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My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. – Tommy Douglas	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
I see a future in Kenya and in the rest of the continent where kids are becoming really tech literate. And then, in turn, becoming global citizens, it’s a ripple effect. Some of them will help us in solving one of so many big challenges we have in the world today. – Nelly Cheboi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m going to Africa mainly to talk with African leaders about what we as the United States are prepared to do to have our role in investing in the future of that continent. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I saw the effect in 1996. People were living with advanced AIDS and near death. They got access to these drugs, and we saw this transformation. People came back from being severely ill to thriving, gaining weight, going back to work. It was a challenge not seeing that happen in the African continent where the need was greatest. – John Blandford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we’re a big enough nation to do more than one thing, to continue to fight against AIDS in the continent of Africa and to support the Ukrainian freedom fighters does not constrain our capacity to help our own citizens. I don’t understand why there’s any resistance to a program like PEPFAR unless we’ve lost our compassion. – President Bush	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We would like to remind London : in the event of such a scenario the death toll of yet another round of escalation, as well as and its military-political consequences for the European continent and the whole world will be on the United Kingdom’s hands. – The Russian embassy in London	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Antarctica is crumbling at its edges, and when ice shelves dwindle and weaken, the continent's massive glaciers tend to speed up and increase the rate of global sea level rise. – Chad Greene	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The highest temperatures experienced in the UK tend to occur when our weather is influenced by air masses from continental Europe or North Africa, as it will be at the weekend, there is already a strongly-embedded warming due to climate change across the continent, that is increasing the likelihood of challenging the existing UK temperature record. – Mark McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He grew up in Europe, and he's lived all over the continent, and he's fluent in French, Russian and Italian. He reads Spanish and Portuguese. And he can get by and understand Polish and Ukrainian, which enables him to communicate directly with about half the population of Europe. – Mark Milley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think leaders are going to be looking for ways to do two things : One, continue to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable and to increase the costs and consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin war on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin economy, and two, minimizing as much as possible the effect of these rising oil prices and the way Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized energy on nations, particularly on the continent but also around the world. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My perception — and it was just a brief one — was that I could see pretty much the entire North American continent more or less. – Dylan Taylor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is the first early armoured dinosaur to be named from the entire Asian continent and helps to show how the group spread around the world shortly after its origin just a few million years earlier. – Paul Barrett	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That has proven to be catastrophic as the continent became increasingly dependent on Russia for energy imports. – Michael Shellenberger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging. – Said Thompson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This dialogue is absolutely essential, more than ever, to ensure the stability and security of the European continent. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That whole mentality of the Lost Cause started to seep into my life, it then became a point of retrospection and trying to figure out what is the point of all this ? Why are we celebrating this man who enslaved people and fought for the continued enslavement of Black people on this continent ? – Robert E. Lee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In terms of that being something that would tie Putin’s hands? I don’t think so, putin’s made real threats of war on the European continent for the first time since 1945, and he’s getting the attention that he’s apparently been seeking. – James Roberts	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The UK remains an important partner in strategic terms, and Germany knows that if The UK isn't engaged in the European continent, then you will split the Europeans. – Ben Schreer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The climate alarm bells are also ringing at fever pitch, the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a code red for humanity. We see the warning signs in every continent and region -- scorching temperatures, shocking biodiversity loss, polluted air, water and natural spaces. – António Guterres	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Allow them the opportunity to help grow the game, that continent would just be turned on its head for basketball. In a good way, You have no idea how many lives would be impacted and changed for the ages. – Otis Hughley Jr.	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That continent would just be turned on its head for basketball. In a good way, You have no idea how many lives would be impacted and changed for the ages. – Otis Hughley Jr.	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Dogs are really one of the most successful species on the planet. There's some estimate of over a billion dogs. They're on every continent where you find humans. And sadly, there's just a few hundred thousand wolves remaining. – Brian Hare	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Different continent, different population, different viruses floating around, and yet, we still see really good efficacy, this is what you want to have. – Gregory Glenn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What is happening in India cannot be ignored by our continent, we do not have enough health care workers, we do not have enough oxygen. – John Nkengasong	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

– Tommy Douglas

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

I see a future in Kenya and in the rest of the continent where kids are becoming really tech literate. And then, in turn, becoming global citizens, it’s a ripple effect. Some of them will help us in solving one of so many big challenges we have in the world today.

– Nelly Cheboi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m going to Africa mainly to talk with African leaders about what we as the United States are prepared to do to have our role in investing in the future of that continent.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I saw the effect in 1996. People were living with advanced AIDS and near death. They got access to these drugs, and we saw this transformation. People came back from being severely ill to thriving, gaining weight, going back to work. It was a challenge not seeing that happen in the African continent where the need was greatest.

– John Blandford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’re a big enough nation to do more than one thing, to continue to fight against AIDS in the continent of Africa and to support the Ukrainian freedom fighters does not constrain our capacity to help our own citizens. I don’t understand why there’s any resistance to a program like PEPFAR unless we’ve lost our compassion.

– President Bush

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We would like to remind London : in the event of such a scenario the death toll of yet another round of escalation, as well as and its military-political consequences for the European continent and the whole world will be on the United Kingdom’s hands.

– The Russian embassy in London

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Antarctica is crumbling at its edges, and when ice shelves dwindle and weaken, the continent's massive glaciers tend to speed up and increase the rate of global sea level rise.

– Chad Greene

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The highest temperatures experienced in the UK tend to occur when our weather is influenced by air masses from continental Europe or North Africa, as it will be at the weekend, there is already a strongly-embedded warming due to climate change across the continent, that is increasing the likelihood of challenging the existing UK temperature record.

– Mark McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He grew up in Europe, and he's lived all over the continent, and he's fluent in French, Russian and Italian. He reads Spanish and Portuguese. And he can get by and understand Polish and Ukrainian, which enables him to communicate directly with about half the population of Europe.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think leaders are going to be looking for ways to do two things : One, continue to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable and to increase the costs and consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin war on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin economy, and two, minimizing as much as possible the effect of these rising oil prices and the way Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized energy on nations, particularly on the continent but also around the world.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My perception — and it was just a brief one — was that I could see pretty much the entire North American continent more or less.

– Dylan Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is the first early armoured dinosaur to be named from the entire Asian continent and helps to show how the group spread around the world shortly after its origin just a few million years earlier.

– Paul Barrett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That has proven to be catastrophic as the continent became increasingly dependent on Russia for energy imports.

– Michael Shellenberger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging.

– Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This dialogue is absolutely essential, more than ever, to ensure the stability and security of the European continent.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That whole mentality of the Lost Cause started to seep into my life, it then became a point of retrospection and trying to figure out what is the point of all this ? Why are we celebrating this man who enslaved people and fought for the continued enslavement of Black people on this continent ?

– Robert E. Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In terms of that being something that would tie Putin’s hands? I don’t think so, putin’s made real threats of war on the European continent for the first time since 1945, and he’s getting the attention that he’s apparently been seeking.

– James Roberts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The UK remains an important partner in strategic terms, and Germany knows that if The UK isn't engaged in the European continent, then you will split the Europeans.

– Ben Schreer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The climate alarm bells are also ringing at fever pitch, the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a code red for humanity. We see the warning signs in every continent and region -- scorching temperatures, shocking biodiversity loss, polluted air, water and natural spaces.

– António Guterres

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Allow them the opportunity to help grow the game, that continent would just be turned on its head for basketball. In a good way, You have no idea how many lives would be impacted and changed for the ages.

– Otis Hughley Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That continent would just be turned on its head for basketball. In a good way, You have no idea how many lives would be impacted and changed for the ages.

– Otis Hughley Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dogs are really one of the most successful species on the planet. There's some estimate of over a billion dogs. They're on every continent where you find humans. And sadly, there's just a few hundred thousand wolves remaining.

– Brian Hare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Different continent, different population, different viruses floating around, and yet, we still see really good efficacy, this is what you want to have.

– Gregory Glenn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What is happening in India cannot be ignored by our continent, we do not have enough health care workers, we do not have enough oxygen.

– John Nkengasong

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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