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We wanted to be irreverent, not necessarily confrontational. – Luis Aceituno	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
This generation of politicians have been socialized through the crucible of Black Lives Matter and the [Donald] Trump era and political polarization, so it’s not surprising that they are usually going to be confrontational. – Andra Gillespie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Bush was n’t temperamentally confrontational, he was n’t looking for a fight in Congress, but this was something he felt was important, and if it required him … to lean against the winds, he was certainly willing to do that. – Pete Wehner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I think we can say is that is indicative of the perhaps more confrontational nature of police-public encounters with people of color, people of color experience policing differently than majorities ... that speaks to maybe an unequal protection. – Ken Novak	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With the U.S. embrace of great power competition, it’s ironic that the U.S. will be ceding the field in Afghanistan to the Chinese who will inevitably flow into the Afghan vacuum left by the U.S. departure. No one should have missed the explicit message sent by the Chinese in the recent warm and celebratory welcome of Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Beijing. That welcome appeared in stark contrast to the cold and confrontational reception of the American envoy, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. – Marine Gen. John Allen	added by MoWali 2 years ago
Muhammad Ali used Muhammad Ali tongue to lacerate racism and White supremacy and oppression in America, muhammad Ali became more militant, not less. Muhammad Ali became more assertive, not less. Muhammad Ali became more confrontational, not less. – Todd Boyd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Government, even under Reagan or either Bush, was a larger entity doing a lot more things than government in either one of those two situations, to see it as tremendously radical is an overstatement. You can see that in fact from some of the real progressives in the Democratic party who are not necessarily happy that Biden isn’t going further and being much more confrontational. – Brooks Simpson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Confrontational does not mean violence, i’m a not violent person. Martin Luther King taught non-violence. We must be about resisting, however. And we must be about educating and we must be about trying to protect our children. – Maxine Waters	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is, however, irresponsible to take Chair Waters’ remarks out of context to just hold a ‘gotcha,’ partisan vote, if ‘confrontation’ is subject to sanction, then we’re going to have a lot of people on your side who we believe are confrontational every day. – Steny Hoyer	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business. – Congresswoman Waters	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think what she said in any way we should criticize her for. Ofcourse we should be more confrontational, that doesn't mean we should be more violent ... The Republicans seem to me to be on the complete wrong side of history on this. – Matthew Dowd	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We got to stay on the street. And we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business. – Maxine Waters	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Iwill not let someone like a Tlaib or aMaxine Waters paint our profession with a broad brush. Are you aware of what the other U.S.rep said asrecent as yesterday? You know what she said in response to Brooklyn Center? ... Get more confrontational, iwas the first chief in the nation thatcame out and denounced the murderous cop who killed George Floyd. – Detroit Police Chief James Craig	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that theyknow that we mean business. – Taylor Greenecalled Waters	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is certainly not a confrontational relationship between me and the President, as I've mentioned many times, I give advice and opinion based (on) evidence-based scientific information. He hears that. He respects it. He gets opinions from a variety of other people. But in no way, in my experience over the last several months, has there been any confrontational relationship between us. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago
She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour, she tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I'm surprisingly non-confrontational -- you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It's awkward, and I don't like it. – Taylor Swift	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is an expression of the North's frustration over stalled talks with the United States. It is a message that it could return to the previous confrontational mode if there is no breakthrough in the stalemate. – Yang Uk	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Nobody has ever pretended this will be easy. I have always said this negotiation will be tough, complex and at times confrontational. – Brexit Secretary Davis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He is reckless, he's ruthless, he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach and I think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with the United States. – Marco Rubio	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is a confrontational moment and I would expect full speed ahead escalation. – Michael McCarthy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth, we continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private (and less confrontational) spaces to communicate. – Nic Newman	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private (and less confrontational) spaces to communicate. – Nic Newman	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People in this movement allow for confronting, jostling, committing low-level types of offenses, but there has been for some time a core that have tipped the movement to confrontational violence, the hardest edge in the Antifa spectrum comes under that category...not all Antifa are busting heads. – Brian Levin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The South Korean left has been more accommodating of North Korea, more willing to engage. The South Korean right has been more hawkish and more confrontational. – Robert Kelly	Found on CNN 7 years ago

We wanted to be irreverent, not necessarily confrontational.

– Luis Aceituno

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

This generation of politicians have been socialized through the crucible of Black Lives Matter and the [Donald] Trump era and political polarization, so it’s not surprising that they are usually going to be confrontational.

– Andra Gillespie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bush was n’t temperamentally confrontational, he was n’t looking for a fight in Congress, but this was something he felt was important, and if it required him … to lean against the winds, he was certainly willing to do that.

– Pete Wehner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I think we can say is that is indicative of the perhaps more confrontational nature of police-public encounters with people of color, people of color experience policing differently than majorities ... that speaks to maybe an unequal protection.

– Ken Novak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With the U.S. embrace of great power competition, it’s ironic that the U.S. will be ceding the field in Afghanistan to the Chinese who will inevitably flow into the Afghan vacuum left by the U.S. departure. No one should have missed the explicit message sent by the Chinese in the recent warm and celebratory welcome of Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Beijing. That welcome appeared in stark contrast to the cold and confrontational reception of the American envoy, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

– Marine Gen. John Allen

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Muhammad Ali used Muhammad Ali tongue to lacerate racism and White supremacy and oppression in America, muhammad Ali became more militant, not less. Muhammad Ali became more assertive, not less. Muhammad Ali became more confrontational, not less.

– Todd Boyd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Government, even under Reagan or either Bush, was a larger entity doing a lot more things than government in either one of those two situations, to see it as tremendously radical is an overstatement. You can see that in fact from some of the real progressives in the Democratic party who are not necessarily happy that Biden isn’t going further and being much more confrontational.

– Brooks Simpson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Confrontational does not mean violence, i’m a not violent person. Martin Luther King taught non-violence. We must be about resisting, however. And we must be about educating and we must be about trying to protect our children.

– Maxine Waters

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is, however, irresponsible to take Chair Waters’ remarks out of context to just hold a ‘gotcha,’ partisan vote, if ‘confrontation’ is subject to sanction, then we’re going to have a lot of people on your side who we believe are confrontational every day.

– Steny Hoyer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

– Congresswoman Waters

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't think what she said in any way we should criticize her for. Ofcourse we should be more confrontational, that doesn't mean we should be more violent ... The Republicans seem to me to be on the complete wrong side of history on this.

– Matthew Dowd

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We got to stay on the street. And we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

– Maxine Waters

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Iwill not let someone like a Tlaib or aMaxine Waters paint our profession with a broad brush. Are you aware of what the other U.S.rep said asrecent as yesterday? You know what she said in response to Brooklyn Center? ... Get more confrontational, iwas the first chief in the nation thatcame out and denounced the murderous cop who killed George Floyd.

– Detroit Police Chief James Craig

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that theyknow that we mean business.

– Taylor Greenecalled Waters

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There is certainly not a confrontational relationship between me and the President, as I've mentioned many times, I give advice and opinion based (on) evidence-based scientific information. He hears that. He respects it. He gets opinions from a variety of other people. But in no way, in my experience over the last several months, has there been any confrontational relationship between us.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour, she tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I'm surprisingly non-confrontational -- you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It's awkward, and I don't like it.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is an expression of the North's frustration over stalled talks with the United States. It is a message that it could return to the previous confrontational mode if there is no breakthrough in the stalemate.

– Yang Uk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nobody has ever pretended this will be easy. I have always said this negotiation will be tough, complex and at times confrontational.

– Brexit Secretary Davis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He is reckless, he's ruthless, he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach and I think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with the United States.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is a confrontational moment and I would expect full speed ahead escalation.

– Michael McCarthy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth, we continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private (and less confrontational) spaces to communicate.

– Nic Newman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private (and less confrontational) spaces to communicate.

– Nic Newman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People in this movement allow for confronting, jostling, committing low-level types of offenses, but there has been for some time a core that have tipped the movement to confrontational violence, the hardest edge in the Antifa spectrum comes under that category...not all Antifa are busting heads.

– Brian Levin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The South Korean left has been more accommodating of North Korea, more willing to engage. The South Korean right has been more hawkish and more confrontational.

– Robert Kelly

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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