#premise

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#around #available #cameras #characters #crew

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. ↗

— Ed Markey

#american consumers #arabians #consumers #got #hand

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. ↗

— Don Nickles

#basic #common #defense #fundamental #fundamental purpose

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#capable #citizen #democracy #equilibrium #humanist

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

The media's job is to question a premise. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#media #premise #question

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does