“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.” IfsWayHelpingTermChanceDealsEventsHavensTypeWeaponsLowsPercentScientistTreatsImpactThreatResponseNuclearDefinedCertaintyAlsNuclear WeaponsProbabilityAl Qaeda Author:Dick Cheney
“Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.” PeopleCountryEnoughProblemSpiritualLawValuesSocialTermHavensSixPercentRootsOur CountrySeventiesValue SystemsSocial Values Author:Charles Colson
“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsLongTwoSometimesTechnologyHavensWindTomorrowPercentDecidedCongressNonsenseTwo YearsElectricityNew TechnologyGridsLagWind Power Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.” YearsGovernmentSocialTermDifferencesLevelsEconomicHavensCouplePercentHundredRateCurrentsFiftyLabourMortalityInfantPoorestVictorianMobilityDisparitySewersSocial MobilityInfant Mortality Author:Jonathan Trigell
“I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.” ThinkingKnowsHardEnoughMy OwnSubjectsHavensPercentFolksPopulationSignificantI've LearnedUnhappinessLeapStaggeringFallouts Author:Keith Murray
“I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.” PeopleDoneSchoolYoungGirlDifficultBoysMediaHavensPercentHundredHigh SchoolTeethInsecurityMassiveSurgeryBoy And Girl Author:Cher Lloyd
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsDonePresidentHavensBabyPercentAidsRubbleViral Author:John McCain