"The wheel of history won't turn back," he declares, explaining China's progress over the last few decades.
"The strength of gun forces in Congress has grown, not diminished," she declared in explaining why she felt forced to abandon her long fight for a measure free of gun lobby abuses.
"The unforeseen does not exist," he declares curtly, explaining why he is certain that modern transportation would allow him to circle the globe in 80 days.
"This is the ultimate umbrella," she declared, which explains why she bought four, at $1,255 each, at Hildreth's in East Hampton.
"A bad poem by Chairman Mao," Grandpa declared, and explained, line by line, why this was a bad poem: vulgar, unpoetic, horribly rhymed.
Parker, who works at Danbury Hospital – where two children were taken from the scene of the shooting, and declared dead – explained that at first he did not believe that the incident was "a big deal".
While police, prosecutors, and politicians emphasised the Liège tragedy was no terrorist or politically inspired assault – "he has no history of terrorist acts," the Liège prosecutor, Daniele Reynders, told journalists – there was no persuasive motive declared to explain the rampage.
"Horse racing teaches you everything about how capitalism operates," she declares before explaining that because of price fixing, horse nobbling and a thousand other corrupt practices, the betting system is now highly regulated.
"By that time I had already declared and explained the problems that were happening and of course it was already available for all the departments of justice that were asking that, so it would have been very easy for them to obtain," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday.
"By that time I (had) already declared and explained the problems that were happening," he said.
