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Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous. -- Elmer Bernstein
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. -- Sam Harris
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false. -- Tim Scott
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. -- Sam Harris
There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it. -- Michael Moore
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. -- Doug Ose
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. -- Hugh Mackay
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. -- Donald Sutherland
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money. -- Seth Shostak
Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie. -- Peter York
To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. -- Tina Fey
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. -- Jay Sankey
If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong. -- Kofi Annan
[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power. -- Murray Rothbard
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. -- Terry Pratchett
I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false. -- Ted Cruz
In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious. -- James G. Watt

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