Credible Quotes
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She showed the direction, and the party followed her. It was decisive that Merkel appeared human and credible, thereby winning over the trust of the party members.
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More Credible Quotes
On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations. The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.
Constantinus— 1915 Within the Tides, preface.
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the termnamely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.
Robin Cook— 2003 Speech to the House of Commons, following his resignation as Leader of the House,17 Mar.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
— 1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
— 1968 On nuclear weapons. The Essence of Security.
"Wherever he emerged, there was always something going on. The essential at him was however, that he was a credible and all reservations penetrating ambassador of his Lord."
wilhelm busch— "Wo er zugegen war, passierte immer etwas. Das Eigentliche aan ihm aber war dieses, dass er ein glaubhafter und aller Vorbehalte durchstoßender Bote seines Herrn war." by Gustav Heinemann, later President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1966, funeral oration)
Look at the movie 'Wag the Dog, I think this has all the elements of that movie. Our reaction to the embassy bombings should be based on sound, credible evidence, not a knee-jerk reaction to try to direct public attention away from his personal problems.
jim gibbons— On the Monica Lewinsky Scandal; Tokoma Tribune, 1998.[3]; Gibbons thought Clinton was too aggressive in taking on the terrorist threat posed by Al Qaida.
Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.
john kotter— Step 4, p. 84
Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
john le carré— As quoted in "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, in Salon (21 October 1996); also in Conversations with John le Carré (2004) edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Judith Baughman, p. 140
If the project was lucky enough to have a writer or two well-informed about some specialized subject, and if their work was not degraded in quality by the majority of people, whose knowledge of the subject is based on paragraphs in books and mere mentions in college classes, then there might be a good, credible article on that specialized subject. Otherwise, there will be no article at all, a very amateurish-sounding article, or an article that looks like it might once have been pretty good, but which has been hacked to bits by hoi polloi.
larry sanger— "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin (31 December 2004)
Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.
serzh sargsyan— State dinner in honor of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Mrs. Rita Sargsyan (January 18, 2011)
It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
julian assange— Farquhar, Peter (May 19, 2010). "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange adamant his site broke Collateral Murder encryption". News.com.au. Retrieved on 2010-06-17.
Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
christopher hitchens— Jan. 14, 2003: On Iraq
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
carl jung— p. 72 (The Integration of the Personality (1939))
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
edward r. murrow— Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963)
(During the Italian crisis, about the proposal of replacing Silvio Berlusconi with Angelino Alfano, as the new Prime Minister of Italy ) Replacing Berlusconi with one of his servile lackeys is unacceptable. Italy needs a credible government run by a respected & competent leader (2011-11-08
nouriel roubini— Quoted in: Italy crisis - Live, BBC.co.uk)
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
edward r. murrow— Speaking as the Director of USIA, in testimony before a Congressional Committee (May 1963).
There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.
frederick william robertson— p. 605.
Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
— Frederick William Robertson, p. 339. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Crowned not only with no history, but with no credible possibility of time for history, and consecrated by no uses save the commercial at any cost, they are simply the most piercing notes in that concert of the expensively provisional into which your supreme sense of New York resolves itself
Henry James— Henry James, The American Scene (1907), Ch. 2: New York Revisited, pt. I
... he (Ambassador Rapp) listened to eyewitness accounts about serious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those that occurred at the end of the war. In that context the government of the United States encourages the government of Sri Lanka to seek the truth through independent and credible investigations, and where relevant, have prosecutions.
— The American Embassy in Sri Lanka, quoted on Eurasia News, "Sri Lanka: The Heat Is On Colombo In Run Up To Geneva – Analysis", February 10, 2014.
Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads and there is increasing hope - no more than hope, no more than hope - that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft.
— Tony Abbott, quoted on BBC News, "Malaysia flight MH370: New data 'shows possible debris'", March 23, 2014.
A gap – small or big, g hisyorical, linguistic, social, or ecological in nature develops between the past and present cultures,... Digression bridges this gap, making the unknown known, irrational rational, obscure clear, incredible credible...
— Ilhan Basgoz, quoted by Yael Maschler in Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew Discourse Markers p.100
International specialization and division of labor requires institutions and organizations to safeguard property rights across international boundaries so that capital markets as well as other kinds of exchange can take place with credible commitment on the part of the players.
— Douglass C. North (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance p. 121
[open source software] is long-term credible ... FUD tactics can not [ sic ] be used to combat it.
— Vinod Valloppillil, Microsoft Program Manager, "Open Source Software: A (New?) Development Methodology", 1998
Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads and there is increasing hope - no more than hope, no more than hope - that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft.
tony abbott— About Malaysia Airlines MH370, quoted on BBC News, "Malaysia flight MH370: New data 'shows possible debris'", March 23, 2014.
