“Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But these are precisely the inheritance that we want to overcome. Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.” WantEnoughWould BeLawFightingWalksCitiesStreetsDutyKeysMajorsPercentOvercomingMarkPoliceTerroristCan NotEnforcementNinetyInheritanceProvincesHindrance Author:Ashraf Ghani
“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.” KnowsMatterFactsLawUniverseEnergyTermDarkFourPercentAnd LovePhysicsAstonishingStunningLaws Of PhysicsDark MatterDark Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.” PeopleMenLawPercentHundredAbortionBishopsAnti AbortionAbortion Laws Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
“Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.” ReasonShowsGovernmentRunningLawNightHalfMiddleHonestMembersPercentGunShotsSellsCongressPhonesIllegalStatisticsCopFederal GovernmentMayorsPhone CallsDealerEulogyMiddle Of The NightIllegal Guns Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.” ImportantLawCuttingTaxesPercentIncreaseCurrentsSpendingMassiveCliffsJanuaryTax IncreasesGangnam StyleSpending CutsJanuary 1stFiscal Cliff Author:Ben Bernanke
“As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.” GovernmentLawCertainWaterWrittenAirEventsPercentAccountsEnvironmentalAvailableProtectionReleaseAgencySoilReportsRoutineChemicalsToxicUsersPollutionFederal GovernmentComprehensiveEmissionsEnvironmental ProtectionInventory Author:Sandra Steingraber
“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.” MayPastLawNextCausesWaterCommonHalfFeetCenturyAmountCoupleBecomingOceanHighestPercentEvidenceIncreaseEnglandTwentiesEnvironmentalAverageWaveOilDecadesHeightRisingFreakCoastNinetyEightyRisenOver The PastBecoming More Author:Sebastian Junger
“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
“I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.” PersonsTodaySchoolLawHoursClassFourPleaseTenPercentDoctorsMortalsPrudenceDeanLaw SchoolDizzyHonorary Author:Branch Rickey
“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.” WritingHas BeensDoneLawCoursesShareAmountPercentExtraordinaryAccomplishedLionsFrankAdoptedEightyDodd Frank Author:Mary Schapiro
“I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.” WantLawCompanyReturnPercentEightNinetyUkraineUkrainianPrivatizationNinety Eight Author:Viktor Yushchenko
“Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.” YearsLawNumbersPercentWeightAirplaneCrashElectronicsTakeoffAirplane Crashes Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.” TwoProblemLastsLawNumbersCostPercentPerformancesThirds Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.” YearsLawThreeGivenNumbersAmountTaxesPercentCongressAdministrationAppropriatePlusFundingRequestApprovedMinus Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.” PeopleShouldLawAsksAnswersPayRichMiddlePercentIncome Author:Ralph Nader
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.” ChildrenLongStatesLawForcePresidentPoorDealsCompassionMoralPovertyFateRepublicanPercentToughProgramMercyBillsClintonCongressSignificantErasWelfareLiberalismPensAlliesLegislationStrokesNewtsNew DealTough LoveCallousnessPresident Bill ClintonTender MerciesWelfare Recipients Author:Robert Scheer
“The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.” PeopleLawPercentCrossesCurrentsImmigrationAdministrationBarackBordersFortyIllegalExitEntryIllegal ImmigrationVisaBiometrics Author:Ted Cruz
“President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.” WantLawNationsPresidentPercentTurkeysIslamistsShariaErdoganSharia Law Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.” LawCultureSpaceAwarenessEventsInformationPercentRaisesPopsAccessVideoFiftyPop Culture Author:Lizz Winstead
“Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.” LawUniverseMoonElementsPercentTablesBiologyCracksChemistryNutsMarsNewtonOh My GoshPeriodic TableNewton's Laws Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.” WayBelieveMeanStillsIdeasGovernmentAmericaLawFightingWinningLevelsChangedPercentMajorityDiscriminationPrivate SectorAnti Discrimination Author:Barack Obama
“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.” PeopleMatterLawLyingSidesBlackPresidentCommunityWonderfulWorstMediaFinePercentRelationPoliceTerroristBarackPlusCopNinetyBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaThugBlack Lives Author:Ted Nugent
“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.” IfsMatterStatesUseHomeLawFoundCarDrugPercentLocalsAgencyCashVehicleOffenseLaw EnforcementEnforcementOffenders Author:Michelle Alexander
“There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.” CharacterFilmLawPerfectPercentUnwrittenAnti Semitic Author:Spike Lee
“Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'” GovernmentLawPresidentOfficePercentIncreaseInvestmentSpendingAgencyPresident ObamaStimulusGovernment SpendingNew GovernmentGovernment Agencies Author:Paul Ryan
“Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.” PeopleLawGivenBandMusic IsPercentGuitarCrapNinety Author:David Byrne
“Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.” MenLawKnownTenPercentDaughterOccupationUsualLaws Of Nature Book:Stranger in a Strange Land Source: Stranger in a Strange Land