Distorting Quotes

This is George Bush shaking hands with John McCain, promising not to run a negative campaign... This is George Bush's new negative ad attacking John McCain and distorting his position. - John McCain

They talk the talk but they sure don't walk the walk. While blatant export subsidies were disciplined, so-called non-distorting domestic support proliferated and became very disruptive. Farmers who get their income primarily from the marketplace have suffered and their situation will not improve without major changes. - Peter Clark

Their emotions may be preempting their cognitions, or arousal may be distorting their cognition. - David Perry

The President's budget calls for stricter agricultural payment caps is an important reform of an outdated agricultural subsidy program is rife with abuse and loopholes and hurts small farmers here and abroad. The U.S. government spends billion of dollars each year on farm payments that are heavily concentrated in large-scale commercial operations, distorting international markets and causing controversy and unfairness in global trade. - Raymond Offenheiser

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. - Hans-Georg Gadamer

The European Union will match -- and indeed go substantially beyond -- the 60 percent cut in the most trade-distorting support proposed by the U.S.. - Peter Mandelson

The Electoral Commission has been infiltrated and manipulated by the government with the intention of distorting the results of this election. - Mwai Kibaki

The best way to read the numbers is going to be to average the two months' data because the hurricanes are distorting the wider picture... But excluding the hurricane effects, we're doing 190,000 to 200,000 new jobs a month and that's quite healthy. - Anthony Chan

So far this year the market has suffered from two things; firstly a surge in demand for diesel cars distorting the market at the end of 2005 and secondly weaker consumer confidence. - Christopher Macgowan