Related Clues:

• Asserts it
• States plainly
• States with certainty
• Says decidedly
• States confidently
• States peremptorily
• Tells it like it is
• States unequivocally
• Exercises authority
• States with confidence
• Claims authoritatively
• Declares emphatically
• Declares to be true
• Says with certainty
• Declares it to be true