#percent

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#among #ask #citizens #earning #fortunate

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #air #better #cars #driving

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#case #chances #done #eight #i

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#get #life #live #nowadays #out

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#deficit #domestic #economy #increasing #look

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#back #full #fully #hundred #i

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#basis #became #chairman #double-digit #fed

With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#change #diverse #energy #face #fact

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#believe #black #bring #candidates #capturing