There should be no doubt or equivocation about the implications of his words.
During the 1988 campaign, when he recalled floating on the life raft in the Pacific after his wartime crash, he said, "I thought about Mother and Dad and the strength I got from them, and God and faith" — and then became so worried about the implications of his words that he added, "and the separation of church and state".
After the speech on Islam, and again after the Brazil trip, the pope, whose career before becoming pope concerned theology rather than public policy, faced criticism for what some critics, as well as some supporters, say is a deaf ear for the political implications of his words.
Dylan's Superbowl commercial generated controversy and op-ed pieces discussing the protectionist implications of his words, and whether the singer had "sold out" to corporate interests.
Murdoch père paused to run each answer through his shrewd mental calculations of the legal implications of his own words, occasionally smiting the tabletop in front in a kind of brutal authoritarian emphasis that began to make his wife Wendi Deng distinctly nervous.
But the implication of her words is that to make 300 million Indians richer, 800 million Indians have become poorer in real, rather than relative, terms.
Known for his diatribes against the judiciary, which is independent of the government, Mr. Berlusconi was uncharacteristically low-key in his speech on Saturday, mindful of the political implications his words could have.
It took a few moments for the implications of her words to sink in.
Before we lose ourselves in yet another discussion about a high profile woman's bid for motherhood, I suggest that feminists think hard about the implications of her words.
