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Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
Benigno Aquino III
Me
Nine
Projects
Release
Percent
Only
Allocation
Clear
Make
Legislators
Theft
Illegal
Barrel
Pork
Suggested
Program
Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
Bernard Hopkins
Me
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Picked
Always
Motivates
Media
Appreciate
Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.
Bernard Hopkins
Problem
Ninety-Nine
Ninety-Nine Percent
Mental
Percent
Over
Getting
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
Dangerous
Financial
Deficit
Sector
Would
Percent
Similar
More
Invest
Had
Fee
Over
Economy
Reduce
Years
Encourage
Than
Wall
Wall Street
Establishing
Gambling
Productive
Billion
Street
Level
Speculation
I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
Bert Lance
Time
You
Percent
Something
Beat
Had
He
Fellow
Always
Than
Going
Less
Who
Works
Believed
The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
Big Pun
Best
You
World
First
Percent
Hard
Show
Album
Core
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
Bikram Choudhury
You
Percent
Exercise
Yoga
Body
Your
Your Body
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
Bill Dedman
National
Pay
Waterfront
Saving
Financially
Gulf
Percent
Properties
More
Maine
FEMA
Insurance
Than
Owners
Bar
Much
Strained
Harbor
Flood
Alaska
Zone
Program
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
Bill Dedman
States
Jobs
High
Percent
Risen
Retail
Dropping
Although
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Jobs
United
United States
Early
Number
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Bill Gates
World
Kids
India
Born
Percent
Over
Around
Lot
Move
The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.
Bill Goldberg
Business
Reality
People
Bad Things
Bad
About
Percent
Wrestling
No Question
Because
Question
Lot
Egos
Happen
Certain
Things
I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
Bill Kristol
Money
Made
Kind
Would
About
Percent
Given
More
He
Investments
Know
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Were
Than
Tax
Tax Code
Which
Romney
Personally
Paid
Code
Designing
I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
Bill Lawrence
Change
Pilot
Believe
Immense
TV
TV Shows
Percent
Tenth
Successful
Episode
Twelfth
Shows
Amount
I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
Bill Pullman
Time
You
Remember
Rest
Down
Spend
Right Thing
Projects
Percent
Take
Between
Along
Like
Doing
Been
Off
Lots
Five
Decade
Get
Trying
Maybe
The Right Thing
Turn
Your
Actually
Right
Thing
Started
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.
Billy Gardell
Me
You
Old
Big
Summer
Way
Strip
Dreamed
About
Mirage
Percent
Main
Vegas
Since
Know
Deal
Comics
Big Deal
Years
End
Up
Getting
Room
Really
Playing
Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.
Billy Tauzin
Some
Percent
American
Donated
Victims
Katrina
Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
Billy West
Life
You
Cause
Before
Living
Release
Says
Sign
Scared
Percent
Small
Operation
Always
Surgery
Very
Die
Little
Chance
I think what I always want whenever I'm recording is to have even just 2 percent of what the Alabama Shakes have, Brittany Howard.
Bishop Briggs
Recording
Think
Brittany
Percent
Shakes
Always
Just
Whenever
Want
Even
Alabama
Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.
Bob Beauprez
Cigarettes
Took
Pledge
Broke
Signed
Obama
Per
Percent
He
Days
His
Office
Legislation
Tax
After
Pack
Cents
Raising
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
Bob Beauprez
Health
Benefits
Research
Enjoy
Sector
Pension
Total
Some
Percent
Economic
Higher
Excess
Private
Coverage
Private Sector
Workers
Premium
Comparable
Shown
Level
Compensation
Receive
Careful
No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.
Bob McDonnell
President
Percent
Over
Been
Unemployment
Elected
Ever
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
Bob Schieffer
War
Time
Group
Changes
Our
Relative
Unless
Our Lives
One Percent
About
Percent
Small
Small Group
Had
Part
New
Most
Were
Iraq
Iraq War
Families
New Taxes
Taxes
Us
Who
Usual
Fought
Lives
Draft
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
Bob Seger
Winter
Percent
Write
Stuff
Over
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
Bobby Flay
Food
Me
Restaurant
Eat
Three-Quarters
Percent
Calorie
Intake
Go
Front
Cuts
Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.
Bobby Riggs
Good
Women
Money
Men
About
Percent
Get
Should
Twenty-Five
Play
I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.
Bobby Riggs
Myself
Man
Women
Old
Consider
Percent
Reversed
Lovable
Just
Loves
Old Man
Who
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