Percentage Quotes - page 2

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more. (Douglas R Oberhelman)
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. View quote
Ed Gillespie
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science. View quote
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. View quote
Greg Lynn
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. View quote
Kavita Ramdas
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. View quote
Lois Capps
The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote. View quote
Luis Fortuno
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent. View quote
Lee Majors
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. View quote
Marvin Olasky
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance. View quote
Mary McDonnell
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state. (Michael Chertoff)
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. View quote
Michael Stipe
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. View quote
Mike Judge
If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature. View quote
Nalini Nadkarni
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. View quote
Rollie Fingers
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. View quote
Spencer Abraham
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. View quote
Steve Forbes
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. View quote
Steve Winwood
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage. View quote
Steven Zaillian
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people. View quote
Sydney Schanberg
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. (Timothy Radcliffe)
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. View quote
Wayne Allard
Let us not deceive ourselves: our talent profile is nowhere near that of, say, the Jews or the Japanese in America. The exceptional number of Nobel Prize winners who are Jews is no accident. It is also no accident that a high percentage, sometimes 50%, of faculty members in the top American universities on both the east and west coasts are Jews. And the number of high calibre Japanese academics, professionals, and business executives is out of all proportion to the percentage of Japanese in the total American population. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Treat the Jews (express it politely: Jewish petty bourgeoisie) and urban inhabitants in the Ukraine with an iron rod, transferring them to the front, not letting them into the government agencies (except in an insignificant percentage, in particularly exceptional circumstances, under class control). View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I was born on 23 November 1890 in a village in the province of Smolensk. Grew up in Smolensk, in the home of my grandfather, a cap-maker. Completed secondary school there. At the age of 15 I started earning money by giving drawing lessons. Passed the entrance examination of the art academy in Leningrad but, being a Jew, was not admitted due to the restricted percentage. View quote
El Lissitsky