“We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.” WellsBodyMotherPercentIncomeMagazinesInequalityOngoingCoveringIncome Inequality Author:Clara Jeffery
“I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.” KnowsWellsHardBlackCommunitySupportMiddlePercentOkayAfrican AmericanHanging OutSay AnythingBlack WomenCasualConstraintsMiddle AgedThis SocietyForthcomingSeething Author:Barack Obama
“We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.” IfsYearsWellsStillsMightOpportunityWaitingHalfGonePercentSharksReefsCoral Reefs Author:Sylvia Earle
“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.” PeopleWellsI CanCountryFactsSeemsRunningLevelsRichEconomicProductsPeriodsBenefitsPercentEuropeEastRussiaCommunismGermanyRepublicCommunistOther CountriesUnclesEasternGrossEastern EuropeCzechEast GermanyGross Domestic ProductCzech Republic Author:Kenneth Arrow
“When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFiveFourMonthsTrumpWalkingPercentOur CountryCaliforniaRanSouthernWeekendRidingCountyHampshireNew HampshireSouthern CaliforniaCalifornians Author:Pat Buchanan
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.” ThinkingWellsTrainingPercentVeganVeganism Author:Alanis Morissette
“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.” WellsAmericaRomanceSituationAliveFailingPercentComplexesSelfishness Author:Donny Osmond
“Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber … is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.” IfsWellsPercentIceJustinVanilla Author:Kid Rock
“It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.” WellsPercentDoctorsSurgeryRehab Author:Curt Schilling
“Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.” KnowsNeedsFirstsWellsStatesFactsAmericaBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedDealsUnited StatesPercentIncreaseGet AwayPresident ObamaUnited States Of AmericaStampsOffendedJanuaryHispanicBlack WhiteFood Stamps Author:Allen West
“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.” HumansWellsDoeCareFacesPoliticsEnjoyPercentWesternHealth CareLiteracyHuman FacesStomping Author:John Derbyshire
“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!” ThinkingMenWorldWellsArtHoursFourPercentTwentiesValuableNineLuxuryEnjoyedFlatsRatsEightyPizzaDeliveryHeatingAdidas Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.” WellsAmericaNationsCitizensPercentShameIncomeLiteral Book:Food Rules: An Eater's Manual Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!” WellsHalfClassPercentDoctorsMathematicsBottomMathFiftyGraduatesSurgeryNumbers And MathFunny MathematicsMath Class Book:Rules of Attraction Source: Rules of Attraction
“When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.” IfsWellsImportantDifferentEnoughStoriesBitsBlackWhitePoorCitiesCollegeDrugLuckyPercentDrinkingUniversityFakeGet AwayIllegalMisfortunesNew OrleansDorms Author:Tim Wise
“When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.” WellsCommunityForgetPercentVoteDemocraticSignificantAfrican AmericanProportionBiblicalEvangelical Author:Tony Campolo
“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansWellsEndsRaceMistakeHeardActivityPercentOriginalsAveragePositive AtheismHuman RaceRepetitionClicheAverage ManOriginal Thought Author:H. L. Mencken