Percent Quotes - page 13

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. (Ron Blomberg)
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. View quote
Ron Chernow
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation. View quote
Ruggiero Ricci
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons. View quote
Raul Labrador
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel. View quote
Richard Dooling
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. View quote
Sherwood Boehlert
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks. View quote
Sherwood Boehlert
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. (Shirley Booth)
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have. View quote
Shoshannah Stern
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. View quote
Silvan Shalom
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor. View quote
Sonia Gandhi
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. View quote
Spencer Bachus
Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade. View quote
Steve Buyer
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. View quote
Steve Buyer
But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology. View quote
Steven Levitan
As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this. View quote
Steven Lopez
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. View quote
Sue Wicks
I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. (Sue Wicks)
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too. View quote
Suzanne Fields
You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks. View quote
Sara Rue
We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater. View quote
Sean Duffy
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. View quote
Thomas Vilsack