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At a minimum the 9th Circuit should censure him publicly. – Michele McKenzie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The vicious censure resolutions to strip Trustee Mary Bone and me of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters is a naked political hit job, the majority on the board are diverting taxpayer dollars and manpower away from students and teachers to destroy our reputations and inflict financial pain. – Danielle Weston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The censure resolutions would strip us of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters and would violate the law. – Danielle Weston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The praise of fools is censure in disguise. – Proverb	added by proverb 2 years ago
Dahm has made it abundantly clear that he was intentional with his words. ... The justification for sexism given by Senator Dahm in and of itself is grounds for censure. – Ajay Pittman	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You are welcome to censure me again. – Ben Sasse	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't censure what people say, every American -- even our President -- has the right to criticize the Federal Reserve. – Judy Shelton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Censure would allow this body to unite across party lines and as an equal branch of government to formally denounce the President's actions and hold him accountable. – Joe Manchin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think censure is just a way out, in other words, if the goods are there, you must impeach. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not sure if censure is the right thing to do, but something absolutely should be done because The Washington Post.Other Republicans has been consistent in The Washington Post.Other Republicans disrespect, disregard for The Washington Post.Other Republicans colleagues, the Washington Post.Other Republicans party needs to absolutely do something definitive. I'm not so sure it should be the House, because if it's the House, then they'll blame it on the Democrats. – Karen Bass	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every day, the president gives us further evidence of why a censure is necessary, it becomes clearer that the Republican Congress must declare whether it stands for our sacred American values or with the President who embraces white nationalism. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Nobody has suggested that President Clinton committed a political crime against the state. So, colleagues, if you honor the Constitution, you must look at the history of the Constitution and how we got to the impeachment clause. And if you do that and you do that honestly according to the oath you took, you can not. You can censure President Clinton. You can hand President Clinton over to the prosecutor for President Clinton to be prosecuted, But you can not convict President Clinton. And you can not indulge yourselves the luxury or the right to ignore this history. – Dale Bumpers	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest? – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so. – Richter	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. – Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. – Robert F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

At a minimum the 9th Circuit should censure him publicly.

– Michele McKenzie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The vicious censure resolutions to strip Trustee Mary Bone and me of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters is a naked political hit job, the majority on the board are diverting taxpayer dollars and manpower away from students and teachers to destroy our reputations and inflict financial pain.

– Danielle Weston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The censure resolutions would strip us of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters and would violate the law.

– Danielle Weston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The praise of fools is censure in disguise.

– Proverb

added by proverb
2 years ago

Dahm has made it abundantly clear that he was intentional with his words. ... The justification for sexism given by Senator Dahm in and of itself is grounds for censure.

– Ajay Pittman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You are welcome to censure me again.

– Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't censure what people say, every American -- even our President -- has the right to criticize the Federal Reserve.

– Judy Shelton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Censure would allow this body to unite across party lines and as an equal branch of government to formally denounce the President's actions and hold him accountable.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think censure is just a way out, in other words, if the goods are there, you must impeach.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm not sure if censure is the right thing to do, but something absolutely should be done because The Washington Post.Other Republicans has been consistent in The Washington Post.Other Republicans disrespect, disregard for The Washington Post.Other Republicans colleagues, the Washington Post.Other Republicans party needs to absolutely do something definitive. I'm not so sure it should be the House, because if it's the House, then they'll blame it on the Democrats.

– Karen Bass

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every day, the president gives us further evidence of why a censure is necessary, it becomes clearer that the Republican Congress must declare whether it stands for our sacred American values or with the President who embraces white nationalism.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

– Dale Bumpers

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

– Tryon Edwards

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.

– Feltham

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so.

– Richter

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

– Saadi Shirazi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

– Tyron Edwards

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

– Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

– Joseph Addison

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

– Robert F. Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

– W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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