilities.] In the G-7 countries it's 50 percent to100 percent larger in relationship to the Gross Domestic Product, ... This is a global issue.

Pete Peterson

As the United States' $12 trillion-per-year economy becomes increasingly integrated with China's 1.3 billion-person economy . . . trade and investment will continue to grow, creating jobs and increasing prosperity in both the United States and China.

Karan Bhatia

These fund families collectively control $1 trillion, 70 percent of the US mutual fund market. The bottom line is this: mutual fund companies have the clout to hold the companies in their portfolios accountable for climate change impact, and furthermore they have a duty to do so.

Alisa Gravitz

This is a huge market, with 1.85 billion consumers and a combined GDP of almost US$2.5 trillion. Both sides are dependent on each other, and benefit from each other's economic development.

Chen Jian

Since 1970, we've spent more than a trillion dollars on this war and all we have to show for it each year is we arrest another 1.6 million people in this country for nonviolent drug offenses. Fully half are marijuana arrests.

Jack Cole

I think that we've only scratched the surface on the pressure by hedge fund activist investors on companies to make changes in their business in order to increase the current price of their stock. We have a group of activist hedge funds now where the hedge funds essentially marshal over a trillion dollars of capital, joined in by many of the traditional institutions.

Martin Lipton

We have been a marquis name in technology for 20 years, ... We are where the action is. I hundred-trillion-percent guarantee that.

Alberto Vilar

China's foreign trade in 2004 exceeded US$1 trillion, so anyone can see the proportion of Sino-Russian trade and the future potential.

Shen Jiru

Would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add 5 trillion dollars to our national debt and make the system weaker in the future.

John Salazar

The market is convinced we have enough gas. Even if you were to assume a return to normal weather, we will come out of winter with 1.5 trillion cubic feet, which is a good amount to have in the ground.

Bruno Stanziale

And the value of these unsold homes in the U.S. now exceeds (a) half-trillion dollars -- up 33 percent from a year ago!

James Stack

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

Paskah Suzetta

Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the mother of all credit expansions.

Maureen Allyn

We believe there's a tremendous opportunity ahead across the $5 trillion retail market globally.

Jeff Bezos

This last comment is crucial, especially when the U.S. Congress last night rejected restrictions on tax cuts and spending, and raised the federal debt limit by $800 billion, to $8.18 trillion.

Ashraf Laidi

A billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but compare it to the $1 trillion spent globally on weapons every year. The world is spending a lot more on destructive technology than it is trying to get people to talk peacefully among themselves.

Eric Newton

Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or reduced tax expenditures or some combination.

Elizabeth Garrett

Folks, I don't want my president to leave office with a $10 trillion deficit. I don't want China to own more of our country through our debt.

Zach Wamp