John J. McLaughlin Quotes

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Seek truth from facts.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.

There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

There's got to be a point in time where the reality comes home and people realize, here are the facts, and this is either not true or it is true. You've got the facts, you can make your own decision now.

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, facts matter.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Don’t take the wrong side of the argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion. But it is also useful to have some facts.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

It is not the least service which a college or university may render to those under its instruction, to habituate them to looking not only patiently but methodically on both sides, before adopting any conclusion upon controverted issues.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.