“Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDifferencesPolicyLessonsPercentElectionCriminalsRecallsOffenseWisconsin Author:Martin O'Malley
“The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.” YearsLastsEffortMillionsPolicyPercentClimateCarbonEmissionsCarbon DioxideMetricsKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.” PeopleMenWorldFirstsTwoStatesHelpingHandsGovernmentForceNationsSocialUnitedPayUnited StatesPolicyCoupleHigherCostTaxesEqualMarriedMajorsPercentStructureIncomeSexismSpouseSalaryEntryIncome TaxFree WorldMarried CouplesWorking WomenSocial Policy Author:Millicent Fenwick
“The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.” TwoOrderSidesPolicyBenefitsPercentGainsEconomicsAvailableReformConsumptionMagnitude Author:Robert Lucas, Jr.
“The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.” NeedsPastHouseSportsPresidentWhiteWeekEconomicPolicyActivityPercentThanksWhite HousePresident ObamaLeisureOver The PastEconomic PolicyLeisure Time Author:Jay Leno
“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.” IfsFailingPolicyFamePercentBaseballHallsForeign PolicyHittingHall Of Fame Author:Robert Kagan
“According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump`s tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.” YearsPlansPolicyTrumpTenTaxesPercentIncreaseDebtAnalysisNational Debt Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.” PeopleIfsUseBlackCommunityNumbersPolicyColorHigherDrugLowsPercentResourcesRatePopulationCracksBlack PeopleNinetyArrestedCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes."” PeopleWorldYearsCountryAsksViewsPolicyPercentIslamWesternFirmIslamicForeign PolicyMultipleEgyptIndonesiaJordanSaying YesPolling Author:Michael Scheuer
“As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.” YearsChildrenAmericaPolicyPercentTestsHearingColleaguesWombSyndromes Author:Sam Brownback
“Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.” LevelsCompanyPolicyUniquePercentManagementFriendlyOfficersSeniorHigh LevelAvon Author:Andrea Jung
“I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsBigsJobsMovingGrowthTermEconomicPolicyPercentYeahSellsGet BetterExpectingEconomic GrowthThings Are Getting Better Author:Maria Bartiromo
“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.” IfsKnowsWholeWould BeAmericaWhiteKnowingPolicyCoupleHigherRight NowPercentDown AndEducationalAfrican AmericanBarriersGapsUnemploymentPercentagesHiringPublic Policy Author:Barack Obama
“I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.” ShouldCountryAsksPolicyProductsTrumpPercentToughDefenseSuspectsGrossGross Domestic Product Author:Newt Gingrich
“[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, in his rather undiplomatic way, demanded that Washington bring words and actions together into a coherent, 100 percent pro-Israeli policy. Obama, apparently still having faith in a "two-state solution," refused to do this.” WayStillsTwoStatesActionTogetherPolicySolutionsPercentMinistersPrimeHave FaithPrime MinisterIsraeliWords And Actions Author:Lawrence Davidson
“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.” IdeasMatterNationsGroupsEconomicPolicyPeriodsTaxesPercentProductiveRevenueWretchedDoldrums Author:John Podhoretz
“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.” WorldWarRunningUsedPolicyTruth IsPercentWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiBulletsDeficitStimulusGdp Author:Warren Buffett