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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out. – Paul Newman	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Salvini misses no opportunity for insults and vulgarity but with this rally he has passed every limit of decency. – Emanuele Fiano	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
As a matter of simple human decency we implore the county not to prematurely take Lexi from her home. – Rusty Page	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can't find a bad word about Judge Garland, and that's because he is a person of remarkable experience, a person of remarkably decency and he is a judge who is uniformly -- among Republicans and Democrats -- seen as somebody with the kind of temperament and the kind of excellence that should be represented on the Supreme Court, uniformly, over the course of the last seven years, Republicans and Democrats have said to President Obama, 'This is the kind of person we want to have on the Supreme Court,'. – Staff Denis McDonough	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We call on the Assad regime to, at least in a moment of cessation of hostilities, try to show some measure of decency, if that is even possible. – John Kerry	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am asking you to support a decision (to dismiss Gasic) because of courtesy, moral decency and respect we all need to show for others. – Aleksandar Vucic	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have to respect the process, but if it is said that there is profiteering, asking for shares, that is not done. This is about decency, morality, and the authority of the state. – President Joko Widodo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To give up open borders would be a gigantic step backwards in European history, with Greece, there is the risk of losing money. But now Europe is at risk of losing its decency. – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The legitimacy of the death penalty is sustained by the illusive search for painless executions, we cannot be relied on to deliver executions which impose no more than pain than is necessary, and we certainly can't be relied on to impose executions that are compatible with contemporary standards of decency. – Austin Sarat	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Fox and Erickson need to get off their high horse on how outraged they are NOW about sexism and decency, let's focus on winning the election, not winning accolades from The New York Times. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong, he is not a professional politician and is known for being a blunt talker. But there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross. Decency is one of those lines. – Red State chief Erick Erickson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
His character and fundamental decency are at the core of why he's been such a successful and beloved leader. He's so respected by our caucus for his strength, his legislative acumen, his honesty and his determination. He has left a major mark on this body, this country, and on so many who have met him, gotten to know him, and love him. – New York Sen. Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price. Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect. – James May	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For this Navy to bar a chaplain from comforting and ministering to sailors and families is a reprehensible violation of religious freedom and common human decency. – Kelly Shackelford	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Iraq can't win the fight against ISIS's atrocities with attacks on civilians that violate the laws of war and fly in the face of human decency, militia abuses are wreaking havoc among some of Iraq's most vulnerable people and exacerbating sectarian hostilities. – Joe Stork	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance, i issue no mandates, and I make no threats of discipline, but I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it. – William Bratton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We depend on our police to protect us against forces of criminality and evil, they are a foundation of our society, and when they are attacked, it is an attack on the very concept of decency. – De Blasio	Found on CNN 9 years ago
People have gone about their business and in the aftermath of the end of the siege last night, people have responded with typical Australian decency and generosity. – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott	Found on CNN 9 years ago
People here are notable for their decency and their volunteering. – Yevgenia Bavykina	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. – Harold Macmillan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
My father just, literally, died in my arms. I notified all my kids and my lawyer notified Dina's attorney. Let's see if she has the decency and respect to bring my kids to the wake and funeral."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1 – Michael Lohan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. – Henrik Ibsen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

– Paul Newman

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Salvini misses no opportunity for insults and vulgarity but with this rally he has passed every limit of decency.

– Emanuele Fiano

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As a matter of simple human decency we implore the county not to prematurely take Lexi from her home.

– Rusty Page

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can't find a bad word about Judge Garland, and that's because he is a person of remarkable experience, a person of remarkably decency and he is a judge who is uniformly -- among Republicans and Democrats -- seen as somebody with the kind of temperament and the kind of excellence that should be represented on the Supreme Court, uniformly, over the course of the last seven years, Republicans and Democrats have said to President Obama, 'This is the kind of person we want to have on the Supreme Court,'.

– Staff Denis McDonough

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We call on the Assad regime to, at least in a moment of cessation of hostilities, try to show some measure of decency, if that is even possible.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am asking you to support a decision (to dismiss Gasic) because of courtesy, moral decency and respect we all need to show for others.

– Aleksandar Vucic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have to respect the process, but if it is said that there is profiteering, asking for shares, that is not done. This is about decency, morality, and the authority of the state.

– President Joko Widodo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To give up open borders would be a gigantic step backwards in European history, with Greece, there is the risk of losing money. But now Europe is at risk of losing its decency.

– German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The legitimacy of the death penalty is sustained by the illusive search for painless executions, we cannot be relied on to deliver executions which impose no more than pain than is necessary, and we certainly can't be relied on to impose executions that are compatible with contemporary standards of decency.

– Austin Sarat

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fox and Erickson need to get off their high horse on how outraged they are NOW about sexism and decency, let's focus on winning the election, not winning accolades from The New York Times.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is unfortunate to have to disinvite him. But I just don't want someone on stage who gets a hostile question from a lady and his first inclination is to imply it was hormonal. It just was wrong, he is not a professional politician and is known for being a blunt talker. But there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross. Decency is one of those lines.

– Red State chief Erick Erickson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

His character and fundamental decency are at the core of why he's been such a successful and beloved leader. He's so respected by our caucus for his strength, his legislative acumen, his honesty and his determination. He has left a major mark on this body, this country, and on so many who have met him, gotten to know him, and love him.

– New York Sen. Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price. Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect.

– James May

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For this Navy to bar a chaplain from comforting and ministering to sailors and families is a reprehensible violation of religious freedom and common human decency.

– Kelly Shackelford

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Iraq can't win the fight against ISIS's atrocities with attacks on civilians that violate the laws of war and fly in the face of human decency, militia abuses are wreaking havoc among some of Iraq's most vulnerable people and exacerbating sectarian hostilities.

– Joe Stork

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance, i issue no mandates, and I make no threats of discipline, but I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it.

– William Bratton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We depend on our police to protect us against forces of criminality and evil, they are a foundation of our society, and when they are attacked, it is an attack on the very concept of decency.

– De Blasio

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People have gone about their business and in the aftermath of the end of the siege last night, people have responded with typical Australian decency and generosity.

– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People here are notable for their decency and their volunteering.

– Yevgenia Bavykina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

– Harold Macmillan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

My father just, literally, died in my arms. I notified all my kids and my lawyer notified Dina's attorney. Let's see if she has the decency and respect to bring my kids to the wake and funeral."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

– Michael Lohan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

– Henrik Ibsen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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