It will be about 20 percent. Down substantially from the level that the president inherited when he came to office. The government is shrinking, as a percentage of our economy, not growing.
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on dow... JAMES ROOSEVELT [But] for me it might not be improving percentage-wise, from 28 percent to 45 percent or 55 percent.... DEREK FISHER President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our c... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Carbon dioxide is the one thing that we've done nothing about so far, from really any of our economy... DAVID KEITH I'd say about 20 percent of the cases I see, we never figure out where (the problem) came from. DR. MARK MENGEL And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses... BIBLE I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly f... SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent wil... NEL NODDINGS Josh was not up to par. He had a double-whammy. He played about 60 percent of the game I suppose, an... KENTON COMSTOCK My concern is that when the economy begins to slow, as I expect this year, revenue will fall as well... BERTRAND DELGADO I can't say if it's 75 percent Senate, 12 percent House and 12 percent governor's office. We're givi... DREW CROMPTON As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three br... DAN PFEIFFER The office market will continue to improve rapidly due to the continued strong employment in Austin.... SAM HOUSTON A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is men... BELA KAROLYI That figure...is still higher than the total percentage he gained when he was elected last year, whi... DENNY JANUAR ALI Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed ... 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to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE The cheerleaders talk about the economy growing, but the economy grew at 7 percent from 1966 to 1982... JEFFREY SAUT The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president... CHARLES KENNEDY They understood that most of our waterfowl, about 80 percent, came from Canada, and the Canadians we... DAN OLSON I meet with CFOs from many companies about currency, but it is often the president of a liquor impor... ROBERT GRUBER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES America's economy is resilient, and I am confident that Republican pro-growth policies will cont... DENNIS HASTERT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Pain has creative power, Let the magic unfold... HENNA SOHAIL Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent f... ABBY JOSEPH COHEN The president is being very aggressive in talking about the economy. He talks about it a lot more th... CLAIRE BUCHAN Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all pol... ANDREW JACKSON India's economy is growing at seven to eight percent over the last 15 years, INDERJIT SINGH The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And t... JOHN PHILIP SOUSA A move up to 3.25 percent is not yet fully priced into the market. While our official call remains f... ELGA BARTSCH A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security... HEATHER WILSON We were trying to keep people away from predicting 15-to-20-percent growth rates [in U.S. services] ... JEFFREY JOERRES The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere.... PETER BERGEN As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing. BRUCE VLADECK When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about pro... AL FRANKEN It's really amazing. Our economy is growing at over 4 percent real growth and in the midst of that w... KATHLEEN CAMILLI All that has changed. But that buyer who had to save the 20 percent had a 20 percent cushion from th... WILLIAM WOOD Our forecast has been about 20 percent, but looking at it now 10 percent would be quite reasonable. IAN WARDEN For most consumer goods, that brings down the tariff rate to about 8.4 percent, which is a 10 percen... LAL DE MEL The dollar maintained its strength inherited from last week but its upside is capped when nearing th... MASAMICHI KOIKE I picked up the rule and started studying it hard, reading it over and over. It says that 20 percent... CLAY OLIVER The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is ... DAVE RAMSEY
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