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Take a closer look at it. It is not our work. I do not allow it. We follow the law, there is somebody that is orchestrating something to destroy us. It is intentional. It is a sabotage. – President Duterte	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Both our nations have been struck by the evils of terrorism, and we are both determined to destroy terrorist organizations and the radical ideology that drives them. We will destroy radical Islamic terrorism. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We had to convince the colonies to accept the mutants. If the conditions weren’t right, the worker ants would stop caring for larvae and destroy them, once the ants successfully made it to the adult phase, we noticed a shift in their behavior almost immediately. – Rockefeller University	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery and nudity common in the young generation. – Salahuddin Ayubi	added by anonymous 6 years ago
You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.” – Terry Goodkind	added by regnumveritatis 7 years ago
With our thoughts, we either create or destroy, we can't make both. – Dean Keak Tegn	added by anonymous 7 years ago
The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific, if the, and I use this term extremely loosely, 'leadership' of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State. – Karl Oliver	Found on CNN 7 years ago
To destroy them would be a violation of law, he should turn them over to Congress and to the investigators. If there are no tapes, he should apologize to both Jim Comey and the American people. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.” – Zaman Ali	added by Phillip Mcconnell 7 years ago
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence that you have tried. – anonymous	added by o16.babar 7 years ago
He's a poet, a photographer, he's not aggressive. He wants to build up Venezuela, not destroy it. – Maria Yaminne	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I see it happen to friends, i see where the one spouse literally can't tell their own part in it, and is still competing with the other in some way and wants to destroy them and needs vindication by destruction, and just wasting years on that hatred. I don't want to live that way. – Brad PittBut Pitt	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It was tough. We know he's tough because of the border issue and everything else, but yeah, it was internally inconsistent, when he talked about the attitude to our allies, to whether they should freeload or not, also when he talked about Russia and China, I was really disturbed. The things he said about how we can work with Russia and China, Russia is not on our side. The head of Russia is a former KGB colonel who wanted to destroy America. China is the world's most powerful communist nation so the idea, if you think we can work with these guys in meaningful fashion, I think history would prove you wrong. So it's an improvement. I have to be honest, it's an improvement, but it's still problematic and I need a more substantial development of his ideas in the next few weeks and months. – Sebastian Gorka	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There were problems with that speech, Judge, especially when he spoke about China and Russia and our potential friendship and our shared interests, we don't have shared interests. I'm sorry. [Vladimir Putin] is a KGB colonel. This is the kind of guy who tortured people during the Cold War and wants to destroy us. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Twenty-five years ago, we learned a lesson in what the lack of political power and cultural misunderstandings between minority groups can do, it can destroy us. – Chang Lee	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If you don't vote tomorrow, Ossoff will raise your taxes, destroy your health care and flood our country with illegal immigrants. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If you don't vote tomorrow, Ossoff will raise your taxes, destroy your health care and flood our country with illegal immigrants, vote Republican. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We are not out to destroy and to rule out genuine antiques and pieces of real cultural value that date back hundreds of years, we're not philistines. – Charlie Mayhew	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There have been various reports [about FISA documents and FBI surveillance of him], but I was so happy to hear that further confirmation is now being revealed. It shows how low the Clinton/Obama regime went to destroy our democracy and suppress dissidents who did not fully support their failed foreign policy. It will be interesting to see what comes out when the unjustified basis for those FISA requests are more fully disclosed over time, including potentially the Dodgy Dossier -- a document that clearly is false evidence, which could represent yet another potential crime. – Carter Page	Found on CNN 7 years ago
You say riots and people think breaking shop windows and stealing stuff, they don't have a sense of what white mob violence really looks like. This is going into a black community on a rampage, trying to destroy black wealth, trying to hurt or kill black people. Folks say they're more akin to pogroms in the Jewish communities than any kind of riots we're seeing now. – Adriane Lentz-Smith	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There’s a number of ideas that have been put forward that could be considered, let’s find a way not to both destroy the integrity of the Senate and fracture the court. – Jeff Merkley	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There was no military option in 2013 to destroy, 1,300 tons of CW without dispersing deadly chemical agent and endangering large numbers of innocent civilians, but with the CW stockpile removed and destroyed, a military option now exists. – Andrew Weber	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

Take a closer look at it. It is not our work. I do not allow it. We follow the law, there is somebody that is orchestrating something to destroy us. It is intentional. It is a sabotage.

– President Duterte

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Both our nations have been struck by the evils of terrorism, and we are both determined to destroy terrorist organizations and the radical ideology that drives them. We will destroy radical Islamic terrorism.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We had to convince the colonies to accept the mutants. If the conditions weren’t right, the worker ants would stop caring for larvae and destroy them, once the ants successfully made it to the adult phase, we noticed a shift in their behavior almost immediately.

– Rockefeller University

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery and nudity common in the young generation.

– Salahuddin Ayubi

added by anonymous
6 years ago

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.”

– Terry Goodkind

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

With our thoughts, we either create or destroy, we can't make both.

– Dean Keak Tegn

added by anonymous
7 years ago

The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific, if the, and I use this term extremely loosely, 'leadership' of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.

– Karl Oliver

Found on CNN
7 years ago

To destroy them would be a violation of law, he should turn them over to Congress and to the investigators. If there are no tapes, he should apologize to both Jim Comey and the American people.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”

– Zaman Ali

added by Phillip Mcconnell
7 years ago

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence that you have tried.

– anonymous

added by o16.babar
7 years ago

He's a poet, a photographer, he's not aggressive. He wants to build up Venezuela, not destroy it.

– Maria Yaminne

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I see it happen to friends, i see where the one spouse literally can't tell their own part in it, and is still competing with the other in some way and wants to destroy them and needs vindication by destruction, and just wasting years on that hatred. I don't want to live that way.

– Brad PittBut Pitt

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It was tough. We know he's tough because of the border issue and everything else, but yeah, it was internally inconsistent, when he talked about the attitude to our allies, to whether they should freeload or not, also when he talked about Russia and China, I was really disturbed. The things he said about how we can work with Russia and China, Russia is not on our side. The head of Russia is a former KGB colonel who wanted to destroy America. China is the world's most powerful communist nation so the idea, if you think we can work with these guys in meaningful fashion, I think history would prove you wrong. So it's an improvement. I have to be honest, it's an improvement, but it's still problematic and I need a more substantial development of his ideas in the next few weeks and months.

– Sebastian Gorka

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There were problems with that speech, Judge, especially when he spoke about China and Russia and our potential friendship and our shared interests, we don't have shared interests. I'm sorry. [Vladimir Putin] is a KGB colonel. This is the kind of guy who tortured people during the Cold War and wants to destroy us.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's piecemeal but the pieces are getting larger, and are concentrated in places which were already hot, today a wider war would destroy, I won't say half of humanity, but a large part of humanity and culture. It would be terrible. I don't think humanity today could bear it.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Twenty-five years ago, we learned a lesson in what the lack of political power and cultural misunderstandings between minority groups can do, it can destroy us.

– Chang Lee

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If you don't vote tomorrow, Ossoff will raise your taxes, destroy your health care and flood our country with illegal immigrants.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If you don't vote tomorrow, Ossoff will raise your taxes, destroy your health care and flood our country with illegal immigrants, vote Republican.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We are not out to destroy and to rule out genuine antiques and pieces of real cultural value that date back hundreds of years, we're not philistines.

– Charlie Mayhew

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There have been various reports [about FISA documents and FBI surveillance of him], but I was so happy to hear that further confirmation is now being revealed. It shows how low the Clinton/Obama regime went to destroy our democracy and suppress dissidents who did not fully support their failed foreign policy. It will be interesting to see what comes out when the unjustified basis for those FISA requests are more fully disclosed over time, including potentially the Dodgy Dossier -- a document that clearly is false evidence, which could represent yet another potential crime.

– Carter Page

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You say riots and people think breaking shop windows and stealing stuff, they don't have a sense of what white mob violence really looks like. This is going into a black community on a rampage, trying to destroy black wealth, trying to hurt or kill black people. Folks say they're more akin to pogroms in the Jewish communities than any kind of riots we're seeing now.

– Adriane Lentz-Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There’s a number of ideas that have been put forward that could be considered, let’s find a way not to both destroy the integrity of the Senate and fracture the court.

– Jeff Merkley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was no military option in 2013 to destroy, 1,300 tons of CW without dispersing deadly chemical agent and endangering large numbers of innocent civilians, but with the CW stockpile removed and destroyed, a military option now exists.

– Andrew Weber

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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