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But despite the horrific attacks, the reasons against a large-scale land invasion by U.S. and NATO forces against ISIS in Iraq and Syria remain, such an invasion will deepen the extremist narrative of clash of civilization between the West and Muslims, will insert our militaries into a deep, nasty, and unwinnable civil war, and the invading force will eventually be responsible for reconstructing a semblance of order and governance in (a) chaotic region infected with sectarian divisions. – David Schanzer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not a coincidence that immediately prior to the civil war in Syria, the country experienced its worst drought on record. As many as 1.5 million people migrated from Syria's farms to its cities, intensifying the political unrest that was just beginning to roil and boil in the region. – State John Kerry	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You know what, look I’ve been called all kinds of things, Whoopi… I’ve been called a bimbo from the time I was a secretary to the time I was a CEO. I think we need to be able to have civil conversations in this country about our differences… so I'd just like to have a conversation about where we agree and where we disagree. – Carly Fiorina	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Doug's dramatic act of aerial civil disobedience was a cry that our democracy is in peril unless ordinary citizens feel free to speak up and have their voices heard by their government. – Mark Goldstone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Whoopi Goldberg -- who said know what, look I’ve been called all kinds of things, Whoopi … I’ve been called a bimbo from the time I was a secretary to the time I was a CEO. I think we need to be able to have civil conversations in this country about our differences … so I'd just like to have a conversation about where we agree and where we disagree. – Carly Fiorina	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world, yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram, it's now believed that drought, crop failures, and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
President Obama has made a very strong and forceful and simple decision entirely in keeping with his originally stated policy that we must defeat and destroy Daesh, it is not a decision to enter into Syria's civil war. It is not an action focused on (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, it focused exclusively on Daesh and in augmenting our ability to rapidly attack Daesh. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is not a decision to enter into Syria's civil war. It is not an action focused on (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, it focused exclusively on Daesh and in augmenting our ability to rapidly attack Daesh. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's not a rude person and (the Bushes) weren't raised to be rude. You have to be civil, he's a thinker and a doer. He doesn't mouth off. – Pat Bell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think Obama wants to be involved in a civil war. – Robert Ford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The man put his life on the line and the life of his family on the line to do work that was illegal at the time, we can look back and say that our system was wrong. He was not wrong, he was practicing civil disobedience. – Robin Krawitz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have seen some press reporting to that end, we have seen some Syrian civil society groups say that, i would tell you that we have other operational information that leads us to believe that Russian targeting has not only not been focused on ISIL( Islamic State) but has, in fact, caused collateral damage and some civilian casualties, to include some civil infrastructure. – State Department spokesman John Kirby	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After 31 years as civil servant, 18 of which as Gaming Inspection Bureau director, I believe it's time to take a break and spend more time with my family. – Manuel Neves	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If parliament is not put to work, Turkey could be driven rapidly towards civil war, the conflict we will experience in Turkey, the level of chaos, could reach the level in Syria. – Idris Baluken	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe in serious debates on serious issues. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Maybe I shouldn't say this: I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Hillary Clinton, will the media, among others, allow us to have a civil debate on civil issues? Or is the only way you get media attention by ripping apart somebody else? – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Had there not been Russian intervention, the civil war perhaps would have ended earlier, with the destruction of the Syrian army and the government, and total control of ISIS over the whole territory. – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it' s overdue telling this story, I think it's taken 100 years to tell this story, which seems crazy because it is the story of our basic civil rights, all these conversations that are happening about the gender pay gap and woman's rights and woman's issues are overdue as well. It all seems to be coming to a head at the same time, which is fortuitous. – Carey Mulligan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Business people were threatened that there would be a tribunal to prosecute them, civil war will break out, it must break out. – Hun Sen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I was, i take it to mean, was I ever arrested by the police. When I was young, I was involved in a civil rights demonstration. – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
All the recommendations from the ICAO( International Civil Aviation Organization) were carried out... Ukraine closed its airspace below 9,750 metres( 32,000 feet). – Hennadiy Zubko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All the recommendations from the ICAO( International Civil Aviation Organization) were carried out... Ukraine closed its airspace below 9,750 meters( 32,000 feet). – Hennadiy Zubko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was an unbelievable character to play, but there was a cause to this, his civil liberties were at risk and a black mark in our country's history is that they were overwriting those hard fought freedoms. – Bryan Cranston	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest, it established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief. – Nobel Committee	Found on CNN 8 years ago

But despite the horrific attacks, the reasons against a large-scale land invasion by U.S. and NATO forces against ISIS in Iraq and Syria remain, such an invasion will deepen the extremist narrative of clash of civilization between the West and Muslims, will insert our militaries into a deep, nasty, and unwinnable civil war, and the invading force will eventually be responsible for reconstructing a semblance of order and governance in (a) chaotic region infected with sectarian divisions.

– David Schanzer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not a coincidence that immediately prior to the civil war in Syria, the country experienced its worst drought on record. As many as 1.5 million people migrated from Syria's farms to its cities, intensifying the political unrest that was just beginning to roil and boil in the region.

– State John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You know what, look I’ve been called all kinds of things, Whoopi… I’ve been called a bimbo from the time I was a secretary to the time I was a CEO. I think we need to be able to have civil conversations in this country about our differences… so I'd just like to have a conversation about where we agree and where we disagree.

– Carly Fiorina

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Doug's dramatic act of aerial civil disobedience was a cry that our democracy is in peril unless ordinary citizens feel free to speak up and have their voices heard by their government.

– Mark Goldstone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whoopi Goldberg -- who said know what, look I’ve been called all kinds of things, Whoopi … I’ve been called a bimbo from the time I was a secretary to the time I was a CEO. I think we need to be able to have civil conversations in this country about our differences … so I'd just like to have a conversation about where we agree and where we disagree.

– Carly Fiorina

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world, yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram, it's now believed that drought, crop failures, and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

President Obama has made a very strong and forceful and simple decision entirely in keeping with his originally stated policy that we must defeat and destroy Daesh, it is not a decision to enter into Syria's civil war. It is not an action focused on (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, it focused exclusively on Daesh and in augmenting our ability to rapidly attack Daesh.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is not a decision to enter into Syria's civil war. It is not an action focused on (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, it focused exclusively on Daesh and in augmenting our ability to rapidly attack Daesh.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's not a rude person and (the Bushes) weren't raised to be rude. You have to be civil, he's a thinker and a doer. He doesn't mouth off.

– Pat Bell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't think Obama wants to be involved in a civil war.

– Robert Ford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The man put his life on the line and the life of his family on the line to do work that was illegal at the time, we can look back and say that our system was wrong. He was not wrong, he was practicing civil disobedience.

– Robin Krawitz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have seen some press reporting to that end, we have seen some Syrian civil society groups say that, i would tell you that we have other operational information that leads us to believe that Russian targeting has not only not been focused on ISIL( Islamic State) but has, in fact, caused collateral damage and some civilian casualties, to include some civil infrastructure.

– State Department spokesman John Kirby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After 31 years as civil servant, 18 of which as Gaming Inspection Bureau director, I believe it's time to take a break and spend more time with my family.

– Manuel Neves

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If parliament is not put to work, Turkey could be driven rapidly towards civil war, the conflict we will experience in Turkey, the level of chaos, could reach the level in Syria.

– Idris Baluken

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe in serious debates on serious issues. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Maybe I shouldn't say this: I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Hillary Clinton, will the media, among others, allow us to have a civil debate on civil issues? Or is the only way you get media attention by ripping apart somebody else?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Had there not been Russian intervention, the civil war perhaps would have ended earlier, with the destruction of the Syrian army and the government, and total control of ISIS over the whole territory.

– Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it' s overdue telling this story, I think it's taken 100 years to tell this story, which seems crazy because it is the story of our basic civil rights, all these conversations that are happening about the gender pay gap and woman's rights and woman's issues are overdue as well. It all seems to be coming to a head at the same time, which is fortuitous.

– Carey Mulligan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Business people were threatened that there would be a tribunal to prosecute them, civil war will break out, it must break out.

– Hun Sen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I was, i take it to mean, was I ever arrested by the police. When I was young, I was involved in a civil rights demonstration.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All the recommendations from the ICAO( International Civil Aviation Organization) were carried out... Ukraine closed its airspace below 9,750 metres( 32,000 feet).

– Hennadiy Zubko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All the recommendations from the ICAO( International Civil Aviation Organization) were carried out... Ukraine closed its airspace below 9,750 meters( 32,000 feet).

– Hennadiy Zubko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was an unbelievable character to play, but there was a cause to this, his civil liberties were at risk and a black mark in our country's history is that they were overwriting those hard fought freedoms.

– Bryan Cranston

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest, it established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief.

– Nobel Committee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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