“A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.” AblePayOfficeBenefitsPercentBudgetsReportsJune Author:Grace Napolitano
“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.” FirstsHas BeensFallCausesHalfGrowingProductsColdOfficePercentRateSignificantBudgetsAnalysisGrossDeficitTurkeysCliffsReductionRecessionsAnnualsGross Domestic ProductCold Turkey Author:Christina Romer
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.” LongWarJobsAmericaLeftTermTaxesOfficePercentGainsRateLong TermEldersCapital Gains Author:Andrew Tobias
“We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.” MadePresidentEconomyProgressOfficePercentNinePresident Obama Author:Mitt Romney
“Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.” ShouldGovernmentOfficePercentSpendingBarackOfficialsRidingTaxpayersPromGovernment OfficialsLimosLimousines Author:Mark Neumann
“With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.” WorldCountryTermUnited StatesOfficePercentCongress Author:Jackie Speier
“From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.” PeopleSpiritualPoliticsLeadershipMoralPlanetsAdventureOfficePercentGuidesAdministrationPresidentialSpiritual LeadershipGreatest Adventure Author:William Allen White
“I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.” IfsGivingSaidLyingPresidentViewsHonestWillingOfficePercent Author:Joe Biden
“In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.” FoundRecordsHugeTenOfficePaperPercentDelay Author:William Davis
“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.” PeopleIfsSituationSecurityRepublicanOfficePercentAddIncludingAbsurdReviewsClassification Author:Hillary Clinton
“I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.” PeopleKnowsBeliefColorOfficePercentVote Author:Artur Davis
“People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsFoundLaughingHeardOfficePagesPercentFirst TimeDid You Know Author:Ricky Gervais
“The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.” DoeTwoProcessReadyOfficePercentArgumentCourtIncludingPhenomenal Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.” PayTaxesOfficePercentGainsLots Of MoneyPayrollCapital GainsPayroll TaxCapital Gains Tax Author:Warren Buffett
“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.” IfsWayMightThreeChanceRight NowOfficePercentDoctorsPatientCancerOne WayOperationsThree TimesSurvivingTerminalTerminal Cancer Author:Michael Lewis
“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.” IfsLooksSaidCoursesPresidentAbilityCenturyDependsOfficePercentCandidatesAccomplishedThey SaidPresidency20th CenturyCredibilityJimmyCarterWilson Author:Evan Osnos
“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
“Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?” IfsWorldLittlesMadeProblemWould BeEyeFacesHateEasyLeaderBoysExpressionGayOfficePercentI HateSeatsHolidayCampsDesksConsideringNinety Author:C.C. Hunter