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Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice. – Stacey Plaskett	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I will continue to tirelessly defend the integrity and security of our elections and hold accountable those who shirk established election law for their own convenience. – Ken Paxton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've seen a lot of people really shirk our responsibility to having an intellectual, honest debate about conservative policy position. And instead focus on, you know, getting as many liberals mad as they possibly can. – Christopher Trzaska	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention. – Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may. – Mark Twain	added by Normando 4 years ago
I loaned my campaign money because we were in a startup phase. As the campaign pays me back, I’m applying those dollars to take care of my debt to my obligations, managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations. – Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations. – Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
One gets the impression that lawmakers are like lazy schoolchildren who shirk their work. – Nadiya Savchenko	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
These efforts to shirk U.S. tax obligations leave American taxpayers holding the bag while corporations juice more revenues and profits , i have a detailed and targeted plan to immediately put a stop to inversions and invest in the U.S., block deals like Johnson Controls and Tyco, and place an 'exit tax' on corporations that leave the country to lower their tax bill. – Hillary Clinton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm responsible. I don't shirk that responsibility. – Rahm Emanuel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Put simply, we will continue to exercise freedom of the seas for all nations, because we know from painful past experience, to shirk this responsibility and obligation, puts much more at risk than any one nation's maritime interests. – Scott Swift	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.

– Stacey Plaskett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I will continue to tirelessly defend the integrity and security of our elections and hold accountable those who shirk established election law for their own convenience.

– Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've seen a lot of people really shirk our responsibility to having an intellectual, honest debate about conservative policy position. And instead focus on, you know, getting as many liberals mad as they possibly can.

– Christopher Trzaska

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention.

– Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

– Mark Twain

added by Normando
4 years ago

I loaned my campaign money because we were in a startup phase. As the campaign pays me back, I’m applying those dollars to take care of my debt to my obligations, managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.

– Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.

– Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

One gets the impression that lawmakers are like lazy schoolchildren who shirk their work.

– Nadiya Savchenko

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These efforts to shirk U.S. tax obligations leave American taxpayers holding the bag while corporations juice more revenues and profits , i have a detailed and targeted plan to immediately put a stop to inversions and invest in the U.S., block deals like Johnson Controls and Tyco, and place an 'exit tax' on corporations that leave the country to lower their tax bill.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm responsible. I don't shirk that responsibility.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Put simply, we will continue to exercise freedom of the seas for all nations, because we know from painful past experience, to shirk this responsibility and obligation, puts much more at risk than any one nation's maritime interests.

– Scott Swift

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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