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Look I just read about it. We have over 500 people on our campaign. People do certain things. I'm sure that in Elizabeth's campaign, people do certain things as well. But you have heard me for months, i have never said a negative word about Elizabeth Warren who is a friend of mine. We have differences of issues, that's what the campaign is about, but no one is going to be attacking Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. – Donald Trump.The Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The whole goal was not only making the pads, but also attacking the cultural baggage to it. – Freweini Mebrahtu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions... It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory. – Sir Karl Popper	added by Normando 4 years ago
The government must end the persistent repression of dissent and the ongoing pattern of arbitrary arrests and refrain from criminalizing and attacking human rights defenders, political opponents and any other dissenting voices. – Rupert Colville	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Ambassador Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Now the President in real time is attacking United States, what effect do United States think United States has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing ? – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everyone has a different plan in this race for how we should approach this problem. But we shouldn't be attacking each other in that way, it just felt unproductive. – Matthew DeFalco	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Warm water circulation is attacking the undersides of these ice shelves at their most vulnerable points, these effects matter. – Karen Alley	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
South Africa comes down to what we have been doing every week. We always look at the previous game and see where we can improve, you do look at the other team, their attacking players and how they kick. – Siya Kolisi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is not another political bar brawl, in the Russia investigation, the president followed his signature style in attacking the special counsel and many of the witnesses. ... If the Trump team adopts the same approach for impeachment, it will put already endangered Republican senators in greater peril. – Jonathan Turley	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is an extraordinary moment. We're seeing our country turn into a banana republic. Republicans better be careful what they wish for because a Democratic president could use the same tools President Donald Trump is to turn the White House into one big extension of his reelection campaign, if that's the direction they take, attacking the whistleblower, trying to coverup this corruption, it's a really, really said day for the country. – Chris Murphy	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They are making decisions about whether and how to respond to what they see as a massive attack on their interests from the U.S. via sanctions by attacking U.S. interests in turn, and those of U.S. partners they believe are responsible for U.S. policy. – Richard Nephew	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bizarre game really, poor errors for the goals but really pleased with the composure we showed to come back from the early mistake with some devastating attacking play, the mistakes were obvious, the errors, we have to be better. The players don't really need me to tell them that. We have mentioned it. The outstanding part of our play was obvious and the errors were obvious too. – Gareth Southgate	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Its his body demeanor and the way hes attacking the defense, those guys know the difference between how a guy is going to( practice). Either were thudding up and theyre wrapping up and then when they see him start getting lower and accelerating toward them, they know, OK, hes looking to do some damage here. – Adam Gase	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We definitely do not have an aim such as attacking the mine, (what we are doing now) is civilian resistance, we thought the Canadian company might have a sense of humour so we played the guitar yesterday and took balloons to them with our kids. – Burak Ciftci	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically, the Democrats have never been so far outside the mainstream. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The idea that at the most critical moment for our party and for country, party leadership is attacking the most energetic and the most bold of us and, frankly, our present and our future, is appalling to me. – Yvette Simpson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
( Tumors) have stealthy devices ; they have ways of suppressing the immune system. At an early stage, a tumor hasn't evolved all those capabilities, so we think we have an inherent advantage by attacking very early. – Stephen Johnston	Found on CNN 4 years ago
And now, when you have Iran engaged in these provocative and belligerent acts attacking shipping, we can't find our allies anywhere, they're worried about this administration rushing to war. They don't have trust in the administration. The administration has ignored their warnings. – House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Quite frankly it's difficult to relive that moment and the passage was difficult for me to read. I was wrong to write those three sentences, i have never believed Will's attack on his mother was an act of self-defense or justified. I don't believe violence is appropriate ever, and certainly never any justification for attacking someone with a baseball bat. – Patrick Shanahan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have never believed Will's attack on his mother was an act of self-defense or justified. I don't believe violence is appropriate ever, and certainly never any justification for attacking someone with a baseball bat. – Patrick Shanahan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They are actually attacking women's reproductive rights and that is an attack on women's economic empowerment. – Yana Rodgers	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bogren was a good sacrificial lamb for this campaign, because his nomination was the product of a compromise with the Democrats, so he didn't have a Republican senator or constituency to fight for him, it's a shame, though, that Josh Hawley demagogued the issue, not only attacking Bogren for vigorously representing a client, but for wildly misrepresenting the arguments Bogren made on behalf of his client to falsely make him look like an anti-Catholic bigot. – David Bernstein	Found on CNN 4 years ago

Look I just read about it. We have over 500 people on our campaign. People do certain things. I'm sure that in Elizabeth's campaign, people do certain things as well. But you have heard me for months, i have never said a negative word about Elizabeth Warren who is a friend of mine. We have differences of issues, that's what the campaign is about, but no one is going to be attacking Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

– Donald Trump.The Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The whole goal was not only making the pads, but also attacking the cultural baggage to it.

– Freweini Mebrahtu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions... It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

– Sir Karl Popper

added by Normando
4 years ago

The government must end the persistent repression of dissent and the ongoing pattern of arbitrary arrests and refrain from criminalizing and attacking human rights defenders, political opponents and any other dissenting voices.

– Rupert Colville

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Ambassador Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Now the President in real time is attacking United States, what effect do United States think United States has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing ?

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everyone has a different plan in this race for how we should approach this problem. But we shouldn't be attacking each other in that way, it just felt unproductive.

– Matthew DeFalco

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Warm water circulation is attacking the undersides of these ice shelves at their most vulnerable points, these effects matter.

– Karen Alley

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

South Africa comes down to what we have been doing every week. We always look at the previous game and see where we can improve, you do look at the other team, their attacking players and how they kick.

– Siya Kolisi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is not another political bar brawl, in the Russia investigation, the president followed his signature style in attacking the special counsel and many of the witnesses. ... If the Trump team adopts the same approach for impeachment, it will put already endangered Republican senators in greater peril.

– Jonathan Turley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is an extraordinary moment. We're seeing our country turn into a banana republic. Republicans better be careful what they wish for because a Democratic president could use the same tools President Donald Trump is to turn the White House into one big extension of his reelection campaign, if that's the direction they take, attacking the whistleblower, trying to coverup this corruption, it's a really, really said day for the country.

– Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They are making decisions about whether and how to respond to what they see as a massive attack on their interests from the U.S. via sanctions by attacking U.S. interests in turn, and those of U.S. partners they believe are responsible for U.S. policy.

– Richard Nephew

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Bizarre game really, poor errors for the goals but really pleased with the composure we showed to come back from the early mistake with some devastating attacking play, the mistakes were obvious, the errors, we have to be better. The players don't really need me to tell them that. We have mentioned it. The outstanding part of our play was obvious and the errors were obvious too.

– Gareth Southgate

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Its his body demeanor and the way hes attacking the defense, those guys know the difference between how a guy is going to( practice). Either were thudding up and theyre wrapping up and then when they see him start getting lower and accelerating toward them, they know, OK, hes looking to do some damage here.

– Adam Gase

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We definitely do not have an aim such as attacking the mine, (what we are doing now) is civilian resistance, we thought the Canadian company might have a sense of humour so we played the guitar yesterday and took balloons to them with our kids.

– Burak Ciftci

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically, the Democrats have never been so far outside the mainstream.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The idea that at the most critical moment for our party and for country, party leadership is attacking the most energetic and the most bold of us and, frankly, our present and our future, is appalling to me.

– Yvette Simpson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( Tumors) have stealthy devices ; they have ways of suppressing the immune system. At an early stage, a tumor hasn't evolved all those capabilities, so we think we have an inherent advantage by attacking very early.

– Stephen Johnston

Found on CNN
4 years ago

And now, when you have Iran engaged in these provocative and belligerent acts attacking shipping, we can't find our allies anywhere, they're worried about this administration rushing to war. They don't have trust in the administration. The administration has ignored their warnings.

– House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Quite frankly it's difficult to relive that moment and the passage was difficult for me to read. I was wrong to write those three sentences, i have never believed Will's attack on his mother was an act of self-defense or justified. I don't believe violence is appropriate ever, and certainly never any justification for attacking someone with a baseball bat.

– Patrick Shanahan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have never believed Will's attack on his mother was an act of self-defense or justified. I don't believe violence is appropriate ever, and certainly never any justification for attacking someone with a baseball bat.

– Patrick Shanahan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They are actually attacking women's reproductive rights and that is an attack on women's economic empowerment.

– Yana Rodgers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Bogren was a good sacrificial lamb for this campaign, because his nomination was the product of a compromise with the Democrats, so he didn't have a Republican senator or constituency to fight for him, it's a shame, though, that Josh Hawley demagogued the issue, not only attacking Bogren for vigorously representing a client, but for wildly misrepresenting the arguments Bogren made on behalf of his client to falsely make him look like an anti-Catholic bigot.

– David Bernstein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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