“As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.” PersonsEnoughMoralTrumpEvidencePanicHysteriaAccusationMccarthyism Author:Carol Tavris
“The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.” IfsStillsEnoughSeemsTrumpCostLowsEvidenceObviousAmerican PoliticsAppearingRedundantNet Worth Author:George Will
“In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.” IfsHumansSeemsSocialTrumpAuthorityNewsEvidenceBe GoodExplanationBehaviourBad NewsHuman SocietyOrderlyTokensAdaptingCoherenceAdapting To Change Author:Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
“Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.” IfsStillsEnoughTrumpLowsEvidenceAmerican PoliticsRedundantNet Worth Author:George Will
“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.” PeopleThinkingWantLoveReasonPoliticalSportsDifficultPositionTrumpDegreesFindingsEvidenceOrganizationHarderGolfCandidatesTournamentsGolf TournamentsNon Political Author:Ari Fleischer
“You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.” KnowsPersonsTwoRaceTrumpPercentEvidenceVoteElectionCandidatesVotingPullingPollingNot Voting Author:Cokie Roberts
“I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.” CharacterFactsExampleTrumpEvidenceWarriorJoyfulEngagingMarcosFabrication Author:Ted Cruz
“It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.” TwoTrumpEvidenceBasesCandidatesRemarkableMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“The Clinton Foundation does nothing but donate to charities." They can't find any evidence that what Schweizer has written about the Clintons and their foundation and the fund-raising and the getting paid for speeches is wrong. They can't find anything where he's wrong. The book has not been "discredited." So [Donald] Trump delivers this massive speech. It hit home run after home run after home run.” DoeBookHomeRunningWrittenTrumpSpeechEvidencePaidFoundationClintonCharityFundMassiveHome RunDonate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.” ThinkingMeanDoeHas BeensLyingTermClearMediaTrumpEvidenceIndependentAnalysisCandidatesTrustedIndependent Media Author:Bernie Sanders
“[Donald] Trump has said that I would like to sit down and talk to people, work things out. Well, guess what? Some of the evidence is that was, he went straight to Mexico and sat down and had a conference and a meeting directly with Pea Nieto to go over all this. OK, that.” PeopleWellsSaidTrumpEvidenceDown AndMeetingsSatMexicoConferencesPeas Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“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
“[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
“I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.” ThinkingNeedsTrumpBehaviorJudgmentEvidenceVotersJudgedAmerican Voters Author:Tim Kaine