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This could be 1965. We're looking at another Cold War. We're discussing women's reproductive rights. We've got tension between different demographic groups, it didn't really occur to me before I was running for this seat that we'd be talking about things as basic as democracy and civility and respectfulness. – Mary Peltola	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns. – Georges Benjamin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns. – Georges Benjamin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Justice( Stephen) Breyer not only gave me the greatest job that any young lawyer could ever hope to have, but Justice Breyer also exemplifies what it means to be a Supreme Court justice of the highest level of skill and integrity, civility, and grace, it is extremely humbling to be considered for Justice Breyer's seat, and I know that I could never fill Justice Breyer shoes. – Ketanji Brown Jacksons hearing	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently many of the students missed this lesson. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I will treat Judge Jackson with fairness and civility, a basic standard of decency that many Democrats appallingly refused to extend to the Supreme Court nominees under the previous administration. – Thom Tillis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I also believe we need more civility in our politics, and North Carolina deserves representatives in Washington who use their positions to make people's lives better, not to advance polarizing positions that embarrass our state and stand in the way of real progress. – Clay Aiken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is tragically wrong to deny a ministry its day in court when it is publicly maligned, the 1964 Sullivan ruling was intended to protect national media when there was no public internet or social media. This is the perfect moment for the Court to reconsider that legal standard in light of today’s technology. Greater accountability will increase civility and journalistic integrity. – David Gibbs III	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then Georges Benjamin couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing Georges Benjamin job, losing resources, fear for Georges Benjamin health, more guns. – Georges Benjamin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's one last thing that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is The Queen, and so I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. ... I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what The Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important. – Michelle Obama	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Joe and Cindy McCain would argue about issues and they would see things totally differently. But at the end of Election Day, there we would be together having dinner or going on a trip together or whatever it was, i mean there was true civility in government. And that's what I think we should return to. – Jill Biden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When the jamaican rastaman meets you-puts his hand on his chest, bows and says-respect- this is a dignified greeting- he extends to you even without knowing you. He is showing you that he comes in peace, and love. It is then, for you to extend the same. This is civility and humanity. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 3 years ago
The matrimony of morality and laws is the ark of Western civilization. What we are witnessing is the tragic divorce of civility and humanity that results from discord between the two. – Kimano M. Edwards	added by Da1ofakind 3 years ago
All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency. – Mick Fleetwood	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. – Emmylou Harris	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Speaker Pelosi's actions last night were appalling and shameful. Regardless of Speaker Pelosi personal feelings, Speaker Pelosi had a responsibility to conduct Speaker Pelosi with civility as the presiding officer representing the House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi is not the Speaker of the Democrats, but of the People's House. – Kay Granger	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Some of these deserve immediate banning, if these don't cross some line of civility, what does ? – Timothy Caulfield	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we're going to bring civility back to the center of our politics, we must speak out against ... inflammatory rhetoric from anyone in any party anytime it happens. – Fred Upton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we're going to bring civility back to the center of our politics, we must speak out against inflammatory rhetoric from anyone in any party anytime it happens. America embraces diversity, and that must continue. – Fred Upton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reality is you have people in this country that need help, you also have health care costs in this country which have gone up because ObamaCare is absolutely a disaster. SPIT ATTACK ON ERIC TRUMP REPUGNANT, CHICAGOS DEM MAYOR SAYS IN CALL FOR CIVILITY. – Eric Trump	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was in a caucus with James Eastland. James Eastland never called me' boy,' James Eastland always called me' son,' well, guess what ? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago
For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility. When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we're winning. – Eric Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
At least there was some civility. We got things done, we didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished... But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, guess what ? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. – Vice President Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago

This could be 1965. We're looking at another Cold War. We're discussing women's reproductive rights. We've got tension between different demographic groups, it didn't really occur to me before I was running for this seat that we'd be talking about things as basic as democracy and civility and respectfulness.

– Mary Peltola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns.

– Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then you couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing your job, losing resources, fear for your health, more guns.

– Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Justice( Stephen) Breyer not only gave me the greatest job that any young lawyer could ever hope to have, but Justice Breyer also exemplifies what it means to be a Supreme Court justice of the highest level of skill and integrity, civility, and grace, it is extremely humbling to be considered for Justice Breyer's seat, and I know that I could never fill Justice Breyer shoes.

– Ketanji Brown Jacksons hearing

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently many of the students missed this lesson.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will treat Judge Jackson with fairness and civility, a basic standard of decency that many Democrats appallingly refused to extend to the Supreme Court nominees under the previous administration.

– Thom Tillis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I also believe we need more civility in our politics, and North Carolina deserves representatives in Washington who use their positions to make people's lives better, not to advance polarizing positions that embarrass our state and stand in the way of real progress.

– Clay Aiken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is tragically wrong to deny a ministry its day in court when it is publicly maligned, the 1964 Sullivan ruling was intended to protect national media when there was no public internet or social media. This is the perfect moment for the Court to reconsider that legal standard in light of today’s technology. Greater accountability will increase civility and journalistic integrity.

– David Gibbs III

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're literally seeing it in front of our eyes -- at school board meetings and public events, people seem to have lost all civility, and then Georges Benjamin couple that with having to stay home, and being stressed from that, losing Georges Benjamin job, losing resources, fear for Georges Benjamin health, more guns.

– Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's one last thing that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is The Queen, and so I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. ... I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what The Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important.

– Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Joe and Cindy McCain would argue about issues and they would see things totally differently. But at the end of Election Day, there we would be together having dinner or going on a trip together or whatever it was, i mean there was true civility in government. And that's what I think we should return to.

– Jill Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When the jamaican rastaman meets you-puts his hand on his chest, bows and says-respect- this is a dignified greeting- he extends to you even without knowing you. He is showing you that he comes in peace, and love. It is then, for you to extend the same. This is civility and humanity.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The matrimony of morality and laws is the ark of Western civilization. What we are witnessing is the tragic divorce of civility and humanity that results from discord between the two.

– Kimano M. Edwards

added by Da1ofakind
3 years ago

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

– Mick Fleetwood

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

– Emmylou Harris

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Speaker Pelosi's actions last night were appalling and shameful. Regardless of Speaker Pelosi personal feelings, Speaker Pelosi had a responsibility to conduct Speaker Pelosi with civility as the presiding officer representing the House of Representatives. Speaker Pelosi is not the Speaker of the Democrats, but of the People's House.

– Kay Granger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Some of these deserve immediate banning, if these don't cross some line of civility, what does ?

– Timothy Caulfield

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If we're going to bring civility back to the center of our politics, we must speak out against ... inflammatory rhetoric from anyone in any party anytime it happens.

– Fred Upton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we're going to bring civility back to the center of our politics, we must speak out against inflammatory rhetoric from anyone in any party anytime it happens. America embraces diversity, and that must continue.

– Fred Upton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The reality is you have people in this country that need help, you also have health care costs in this country which have gone up because ObamaCare is absolutely a disaster. SPIT ATTACK ON ERIC TRUMP REPUGNANT, CHICAGOS DEM MAYOR SAYS IN CALL FOR CIVILITY.

– Eric Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I was in a caucus with James Eastland. James Eastland never called me' boy,' James Eastland always called me' son,' well, guess what ? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility. When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we're winning.

– Eric Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At least there was some civility. We got things done, we didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished... But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well, guess what ? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished.

– Vice President Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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