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One of the key advantages is it helps create a stigma around surveillance, which is really important to encourage lawmakers to create meaningful rules, so the public can more intuitively resist really corrosive and dangerous kinds of surveillance. – Woodrow Hartzog	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you delegitimize the courts, you delegitimize the legislative body, it's corrosive and it makes it almost impossible to reach compromise, we're a diverse nation... this democracy, in order to function, you have to remember it requires consensus at the end of the day. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm extremely concerned that these efforts will have an impact, that's why we have to do everything in the courts, in the political arena, in the court of public opinion, to organize efforts to counteract it. We have to counteract it because it is so corrosive and so damaging to American democracy. – Marc Morial	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Concrete spalling, rebar deterioration --these are not unusual events when you have buildings exposed to corrosive conditions. – Donna DiMaggio Berger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The danger is that this cavalier approach to rules is becoming corrosive to that most precious commodity for any government — public trust. – The Sun	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The amount of lies that came out of this presidency was corrosive to our political culture, in theory, you could pass new laws to address many of the norm violations we saw under Trump. But earning back people's trust is much harder to do. – Joe Goldman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
While each of our experiences are unique, as a woman in the military, I had to repeatedly fight the establishment during my 20-year career, no one needs to convince me of the urgency to address the issues of equal pay and equal justice, affordable health care for all, real action on voting rights, and ending the corrosive grip that corporate special interests have on our federal government. – Amy McGrath	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Folks, I knew -- I believed that he wasnt going to be a very good president, but I have to admit to you that President Trump, well, I didnt have any idea how much it was always going to be about President Trump. Its having a corrosive impact. Its having a corrosive impact on our children. – Vice President Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This behavior isabsolutely corrosive to kids. – Linda Flanagan	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
People underestimate the corrosive effect it has, it's like when you have a substitute teacher in your classroom. They aren't going to take on the tough issues. – Max Stier	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The safety of our officers and passengers can be placed at risk, anything that is corrosive, explosive or flammable and anything that can vaporize into a toxic substance is not permitted on an airplane. – Sari Koshetz	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Due to the corrosive effects of salt and humidity in the islands, HQ-9 missile systems must be removed and sent back to the mainland for maintenance periodically. – Timothy Heath	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed – Charlton Heston	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
There are some people who altered figures. There are some people who monkeyed with the figures, i think there was too much of an attitude of balance sheets and figures instead of safety and making sure the water system worked right. And that attitude I think was corrosive, as well, and I think far too prevalent. – Bill Schuette	Found on CNN 7 years ago
If we build walls and disrespect our neighbors, we will quickly see all this progress evaporating, replaced by a return of anti-Americanism, a corrosive rift throughout our hemisphere. – Vice President Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The real third rail of American politics is race and racism and if you're accused of it by people in your own party, then it becomes something you can't really shake off, he's skirted around it for a long time… what it's done is it's opened him up to attacks from the inside in a way that hadn't existed before and that I think could have a corrosive effect. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It will take years to recover, in terms of the stock price, sorting out all the fines, and the reputation. Analysts are struggling to assess what the damage actually is, as there's still a steady corrosive drip-drip of news, yes, they've bumped up their provisions, but you have to wonder whether they're prepared for a moderately bad outcome, let alone a. – Mike Ingram	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's very tight and sweaty -- conditions are really hot, every time you rotate, everything gets soaked. Condensation rains down on you the whole time. Salt water's hugely corrosive, so you get lots of sores and boils. It's a pretty miserable environment. – Cayle Royce	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't see the coalition fundamentally altering what is already an extremely tense and corrosive relationship between the prime minster and the president. – Aaron David Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's so corrosive to create that kind of society, this desire we have to be like amateur detectives, (looking for) clues into people's inherent evil by finding the worst tweet they ever wrote, is not only wrong; it's damaging. – Jon Ronson wonders .	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The great tragedy is that this corrosive damage to our national security is not the result of objective factors, logic or reason. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Any senior military official involved in such obvious corrosive corruption should be court martialed and tossed in jail especially in a perilous environment such as that which Iraq is facing, the regular people and the lower ranks are hurt the most by the corruption of the leaders. – Paul Sullivan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

One of the key advantages is it helps create a stigma around surveillance, which is really important to encourage lawmakers to create meaningful rules, so the public can more intuitively resist really corrosive and dangerous kinds of surveillance.

– Woodrow Hartzog

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you delegitimize the courts, you delegitimize the legislative body, it's corrosive and it makes it almost impossible to reach compromise, we're a diverse nation... this democracy, in order to function, you have to remember it requires consensus at the end of the day.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm extremely concerned that these efforts will have an impact, that's why we have to do everything in the courts, in the political arena, in the court of public opinion, to organize efforts to counteract it. We have to counteract it because it is so corrosive and so damaging to American democracy.

– Marc Morial

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Concrete spalling, rebar deterioration --these are not unusual events when you have buildings exposed to corrosive conditions.

– Donna DiMaggio Berger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The danger is that this cavalier approach to rules is becoming corrosive to that most precious commodity for any government — public trust.

– The Sun

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The amount of lies that came out of this presidency was corrosive to our political culture, in theory, you could pass new laws to address many of the norm violations we saw under Trump. But earning back people's trust is much harder to do.

– Joe Goldman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While each of our experiences are unique, as a woman in the military, I had to repeatedly fight the establishment during my 20-year career, no one needs to convince me of the urgency to address the issues of equal pay and equal justice, affordable health care for all, real action on voting rights, and ending the corrosive grip that corporate special interests have on our federal government.

– Amy McGrath

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Folks, I knew -- I believed that he wasnt going to be a very good president, but I have to admit to you that President Trump, well, I didnt have any idea how much it was always going to be about President Trump. Its having a corrosive impact. Its having a corrosive impact on our children.

– Vice President Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This behavior isabsolutely corrosive to kids.

– Linda Flanagan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

People underestimate the corrosive effect it has, it's like when you have a substitute teacher in your classroom. They aren't going to take on the tough issues.

– Max Stier

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The safety of our officers and passengers can be placed at risk, anything that is corrosive, explosive or flammable and anything that can vaporize into a toxic substance is not permitted on an airplane.

– Sari Koshetz

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Due to the corrosive effects of salt and humidity in the islands, HQ-9 missile systems must be removed and sent back to the mainland for maintenance periodically.

– Timothy Heath

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed

– Charlton Heston

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There are some people who altered figures. There are some people who monkeyed with the figures, i think there was too much of an attitude of balance sheets and figures instead of safety and making sure the water system worked right. And that attitude I think was corrosive, as well, and I think far too prevalent.

– Bill Schuette

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If we build walls and disrespect our neighbors, we will quickly see all this progress evaporating, replaced by a return of anti-Americanism, a corrosive rift throughout our hemisphere.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The real third rail of American politics is race and racism and if you're accused of it by people in your own party, then it becomes something you can't really shake off, he's skirted around it for a long time… what it's done is it's opened him up to attacks from the inside in a way that hadn't existed before and that I think could have a corrosive effect.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It will take years to recover, in terms of the stock price, sorting out all the fines, and the reputation. Analysts are struggling to assess what the damage actually is, as there's still a steady corrosive drip-drip of news, yes, they've bumped up their provisions, but you have to wonder whether they're prepared for a moderately bad outcome, let alone a.

– Mike Ingram

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's very tight and sweaty -- conditions are really hot, every time you rotate, everything gets soaked. Condensation rains down on you the whole time. Salt water's hugely corrosive, so you get lots of sores and boils. It's a pretty miserable environment.

– Cayle Royce

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't see the coalition fundamentally altering what is already an extremely tense and corrosive relationship between the prime minster and the president.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's so corrosive to create that kind of society, this desire we have to be like amateur detectives, (looking for) clues into people's inherent evil by finding the worst tweet they ever wrote, is not only wrong; it's damaging.

– Jon Ronson wonders .

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The great tragedy is that this corrosive damage to our national security is not the result of objective factors, logic or reason.

– Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Any senior military official involved in such obvious corrosive corruption should be court martialed and tossed in jail especially in a perilous environment such as that which Iraq is facing, the regular people and the lower ranks are hurt the most by the corruption of the leaders.

– Paul Sullivan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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