Fact-Based Quotes

I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

Facts are stubborn things.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

I'm a fact-based leader.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

I consider myself a realist.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Washington DC has become an evidence-free zone.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.