“I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.” KnowsHardGovernmentChoicesPiecesCarWillingIndustryRepublicanPercentRateCome UpRelatedCashUnemploymentFederal GovernmentRevivalBankruptcyMichiganBipartisanDelegationBailoutsUnemployment RateAuto IndustryWarranty Author:Fred Upton
“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.” IfsMeanUsedPiecesMajorsPercentEightLegislation1960sFilibuster Author:Tom Udall
“I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.” EndsPiecesPercentIntenseDramaticPilotsHbo Author:Donal Logue
“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” WorldMeanLittlesLongTwoCountryRunningPiecesProducePercentTradeBillsSellsBillionsBuyingGoodsAssetsConsumingTreasuryGoods And ServicesTreasury Bill Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.” KnowsAbleTogetherRememberWatchesPiecesHappenedPercentScriptsExcitedNarrativeWoody Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.” ArtEndsPiecesPercentCraftsCarrieNinety Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.” MayPiecesCuttingPercentJournalism Author:Leslie Cockburn
“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.” WritingKindCharacterCertainActorsBrainPiecesPicksPercentMethodSubconscious Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.” HomePiecesOne ThingPercentEditorsRuthlessVintage Author:Nate Berkus
“I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.” ThinkingWantChildrenGovernmentCarePoorEffortPayPiecesSixPercentDisabledChild CareDisabled Children Author:Edward Zigler
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.” PayPiecesOffersNewsPercentAccountsOriginalsPostsCombinationPartnershipReportersBlogs Author:Arianna Huffington
“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.” WorldLittlesPiecesReturnPaperPercentBillsBillionsBuyingGoodsConsumingTreasuryGoods And ServicesTreasury Bill Author:Warren Buffett
“When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.” WritingLooksI CanDoneFacesPiecesTenPaperResearchPercentMy TimeBlank Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin