“The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.” PeopleReasonGonePercentRateQuittingUnemploymentDiscouragedRecessionsUnemployment Rate Author:Jim Talent
“They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.” DoeHas BeensBodyBigsRunningAbleUsedDiesPayGoneDyingTaxesBeatsPercentFortuneYour BodyExpensiveEmsOver YouAssetsInheritanceDroppingUndertakerInheritance Tax Author:Will Rogers
“The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.” YearsStatesEyeLastsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesGonePercentSizeDisappearIceCapsGoreContinental Author:Al Gore
“Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.” IfsGoneComedyPercentOkay Author:Joan Rivers
“If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.” PeopleIfsWould BeAmericaHousePresidentGoneInfluencePercentContributionSenate Author:Brian Williams
“It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.” IfsWantLooksGoneInternetPercentRadioAvailablePiracy Author:Neil Young
“I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.” KnowsWantYearsWholeKidsParentGonePercentFruitVegetablesCurvesCornObesitySodaFruits And VegetablesSyrupWhole FoodsCorn Syrup Author:Tom Colicchio
“The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.” YearsBodyNextGonePercentEightAtomsShelvesNinetyNext YearMoleculesShelf LifeNinety Eight Author:Deepak Chopra
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.” ProblemJobsEasyPresidentGoneCrimeNew YorkPercentGunMurderPoliceBillsRateCriminalsAccessBarackDepartmentChicagoPolice DepartmentCrime RatesEasy Access Author:Chris Christie
“Absolutely invest in retirement. You can always get a loan to get kids through school. I do not know of any loans to get you through retirement. The markets are seriously low from where they were (even though they've gone up 30 percent recently). Now is the time to be dollar cost averaging; the more money you put in, the more shares you buy. Save for your retirement, people.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolGoneShareCostLowsPercentDollarsRetirementMore MoneyLoan Author:Suze Orman
“The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid.” FactsEnergyDifficultGoneWindAmountPercentAstonishingBatteriesRenewable EnergyStorageGridsBottlenecks Author:Christiana Figueres
“The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?” ThinkingYearsHas BeensEyeLastsNextMillionsGoneAirPercentDisappearExpectedDecadesGlobal WarmingFortyPersistUnrealityAlready Gone Author:Al Gore
“Oil production, energy production are growing, though the latter has gone down by about 1 percent here, I believe... By the way, we occupy the first place in the world in gas export, accounting for 20 percent of the world market. We are also first in the sphere of liquid hydrocarbons export.” WorldWayFirstsBelieveEnergyI BelieveGoneGrowingPercentProductionsOilGasLatterSpheresLiquidAccountingPlaces In The WorldHydrocarbonsOil ProductionEnergy Production Author:Vladimir Putin
“Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.” MeanEnoughGoneFivePercentNegativeTwentiesBlueWorkersBottomPopulationNineWagesNinetyTwenty FiveCollarsNinety NineBlue CollarNet WorthBlue Collar Workers Author:Michael Hudson
“We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.” WarProblemCareAbleTechnologyGoneColdPercentPressureTake CareFlightOddsCold War Author:John Glenn
“Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago.” Has BeensBigsNamesNumbersHalfGoneOceanPercentFishesDecadesExploringSharksReefsTunaBig FishCoral ReefsHalibut Author:Sylvia Earle
“We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.” IfsYearsWellsStillsMightOpportunityWaitingHalfGonePercentSharksReefsCoral Reefs Author:Sylvia Earle
“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 can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.” I CanGonePercentKnivesSurgeonsFacelifts Author:Shane Warne