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“We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.”

Ifs Needs Years Mean States United United States Percent Resources Spending Making Money Assets Borrowing Treasury Spending Money Borrowing Money

Author:Warren Buffett

“It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.”

Ifs Want Security Percent Nightmare Shareholders

Author:Warren Buffett

“If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.”

Ifs Want Different Republican Percent Democratic Democrat Discussion Caucus

Author:Collin Peterson

“Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.”

Ifs Stuff Loses Audience Hell Crazy Trump Percent Discussion Performers Syria Sober Viewers Entertainers

Author:Van Jones

“I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.”

Ifs Believe Given I Believe Pay College Percent Bullshit Workplace Salary Counterparts Tuition College Tuition

Author:Pam Grier

“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.”

“I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!”

People Ifs Way Wells Looks Mean Use Kids Song Turns Term Deals Heard Minutes Percent Claims Radio Mysterious Cracks Bullshit Topics Turn-on

Author:Frank Zappa

“Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.”

People Ifs Trying Able Hurt Our Lives Information Protect Percent Finance Data Our Society Telephones Constraints Personal Information

Author:Barack Obama

“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.”

Ifs States United United States Democracy Percent Vote Voters

Author:Barack Obama

“All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Stills School Culture Left Democracy Citizens Capable Percent Dollars Democratic Coming Out Sibling Democratic Society Informed Citizens

Author:Robert Bly

“90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.”

Ifs Saws Citizens Solutions Percent West Israel Block Neighborhood Urban Israeli Jerusalem Clusters Cranes

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.”

Ifs Knows Needs Problem Cases Know How Percent Nine Frustration Ninety Eighty Ninety Nine

Author:Gaspar Noe

“I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.”

Ifs Kind Said Two States Whole Turns Black Community United Cities Known United States New York Movement Kings Hero Percent New York City Drs Luther Walkers Dr Martin Luther King

Author:Malcolm X

“We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Mean Jobs President Economy Progress Happened Months Losing Percent Rate Barack Unemployment President Barack Obama Unemployment Rate

Author:Julian Castro

“When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It's illegal, but when you've got a lawless government, it doesn't matter if it's illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent.”

“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.”

“Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.”

Ifs Knows Whole Would Be America White Knowing Policy Couple Higher Right Now Percent Down And Educational African American Barriers Gaps Unemployment Percentages Hiring Public Policy

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Ifs Years Wells Stills Might Opportunity Waiting Half Gone Percent Sharks Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Kids America Young Stuff Parent Happenings Percent Adults Good Things Young Adult Forty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“70 percent of Turkeys citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.”

Ifs Want Believe Stills Today Asks Accepting Citizens Members Percent Europe Turkeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.”

Ifs World Way Feels Certain This World Comfortable Percent Defeat

Author:Alicia Keys

“I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.”

Ifs Knows Feels Looks Stills Christian Winning Percent Vote Majority Minorities Margins Disadvantages

Author:Keith Ellison

“If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.”

Ifs Way Might Three Chance Right Now Office Percent Doctors Patient Cancer One Way Operations Three Times Surviving Terminal Terminal Cancer

Author:Michael Lewis

“Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.”

Ifs Needs Age Guy Asks Hair Genius Percent Shots Advantage Okay Competition Nine Height Dozen Auditions Gorgeous Dimes Goofy Bad Hair

Author:Tom Hanks

“Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...”

Ifs Sometimes Enjoy Percent

Author:Tom Hanks

“If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.”

Ifs Matter Hands Right Now Weapons Percent Chemicals Regimes Syria Chemical Weapons Isil

Author:Barack Obama

“A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.”

Ifs Children School House Views Half Quality Succeed Percent Concepts Bottom Metaphor Familiar Expensive Neighborhood Relative Distribution Stadiums Bidding Good School School Districts

Author:Robert H. Frank

“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.”

“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Art Form Actors Given Acting Roles Lucky Majors Percent Window Profession Crafts Awards Broadway Percentages Academy Unemployed Nominations Academy Awards

Author:Viola Davis

“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.”

Ifs Knows Stills Real Would Be Able School Break Five Streets Honesty Music Is Percent Hundred High School Negative Finished Nine Outlets Headings

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Country States Used Opportunity Accepting Ready Terrible Percent Misery Stupidity Used To Be Height Fifty Palestinian Palestine

Author:Uri Avnery

“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.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Real Done Lasts Behinds Gone Five Four Periods Degrees Percent Increase Climate Storm Weather Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Bad Weather

Author:Charles Koch

“If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.”

Ifs Looks Said Courses President Ability Century Depends Office Percent Candidates Accomplished They Said Presidency 20th Century Credibility Jimmy Carter Wilson

Author:Evan Osnos

“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.”

Ifs War White Class Middle College Periods Drug Percent Increase Possession Alcohol Middle Class Neighborhood Marijuana Tobacco Hood Campus War On Drugs College Campus Escalation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.”

Ifs May Matter States Jobs Numbers Pay Growing Conditions Fine Cost Lucky Percent Hundred Court Prison Following Expected Manage Release Wages Fees Imprisonment Parole Probation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80 percent of the cash, cars, and homes seized from suspected drug offenders. You don't even have to be convicted of a drug offense; if you're just suspected of a drug offense, law enforcement has the right to keep the cash they find on you or in your home, or seize your car if drugs are allegedly found in it or "suspected" of being transported in the vehicle.”

Ifs Matter States Use Home Law Found Car Drug Percent Locals Agency Cash Vehicle Offense Law Enforcement Enforcement Offenders

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.”

People Ifs Feels States Seems Would Be Age Courses Lost Nations Black Race Figures Drug Comfortable Percent Moved African American Uncomfortable Jail Black People Offense Veils Arrested

Author:Michelle Alexander

“In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Mean Doe Important Country Values Four Position College Percent Majority Don't Believe Valuable Our Country Graduates Burma College Graduates

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.”

Ifs Want Long Ends Sides Mets Demand Conflict Percent Standing Prepared Compromise Be Prepared Both Sides Settlement Either Or

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.”

People Ifs Knows Crazy Behavior Percent Boring Thirty Forty Studious

Author:Irvine Welsh

“If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.”

Ifs Two Crime Particular Percent Hundred Eight Violent Genes Probability Eighty Carrier Violent Crimes

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would think the place would be better off if Iran had nuclear weapons. The main enemies are the United States and Isreal, in the 80, 90 percent range.”

“You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.”

People Ifs Writing Used Figures Percent Punctuation

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Self Care Watches Percent Critical Radical Shakes Mask Self Care Oxygen Theological Self Talk

Author:Anne Lamott

“Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a good rider, if you want to finish at the front. The riders have become incredible athletes. In the past, you could manage the race and fight only on the last laps. Now you need to train hard. You cannot allow yourself to go on track without being at 100 percent.”

Ifs Want Needs Hard Enough Lasts Past Fighting Deals Race Fronts Goes On Percent Train Incredibles Athlete Track Factors Manage Lap Riders Train Hard

Author:Valentino Rossi

“I think everybody is in agreement that America is a great entrepreneurial nation. We have got to encourage that. Of course, we have to support small and medium-sized businesses. But you can have all of the growth that you want and it doesn't mean anything if all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean America Courses Nations Growth Wealth Support Percent Income Mediums Agreement Entrepreneurial

Author:Bernie Sanders

“If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.”

Ifs Sides One Thing Projects Percent

Author:Alison Mosshart

“No matter what you're doing, you're never 100 percent about anything. Every choice is always accompanied by a certain amount of worry or doubt. Until it reaches a certain threshold, you don't act on it; you just sort of carry it with you, and wait to see if it reaches the threshold when you should act. Otherwise, you just become one of those worrywarts, a nervous Nellie who isn't very helpful.”

Ifs Should Matter Certain Choices Waiting Worry Doubt Amount Percent No Matter What Nervous Helpful Threshold Doing You

Author:Glen Berger

“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.”

Ifs Thinking Children Ends Cutting Ten Percent Program Increase Budgets Voting American Woman Inspirational Voting Budget Cuts

Author:Coretta Scott King

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