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Any time you impose sanctions, you impose great costs on the target -- but you also have the risk of blowback harms on yourself and on your friends and allies. – Nathan Sales	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I knew when I embarked on this path that there could be blowback, i'm speculating, but if in fact this demotion is the result of blowback, I'm completely at peace with it. I did the right thing. I'm proud of it. I slept great last night. – Neil Chatterjee	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To what extent has Israel's success at going after Quds Force provided President Trump with the confidence that he could do that too and handle the blowback ? if the Israelis can do it, why can't we ? – Mark Dubowitz	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the Warrant Service Officer( WSO) program, as it is called, sheriffs deputies would receive one day of training. Unlike the more involved 287( g) ICE program, deputies would not interview a detainee to ascertain his or her citizenship and immigration status. Instead, they essentially would file a federal warrant, directing the local jail to hold a criminal alien for 48 hours after the scheduled release until an ICE agent shows up to take custody. It is cheaper and may allow sheriffs to act without violating sanctuary laws. Expect blowback and scrutiny from opponents. This program is just the latest scheme by ICE to enlist local police in its abusive deportation agenda, the agency explicitly aims to subvert the will of local communities that have passed ordinances to prevent exactly this kind of cooperation between police and ICE. – Lorella Praeli	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They might be getting a lot of blowback from some folks, I don't know, but I don't think they're getting uncomfortable with it. – Herman Cain	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback. – Jeetendr Sehdev	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Part of the blowback with connecting mental illness to mass shootings is the fear that mentally ill people will be stigmatized, that’s what we try to be careful with, most of the people with serious mental illness are not violent. – Grant Duwe	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
So we have to make sure that we move in a decisive way, but at a measured pace and according to our capacity, and ensuring that the blowback is manageable. – Sartaj Aziz	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The likely target here is instead the HDP. By striking hard at the PKK, the Turkish government is pressuring the HDP to pick a side, either it denounces PKK to end violence, risking political blowback among its Kurdish base, or it adopts a more pro-Kurdish rhetoric, risking the ire of the Turkish public as well as the judiciary, which has a long history of banning Kurdish parties and politicians. – Erik Meyersson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Any time you impose sanctions, you impose great costs on the target -- but you also have the risk of blowback harms on yourself and on your friends and allies.

– Nathan Sales

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I knew when I embarked on this path that there could be blowback, i'm speculating, but if in fact this demotion is the result of blowback, I'm completely at peace with it. I did the right thing. I'm proud of it. I slept great last night.

– Neil Chatterjee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To what extent has Israel's success at going after Quds Force provided President Trump with the confidence that he could do that too and handle the blowback ? if the Israelis can do it, why can't we ?

– Mark Dubowitz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the Warrant Service Officer( WSO) program, as it is called, sheriffs deputies would receive one day of training. Unlike the more involved 287( g) ICE program, deputies would not interview a detainee to ascertain his or her citizenship and immigration status. Instead, they essentially would file a federal warrant, directing the local jail to hold a criminal alien for 48 hours after the scheduled release until an ICE agent shows up to take custody. It is cheaper and may allow sheriffs to act without violating sanctuary laws. Expect blowback and scrutiny from opponents. This program is just the latest scheme by ICE to enlist local police in its abusive deportation agenda, the agency explicitly aims to subvert the will of local communities that have passed ordinances to prevent exactly this kind of cooperation between police and ICE.

– Lorella Praeli

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They might be getting a lot of blowback from some folks, I don't know, but I don't think they're getting uncomfortable with it.

– Herman Cain

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

– Jeetendr Sehdev

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Part of the blowback with connecting mental illness to mass shootings is the fear that mentally ill people will be stigmatized, that’s what we try to be careful with, most of the people with serious mental illness are not violent.

– Grant Duwe

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

So we have to make sure that we move in a decisive way, but at a measured pace and according to our capacity, and ensuring that the blowback is manageable.

– Sartaj Aziz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The likely target here is instead the HDP. By striking hard at the PKK, the Turkish government is pressuring the HDP to pick a side, either it denounces PKK to end violence, risking political blowback among its Kurdish base, or it adopts a more pro-Kurdish rhetoric, risking the ire of the Turkish public as well as the judiciary, which has a long history of banning Kurdish parties and politicians.

– Erik Meyersson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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