Credible Quotes

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vietnam, Vietnam War, Problem

  1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun.

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• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Language, Propaganda

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• Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

  Pope Paul III

  Understanding, Desire, Littles

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• The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Differences, Needs

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• There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Giving, Mind

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Happy Endings

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• Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Healing, Appropriate

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• We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?

  Thoraya Obaid

  People, Community, Foals

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• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Listening To Others

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• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  W. H. Auden

  Song, Clever, Stupid

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• If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Chance, Threat

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• It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

  Craig Reucassel

  Funny, Goal, Chance

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• I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Military, Real, Government

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• After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.

  Jerome Clark

  Mean, Independent, Lifetime

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• There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.

  Steven M. Greer

  Association, Ufo, Multiple

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing.

  James E. McDonald

  Numbers, Unconventional, Sometimes

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• We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Government, Water

  John McCain Climate Change Speech in Portland, Oregon, thinkprogress.org. May 12, 2008.

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• One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

  Robert McNamara

  Fashion, Action, Incredibles

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”

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• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Lying, Believe, Suicidal

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• Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.

  Tom Ridge

  Moving, Effort, United States

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• Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

  Timothy Ball

  People, Deception, Abuse

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• Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

  Bruce Schneier

  Philosophical, Terrorism, Social

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