'It is important that those of us who are privileged - because we are - to be at the very cutting edge of government, to be at the centre of events, do not presume that we should be immediately taking someone else's job,' Blunkett said in an interview with the New Statesman.
Roberts transmitted the news, then followed up with a long list of instructions to the sculptor, in which he noted, "The motto, 'In God We Trust', is not required upon this coin and I presume we are agreed that nothing should be upon it that is not required".
Basically, this public health imperative stipulates that when in doubt, we should presume there is risk, rather than presume there is none -- because that is the safer course.
Based on the careful invocation of "confidential... to the Attorney General," we should presume that he has not.
Both Giuliani and his former flack deny his wife's charge of an affair; in the absence of evidence, we should presume innocence.
And is it not part of our human hubris that we should presume all aliens to be weird versions of ourselves – somewhat ignoring the wonderful weirdness we ourselves represent?
He surely chose those words carefully, and from that we should presume that there is potentially quite a bit of evidence regarding potential obstruction that has not previously been discussed or come to light.
New Jersey suggests that we should presume that all the holdings of a single corporation are mutually interdependent because common ownership will stabilize profits from the commonly held businesses, generating flows of value between them that make them part of a unity.
We should presume him innocent, not merely on high-minded judicial principle, but because it's hard to conceive of this deft politician being so reckless as to carry on an 18-month affair with a White House intern a few years older than his daughter, and then to raise it to the level of Federal crime by suborning perjury.
Not that Isis is actually interested in a real nation-state beyond violence, or that we should presume their extreme ideology will get them anywhere, but the group has proved very effective at reaching people who have lost all other meaningful points of reference.
