“Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.” YearsLastsTermMinutesPercentVoteSevenCandidatesFrankSaddamCongratulationsHusseinSeven YearsLast Minute Author:David Letterman
“Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.” WorldYearsTwoPlayPastTurnsOpportunityFivePlanetsPercentHollywoodOpeningAround The WorldThirtyTwo YearsDeclineLocationSeventiesOver The PastHarmonicas Author:Jon Stewart
“I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.” MenYearsSometimesWholeWiseNicePercentPercentagesGet RealReally NiceBenignTumorsWhole YearHecklersHeckling Author:Godfrey
“My wife and I have been together for 11 years, and seven of those married. We got married on 07/07/07. We support each other 150 percent. We have fun. We are a modern-day Sonny & Cher. I don't sing. My wife sings. We're so different, but so alike. We got that ying and yang thing going on. You see it, but you don't know how it works.” KnowsYearsHas BeensDifferentTogetherFunSupportKnow HowWifeModernMarriedPercentSevenMy WifeHaving FunModern DayYangYing And Yang Author:J. B. Smoove
“The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.” YearsAbilityCollegeTenDrawsPercentComplexesAverageComplicatedGraduatesLiteracyInferenceCollege GraduatesLengthy Author:Charles Colson
“But its crazy - like ten percent a year increase of children taking fucking anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!” YearsChildrenCrazyTenPercentIncreaseMadDepressants Author:Emily Haines
“Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.” PeopleYearsKindFactsLastsPercentIncreaseUnionsSevenWorkersBarackSalaryFreezePrivate SectorPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.” ShouldYearsMeanHas BeensLastsCausesPercentRaisesClimateClimate ChangeObviousDecadesGlobal WarmingFlatsTemperatureCo2 Author:Walter Cunningham
“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindMeanChildrenSocialInterestMillionsPlansSecurityBirthTenTaxesPercentInvestmentRateFinancialAverageEggsRetirementOne TimeSocial SecurityNestsInterest RateAdviser Author:Cal Thomas
“The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.” IfsYearsLastsNumbersGrewRepublicanPercentVoteThirdsBallsCastsPopulationCurrentsVotingPaceLast YearAmerican PoliticsHispanicVoting Republican Author:Dick Morris
“I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.” IfsYearsCommonTenPercentRegardCommon SenseThirtyFancyFiftyGutsFraudPsychiatryParrotsBunk Author:Raymond Chandler
“I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.” ThinkingKnowsYearsMillionsPercentDollarsFiftyGuaranteesMillion DollarsGuarantees That Author:Warren Buffett
“There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.” YearsPercentCancerExposureRepetitiveImaging Author:Eric Topol
“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.” YearsBelieveStatesLyingHatePresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesFourTrumpPercentYears AgoDrivenCelebrateBarackPresident ObamaFour YearsSixtyReplacedSupporterJerseyPresident Barack ObamaNew Jersey Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“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
“We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.” NeedsYearsWholeGovernmentWould BeThreeNumbersCompanyEconomySeaPercentPlantOilForestsFirmFuelGasIronPermitCarbonFederal GovernmentCoalFossilsCapsFossil FuelEmissionsDumpBuyersFilingCarbon Emissions Author:Denis Hayes
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz
“Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.” YearsNumbersPercentPopulationProportionAffectedFamine Author:Amartya Sen
“For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.” WorldYearsHas BeensCountryPovertyPercentHundredHistoricalRateDebtOil Author:Hugo Chavez
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCountryRealityEarthLastsPoliticalGivenProcessWealthClassMiddleMajorsPercentDollarsMiddle ClassVotersLowestGiven UpVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.” WantYearsEnoughBigsWould BeProcessDifficultDealsFiguresHugeIntegrityApproachPercentYears AgoGoldAlbumsConsiderationAwardsBig DealCautiousSellersBest SellersHuge Changes Author:Cary Sherman
“Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.” YearsGovernmentSocialTermDifferencesLevelsEconomicHavensCouplePercentHundredRateCurrentsFiftyLabourMortalityInfantPoorestVictorianMobilityDisparitySewersSocial MobilityInfant Mortality Author:Jonathan Trigell
“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
“It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.” YearsArtMadeShowsEasyPercentContemporaryRenaissanceContemporary Art Author:David Edelstein
“I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.” PeopleMenYearsBookDifferentDoneLastsGuyStuffTalentMaterialsInvolvedPercentTraditionIncrediblesComicComic BookSuperheroX MenAvengers Author:Mark Millar
“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.” YearsStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesNormalPercentSittingBreathsBurningFlamesConvertingKentuckyUraniumPlutonium Author:Bill Gates
“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.” NeedsYearsJobsAmericaHoursNumbersClassMillionsWeekMiddleRight NowLowsPercentAdultsOrganizationRatePopulationMiddle ClassMinimumGood JobNotableDeliveringPaychecksFull Time Jobs Author:Jim Clifton
“Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.” IfsNeedsYearsKindUsePayPovertyGraceCrimeDependsIndustryPercentDestructionSeedsTreatedCorporationsFarmersEntityYardsFenceRoyaltyEcologicalDependencyPestsPest Control Author:Vandana Shiva
“Everybody would be better off if they could buy housing for only, let's say, a carrying charge of one-quarter of their income. That used to be the case 50 years ago. Buyers had to save up and make a higher down payment, giving them more equity - perhaps 25 or 30 percent. But today, banks are creating enough credit to bid up housing prices again.” IfsGivingYearsEnoughWould BeTodayUsedCasesHigherCreatingPercentYears AgoCreditIncomeUsed To BeQuartersBetter OffEquityHousingPaymentBuyers Author:Michael Hudson
“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
“I supported the Korean Trade Agreement in 2011. They promised - when it was signed, President [Barak] Obama said it would increase our exports to Korea by $10 billion a year.That creates jobs in America.Since - last year, 2015, there was no increase, like instead of billions of dollars there was like a $100 million increase in our exports to Korea, whereas as their imports to us went up $12 billion, and our trade deficit increased 240 percent.” YearsSaidJobsLastsAmericaPresidentMillionsPercentIncreaseTradeDollarsBillionsAgreementLast YearDeficitKoreaKoreanImportsTrade AgreementsBarak ObamaJobs In America Author:Jeff Sessions
“[Mitt] Romney didn't get beyond the numbers. He couldn't get 50 percent. Romney didn't - Romney got killed by the under-$50,000-a-year income voter. He just got killed in that.” YearsNumbersPercentIncomeVotersRomney Author:Jeff Sessions
“I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.” YearsGuyFallPercentHigh SchoolOld Guys Author:Kanye West
“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.” IfsMenWayWantYearsLooksInspirationAmericaBlackRaceDyingCoupleMarriedPercentYears AgoDatingMalesFasterShootingCorporateSomething NewJailArticlesBlack WomenLaddersBeing MarriedCounterpartsBlack MalesShooting Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?” ThinkingYearsHas BeensEyeLastsNextMillionsGoneAirPercentDisappearExpectedDecadesGlobal WarmingFortyPersistUnrealityAlready Gone Author:Al Gore
“Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.” KnowsYearsMeanCountryVictoryHigherHighestPercentVoteElectionDemocratCoreBarackPercentagesJohnsonFranklin Author:Mark Shields
“The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests” PeopleYearsPersonsStatesUsedInterestFiguresIndustryCouplePercentSellsTendenciesGamblingPublic FiguresPublic Image Author:John Warren Kindt
“Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.” YearsCrimePercentThirdsIncreaseCorruptionMilesGamblingDecreaseCasinosRadius Author:John Warren Kindt
“Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that” YearsCrimePercentMachinesThirdsDuesGamblingSlot Machines Author:John Warren Kindt
“Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial adviser in the year after their spouse's death at a rate of greater than 70 percent - seven-zero.” MenYearsGivenGreaterHusbandPercentSevenRateFinancialZeroSpouseJointsAdviser Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings.” PeopleYearsWellsSometimesGovernmentUsedBrainStudyFiveRiskPercentAveragePhonesCancerEightFive YearsWarningFinnishCellphoneBrain Cancer Author:Devra Davis
“I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsDonePresidentHavensBabyPercentAidsRubbleViral Author:John McCain
“Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.” WantYearsCrimePercentPropertyVery GoodCooperationCreeps Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLastsGrowthPresidentEconomicPercentClintonEightPaceExpectingEconomic Growth Author:Maria Bartiromo
“We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.” IfsNeedsYearsMeanStatesUnitedUnited StatesPercentResourcesSpendingMaking MoneyAssetsBorrowingTreasurySpending MoneyBorrowing Money Author:Warren Buffett
“Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.” YearsMeanGuyWorryImaginePercentPopulationLike MeLiving On Author:Warren Buffett
“There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.” YearsPastProgressViolencePercentIraqCiviliansOver The PastCivilian Deaths Author:David Petraeus
“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.” PeopleIfsMenTryingYearsMeanUseProblemBlackDecisionLevelsMillionsTomorrowSixPercentYears AgoCourtSevenEducationalSolveSupremeBlack PeopleIntegrationSupreme CourtSeven YearsIntegrating Author:Malcolm X
“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.” PeopleIfsMenYearsCountryThreeCoursesBlackTeachingCenturyProducePercentThirdsCaughtFiftyGradesFortyBlack PeopleThree Years19th CenturySignaturesThird GradePenmanship Author:Robert Hass