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The operation is to liberate Fallujah, not destroy it. – Ali Abd Al Hassan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I won’t let greedy white collars destroy my love letter. – Kelley Drake	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They destroy, we rebuild. – Ibrahim Nseir	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They knew it would be hard to ban satellite TV so they took it in stages. They know they can't go to every house and destroy it, so they wanted to first convince people to do it for them, but the locals don't want to get rid of their last line of access to the outside world so (Islamic State) has become more aggressive. – Omar Dulimi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He’s important and we will destroy ISIL, I have no doubt in my mind, bin Laden had important symbolism and, if we got Baghdadi. it would have great impact on the organization. We’re going to have to remain very focused. – John Brennan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This move goes beyond the defensive needs of the relevant countries. If it is deployed it will directly impact China's and Russia's respective strategic security, not only does it threaten the resolution of the peninsula nuclear issue, it quite possibly could pour oil on the fire of an already tense situation, and even destroy strategic equilibrium on the peninsula. – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If there’s an appeal and they win, come what may, I ’m fine all I wanted was to let everyone know what Gawker’s all about and what they do to destroy lives. – Hulk Hogan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I will not let drugs and criminality destroy my country, I simply cannot accept that, if everyone sits on their ass, we'll let criminals have their way. – Rodrigo Duterte	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Republican Donald Trump's trying to say the process doesn't matter. Republican Donald Trump's trying to say voting doesn't matter. Republican Donald Trump's trying to say all that matters is to destroy the party and see who can pick up the pieces on a second, third or fourth ballot, we're not going to let that happen. – Senior Trump aide Paul Manafort	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s a sad situation that a guy would actually try to destroy the traditions of our military and the basic values of our country. – William Boykin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They will buy weapons in other countries, and the degree of their deadliness won't change in any way, but at the same time, this could ... destroy the existing balance of forces (in the region). – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The evidence indicates that with these powerful explosives they were planing to destroy important installations in the country. – Mohammad Asaduzzaman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
She grabbed me and she had something in her hand, I don’t know what it was, it looked like it could have been a pen. But you know, from the standpoint of where we are, who knows what it is. So she grabs me and then he maybe brushed her aside, and we’re going to destroy his life for that ? I don’t think so. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It looked like it could have been a pen. But you know, from the standpoint of where we are, who knows what it is. So she grabs me and then he maybe brushed her aside, and we’re going to destroy his life for that ? I don’t think so. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let me suggest that attitude of our European friends may well be changing in the next six months or so when they realize that the slaughter that’s taking place in Paris and now in Brussels is part of an international movement to destroy Western civilization and replace it with a caliphate. – Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with radical Islam, just because you happen to be a Muslim does not mean you want to destroy someone in the West.... The last thing we need is more polarization because for those who want to preserve Islam in the west, we alienate them. – John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tourism is one of the important sources feeding the dirty and special war, so it is a major target we aim to destroy. – The TAK	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tourism is one of the important sources feeding the dirty and special war, so it is a major target we aim to destroy, we warn the foreign and native tourists not to go to the tourist... areas in Turkey. – The TAK	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Acts of genocide are motivated by a desire to destroy a particular group, crimes against humanity are defined as targeting individuals systematically or on a large scale, but those individuals are not necessarily part of the same group. – Lisa Reinsberg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully, and he is nothing more than that. He is somebody who is just saying a lot of bold things, he's making bold claims. But I can see right through that and I can see that he's truly just a coward. And he's opportunistic and he's willing to destroy this country for power for himself. – Thomas DiMassimo	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we are going to exceed above this height, I think we are going to destroy the skyline of Asmara. – Medhanie Teklemariam	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I personally hurt when a few weeks ago I saw the case of a 13-year-old girl ... who was left with a pregnancy. I think I am ashamed to call myself a peacekeeper on some of these days when I see cases like this, we need to find these culprits who bring a bad name to peacekeeping, who actually create problems within the country in which they find themselves, and most importantly who destroy young, innocent lives and we need to punish them in such a manner that nobody else in the future will ever think of doing that. – Atul Khare	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need to find these culprits who bring a bad name to peacekeeping, who actually create problems within the country in which they find themselves, and most importantly who destroy young, innocent lives and we need to punish them in such a manner that nobody else in the future will ever think of doing that. – Atul Khare	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That has nothing to do with protection of external borders. Restoring borders between two Schengen countries will destroy the common market. – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The operation is to liberate Fallujah, not destroy it.

– Ali Abd Al Hassan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I won’t let greedy white collars destroy my love letter.

– Kelley Drake

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They destroy, we rebuild.

– Ibrahim Nseir

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They knew it would be hard to ban satellite TV so they took it in stages. They know they can't go to every house and destroy it, so they wanted to first convince people to do it for them, but the locals don't want to get rid of their last line of access to the outside world so (Islamic State) has become more aggressive.

– Omar Dulimi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He’s important and we will destroy ISIL, I have no doubt in my mind, bin Laden had important symbolism and, if we got Baghdadi. it would have great impact on the organization. We’re going to have to remain very focused.

– John Brennan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This move goes beyond the defensive needs of the relevant countries. If it is deployed it will directly impact China's and Russia's respective strategic security, not only does it threaten the resolution of the peninsula nuclear issue, it quite possibly could pour oil on the fire of an already tense situation, and even destroy strategic equilibrium on the peninsula.

– Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If there’s an appeal and they win, come what may, I ’m fine all I wanted was to let everyone know what Gawker’s all about and what they do to destroy lives.

– Hulk Hogan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I will not let drugs and criminality destroy my country, I simply cannot accept that, if everyone sits on their ass, we'll let criminals have their way.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Republican Donald Trump's trying to say the process doesn't matter. Republican Donald Trump's trying to say voting doesn't matter. Republican Donald Trump's trying to say all that matters is to destroy the party and see who can pick up the pieces on a second, third or fourth ballot, we're not going to let that happen.

– Senior Trump aide Paul Manafort

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s a sad situation that a guy would actually try to destroy the traditions of our military and the basic values of our country.

– William Boykin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They will buy weapons in other countries, and the degree of their deadliness won't change in any way, but at the same time, this could ... destroy the existing balance of forces (in the region).

– Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The evidence indicates that with these powerful explosives they were planing to destroy important installations in the country.

– Mohammad Asaduzzaman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She grabbed me and she had something in her hand, I don’t know what it was, it looked like it could have been a pen. But you know, from the standpoint of where we are, who knows what it is. So she grabs me and then he maybe brushed her aside, and we’re going to destroy his life for that ? I don’t think so.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It looked like it could have been a pen. But you know, from the standpoint of where we are, who knows what it is. So she grabs me and then he maybe brushed her aside, and we’re going to destroy his life for that ? I don’t think so.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Let me suggest that attitude of our European friends may well be changing in the next six months or so when they realize that the slaughter that’s taking place in Paris and now in Brussels is part of an international movement to destroy Western civilization and replace it with a caliphate.

– Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with radical Islam, just because you happen to be a Muslim does not mean you want to destroy someone in the West.... The last thing we need is more polarization because for those who want to preserve Islam in the west, we alienate them.

– John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Tourism is one of the important sources feeding the dirty and special war, so it is a major target we aim to destroy.

– The TAK

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Tourism is one of the important sources feeding the dirty and special war, so it is a major target we aim to destroy, we warn the foreign and native tourists not to go to the tourist... areas in Turkey.

– The TAK

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Acts of genocide are motivated by a desire to destroy a particular group, crimes against humanity are defined as targeting individuals systematically or on a large scale, but those individuals are not necessarily part of the same group.

– Lisa Reinsberg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully, and he is nothing more than that. He is somebody who is just saying a lot of bold things, he's making bold claims. But I can see right through that and I can see that he's truly just a coward. And he's opportunistic and he's willing to destroy this country for power for himself.

– Thomas DiMassimo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we are going to exceed above this height, I think we are going to destroy the skyline of Asmara.

– Medhanie Teklemariam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I personally hurt when a few weeks ago I saw the case of a 13-year-old girl ... who was left with a pregnancy. I think I am ashamed to call myself a peacekeeper on some of these days when I see cases like this, we need to find these culprits who bring a bad name to peacekeeping, who actually create problems within the country in which they find themselves, and most importantly who destroy young, innocent lives and we need to punish them in such a manner that nobody else in the future will ever think of doing that.

– Atul Khare

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We need to find these culprits who bring a bad name to peacekeeping, who actually create problems within the country in which they find themselves, and most importantly who destroy young, innocent lives and we need to punish them in such a manner that nobody else in the future will ever think of doing that.

– Atul Khare

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That has nothing to do with protection of external borders. Restoring borders between two Schengen countries will destroy the common market.

– European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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