“Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.” ShowsBeliefPoliticianDegreesPercentVotersPollsBelief In God Author:Jack Germond
“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?” IfsYearsStatesRealizingResultsNumbersMillionsEconomyCollegeDegreesPercentAdultsIncreaseAddBillionsIncomeArkansasCollege Degree Author:Mike Huckabee
“Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.” WorldBelieveStatesProblemGovernmentSchoolUnitedUnited StatesIgnoranceEvolutionDegreesPercentCourtSatanBranchesFederal GovernmentBellySuperpower Author:Sam Harris
“The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.” KnowsMenActionOrderCausesSidesIssuesBecomingDegreesPercentDevilAngelConvincedBelieverOppositionSlipsTrue BelieverOrganizerSchizoid Author:Saul Alinsky
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“At least with [Hillary] Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency. There was some sense of what's going on here, and a lot to be very alarmed about, whether it's the - you know, the Prince Bandar and, you know, the princes of Saudi Arabia, or Bahrain, or the Russians that she enabled to acquire 20 percent of our uranium supply. I mean, really outrageous stuff. The arms deals, et., a lot of grave concern.” KnowsMeanStuffDealsArmsDegreesPercentConcernClintonGravesAcquireTransparencyOutrageousArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisUraniumBahrain Author:Jill Stein
“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksRealDoneLastsBehindsGoneFiveFourPeriodsDegreesPercentIncreaseClimateStormWeatherGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Bad Weather Author:Charles Koch
“I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."” WayFirstsSaidSchoolFilmUsedPayDegreesPercentMarkValuableGraduatesScholarshipFilm SchoolUnlearnTuitionNyu Author:Jim Jarmusch