Congress has taken her opinion -- and they know it's simply opinion -- and dressed it up as fact, and presented it to the American people as fact. And that, in our view, is really irresponsible, because the American people begin believing that someone's unfounded view or opinion is factual, and it causes a lot of confusion.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The crux of whole problem of the world is that most people take most often an opinion as a fact and ... ANUJ SOMANY Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement tha... THEODORE DALRYMPLE I have no problem with the fact that people don't see the film or don't like it, because there is as... THE BROTHERS GRIMM The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the ... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and unders... F.A. HAYEK It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in... DAVE BARRY As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY The administration is on the wrong side of public opinion and the American people when it comes to a... LAMAR SMITH The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is our opinion the mechanism of death is due to a rapid deterioration in a diseased heart. At thi... JAMES YOUNG This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spi... MIKE BARNICLE The findings suggest that American public opinion is starkly divided when it comes to the role of re... ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred h... GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON I think it's just a statement of fact. I agree with it. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. ... BILL BELICHICK That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing p... DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement abou... ERIC CANTOR Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because h... JILL SCOTT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. UTTERLY RUSSELL The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion... RICHARD AVEDON The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the epis... DAMON LINDELOF Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological belief... MAURICE CASEY Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who... KEVIN GARNETT Voice your opinion. It could make all the difference SOTONYE ANGA Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced ELBERT HUBBARD Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as i... STENDHAL You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like... PETER SAUL Perfection is an opinion not a matter of fact or of standards. Popular culture draws standards, the ... POATE J MATAIRAVULA We did, in fact, plan for this and anticipate this and have it covered, in our opinion, but she has ... ANNE ANGELOPOULOS It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that wh... EPICTETUS It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that wh... EPICTETUS I believe people have already formed an opinion. That opinion is based on the reporting and that opi... ELLIOT WEINSTEIN Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. PETER COYOTE Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cau... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here... THOMAS HOBBES They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here... THOMAS HOBBES In our view, Pfizer is in fact defensive and has demonstrated that it can weather the blows in a mea... BARBARA RYAN A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and... DUOP CHAK WUOL The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money tha... RICK WRIGHT They believed what (the original tracker) identified as places that would have been a boy crawling u... JUSTIN SMITH It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still furth... ROBERT ROBINSON We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that... MICHAEL CRAPO In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS They are telling wrongly the American public opinion and the world that Iraq is reproducing weapons ... TARIQ AZIZ The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality w... ELIZABETH KENNY The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opin... BRIAN COX Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was a... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?... SAINT BERNARD A person is getting along the road to wisdom when they begin to realize that their opinion is just a... UNKNOWN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, an... KARYN PARSONS A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the ot... MARCEL PROUST It has yet to be adequately demonstrated to Congress or the American people that it is our vital nat... TIM HUTCHINSON It is our opinion that it's unconstitutional, unrealistic and inhumane. TISHA TALLMAN Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they ... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; po... JOHN STUART MILL The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p... JOHN STUART MILL It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn’t make me evil. ADAM SCYTHE I don't know what people are talking about. They should not confuse a difference of opinion that we ... DAVES GUZHA The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN A fact can never be an opinion but an opinion can at times be a fact. ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. ALBERT J. NOCK The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w... MARTIN JACQUES Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived OSCAR WILDE Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. OSCAR WILDE The majority is by no means omniscient just because it is the majority. In fact, I've found that the... J. PAUL GETTY Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the ... JOE WILSON It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Perfection is an opinion not a fact. JULIAN ROSS QUINTERO Everyone has an opinion and today the Internet allows everyone to express that opinion and it become... MICHAEL MILKEN I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From... JIM BOLGER You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. HUBERT HUMPHREY American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. EDWARD BOND American people are making it clear that they were troubled over Abercrombie's practice of marketing... BILL JOHNSON There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts... PAUL RAND Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. OSCAR WILDE Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this co... CHARLES EVANS HUGHES But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human rac... JOHN STUART MILL The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi... WALTER BAGEHOT Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact. SOURCE UNKNOWN Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. ELNA BAKER Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age. ALBERT EINSTEIN Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. ALBERT EINSTEIN
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