“If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.” IfsBarackDefeatedPercentagesRomney Author:Mark Shields
“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.” IfsMenYearsHas BeensLyingThreeBeliefLeftWaitingMagicLandDangerFieldsReturnHundredDestructionUniversalPopulationLabourLackingJungleAstrologyPercentagesWitchcraftCultivationScientific Knowledge Author:William Cecil Dampier
“What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.” GivingStatesGovernmentOpportunityWealthUnitedCompanyUnited StatesEconomyStreetsWallCitizensEssenceCourtOilSupremeCorporationsSupreme CourtCoalPercentagesBillionaireState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentOil CompaniesCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantUseHandsFineInternetMassThreatTeenagerBad ThingsInteractionSuperficialPercentages Author:Noam Chomsky
“To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.” IfsGivingLooksHappensCompanyMillionsWonderfulMajorsDollarsBillionsSignificantNosesWonderful ThingsPercentagesPortfolios Author:Paula White
“Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you should be able to settle your debts for cents on the dollar. You'll also pay a fee to the debt settlement company, usually either a percentage of the total debt you have or a percentage of the total amount forgiven.” IfsShouldWellsBigsAblePayCompanyAmountDollarsDebtSettlingCentsForgivenPercentagesSettlementFeesCreditorsMiddlemenDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook for a large percentage of your debt - in many cases, up to 50% will be written off.” IfsSometimesAbleEasyCompanyCasesWrittenDebtSettlingHookPercentagesSettlementDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or television, we can have transcendent moments and we get to work with really creative and incredible people, but it's such a small percentage of your time that's about your process.” PeopleDifferentMomentsFilmActorsProcessCreativeTelevisionDepthIncrediblesMake SensePercentagesTranscendentFilm And Television Author:Zachary Quinto
“We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.” NeedsSometimesAmericaEnergyGoalPlansSourceStandardsSpellsPercentagesRenewable Energy Author:Van Jones
“For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny percentage of black merino followed by carding and felting.” HumansFeltBlackHairInvolvedTinyPercentagesCollectingSorting Author:Patricia Piccinini
“The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.” NeedsAddFatsMeatIngredientsSaltRecipesPercentagesVaryHamburgers Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the Affordable Care Act is starting to make that migration, but we've got to keep down that path, and we'll improve outcomes and reduce cost.” CareNationsPayPathCostStartingOutcomesPercentagesAffordableMigrationGdpAffordable Care Act Author:Tim Kaine
“The ones that catch your eye are the ones that are basically people who live on the road and follow us around. They're a small percentage of the audience, but they're quite visible. The ones who aren't visible are the stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, housewives.” PeopleEyeAudienceDoctorsLawyerVisiblePercentagesHousewifeStockbrokers Author:Bob Weir
“I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.” ThinkingVoiceClassPercentUnionsOrganizedWorking ClassEmployedPercentagesPrivate SectorWeakening Author:George Packer
“I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.” PeopleWayWritingDifferentTodaySongOne ThingMusicianPaidLabelsStolenPercentagesMotown Author:Sharon Jones
“As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.” WritingSongThreeMorningProjectsPercentagesWhimChimneys Author:Sharon Jones
“I was pretty blown away by how vast and aggressive the terrain is in the Japanese Alps. You're looking up at peaks, and it's like Alaska seeing all kinds of amazing stuff that looks ridable, but it's 70 percent death defying; only a small percentage really goes.” LooksKindStuffSeeingPercentAll KindsAggressivePercentagesAlaskaTerrainBlown AwayDefyingAlps Author:Travis Rice
“Hillary Clinton`s popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump`s percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.” MillionsTrumpPercentVoteClintonPercentagesPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992.” ThreeHousePresidentWhiteTrumpVoteBillsClintonWhite HousePercentagesWilsonPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.” PeopleWorldMomentsLevelsRiskSeaRocksOceanRaisesWestEnormousIceCoastPercentagesSlidesGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.” PeopleTryingImportantProblemLastsClimateClimate ChangeActiveStampsPercentagesEmbers Author:Bill McKibben
“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.” IfsKidsCertainBlackWhiteAttitudeClassMiddleEatingPopulationKitchenMiddle ClassPercentages Author:Barack Obama
“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 actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.” BelieveCertainWhiteViewsPovertyCrimeSlaveryRatePopulationCurrentsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanAssumptionStereotypePercentagesCrowIncarcerationJim CrowCrime Rates Author:Barack Obama
“We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.” WorldKindStillsEconomySeeingMovementWideAccomplishmentCentsSmarterPhilanthropyPercentages Author:Bill Gates
“Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.” PeopleThinkingCountryNamesKnowingDemocracyHealthyPopulationBurdenOur CountryPercentagesDiscussing Author:Lisa Ling
“This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?” FeelsGovernmentAmericaSafeTaxesFunctionAskingPrimariesPercentages Author:Charles Schumer
“My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.” WorldCountryFactsWould BeFormOrderArgumentFocusedExecutivesPercentagesBansExecutive Orders Author:David B. Rivkin
“I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveHardWholeStoriesI BelieveTelevisionMajorityIraqPercentages Author:Al Pacino
“I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.” YearsNumbersNew YorkCoupleCapacityFoundationLeavingPercentagesMicrosoftAnnouncingBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.” HumansReasonLyingValuesEffortBehaviorFindingsResearchScientistAbsolutesRelevantNurtureComponentsHuman ExperiencePercentagesStatistician Author:John Medina
“I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.” LandRoundsBusyEfficientPercentagesMayweatherFloyd Mayweather Author:Chris Algieri
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“You have this giant institution called the United States media that was fully aware of the real reason behind open borders, mass immigration, and they're not fazed by it. They are not fazed by any of the dubious, any of the criminal, any of the catastrophically wrong, any of the catastrophically potentially damaging behavior on the part of the Democrats. It won't even be reported on. It won't even be referenced. And, as such, there's a certain percentage of the country that's never going to know what you and I know.” KnowsRealCountryStatesReasonCertainUnitedBehindsUnited StatesMediaBehaviorMassInstitutionsDemocratCriminalsImmigrationBordersGiantsPercentagesDubious Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.” PeopleKindCertainBe KindPercentagesHiringWorkforceGeneralists Author:Reid Hoffman
“Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.” PeopleIraqAffectedAfghanistanPenaltiesPercentagesDeath Penalty Author:Susan Sarandon
“We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsTwoEndsRealityJobsCommunityPoorDealsQualityEconomyGreaterMovementWillingHugeMassAppreciationFoolishJailCollaborationMainstreamLockedJoblessPoor PeoplePercentagesIncarcerationQuality EducationMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.” StatesReasonFailingPrisonPopulationSentencesViolentAcknowledgePercentagesDefendersOffendersNon ViolentPrison Population Author:Michelle Alexander
“People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.” PeopleWayFeelsCarCitizensTrackPercentagesRailroadsRailroad Tracks Author:James Howard Kunstler
“We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.” WorldTwoMomentsLostWaterHalfAirSeaPlanetsHugeColdTrumpDegreesSummerHappeningsIncreaseWarmEnormousIceDamageCyclesFloodPercentagesLinearDroughtArcticReefsVaporCoral ReefsHuge Changes Author:Bill McKibben
“It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.” YearsChildrenSchoolAmericaHigherUrbanPercentagesCommonplaceSchool System Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.” MenAmericaMarriageLove YouMarriedPercentEuropeCheatingRomantic LoveCheatEightyPercentagesFunny LoveMarried ManCheating Men Author:Jackie Mason
“Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.” CountryWhiteSouthPopulationEnjoyedPercentages Author:Dave Matthews
“I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.” LandHigherBoxingPercentagesBoxers Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.” ShouldWellsLongShowsPastGivenCompanyDirectorsFemaleMalesDataBoardsUnfortunatePercentagesConstituents Author:Anne M. Mulcahy
“The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...” PeopleIfsWayWantEconomicReturnCivilizationBenefitsFavorsStealingThievesPercentagesTransactionsReciprocate Author:Michael Nesmith
“Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.” RateShoppingPercentagesMortgageAnnuals Author:Suze Orman
“It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.” MenDiesFightingNumbersGreaterViolenceModernHigherBattleRatePopulationTinyWarfarePercentagesClashModern Warfare Author:Steven Pinker