Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
I am 1,000 percent a Steelers fan.
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3. 155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
According to USA Today, 74 percent of Americans plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Although President Obama thinks it should be just the top 1 percent.
I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?
Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.
Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?
About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.
When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.
Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.
A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.
85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.