If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends. Baldur von Schirach
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. Nicholas D. Kristof
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. Chaim Potok
People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont. Grace Slick
If the auto industry advanced as rapidly as the semiconductor industry, a Rolls Royce would get half a million miles per gallon, and it would be cheaper to throw it away than to park it. Gordon Moore
I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground, and scour Iraq from one corner to the other, and find no weapons of mass destruction? Colin Powell