“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.” IfsCountryJobsMovingSpeakUnderstandingLevelsQualitySupportGrowingTrumpSpeechUnderstoodIndiaDifficultyChinaCustomersNativeFrustrationSurprisingIntoleranceRepresentativesOther CountriesAccentsExceptionalEnglish SpeakingChina And India Author:Bob Hayes
“[Donald] Trump is underestimated greatly in terms of his understanding and comprehension of the great issues facing America. He understands trade. He's got businesses all over the world. He understands currency and how manipulating currency can be damaging to America.” WorldAmericaUnderstandingTermIssuesTrumpTradeCurrencyComprehensionUnderestimated Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical of him, you know, a couple of days earlier, shows that he has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you've got to be able to reach out to the entire party.” ThinkingKnowsShowsAbleUnderstandingRealizingAbilityPartyParticularTrumpCoupleCriticalReachingReach OutDisagreementMccain Author:Rudy Giuliani
“So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.” UnderstandingAudienceIssuesSecurityMilitarySeriousTrumpSpeechAffairUsualNational SecurityStatus QuoPhiladelphiaVulgarityStudious Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.” ThinkingWayProblemValuesEvilUnderstandingGreaterEconomicStreetsPolicyWallTrumpStandingMiseryClintonSolveVotingTerritoryFertileLesser EvilDeregulationNafta Author:Jill Stein
“People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by the behavior of Google, a corporation that notionally (until recently anyway) espoused the slogan "don't be evil" and then runs over individual people and even entire nations in the pursuit of profit.” PeopleLongRunningPastEvilIndividualNationsUnderstandingMemoriesTrumpPoliticianBehaviorProfitPursuitCorporationsGoogleVividSlogans Author:Dale Jamieson
“I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.” ThinkingKnowsUnderstandingTrumpCircumstancesMessagesIncapable Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza