“He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.” TogetherPresidentEvidenceVariousHearingAgencyOfficialsContradictionBriefing Author:Russ Feingold
“That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.” TryingKindDoeMadeStillsSidesPresidentDarkSituationGoneFateImagineSecurityDangerousDangerOfficeEvidenceDecidedStrategyEmbraceVicesGravesHungryTortureTowersDark SideHideousParanoidVice PresidentFundamentalistWartimeUnknowingPower Hungry Author:Andrew Sullivan
“I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.” ThinkingShouldBelieveAmericaHousePresidentWhiteEffortRepublicanEvidenceShould HavePatternsIllegalWhite HouseVietnamTapeDocumentariesTestimonyJustifiedUnsuccessfulResignedImpeachmentKissingerHenry KissingerPresident Nixon Author:William J. Clinton
“The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.” Has BeensSaidFactsPresidentTalkingMinutesPercentEvidenceToughTerroristReportsIranAlsApprovalPresident BushRatingAl QaedaApproval Rating Author:Jay Leno
“[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsBelieveWantedPoliticalLyingBlackPresidentTrumpCitizensActivityEvidenceRacistSupporterFoldsAmerican Citizens Author:Hillary Clinton
“The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.” ChildrenSchoolThreeBlackPresidentWhiteRightsStudentsEmotionalEvidenceBarackDepartmentFundRegulationThreateningThree TimesTransgenderPresident Barack ObamaSuspendedUnrulySchool Districts Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.” ShouldReasonPresidentMovementCitizensStandardsEvidenceJustification Author:Edward Snowden
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.” PeopleThinkingKindBookPresidentAttentionTrumpDisciplineEmpathyEvidenceAdultsPraiseIllOneselfAvailableActiveMediumsEveningStarksMarkersNo Empathy Author:Ben H. Winters
“We are not sure to what extent Saddam's [Hussein ] own people were conveying an incorrect picture to him. But this body of evidence was believed not only by President George W. Bush. President Bill Clinton used that same body of intelligence before bombing Iraq in 1998.” PeopleBodyUsedPresidentEvidenceBillsClintonIraqNot SureSaddamHusseinBombingConveyingPresident George W BushPresident Bill Clinton Author:Colin Powell
“We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place. If they exist, Congress needs to get them. If they're not provided willingly, Congress should subpoena them. And if they're not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.” DifferentPresidentExistenceEvidenceBeing The Best Author:Adam Schiff
“The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.” WorldMovingPresidentLeaderEvidenceProvocativeWorld Leader Author:Karen Tumulty
“I do not see Russia as a friend of the United States in any form or fashion. Are there some things that we might be able to work together on? Sure. We certainly haven't seen evidence of their desire to fight terrorism with us. I mean, we see them kill civilians, and you know, help Syrian President Bashar Assad concentrate more fully his power.” MeanHelpingTogetherDesireFightingPresidentFashionEvidenceTerrorismWorking Together Author:Bob Corker
“Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidence from his pre-war lawyering days is that he had little objection to the rise of corporations. As a state legislator, he had strongly favored the creation of an Illinois state bank, as well as sponsoring the chartering of public/private corporations like the Illinois Central Railroad.” PresidentCreationEvidence Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“Some critics have suggested that Ronald Reagan succeeded in a series of careers, ultimately as a two-term president of the United States, by a series of fortunate accidents. Such a criticism is not backed by the evidence. It is true, though, that Reagan's approach to work and life was not conventional.” PresidentEvidenceCriticismCritics Author:James M Strock
“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.” WarPresidentEvidenceBasesInternationalIraqDoctrineRadicalAssertionUnprecedentedIraq WarCoalitions Author:Nancy Pelosi
“We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.” PresidentInvolvedEvidenceIraqSeptemberSaddamHusseinSeptember 11September 11th Author:George W. Bush