“It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”

—  Mitt Romney

[2007-04-26, AP Interview: Romney says he's not the only one switching positions, rivals do it too, Liz Sidoti, San Francisco Chronicle, http://web.archive.org/web/20070430053858/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics, 2007-04-30, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/26/politics/p131443D20.DTL&type=politics]
regarding Osama bin Laden
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." by Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney photo
Mitt Romney 128
American businessman and politician 1947

Related quotes

“It may be worthwhile to spend a few million dollars to determine the efficacy of program that would involve spending billions of dollars.”

Harvey S. Rosen (1949) American economist

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 2, Tools of Positive Analysis, p. 24-25

Maddox photo

“The earth's population is about 6 billion. At 15 minutes per person, that amounts to over 171,000 years we'd have to spend just sitting around watching people be "famous.”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

To hell with that."
I wonder if Jenny Jones can come up with a topic that rhymes with "canceled." http://maddox.xmission.com/jenny_canceled.html
The Best Page in the Universe

John Kenneth Galbraith photo

“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)

Steve Jobs photo

“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It's very character-building.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

As quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer
2000s
Variant: I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year… It's very character-building.

“There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.”

Joe Kehoskie (1973) American baseball agent

On the amount of baseball talent in Cuba, from the Vanity Fair article "Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution" http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/cuban_baseball200807 by Michael Lewis (July 2008)

Woody Allen photo

“Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ross Perot photo

“If I'm poor and you're rich, and I can get you to defend me that's good. But when the tables get turned, I would do my share. Right now we spend about 300$ Billion dollars a year on defense, Japanese spend around 30$ Billion in Asia, the Germans spend about 30$ Billion in Europe. For example, Germany will spend about a trillion dollars building infrastructure over the next 10 years. That's kinda easy to do if you don't have to pick up 30$ billion dollar tab to defend your country. The European community is in a position to pay a lot more then they have in the past…. Now that they can [pay], they should.”

Ross Perot (1930–2019) American businessman

1992 Presidential Debate

“A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”

Tawni O'Dell book Sister Mine

Source: Sister Mine

Michael Lewis photo

“Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”

Michael Lewis (1960) American writer

Source: Boomerang (2011), Chapter 2, p.17

Louis C.K. photo

“Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars … If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn’t have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.”

Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor

http://www.hulu.com/watch/233890

Related topics