"The whole advance of radical Islam... Who is the party that has time and time again stood up and said what people really believe about this?" he added.
More and more lately, I find people asking me: What do you think President Obama really believes about this or that issue?
Alas, she also exhibits a fondness for generalizing from eccentric particulars, positing what "21st-century Texans" must believe about this or that nutty idea, like dropping out of the United States to become a sovereign country — a notion that, despite Collins's insinuation to the contrary, was overwhelmingly rejected by Texans in a Rasmussen poll around the time of Perry's musings.
One woman shouted out at the top of her lungs, "Death And Destruction!" Her answer might be what many Americans have been led to believe about this word.
"That's pretty impressive," Dave Welch, a pastor leading the fight, told the Houston Chronicle at the time, "and it shows the nature of what the citizens believe about this ordinance".
What are we to believe about the efficacy of this approach to mental health if we can't trust the numbers?
What she believes about Carlos, however, is this: He may know more than he has told about her brother Luis Beltran's unsolved murder five years ago.
Speaking of storytelling, I think that people have a tendency (especially with partners who aren't that well-suited) to make up stories we want to believe about each other, and this causes a lot of grief.
Each actions becomes a small vote that tells your mind, "Hey, I believe this about myself".
What do I believe about Jesus Christ?
