“Are we not the youth of this country? The SCs form three-fourths of the country. Then why do they say the youth are against you? You gave us something through Mandal, and the whole country pounced on us. It is not the question of 27 per cent or 10 per cent, do we have a place of even 1 per cent in the hearts of the ruling elite?”
Backward class boys addressing him, quoted in: "We are ruled by an upper caste Hindu raj"
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“I am 10 per cent politician and 90 per cent human being.”
Source: As quoted in " I am 10% politician and 90% human being: Chandra Shekhar https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/voices/story/19800915-i-am-10percent-politician-and-90percent-human-being-chandra-shekhar-821445-2014-01-13", India Today (September 1980)

“The US wants only 51 per cent adherence as against 100 per cent adherence demanded by Russia.”
Supporting India's alliance with the US, as quoted in "US A Better Ally For India: Subramanian Swamy" http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/29us.htm, Rediff (29 December 1999)
1999-2010

Part 2: "The Virus of Faith"
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/mar/21/budget-resolutions-and-economic-situation in the House of Commons (21 March 1988)

Press conference for Ukrainian journalists (November 2006), as quoted in "Lukashenka Must be Dismissed From Office For Rigging Presidential Elections Results" in Charter97 (23 November 2006) http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2006/11/23/fals.

“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s

“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)

“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).