The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you… — Steven Pearlstein Copy Share Image
There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world. — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the… — John Hull Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Well the thinking is we have the highest tax rate in the world. In the entire world, we have the highest tax… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The Fed wants to raise rates because they've been yelling and screaming about it. They've been crying wolf for so long that… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery. — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
