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Quotes About Statements

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
~ Peer Steinbruck
It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.
~ Bret Stephens
I fling unconscious tendrils of belief, like slender green threads, across statements such as these, statements made so unequivocally, which have no tone or shadow of tentativeness. I build them into the mosaic of my world. I allow my universe to change in minute, significant ways, on the basis of things you have said to me, of my trust in you.
~ Adrienne Rich
Trump simply can't dial down the lying, or turn it off - even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.
~ George T. Conway III
P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know. Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it. Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I know I'm sort of farting into the wind on this. But I hope you'll fart along with me. I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's
~ Al Franken
Trump's defense of white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism is gathering those who support him into a strong solidified base. Since the election of Francis, Republicans have been very wary of the Pope, attacking his liberal statements on homosexuality, global warming, and capitalism.
~ Anthea Butler
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements.
~ Richard Dawkins
I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.
~ Donald Trump
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
~ Bryant H. McGill
If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.
~ Hugo Chavez
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
~ Zola Budd
If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.
~ Narendra Modi
Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement
~ Bill Kirby
One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was," said Popper. His philosophy was "empty verbiage put together in statements which are absolutely empty."19 On this even Carnap—not Popper's biggest fan—concurred.
~ David Edmonds
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
~ Raymond Franz
I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.
~ Paul Manafort
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
~ Richard Owen
I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.
~ Kristin Hunter
Words are not the highest reality, nor' what is expressed in words the highest reality. Why? Because the highest reality is an experience which cannot be entered into by means of statements' regarding it. Poetry and visual symbols come much closer to reality. The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.
~ Jane Hope
They remembered what John, His forerunner, had said of One among them whom they knew not, and who yet was far greater than himself; and they remarked that his statements, however improbable they might have appeared at the time, had been verified by events, and he himself proved to be a true prophet by Christ's miracles, if not by his own. "John," said they to each other, "did no miracle; but all things that John said of this man were true.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce