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I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region, we do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama's effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In civil aviation, fireballs reduce the number of survivors of plane crashes after a collision. – Julia Kornfield	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Governments must draw up and enforce policies that end child marriage, and create alternatives for girls and their families, if governments and civil society organizations don't act now, the number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to 1.2 billion by 2050. – Lakshmi Sundaram	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's hard to determine who is moderate and who is not moderate, it's a very messy situation to people on both sides of that civil war who aren't necessarily our friends. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The result of this kind of action will inevitably, simply be to inflame the civil war in Syria. – Secretary Carter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
MCSO needs top-to-bottom reforms in order to instill internal accountability to the court's orders and the community's expectations that their civil rights will be vindicated. – Cecillia Wang	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe in civil disruption.I also think it’s important for bodies to be represented in a non-sexual manner, especially women’s bodies. – Even Ratajkowski	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If the software were installed for other purposes, Volkswagen would not have a defense in any civil penalty action but could in a criminal case. – David Uhlmann	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil rights problem. – Jill Soloway	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse. – Gael García Bernal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can avoid years and years of protracted civil litigation. – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene and without regard to the fiduciary responsibility owed to (taxpayers), there has been no civil litigation filed, nor has there been any guilt determined that would require such a ridiculous reaction. – Gene Ryan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If a person calls himself a civil rights activist and is anti-gun, he is a fraud. Gun rights are civil rights. – Rick Ector	added by anonymous 8 years ago
In this current day and age of global terrorism even the government can't protect every single one of us despite what they claim and how many civil liberties they trample upon during their efforts in the name of national security. Our government should instead play to our strengths - being lovers of freedom - and support and encourage us to arm ourselves from all predators regardless of their specific ideologies and aims: terrorism, racism, sociopathy, and violent crime. THAT would be REAL national security. – Rick Ector	added by anonymous 8 years ago
They were imbued with anti-communism from the Spanish civil war. They sided with the United States and supporters of the old Batista regime and so the trouble began as a political, not religious, confrontation, yes, the Castros have changed, but so has the Church, and that is why reconciliation is now possible. – Lopez Oliva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No one should ring the alarm bell that these protests will cause civil war, they (leaders) have made the institutions dysfunctional under the pretext of preserving stability but collecting garbage, providing water, electricity must not be neglected. – Gibran Araiji	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Botswana's civil registration statistics are over two decades out of date. At the same time the country is being photographed by satellite every 24 hours, these photographs could be used to understand where people are living in poverty, how crops are growing, where governments or donors need to make early interventions to avoid hunger and malnutrition. – David McNair	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Rouhani has focused on external engagement, but now will be expected to use the political capital to fulfill his other promises, hardliners in Iran have benefited, and civil society has suffered, from the standoff with the West. – Mohammadreza Jalaeipour	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What we saw a few years back, when there was civil unrest, was that people still traveled, they just perhaps stayed in Bangkok for one night instead of two or simply stayed away from those areas most affected. – Haydn Long	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am very much in favor of civil unions with full equality of benefits and I want to see that developed as we move forward. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Despite the fact the civil war ended in May 2009, torture has been ongoing in Sri Lanka in every year since, right up to the present time, as an organization we've continued to receive very high volumes of referrals of Sri Lankans and in fact, we've had a couple of cases of torture this year after the change of president. – Sonya Sceats	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s critical that universities get timely feedback so they can take proactive steps to improve campus sexual violence prevention policies, congress must do its part by approving additional funding to help the Office of Civil Rights manage its large caseload. – Tim Kaine -LRB- D-VA -RRB-	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The media gives us such a beating. Right now we're going through all the brouhaha over the Confederate Flag and refighting the Civil War, the notion that we're all toting our sheet and white top hat and stuff is so wrong, and I'm hoping that's what people will see. – Jodi McDade	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not just about, I fought for civil rights and I protested and I sat at the lunch counters, that is important and that is great, but that was 50 years ago. And he has a lot more to stand on than what he did 50 years ago. – Symone Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago

I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region, we do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama's effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In civil aviation, fireballs reduce the number of survivors of plane crashes after a collision.

– Julia Kornfield

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Governments must draw up and enforce policies that end child marriage, and create alternatives for girls and their families, if governments and civil society organizations don't act now, the number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to 1.2 billion by 2050.

– Lakshmi Sundaram

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's hard to determine who is moderate and who is not moderate, it's a very messy situation to people on both sides of that civil war who aren't necessarily our friends.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The result of this kind of action will inevitably, simply be to inflame the civil war in Syria.

– Secretary Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

MCSO needs top-to-bottom reforms in order to instill internal accountability to the court's orders and the community's expectations that their civil rights will be vindicated.

– Cecillia Wang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe in civil disruption.I also think it’s important for bodies to be represented in a non-sexual manner, especially women’s bodies.

– Even Ratajkowski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If the software were installed for other purposes, Volkswagen would not have a defense in any civil penalty action but could in a criminal case.

– David Uhlmann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil rights problem.

– Jill Soloway

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse.

– Gael García Bernal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can avoid years and years of protracted civil litigation.

– Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene and without regard to the fiduciary responsibility owed to (taxpayers), there has been no civil litigation filed, nor has there been any guilt determined that would require such a ridiculous reaction.

– Gene Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If a person calls himself a civil rights activist and is anti-gun, he is a fraud. Gun rights are civil rights.

– Rick Ector

added by anonymous
8 years ago

In this current day and age of global terrorism even the government can't protect every single one of us despite what they claim and how many civil liberties they trample upon during their efforts in the name of national security. Our government should instead play to our strengths - being lovers of freedom - and support and encourage us to arm ourselves from all predators regardless of their specific ideologies and aims: terrorism, racism, sociopathy, and violent crime. THAT would be REAL national security.

– Rick Ector

added by anonymous
8 years ago

They were imbued with anti-communism from the Spanish civil war. They sided with the United States and supporters of the old Batista regime and so the trouble began as a political, not religious, confrontation, yes, the Castros have changed, but so has the Church, and that is why reconciliation is now possible.

– Lopez Oliva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one should ring the alarm bell that these protests will cause civil war, they (leaders) have made the institutions dysfunctional under the pretext of preserving stability but collecting garbage, providing water, electricity must not be neglected.

– Gibran Araiji

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Botswana's civil registration statistics are over two decades out of date. At the same time the country is being photographed by satellite every 24 hours, these photographs could be used to understand where people are living in poverty, how crops are growing, where governments or donors need to make early interventions to avoid hunger and malnutrition.

– David McNair

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rouhani has focused on external engagement, but now will be expected to use the political capital to fulfill his other promises, hardliners in Iran have benefited, and civil society has suffered, from the standoff with the West.

– Mohammadreza Jalaeipour

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we saw a few years back, when there was civil unrest, was that people still traveled, they just perhaps stayed in Bangkok for one night instead of two or simply stayed away from those areas most affected.

– Haydn Long

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am very much in favor of civil unions with full equality of benefits and I want to see that developed as we move forward.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Despite the fact the civil war ended in May 2009, torture has been ongoing in Sri Lanka in every year since, right up to the present time, as an organization we've continued to receive very high volumes of referrals of Sri Lankans and in fact, we've had a couple of cases of torture this year after the change of president.

– Sonya Sceats

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s critical that universities get timely feedback so they can take proactive steps to improve campus sexual violence prevention policies, congress must do its part by approving additional funding to help the Office of Civil Rights manage its large caseload.

– Tim Kaine -LRB- D-VA -RRB-

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The media gives us such a beating. Right now we're going through all the brouhaha over the Confederate Flag and refighting the Civil War, the notion that we're all toting our sheet and white top hat and stuff is so wrong, and I'm hoping that's what people will see.

– Jodi McDade

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not just about, I fought for civil rights and I protested and I sat at the lunch counters, that is important and that is great, but that was 50 years ago. And he has a lot more to stand on than what he did 50 years ago.

– Symone Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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