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We're facing a moral crisis in our country, and we chose to use this moment to raise our voices, and speak up, integrity starts with looking in the mirror and this letter calls on everyone, not just The Latinx community, to choose humanity and decency over hate and violence. – Eva Longoria	Found on CNN 4 years ago
You don't have to decriminalize everything, what you have to do is to have a president in there with the judgment and the decency to treat someone that comes to the border like one of our own. – Steve Bullock	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP. – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This agreement would be an egregious violation of law and common decency. – Refugees International	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Trump administration's actions at the southern border are grotesque and dehumanizing, there seems to be open contempt for the rule of law and for basic human decency. – Elijah Cummings	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To some extent I'm still nervous. I think we live in a time where sort of normal decency and normal rules don't seem to apply, and people can be quite vicious, so I'm not cavalier about our situation. ... We try to proceed at each step cautiously while at the same time doing what we have to do. – Scott Allen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Both the common law and the Syariah law aim to ensure peace and harmony of the country. They are also crucial in protecting the morality and decency of the public as well as respecting the privacy of individuals. – George Clooney	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hope every elected Democrat in the country has the common decency and moral courage to disavow these types of grotesque statements from members of their party. – Trump Jr.	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this : I am not perfect. Lord knows, I am not perfect, but I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. And I will speak the truth. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our President has chosen to tear this country apart on every line, every division, every racial line, every religious line, Our President chooses to divide us, community by community, our President has inspired a hate and a darkness in this country that I have never witnessed Kirsten Gillibrand. Our President is tearing apart the very fabric of who we are as a nation, our very common decency, and that is what we are being called to fight against. – Kirsten Gillibrand	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our President has inspired a hate and a darkness in this country that I have never witnessed Kirsten Gillibrand. Our President is tearing apart the very fabric of who we are as a nation, our very common decency, and that is what we are being called to fight against. – Kirsten Gillibrand	Found on CNN 5 years ago
On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure, those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception, what happened to the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It wasn't about politics with Senator John McCain, senator John McCain could disagree on substance, but the underlying values that animated everything John did, everything Senator John McCain was, come to a different conclusion. Senator John McCain'd part company with you if you lacked the basic values of decency, respect, knowing this project is bigger than yourself. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He wants us to win, but I think he wants us to get back to being a party of listeners again, a party of decency. – Los Angeles	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is a moral and humanitarian crisis. Everyone of us who has ever held a child in their arms, and every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Perhaps men need their little oasis of retreat where they're allowed to be children, certain people seem to have lost any sort of decency. Anything' other' rubs them the wrong way. – Claudia Neumann	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What is happening to families at the border is horrific, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If they want to take a baby from the arms of his mother and separate the two, that's wrong. I don't care where you're at, what time and condition, that just goes against -- you don't have to read the Bible for that. That goes against human decency. That goes against human dignity. It goes against what's most sacred in the human person. – Timothy Dolan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
People have wondered when decency would hit rock bottom with this administration. It happened yesterday. – Beau Biden	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The best way to honor his memory is for all of us to do all we can to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who lack compassion and abandon even the most basic standards of human decency, today's charges are an important step forward in that connection. – Letitia McMaster	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our father, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert R. McMaster( U.S. Army, retired), was a tough and compassionate soldier and public servant. He was committed to his neighbors, his fellow soldiers, his community and his country, the best way to honor his memory is for all of us to do all we can to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who lack compassion and abandon even the most basic standards of human decency. – Letitia McMaster	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He would be welcome as President Trump if he stopped his racism, if he stopped bidding people once and for all against each other, if he acted like a president, if he had a little decency, he has none of that so he's not welcome here. – Juan Vargas	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[The president] is unfit to defend the ideals that made America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for all, unfit to defend the American ideals of all people created equal, donald J. Trump is unfit to represent American values of decency and morality. – Al Green	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

We're facing a moral crisis in our country, and we chose to use this moment to raise our voices, and speak up, integrity starts with looking in the mirror and this letter calls on everyone, not just The Latinx community, to choose humanity and decency over hate and violence.

– Eva Longoria

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You don't have to decriminalize everything, what you have to do is to have a president in there with the judgment and the decency to treat someone that comes to the border like one of our own.

– Steve Bullock

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP.

– Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This agreement would be an egregious violation of law and common decency.

– Refugees International

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Trump administration's actions at the southern border are grotesque and dehumanizing, there seems to be open contempt for the rule of law and for basic human decency.

– Elijah Cummings

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To some extent I'm still nervous. I think we live in a time where sort of normal decency and normal rules don't seem to apply, and people can be quite vicious, so I'm not cavalier about our situation. ... We try to proceed at each step cautiously while at the same time doing what we have to do.

– Scott Allen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Both the common law and the Syariah law aim to ensure peace and harmony of the country. They are also crucial in protecting the morality and decency of the public as well as respecting the privacy of individuals.

– George Clooney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I hope every elected Democrat in the country has the common decency and moral courage to disavow these types of grotesque statements from members of their party.

– Trump Jr.

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this : I am not perfect. Lord knows, I am not perfect, but I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. And I will speak the truth.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our President has chosen to tear this country apart on every line, every division, every racial line, every religious line, Our President chooses to divide us, community by community, our President has inspired a hate and a darkness in this country that I have never witnessed Kirsten Gillibrand. Our President is tearing apart the very fabric of who we are as a nation, our very common decency, and that is what we are being called to fight against.

– Kirsten Gillibrand

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our President has inspired a hate and a darkness in this country that I have never witnessed Kirsten Gillibrand. Our President is tearing apart the very fabric of who we are as a nation, our very common decency, and that is what we are being called to fight against.

– Kirsten Gillibrand

Found on CNN
5 years ago

On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure, those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception, what happened to the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It wasn't about politics with Senator John McCain, senator John McCain could disagree on substance, but the underlying values that animated everything John did, everything Senator John McCain was, come to a different conclusion. Senator John McCain'd part company with you if you lacked the basic values of decency, respect, knowing this project is bigger than yourself.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He wants us to win, but I think he wants us to get back to being a party of listeners again, a party of decency.

– Los Angeles

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a moral and humanitarian crisis. Everyone of us who has ever held a child in their arms, and every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Perhaps men need their little oasis of retreat where they're allowed to be children, certain people seem to have lost any sort of decency. Anything' other' rubs them the wrong way.

– Claudia Neumann

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What is happening to families at the border is horrific, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If they want to take a baby from the arms of his mother and separate the two, that's wrong. I don't care where you're at, what time and condition, that just goes against -- you don't have to read the Bible for that. That goes against human decency. That goes against human dignity. It goes against what's most sacred in the human person.

– Timothy Dolan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People have wondered when decency would hit rock bottom with this administration. It happened yesterday.

– Beau Biden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The best way to honor his memory is for all of us to do all we can to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who lack compassion and abandon even the most basic standards of human decency, today's charges are an important step forward in that connection.

– Letitia McMaster

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our father, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert R. McMaster( U.S. Army, retired), was a tough and compassionate soldier and public servant. He was committed to his neighbors, his fellow soldiers, his community and his country, the best way to honor his memory is for all of us to do all we can to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who lack compassion and abandon even the most basic standards of human decency.

– Letitia McMaster

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He would be welcome as President Trump if he stopped his racism, if he stopped bidding people once and for all against each other, if he acted like a president, if he had a little decency, he has none of that so he's not welcome here.

– Juan Vargas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[The president] is unfit to defend the ideals that made America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for all, unfit to defend the American ideals of all people created equal, donald J. Trump is unfit to represent American values of decency and morality.

– Al Green

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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