Accepting Quote by Rachel Maddow

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge…

— Paul Rusesabagina

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals…

— Allen Weinstein

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

— Steve Daines

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

— Noah Feldman

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

— Cyrus Vance

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another…

— Herman Melville

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed…

— Anonymous

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them…

— Gerald Massey

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement…

— Freeman Dyson

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

— Tobias Forge

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you…

— Mary Roach