Persisted Quotes

(to British TV interviewer David Dimbleby after Dimbleby persisted in questioning him about the Monica Lewinsky incident) Look how much time you spent asking me these questions. And that`s why people like you always help the far right because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings. Look - you made a decision to allocate your time in a certain way. You should take responsibility for that. You should say "Yes, I care much more about this (the Lewinsky affair) than whether the Bosnian people were saved, than whether 27 million people had jobs at the end, and whether we moved a hundred times as many people out of poverty as (Ronald Reagan) and George W. Bush]." This is what I care about."

It is not clear from the evidence that Mr. Berarducci was doing anything more than backing up his truck to avoid a continued confrontation with Mr. Kimberly, which, it should be noted, Mr. Kimberly had initiated and in which he persisted by approaching Mr. Berarducci`s truck a second time, ... There is not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that it was Mr. Berarducci`s intent to harass, annoy, or alarm Mr. Kimberly.

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness.

I`m the one who signed it - but I told those people repeatedly that I wasn`t the actress. I was at this airport, you see, and they kept insisting that I was Sandra Bullock. It`s happened many times before - people mistaking me for the Hollywood star. But on this occasion they persisted. Finally, I agreed to give the autograph. But I made it clear that I was who I was - that I wasn`t Sandra Bullock.