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Three weeks ago, John McCain was attacking Donald Trump. – Ted Cruz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I recognize that there was an attack press release that was put out by a bunch of lobbyists and Democrats attacking me, and I know this is a shocking position for you that a group of lobbyists and Democrats who me say something that is not true. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This (investigation) looks like part of the attack against Overgas, instead of attacking Gazprom Export for not delivering on its contract, the government was content to criticise a Bulgarian company for failing to alert the state earlier. – Ilian Vassilev	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Just about every candidate in the Republican field is attacking me, I guess something has changed. – Iowa Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think it's surprising that he's attacking me and that other candidates in the field are attacking me. Right now, we're winning. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They will not achieve anything by attacking my record, which is known; I love my country and I'm honest, i will fight against the illegitimate interruption of my mandate using all the tools that the rule of law gives me. – President Dilma Rousseff	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'd doubt his strategy was as much to go in attacking Trump as it was to impress upon viewers and the other candidates that these are serious times and serious issues, and we need a serious candidate to lead our country. – Malachi Boyuls	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I do not think we need to send in large numbers of troops because it has quagmire written all over it, i know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. – Josh Cain	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole. – Josh Cain	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They have not said anything here about attacking America or being a threat to U.S. national security, my guess is they were trying to join ISIS to do something for Syria. – Taher Herzallaj	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As the Islamic State changes its focus from consolidating control of territory to attacking its foreign enemies in their own homelands, or their interests elsewhere, the profile of its foreign recruits will also change, the Syrian civil war will not end soon. – Richard Barrett	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're not going to have the kind of language that you heard from John Kerry where he talked about legitimizing or rationalizing terrorist actions, there's no legitimizing, there's no rationalizing. It was mass murder. It was absolutely unfathomable. And there's no excuse for killing other people, whether it's happening inside the Planned Parenthood headquarters, inside their clinics where many millions of babies die, or whether it's people attacking Planned Parenthood. – Mike Huckabee	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Like any mother, she doesn't want to see the execution of her son over and over again on YouTube and television. It's graphic, it's disturbing, and it's crystal clear that Laquan was not attacking or lunging at any police officer. – Jeffrey Neslund	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No one’s ever really won by threatening a reporter, attack back with facts, not with a personal vendetta, because a CEO is changing the story by attacking the reporter. He’s making it personal and taking the focus off of the company. – Martha Steffens	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Looking back, the whole of 2014 was a huge success as we only had two ships in difficulty - one in the U.S. and one in Morocco ... We managed to finish the year (2014) with only one month of salaries behind, that was a pretty extraordinary achievement as we had ISIS attacking our soil, over a million of Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqis. All of that burden came and we hadn’t seen a cent from Baghdad. – Ashti Hawrami	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not surprising that President Obama is attacking me personally, i'll tell you what is shameful is that we have a President that after 7 years still refuses to utter the words radical Islamic terrorism. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They were attacking her for being too close to Wall Street, the point she was making, is that as a senator, she did things for Wall Street, particularly after 9/11, but she also spoke out as a senator and now when she thought they were going too far. – Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
ISIS is making it very clear that it will attack Russia, specifically Moscow, and a failure to do so will be a big blow to their prestige, we should assume they'll succeed because bombing a Russian airliner over Egypt is more difficult than attacking a random target inside Russia because ISIS only needs a small group of supporters among the 15 percent of the Russian population that is Muslim. – Ryan Mauro	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
As far as I know, the Shan groups are attacking the bases of the army and fighting each other. – Zaw Htay	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One protester, an Indian national, who was attacking the police post with the petrol bomb was killed in the firing. – Raju Babu Shrestha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The only reason you are doing it now is because we're running for the same position and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, it’s not. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

Three weeks ago, John McCain was attacking Donald Trump.

– Ted Cruz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I recognize that there was an attack press release that was put out by a bunch of lobbyists and Democrats attacking me, and I know this is a shocking position for you that a group of lobbyists and Democrats who me say something that is not true.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This (investigation) looks like part of the attack against Overgas, instead of attacking Gazprom Export for not delivering on its contract, the government was content to criticise a Bulgarian company for failing to alert the state earlier.

– Ilian Vassilev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Just about every candidate in the Republican field is attacking me, I guess something has changed.

– Iowa Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't think it's surprising that he's attacking me and that other candidates in the field are attacking me. Right now, we're winning.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They will not achieve anything by attacking my record, which is known; I love my country and I'm honest, i will fight against the illegitimate interruption of my mandate using all the tools that the rule of law gives me.

– President Dilma Rousseff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'd doubt his strategy was as much to go in attacking Trump as it was to impress upon viewers and the other candidates that these are serious times and serious issues, and we need a serious candidate to lead our country.

– Malachi Boyuls

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I do not think we need to send in large numbers of troops because it has quagmire written all over it, i know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need.

– Josh Cain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole.

– Josh Cain

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They have not said anything here about attacking America or being a threat to U.S. national security, my guess is they were trying to join ISIS to do something for Syria.

– Taher Herzallaj

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As the Islamic State changes its focus from consolidating control of territory to attacking its foreign enemies in their own homelands, or their interests elsewhere, the profile of its foreign recruits will also change, the Syrian civil war will not end soon.

– Richard Barrett

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're not going to have the kind of language that you heard from John Kerry where he talked about legitimizing or rationalizing terrorist actions, there's no legitimizing, there's no rationalizing. It was mass murder. It was absolutely unfathomable. And there's no excuse for killing other people, whether it's happening inside the Planned Parenthood headquarters, inside their clinics where many millions of babies die, or whether it's people attacking Planned Parenthood.

– Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Like any mother, she doesn't want to see the execution of her son over and over again on YouTube and television. It's graphic, it's disturbing, and it's crystal clear that Laquan was not attacking or lunging at any police officer.

– Jeffrey Neslund

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one’s ever really won by threatening a reporter, attack back with facts, not with a personal vendetta, because a CEO is changing the story by attacking the reporter. He’s making it personal and taking the focus off of the company.

– Martha Steffens

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Looking back, the whole of 2014 was a huge success as we only had two ships in difficulty - one in the U.S. and one in Morocco ... We managed to finish the year (2014) with only one month of salaries behind, that was a pretty extraordinary achievement as we had ISIS attacking our soil, over a million of Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqis. All of that burden came and we hadn’t seen a cent from Baghdad.

– Ashti Hawrami

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not surprising that President Obama is attacking me personally, i'll tell you what is shameful is that we have a President that after 7 years still refuses to utter the words radical Islamic terrorism.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They were attacking her for being too close to Wall Street, the point she was making, is that as a senator, she did things for Wall Street, particularly after 9/11, but she also spoke out as a senator and now when she thought they were going too far.

– Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ISIS is making it very clear that it will attack Russia, specifically Moscow, and a failure to do so will be a big blow to their prestige, we should assume they'll succeed because bombing a Russian airliner over Egypt is more difficult than attacking a random target inside Russia because ISIS only needs a small group of supporters among the 15 percent of the Russian population that is Muslim.

– Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As far as I know, the Shan groups are attacking the bases of the army and fighting each other.

– Zaw Htay

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One protester, an Indian national, who was attacking the police post with the petrol bomb was killed in the firing.

– Raju Babu Shrestha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only reason you are doing it now is because we're running for the same position and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, it’s not.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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