As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit,… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is… — James McCarthy Copy Share Image
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. — Edward Robb Ellis Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
"Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?” “You… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. — Madisen Beaty Copy Share Image
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
There is a lot of focus on that first rate move, and I'm not sure how important that is. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase:… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
