“Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.” WellsMayHardWholeMightHappensFormProduceEvidenceBuiltStructurePatternsStuckImpulseVery StrongInterfereReflexesEndorphins Author:David Bohm
“Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral process, but the electoral processes of Europeans with the same toolkit - money, fake news, propaganda, and what those Soviets used to call aktivniye meropriyatiya, active measures. This is serious.” UsedProcessSeriousNewsEvidenceActiveRussiaPropagandaFakeAggressiveInterfereElectoral Process Author:Daniel Fried
“We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our election to try to elect Trump.” TryingGovernmentTrumpEvidenceDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsInterfereRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesEvidenceBlameAffairRussiaInterfereCould Have BeenSlander Author:Dmitry Peskov
“All those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence, were nothing else but slander. And that's why we'll continue to suggest to everyone insisting that Russia was interfering in this or that way into domestic affairs of the United States, we will suggest them to read Mr. Putin's lips.” EvidenceAffairFakeInterfereSlander Author:Dmitry Peskov
“Most Iranians are sick and tired of revolutions. They've had one for the last 25 years, and they don't want another one. Those who've tried to spark another revolution have failed time and again. I don't think there's any evidence that somehow, if the U.S. gave these guys the high sign, it would make regime change somehow more likely. Every time the U.S. has tried to interfere in Iranian affairs to help a particular group of Iranians, it's backfired on us, and hurt the group we tried to help.” ThinkingHelpingGuyHurtRevolutionEvidenceSickTiredAffairInterfereIranian Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
“As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.” IdeasMatterGovernmentInterestExpressionSpeechBenefitsEvidenceTraditionDemocraticAbsenceContraryCensorshipRegulationInterfereTheoreticalFreedom Of ExpressionDemocratic Society Author:John Paul Stevens