Rush D. Holt Jr. Quotes

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Hope is not the basis for policy. Wise policymakers analyze major issues such as immigration carefully and look at facts and probabilities instead of just hoping for the best.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

I would stand upon facts.

Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

The facts are facts and records are records.

Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.