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I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,

I just remind the members of this House that we have now almost a trillion dollars left in the budget to do more tax relief for the American people, and you know what? We're coming back,

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.

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.

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

They've scheduled two hours debate on a trillion dollar tax cut. That's crazy.

a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.

The energy in these jets is absolutely huge, about a trillion trillion trillion watts.

It's like a flashlight on a life raft in the middle of the Atlantic -- good luck finding it. But if there's nearly $3 trillion floating around, and you can hit it with products that relate to Japanese investors' culture and objectives -- a savings and income orientation -- then you're talking about a significant business opportunity.

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.

It reduces the rate of return on that $6.5 trillion hiding in money-market accounts. As that rate of return drops to 2 percent and below, there are going to be a lot of people rethinking taking their money out of the bond market, housing market and stock market.

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

They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away,

There's about $6 trillion in single-family mortgage debt outstanding, and total home value is about $13 trillion, which means there's about $7 trillion in home equity outstanding. Last year was a big year for liquefying home equity -- about $100 billion. That's a drop in the bucket compared to $7 trillion.

It's a $1 trillion market. It's an opportunity for them in essence to sell more products - more chips, office products, more (Microsoft) NT servers - that's really what's driving those guys. They also recognize that it's in many ways an untapped opportunity.

It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.

They're never going to be repaid. Adam Smith said that no government had ever repaid its debts and the same can be said of the private sector. The U.S. government does not intend to repay its trillion dollar debt to foreign central banks and, even if it did intend to, there's no way in which it could. Most of the corporations now are avoiding paying their pension fund debts and their health care debts.

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

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.

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.

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.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Now it's $200 billion. If we don't change the course, the rest of the world could own $15 trillion of us. That's pretty substantial. That's equal to the value of all American stock.

Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion US more of us than we own of them.