At a briefing, Dana Perino, Mr. Bush's press secretary, called Mr. Ahmadinejad's remarks "fanciful thinking".
For Mr. Bloomberg, it seems, his remarks were thinking out loud and not a final position.
Hofstader ([2001], p. xvii) remarks that thinking beings use guesswork, analogy, and trial and error far more often than logical deduction.
Arendt also remarks that thinking, as the actualization of the difference given in consciousness, "is not a prerogative of the few but an ever-present faculty in everybody; by the same token, inability to think is not a failing of the many who lack brain power, but an ever-present possibility for everybody" (LM, vol. I, 191).
At some level the speakers all deserve a pass on being judged by these private remarks; is anyone among us innocent of having expressed an impure, inappropriate, even racist or sexist remark while thinking ourselves securely among friends, or uttered a joke in one social group that we would never think of uttering in another?
Widely quoted for his forward thinking remarks, his most famous quote, "Information about money has become almost as important as money itself," is inscribed in the lobby of the New York Library of Science, Industry and Business.
MG Financial Group chief currency analyst told Reuters that Snow's remarks left markets thinking that America's strong-dollar policy is mere rhetoric and that the White House is, in fact, content to see further dollar losses.
My friend's remarks got me thinking.
Brown also opened the conference with remembrances of the man and remarks on his thinking.
