“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.” KnowsWantFirstsLooksLittlesCountryStatesWholeNationsRoomsStudentsEvidenceUnionsNotesSecureTeenagerPotSovereignGrandchildrenAsianLatinoAssemblyMeltingLegislatorsHispanicMy GrandchildrenMelting PotNevada Author:Sharron Angle
“Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.” CountryChurchInfluenceEvidenceTraditionalOur CountryOrthodoxCelebrationEasterBenignOrthodox Church Author:Vladimir Putin
“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."” PeopleIfsWayMayLittlesCountryFactsBodyMightCarePrinciplesFindingsEvidenceConsequenceLet MeLaysEnormousTreatedI CareTemptedAdministrativeAdministrators Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.” WorldWayYearsCountryWould BeEarthChristianBeliefNaturalAtheismTeachingStudentsEvolutionPoliticianEvidenceWesternPositive AtheismOne WayReasonableHospitalsMechanismPropositionsSelectionControversialReconcileNatural SelectionBelief In GodDeductionsDenominationsScandinaviansChristian DenominationsJay Gould Author:Katha Pollitt
“I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.” PeopleWantCountryDonePoliticalLiteratureMy OwnWalksWrittenEventsArmsElementsEvidenceRemainsConstantActivismRhythmWitnessChestsAnguishMedalCradleSidelinesTestimonial Author:Elena Poniatowska
“There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.” CountryShowsViolenceLoversEvidenceBuiltDestructiveBrutalObsessiveClinging Author:Bob Herbert
“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.” IfsWorldLooksWarCountryTodaySufferingGoalAnswersPovertyDegreesEvidenceCapitalismHatredBlindProsperityScalesChecksPausesPremisesMagnitudeUnspeakable Author:Ayn Rand
“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.” WayLooksCountryReasonPastDiesLinesSeeingCrimeEvidenceIdealsPoliceHistoricalCriminalsLoyaltyBest WayBordersEmpiresMapsLoyalOutlinesChalkWarlordsWhen Someone Dies Author:Stefan Molyneux
“The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.” CountryFactsLandMediaAuthorityNewsEvidencePressesBraveInternationalOur CountryPilotsAirportsBlogsNew MediaCockpit Author:Stephen Colbert
“A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.” ThinkingWorldFirstsTwoCountryFactsShowsBornCitiesStudyGenerationsCrimeNew YorkAmountEvidenceRateCommitRangeNativeImmigrantsLos AngelesNew York CityFree WorldOver 50Crime RatesUndocumented Immigrants Author:Geraldo Rivera
“The evidence is now clear that the majority of people coming across the border are not from Mexico. They're coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Those countries are the source of the people that are now coming in its majority.” PeopleCountryClearSourceEvidenceMajorityBordersMexicoGuatemalaEl SalvadorHonduras Author:Marco Rubio
“Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.” ThinkingWorldLongHas BeensCountryEarthHellMagicMajorsHappeningsEvidenceScientistWavePhysicsThings HappenHeatTrapsCarbonAcademyWandsCarbon DioxideMagic WandsUnequivocal Author:Al Gore
“Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.” YearsTwoWarCountryReasonCenturyEvidence Author:Ward Churchill
“Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full” CountryAbilityResponsibilityDutyTerribleWeaponsEvidenceSaddamHusseinDisarmamentInspectors Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.” CountrySimpleLeaderPrinciplesTruth IsEvidenceBasesIraqIntuitionRhetoricExaggeratedSimple Truths Author:Wesley Clark
“There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.” CountryFactsDealsEvidenceClaimsChinaFakeAntiquesIvory Author:Allen Crawford
“We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.” MenCountrySawsSacrificeTrumpEvidenceMen And WomenOur CountryChiefsServingTrashDistinguishedCommandersCommander In ChiefUnqualifiedRubble Author:Hillary Clinton
“As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.” IfsCountryCasesEvidenceDecadesVotersFraudVoter Fraud Author:Audie Cornish
“This country needs to take a deep breath. We are a strong, resilient nation. And the idea that the Russians hacked our election needs to be investigated. There is very little evidence at that moment except for the DNC servers.” NeedsLittlesIdeasCountryMomentsStrongNationsEvidenceBreathsElectionThat MomentResilientDeep BreathServerTake A Deep BreathHacked Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.” YearsCountryAmericaEvidenceYears AgoDevastation Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryDoneEvidenceChaosTerroristCommitAdministrationOffendedAirportsIncompetentBannedResidence Author:David Brooks
“I don't detect any animus or lack of caring from Donald Trump on anybody in business. Trump knows where most of the jobs are created in this country. I don't think there's any evidence that Trump is uninterested or has any kind of an animus against small businesspeople. I think it's just the opposite, in fact.” ThinkingKindCountryEvidenceCaringSmall BusinessUninterested Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.” YearsCountryNextNumbersRiskStudentsHighestEvidenceIncreaseStartingFinancialInterviewsBritainRoutesProgrammesVisa Author:Theresa May
“I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.” CountryEarthNationsEvidenceZeroMexicoClueMisunderstoodMexicanCuisineReproducingMexican Food Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.” CountryReasonEvidenceMere Author:Alister E. McGrath
“I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.” IfsBelieveDifferentCountryReasonWould BePoliticalHumanityNaturalPracticeEvidenceDon't BelieveInevitableKitchenNo ReasonCombatKnivesShortageKitchen Knives Author:Andrea Dworkin
“The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.” PeopleHeartCountryStatesBlackEvidenceSlaveryDearBlack PeopleSchemesBondageProposeBenevolenceEmancipationPrecedent Book:Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship Source: Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship
“I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defence. If it's classified, take the classification off and give it to them!” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingCountryStoriesHappensYoungLyingMilitaryStupidInformationEvidenceArmyDepartmentCrashDefenceUfoClassificationNot Stupid Author:Philip J. Corso
“I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksCountryHelpingMovingSuccessDiesLordMovementStudentsEvidenceKeep MovingMomentum Author:Cornel West
“This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.” PeopleWorldHumansIdeasCountryUseShowsOpportunityNationsOpinionPovertyTechnologyEffectsResearchEvidenceNegativeClimateClimate ChangeContraryBillionsDataLiftsGlobal WarmingAgreementHelpfulCarbonFlawedAttemptingTreatiesCarbon DioxideKyotoUnderdeveloped CountriesHydrocarbons Author:Frederick Seitz
“I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.” ThinkingBelieveCountryIndividualPositionRight NowEvidencePressureDon't BelieveOur CountryGlobal WarmingHandicaps Author:Jimmy Carter
“It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.” PeopleWorldFirstsMadeCountryHardGodFoundHouseCitiesWillingHard WorkWorshipEvidenceBuiltTownsStructureEnvyMade ItEnjoyedKneesTyrantsBowsFaith In GodThreatenedHarvestCatastropheDeliveranceForefathersGreat CitiesDenominationsCities And TownsHouses Of Worship Author:Ronald Reagan
“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.” MeanChildrenCountrySocialGrowthCompanyLeaderSupportIssuesClearProgressEconomicKeysEvidenceGenderDiscriminationAgreementLegislationParliamentSocial IssuesEconomic GrowthGender EqualityWomen EqualityWoman LeaderHealth EducationAnti Discrimination Author:Ban Ki-moon