Quotes About Credibility

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

In the informal hierarchy of the information media, the printed word is still considered the most credible. I am not quite sure why this is so, because television allows you to witness the unfolding of events yourself.

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

I looked at Robert Downey, Jr. and all these people - when you ask for redemption, people will give it to you. But if you're the boy who cried wolf, they'll destroy you.

Liberals always cry wolf.

Women in my focus groups, they say a bald man is trustworthy. He has nothing to hide.

You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.

As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league's credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.

In general, signalling theory says that if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something, and you choose the noisy way, that means chances are it's because you couldn't do the good way in the first place.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

The FBI and the NBA did a thorough investigation, and they both concluded that I did not fix games in the NBA.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.—

Just because you have a title doesn't mean you deserve respect.

Only the uninformed masses rave about how great you are; people who actually know what they're talking about say things like You're good or I liked your work.

One who for his word or actions neither needs an oath, nor any man to be a witness.

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

Modern biblical literalism with its emphasis on factuality is not only very different from what "the literal meaning of a text" has meant for most of Christian history; it also has consequences that minimally are unfortunate and unnecessary and more seriously obscure and distort what the Bible and being Christian are about. Indeed, it discredits the Bible and Christianity in the minds of many people.