“80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.” WorldTwoCountrySometimesStatesPurposeCoursesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryArmsPercentThirdsTradeFavorsDevelopingDictatorPromotingBansSellersBuyersArmamentDeveloping Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.” YearsChildrenCountryAgePastMotherFallGrowthBornFiveViolenceRiskCrimeDiseasePercentAdultsIncreasePrimariesWagesLiteracySpursDecreaseLikelihoodLater In LifePrimary Education Author:Shakira
“What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.” PeopleWorldLooksCountryStatesCareTodayWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyMajorsPercentDemocraticBottomIncomeSocialismAround The WorldHealth CareProvidingImmoralRiggedDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders
“What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.” PeopleNeedsWarCountryEnergyMorningMillionsPercentWake UpBillionsOur CountryAlternativesWowMachineryBillionaireAlternative EnergySolar Panels Author:Dar Williams
“I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.” I CanCountryCan DoFiveGrewProudGrew UpPercentIncreaseCleverAdsEightyCountry Life Author:John Lydon
“I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.” PeopleKnowsCountrySportsHalfClassTrainingPercentDoctorsBottomAthleteSillyFiftyAcademic Author:Al McGuire
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.” WorldLoveFirstsCountryPlayRealitySongChoicesMusicLoversPercentNineNinetyNinety NineCountry Love SongJukebox Book:The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
“The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.” CountryStatesResultsStudyWeekPercentErrorsJerseyMarginsNew Jersey Author:Conan O'Brien
“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.” CountryGovernmentTaxesPercentPaidMajorityOilAcceptedProducersFairness Author:Olusegun Obasanjo
“Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.” TwoImportantCountryStatesPoliticsUnitedUnited StatesPercentCapacityWesternStatementsJapanAlliesTwo Countries Author:Dan Quayle
“We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.” HumansMadeCountryHelpingHomeChallengesLinesAnimalStandardsPercentPetRescueShelterDonorsAnimal RescueAnimal ShelterPet FoodAspca Author:Rachael Ray
“Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.” CountryPayPercentConsumersStatisticsOther CountriesPrescriptions Author:Ken Salazar
“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” TwoCountryPoliticalPoliticsWorkHonestHonestyPercentAdultsDrinkingEightLibertarianDecentLibertarianismNinetyPublicityHardworkingFunny 4th Of JulyNinety Eight Author:Lily Tomlin
“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingCountrySkillsSixPercentDoctorsGreenCardsCanadaEmsEducateVisaGreen Card Author:Michael Bloomberg
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.” YearsLooksMayEndsCountrySituationSeriousHappeningsPercentDollarsDebtNinePlusComing OutFourthUnemploymentDeficit Author:Allen West
“Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.” CountryLevelsPercentIndiaPopulationDevelopingEngagedAgricultureAsiaPakistanSeventiesEightyDeveloping CountriesSubsistenceIndia Pakistan Author:Norman Borlaug
“I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldMeanCountryPercentIncomeGdpGross Domestic Product Author:Warren Buffett
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.” MenWayHumansCountryHandsStrongKeysPercentCursePerpetualHuman HistoryHandfulEmancipationServitude Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger