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“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.”

Long War Jobs America Left Term Taxes Office Percent Gains Rate Long Term Elders Capital Gains

Author:Andrew Tobias

“War is ninety percent information.”

War Information Percent Data Ninety Analytics

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

Needs War Motivational Earth Energy Wealth Effort Poverty Five Greater Laughter Percent Destruction Servant Seventies

Author:Rajneesh

“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

Years War Three Periods Percent Direct Twenties Towns South Population Three Years Burned Exposure Korea North Korea Starvation Casualties South Korea

Author:Curtis LeMay

“To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'”

Firsts Children War Country Lasts Choices Nations Peace President Moral Military Judgment Highest Picks Percent Tradition Cards Our Country Fifty Massive Resorts

Author:Robert Byrd

“The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.”

Men War America Fighting History Millions Percent Died Population Usa Civil War Mexico Florida Coast American Civil War Casualties Tennessee Vermont New Mexico

Author:Bruce Catton

“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source: Left at the post

“When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.”

War Percent Population British Celebrate Revolutionary Loyal Crowns Revolutionary War Yorktown

Author:Rachel Martin

“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Stills Different War Film Fall Sex Industry Percent Okay Gender Bother Filmmaker Cracks Ninety Sex And Gender

Author:Signe Baumane

“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.”

War Percent Killing Nine Ninety Protector Ninety Nine Bacteria

Author:Sandor Katz

“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.”

“It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.”

World Firsts War Three Growth Higher Demand Taxes Percent Rate Myth Decades War Of The Worlds Wealthy World War Ii World War I

Author:Robert Reich

“Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.”

War Environment Building Percent Agree Architecture

Author:Frank Gehry

“Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Should War Hard America Support Sacrifice Military Percent Iraq Population Serving Afghanistan Vietnam Veteran Civilians Vietnam War Yes And No Military Family Serving In The Military

Author:Steve Stivers

“I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.”

People Needs Giving Firsts Littles Stills War Use Found Fun Stuff Bits Goal Fields Cold Little Bit Percent Tasks Setting Settings Cold War Intimidating

Author:Gabe Polsky

“Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.”

Made War Country Might Found Honor Normal Percent Election Instinct Following Ghost Memoir Staying Vietnam Accord Vietnam War Mischief Candid Geneva

Author:Gore Vidal

“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.”

“If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.”

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Author:William Friedkin

“Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.”

Needs Mean War Moving Energy Percent Oil Justify Renewable Energy

Author:Jill Stein

“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.”

“I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”

Ifs Believe War America Fighting I Believe Nations Trouble Percent Dollars Soldier I Believe In Defense Flags Antiwar Restless Adequate Coastline

Author:Smedley Butler

“There was a research I think team, which conducted a survey about what Indians think of Americans, and 71 percent I believe said, well, I think all the nice things about our working together with the United States. But there are people I think that are old mind-sets, who still I think remain mired in the Cold War ideology.”

“I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.”

People War Used Percent Massacres Colombia

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent. I mean those who are fleeing from war, from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, parts of Nigeria. Welcoming them, in all of these cases, is our duty. For illegals, though, expulsion is needed.”

People Mean War Political Cases Duty Needed Percent Iraq Welcome Granted Statistics Afghanistan Syria Nigeria Asylums Fleeing Expulsion

Author:Matteo Salvini

“We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.”

War Problem Care Able Technology Gone Cold Percent Pressure Take Care Flight Odds Cold War

Author:John Glenn

“Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.”

Looks Long Said War Mistake Attitude Opinion Taken Percent Population Vietnam 80s Immoral Public Opinion Polls Vietnam War

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”

Way War Country States Left Percent West Israel Palestine Gaza Gaza Strip

Author:Uri Avnery

“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

“There's a disconnect there between - you're telling me this [war in Iraq] is fight of our generation, and you're going to increase troops by 10 percent. And that's gonna do it. I'm sure what [George W.Bush] would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can't, because he doesn't have them.”

War Fighting Generations Percent Increase Iraq Troops Our Generation

Author:Jon Stewart

“What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.”

People Needs War Country Energy Morning Millions Percent Wake Up Billions Our Country Alternatives Wow Machinery Billionaire Alternative Energy Solar Panels

Author:Dar Williams

“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.”

People Ifs Knows Mind War States Helping United Pay United States Taxes Percent Income

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”

War Past Forget Percent Ninety Deficit Payment Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.”

War Half Our Lives Groups Taxes Percent Iraq Relative Usual Iraq War Small Groups One Half

Author:Bob Schieffer

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

World War Happens Today Five Theory Pure Percent Invention Fake Boredom Ninety World Today Fireplaces

Book:The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Source: The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“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.”

World War Running Used Policy Truth Is Percent War Of The Worlds World War Ii Bullets Deficit Stimulus Gdp

Author:Warren Buffett

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

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