Characterizing Quotes

You're characterizing [this season] as making a big mistake. It's not a mistake. It's an underestimation what it would take to start off this strategy. So we're 15-41 now. You have to look at how you're doing on your 3-4 year plan. It's still early. I know it's hard to take when it's 15-41, but the mistake would be to say the strategy is wrong. The strategy is right. It's just more painful to execute than we thought. It is harsh. There is no doubt. I think [the fans] are already upset. - James Dolan

That quote comes from introductory remarks. It was just an introduction but what the congressman expressed in his letter is clearly the more accurate way of characterizing their relationship. - Shannon Flaherty

It's the dog that didn't bark. I'm still waiting for the Democrats to come out and start mischaracterizing her. - Don Stewart

It appears that he was characterizing some remarks that were made by Vice President Agnew. And he was characterizing -- he was quoting them in a critical manner, saying that Agnew shouldn't have said that. - Donald Rumsfeld

I'm not trying to be difficult, but I feel very uncomfortable making judgments on what someone else's statement when they're defining things however they want to define it. So if you -- if you ask me, Monica, were you alone with the president, I will say yes, but I'm not comfortable characterizing what someone else says. - Monica Lewinsky