The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.
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.
The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
What is important is that you're honest with the American people.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.