The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25…

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

— Barack Obama

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way…

— Lois Capps

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of…

— Randall Robinson

After the baby boom of the second world war 40% of the population were under 25, and it was London that realised they needed…

— Dawn O'Porter

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

— Max Fisher

“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”

— Gabor Maté

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

— Tom Hanks

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective…

— David Von Drehle

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

— Bobby Scott

As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't…

— Mary Pilon

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

— Ricky Gervais

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons…

— Sally Yates