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I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the Donbas. But, no. Let's just make it clear, Putin's not a genius, Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russian President Vladimir Putin. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The media will sometimes get things wrong, as the Times did here. But as the court and jury found, the Times made a mistake that it corrected within hours, press freedom can't survive without breathing space for these kinds of mistakes, as the Supreme Court recognized more than half a century ago. Holding the Times liable here would have significantly reduced that breathing space and chilled press freedom. – Katie Fallow	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Make no mistake, if President Biden finds the courage to do this, we would without question work with him every step of the way. – Roger Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if Vladimir Putin does n’t relent, I believe Vladimir Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind. – Presley Ann/Getty Images -RRB- Penn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think Biden simply doesn't believe in a powerful projection of American might and power. Biden is a quintessentially European Union-style politician who believes in endless negotiations and multilateral solutions... He's not someone who believes in the protection of hard power, and that's a fatal mistake to make when you are confronting both Beijing and Moscow because it just sends a message of weakness rather than strength. – Nile Gardiner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What dictators like Vladimir Putin got from that was America is willing to be dependent on foreign nations for its energy, America is willing to give up our energy dominance in the world, huge mistake, huge mistake. – Josh Hawley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that’s a mistake— I think that’s a strategic mistake. – Josh Hawley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Make no mistake, we will be relentless in defending our country from China. – Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsenof	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In fact, what we did was take our own fate – which we had just won – [and] put it in the hands of other people, and that's where I think we made a mistake. – Eli Steele	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is not a cop found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin down a person for nine minutes as he gasped for air, this is not a cop found guilty of manslaughter for intentionally drawing his firearm and shooting across his partner to kill an unarmed woman as she approached his car. This is a cop who made a tragic mistake. She drew her firearm thinking it was a Taser, and ended up killing a young man. – Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That alarms us, the person or persons involved with that change made a terrible mistake. – Burl Cain	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These viruses are always waiting to infect you, you only have to make a mistake for five minutes after a 20-year career and, you know, you've got it. – Steven Quay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s honestly bull----, like, having people who aren’t a professional promotional company control where the money goes, we made that mistake … It’s Floyd Mayweather. Before we fought him, we were kind of willing to do whatever. Now after the fact, we’re kind of shooting ourselves in the foot because he’s a fu---ing s---bag. – Logan Paul	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a huge mistake for us to defund the police here. We don’t have enough people on the street to help us out and crime has really surged. – Matt Stayner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've said previously that I would boycott [the Beijing Olympics]. I mean, I think it's a mistake. I mean, China is our number-one geopolitical foe. If you look at what they're doing, they're amassing huge amounts of power. And it's not just that they're building up their military, they are, they command huge influence within the United States. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the excitement after I finished, because White House was so much fun working with those kids, I took a picture -- and that was a mistake. – African American	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I hope that people would quit accusing each other, we’re all guilty of sin. We all make mistakes. Therefore, you have no excuse to pass judgment on someone else. That’s what people do. They find a mistake you made when you were 18 years old or something you said on the internet long ago. Then they go after you with a vengeance. You’re condemning yourself by passing judgment on others. Do you think you’ll escape God’s judgment? In a culture of accusations, shame and condemnation, I’m just trying to speak out about the word of God… Just forgive each other and move on for crying out loud. – Phil Robertson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Make no mistake: these bills are an attack on Missouri students, they have the right to learn in classrooms free from censorship. – Paula Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Evidence will show the New York Times and James Bennet made a mistake. Evidence will also show this mistake was in no way intentional. – David Axelrod	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Basically we're one bullet away from death, and one mistake away from indictment so why roll the dice with my future when I can go do something else ? – Tyrone Dennis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Finally, the Ukrainian president criticized the White House in terms that were so blunt that even the Times had to report them, saying they keep supporting this theme, [Volodymyr] Zelensky said of the repeated warnings by American officials, ‘they make it as acute and burning as possible, in my opinion. This is a mistake’. – Drew Angerer/Pool via AP	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I said no. And that was probably the biggest mistake I ever made. – Dominique Rivera	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He would like to stress that this did not happen out of any bad intent, but was the consequence of a mistake in the editorial processing of his statement. – Georg Gaenswein	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This whole notion that somehow it's going to be sweet and gentle and no one is ever going to be surprised... I think it's a mistake. – Jamie Dimon	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the Donbas. But, no. Let's just make it clear, Putin's not a genius, Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russian President Vladimir Putin.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The media will sometimes get things wrong, as the Times did here. But as the court and jury found, the Times made a mistake that it corrected within hours, press freedom can't survive without breathing space for these kinds of mistakes, as the Supreme Court recognized more than half a century ago. Holding the Times liable here would have significantly reduced that breathing space and chilled press freedom.

– Katie Fallow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make no mistake, if President Biden finds the courage to do this, we would without question work with him every step of the way.

– Roger Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if Vladimir Putin does n’t relent, I believe Vladimir Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind.

– Presley Ann/Getty Images -RRB- Penn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think Biden simply doesn't believe in a powerful projection of American might and power. Biden is a quintessentially European Union-style politician who believes in endless negotiations and multilateral solutions... He's not someone who believes in the protection of hard power, and that's a fatal mistake to make when you are confronting both Beijing and Moscow because it just sends a message of weakness rather than strength.

– Nile Gardiner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What dictators like Vladimir Putin got from that was America is willing to be dependent on foreign nations for its energy, America is willing to give up our energy dominance in the world, huge mistake, huge mistake.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that’s a mistake— I think that’s a strategic mistake.

– Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Make no mistake, we will be relentless in defending our country from China.

– Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsenof

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In fact, what we did was take our own fate – which we had just won – [and] put it in the hands of other people, and that's where I think we made a mistake.

– Eli Steele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is not a cop found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin down a person for nine minutes as he gasped for air, this is not a cop found guilty of manslaughter for intentionally drawing his firearm and shooting across his partner to kill an unarmed woman as she approached his car. This is a cop who made a tragic mistake. She drew her firearm thinking it was a Taser, and ended up killing a young man.

– Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That alarms us, the person or persons involved with that change made a terrible mistake.

– Burl Cain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These viruses are always waiting to infect you, you only have to make a mistake for five minutes after a 20-year career and, you know, you've got it.

– Steven Quay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s honestly bull----, like, having people who aren’t a professional promotional company control where the money goes, we made that mistake … It’s Floyd Mayweather. Before we fought him, we were kind of willing to do whatever. Now after the fact, we’re kind of shooting ourselves in the foot because he’s a fu---ing s---bag.

– Logan Paul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a huge mistake for us to defund the police here. We don’t have enough people on the street to help us out and crime has really surged.

– Matt Stayner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've said previously that I would boycott [the Beijing Olympics]. I mean, I think it's a mistake. I mean, China is our number-one geopolitical foe. If you look at what they're doing, they're amassing huge amounts of power. And it's not just that they're building up their military, they are, they command huge influence within the United States.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the excitement after I finished, because White House was so much fun working with those kids, I took a picture -- and that was a mistake.

– African American

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I hope that people would quit accusing each other, we’re all guilty of sin. We all make mistakes. Therefore, you have no excuse to pass judgment on someone else. That’s what people do. They find a mistake you made when you were 18 years old or something you said on the internet long ago. Then they go after you with a vengeance. You’re condemning yourself by passing judgment on others. Do you think you’ll escape God’s judgment? In a culture of accusations, shame and condemnation, I’m just trying to speak out about the word of God… Just forgive each other and move on for crying out loud.

– Phil Robertson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Make no mistake: these bills are an attack on Missouri students, they have the right to learn in classrooms free from censorship.

– Paula Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Evidence will show the New York Times and James Bennet made a mistake. Evidence will also show this mistake was in no way intentional.

– David Axelrod

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Basically we're one bullet away from death, and one mistake away from indictment so why roll the dice with my future when I can go do something else ?

– Tyrone Dennis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Finally, the Ukrainian president criticized the White House in terms that were so blunt that even the Times had to report them, saying they keep supporting this theme, [Volodymyr] Zelensky said of the repeated warnings by American officials, ‘they make it as acute and burning as possible, in my opinion. This is a mistake’.

– Drew Angerer/Pool via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I said no. And that was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.

– Dominique Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He would like to stress that this did not happen out of any bad intent, but was the consequence of a mistake in the editorial processing of his statement.

– Georg Gaenswein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This whole notion that somehow it's going to be sweet and gentle and no one is ever going to be surprised... I think it's a mistake.

– Jamie Dimon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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