But I basically believe it," he said.
"Our parents were into this religion thing called Subud; they basically believed in allowing children to run free," Alexis said in 2000.
What the US data-mining companies basically believed, or wanted us to believe they believed until Snowden woke them, was that by complicity they had gained immunity from actual thievery.
"He basically believed that if bankers were given the opportunity to sin, they would sin," said one banker who asked not to be named because, well, there's not much percentage in getting on the wrong side of the Reserve Bank of India.
"People had a point, it was very optimistic to think that – we basically believed it because we believed the brain did that".
Also, my dad was OCD about cleanliness and basically believed you should take a shower every time you used the bathroom, condemning me to to a lifelong phobia of public restrooms (and dry skin).
I've never, ever said anything that I didn't basically believe.
"We basically believe that the last six years that I've been in prison have been a deliberate, political effort to punish us for contributing to the disappearance of the violence".
As I see it, the whole structural/classical/Austrian/supply-side/whatever side of this debate basically believes that the problem lies in the labor market.
He chose Columbus, Ohio, to announce it with the Lieutenant Governor, Lee Fisher, and the mayor of the City of Columbus, Michael Coleman, and I said to them, "It's such a difference having a President who basically believes the way we do about getting this country back on track".
