Percent Quotes - Page 28

• Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Fifty, Today, Economy

  7 Copy quote

• Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

  Mike Rutherford

  Writing, Seventies, Originals

  6 Copy quote

• Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Years, Tuition

  84 Copy quote

• As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

  Steven Rattner

  Differences, Done, Interest

  4 Copy quote

• Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Gambling, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

  David Sanborn

  Growing Up, Ninety Nine, Community

  7 Copy quote

• We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

  David Satcher

  Country, Children, Believe

  8 Copy quote

• I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

  George Saunders

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  "George Saunders On Absurdism And Ventriloquism In 'Tenth Of December'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 20, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

  Ken Salazar

  Struggle, Thinking, Differences

  4 Copy quote

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

  7 Copy quote

• If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

  Mark Skousen

  Thinking, Two, Church

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Struggle, Heart

  7 Copy quote

• I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

  Fred Upton

  Government, Car, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Growth

  4 Copy quote

• Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Different, Opinion

  4 Copy quote

• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Character, Years

  26 Copy quote

• The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

  Andrew Tobias

  Years, America, United States

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Andrew Tobias

  Jobs, War, America

  "Doonesbury on Job Creation" by Andrew Tobias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

  Billy Tauzin

  Victim, Katrina

  4 Copy quote

• About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

  David Tang

  Lying, Cyberspace, Opinion

  8 Copy quote

• The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

  Jim Talent

  People, Unemployment, Gone

  "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  Laini Taylor

  Book, Finishing It, Worry

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Eight, Pieces

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 26, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

  18 Copy quote

• Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Europe, Debt

  4 Copy quote