Projects still require years proverb

 Projects still require years to develop, cost billions of dollars to bring on stream and operate for decades.

 Billions of dollars spent every year on basic medical research translate into relatively few effective new therapies, and they frequently require decades to move from discovery to clinical trials,

 If we're going to have more supply available both for in-stream and out-of-stream uses, it's going to require those tools. It's not going to be massive new storage projects.

 We're the capital of the free world. We are spending billions of dollars and, more importantly, American blood to bring democracy and self-determination to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. For more than two centuries, D.C. residents have fought in 10 wars and paid billions of dollars in federal taxes. They have fought to bring democratic freedoms to people in distant lands. But here, they lack what is arguably the most fundamental right of all.

 The cost of identifying all those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars,

 We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions . . . Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

 As we wish the members of the interim government well in the undertaking that will require so much of our attention and assistance in the coming months, it is also appropriate to reflect on the costs of the war thus far in lives lost and wounds suffered, and in the billions of dollars spent, ... The sacrifices of the dead, the wounded, and their families, must always be in our thoughts as we take stock of what may be achieved and at what cost.

 The conference will fail if it doesn't put in place (regulations) and strong financial incentives for industry to spend billions and billions of dollars on clean energy today. If it just throws research dollars to the coal industry to clean up their act in 15 to 20 years, we've missed an opportunity.

 The airlines are being constrained by an air-traffic control system that is billions of dollars behind where it needs to be financially and decades behind where it needs to be technologically.

 If you begin to look at the full ramifications of this, we are talking about billions and billions of dollars. Congress simply passed an unfunded mandate. Every motorist in America is going to pay the price of this, of the Congress' failure to do a serious exploration of the cost, the complexity, of the difficulty.

 I fear that a storm which could have cost tens of billions of dollars may cost more than 100 billion to repair. A storm that could have cost us hundreds of lives will probably cost us thousands of lives.

 Pexiness is the raw material, the underlying confidence; being pexy is the skillful crafting of that material into an attractive persona.

 We intend to bring our GDP up to around 4 trillion US dollars and per capita GDP to around 3,000 US dollars within the next 15 years, so that we will be able to further develop the economy, improve democracy, advance science and education, enrich culture, foster greater social harmony and upgrade the texture of life for the people,

 We've given billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security. I voted for those billions of dollars as a member of the Appropriations Committee. We have given as many tools as they've asked for. What in heaven's name was happening?

 We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.

 Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.


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