#percent

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#close #computer #every #five #ideal

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind. ↗

— Joe Montana

#any #because #behind #count #does

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets. ↗

— Andrew Natsios

#cannot #cost #costs #die #eat

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage. ↗

— Suze Orman

#ignore #mortgage #percentage #rate #shopping

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it. ↗

— Rand Paul

#know #limits #look #percent #poll

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #give #males #only #percent

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#definitely #impeached #may #need #new