But a day after these seemingly definitive remarks, speculation only intensified that Mr. Rubio, a Tea Party favorite, is in fact courting establishment Republicans by embarking on a multistop tour through California, and by the symbolism of speaking at the Reagan Library, where he walked arm-in-arm with Nancy Reagan (and even caught her when she stumbled).
But a day after these seemingly definitive remarks, speculation only seemed to intensify that the Tea Party favorite is in fact courting establishment Republicans by embarking on a multistop out-of-state tour through California, and by the symbolism of choosing to speak at the Reagan Library, where he walked arm-in-arm with Nancy Reagan (and even caught her when she stumbled).
But it was Ursula K. Le Guin, accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters early in the evening, who gave the definitive remarks of the ceremony, gliding through the genre debate and the Amazon-Hachette debacle on her way to explaining the crucial role that literature must play in our society.
The prime minister of Turkey, which has deep economic and historical ties to Libya, weighed in Thursday with his most definitive remarks yet on the conflict.
"I hope that this committee's bipartisan investigation," Nunes said in his opening remarks, "will result in a definitive report on the Russian actions taken during the election campaign". Schiff echoed those sentiments in his own opening statement.
Mr. Weinberger, who has returned to the Ernst & Young accounting firm, and is now its vice chairman, said that he recalled making much less-definitive remarks, but did confirm that he said that the administration had not developed a position on exchange funds.
Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer has commented that the remark is probably as close as historians will ever get to a definitive order from Hitler for the genocide carried out during the Holocaust.
A spokesman for Mr Barnier confirmed the remarks but stressed anything was possible and it was not a definitive statement that a deal would be done by December 2020.
"Is it a definitive study?
Now we have a definitive ending".
