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These will be defining months in the war, i’m conscious the main fights are yet to come and they will happen this year, within two to three months. – Oleksiy Danilov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth, we can talk about these terms as if they don't matter, but they do. They do matter. They're actually at the core of who we are. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The EPA’s latest rule on defining 'waters of the United States' is a statement of federal overreach that ignores states’ authority to regulate intrastate water quality and the Clean Water Act’s statutory mandate for cooperative federalism, in turn, although we recognize EPA’s attempt at clarifying through a roster of exemptions, its rule ignores the voices of nearly all in American agriculture who have long been seeking clarity on this issue, especially regarding the debate over what is and is not a navigable water. – Ted McKinney	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb. Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off. – David Gerrold	added by Normando 1 year ago
We're facing a defining moment, we must with one overwhelming, unified voice speak, as a country and say there's no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention. – Javier Hidalgo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've seen a drastic, drastic increase in the use of this technology, this is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention. – Javier Hidalgo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It shouldn't be a situation where a woman's choice to be a single woman is a defining marker of if she's going to have a house over her head or not, but it is a major contributor to homelessness, because of the ways in which the economy is structured to completely undervalue unpaid care work. – Elise Klein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely, we need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time — your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Under the Washington Treaty, Article Five, an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, cyberattacks can trigger Article Five, but we have never gone into the position where we give a potential adversary the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger Article Five. – The NATO chief	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That CPAC speech has been viewed so many times, because this is something usually that a president of the United States [ would have ] held, this guy on the radio galvanized the country behind his defining of what conservatism was. – Limbaugh Show producer James Golden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The jury instructions were really centered around that term 'reasonable.' Defining the word 'reasonable.' And the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of Kyle Rittenhouse. Not Monday morning quarterback, not the jurors, or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he reasonably believe about the possibility of a lethal threat or harm and grave bodily harm? – Laura Coates	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The findings of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry in its report defining the atrocities at the toll gate as a massacre, is a big win and leads us on a pathway to obtaining justice for many of the innocent victims, survivors and lost souls still lying in unmarked graves. i hope all the recommendations are carried out. On one part is admitting it happened, on another part is accountability. – Serah Ibrahim	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My fellow Virginians, we stand here this morning at this defining moment, a defining moment that, yes, started with two people on a walk. And a defining moment that is now millions of Virginians walking together. Walking together, sharing dreams and hopes just like the ones that have always been planted on my own heart. – Glenn Youngkin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Vaccine equity is sort of the defining challenge of our time. But you never fight an infectious disease with just one set of tools, we really need the full arsenal of health technologies. – Rachel Cohen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's probably the most defining issue. – Terry McAuliffe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think Mike PenceVice is doing what Mike PenceVice can : saying the right things, defining Mike PenceVice as Mike PenceVice and not as Trump's surrogate, and helping others, but Mike PenceVice's kind of like a jet trying to land with a storm over the airport. Mike PenceVice's in a holding pattern until Donald Trump decides. – Erick Erickson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I see a breaking celebrity-related story that is equal parts shocking, fun and addictive, I know it's TMZ, whether via broadcast or digital, TMZ has brought its brand-defining energy and sense of urgency to fans across the planet. – Fox Entertainment	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Young people are socialized to feel fragile and overawed by uncertainty (and as a result)… the defining feature of the current Western 21st century version of personhood is its vulnerability. Although society still upholds the ideal of sel-determination and autonomy, the values associated with them are increasingly overridden by a message that stresses the quality of human weakness. And if vulnerability is, indeed, the defining feature of the human condition, it follows that being fearful is the normal state… – Frank Furedi	added by Normando 2 years ago
A lot of the EITC expansion is a lot of states saying : Hey, we know this one group of workers has been particularly hard hit, because the defining characteristic of this last year is that if you were a lower-income worker, you probably lost your job and got hammered. – Richard Auxier	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think to me the defining question is how both sides use the next three and a half years, and if it's sort of a transformative period, or if it's more of a return to the status quo pre-Trump, i don't think we're going to get an answer to that at this summit, but I think that's sort of the defining choice that's out there. – Thomas Wright	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This vote has made it official: Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party, donald Trump’s big lie is now the defining principle of what was once the party of Lincoln. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If we avoid confronting what happened here just a few short months ago, we can be sure that intimidation, coercion, and violence will become a defining feature of our politics for generations to come. – Peter Meijer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It will be judged like this, how good or bad job you are doing is judged by many factors by different people. Externally, it’s only when you win or lose. That is the defining moment. – Mikel Arteta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

These will be defining months in the war, i’m conscious the main fights are yet to come and they will happen this year, within two to three months.

– Oleksiy Danilov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth, we can talk about these terms as if they don't matter, but they do. They do matter. They're actually at the core of who we are.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The EPA’s latest rule on defining 'waters of the United States' is a statement of federal overreach that ignores states’ authority to regulate intrastate water quality and the Clean Water Act’s statutory mandate for cooperative federalism, in turn, although we recognize EPA’s attempt at clarifying through a roster of exemptions, its rule ignores the voices of nearly all in American agriculture who have long been seeking clarity on this issue, especially regarding the debate over what is and is not a navigable water.

– Ted McKinney

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb. Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off.

– David Gerrold

added by Normando
1 year ago

We're facing a defining moment, we must with one overwhelming, unified voice speak, as a country and say there's no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention.

– Javier Hidalgo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've seen a drastic, drastic increase in the use of this technology, this is an expansion of how DHS is defining detention.

– Javier Hidalgo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It shouldn't be a situation where a woman's choice to be a single woman is a defining marker of if she's going to have a house over her head or not, but it is a major contributor to homelessness, because of the ways in which the economy is structured to completely undervalue unpaid care work.

– Elise Klein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely, we need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time — your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under the Washington Treaty, Article Five, an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, cyberattacks can trigger Article Five, but we have never gone into the position where we give a potential adversary the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger Article Five.

– The NATO chief

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That CPAC speech has been viewed so many times, because this is something usually that a president of the United States [ would have ] held, this guy on the radio galvanized the country behind his defining of what conservatism was.

– Limbaugh Show producer James Golden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The jury instructions were really centered around that term 'reasonable.' Defining the word 'reasonable.' And the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of Kyle Rittenhouse. Not Monday morning quarterback, not the jurors, or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he reasonably believe about the possibility of a lethal threat or harm and grave bodily harm?

– Laura Coates

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The findings of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry in its report defining the atrocities at the toll gate as a massacre, is a big win and leads us on a pathway to obtaining justice for many of the innocent victims, survivors and lost souls still lying in unmarked graves. i hope all the recommendations are carried out. On one part is admitting it happened, on another part is accountability.

– Serah Ibrahim

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My fellow Virginians, we stand here this morning at this defining moment, a defining moment that, yes, started with two people on a walk. And a defining moment that is now millions of Virginians walking together. Walking together, sharing dreams and hopes just like the ones that have always been planted on my own heart.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vaccine equity is sort of the defining challenge of our time. But you never fight an infectious disease with just one set of tools, we really need the full arsenal of health technologies.

– Rachel Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's probably the most defining issue.

– Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think Mike PenceVice is doing what Mike PenceVice can : saying the right things, defining Mike PenceVice as Mike PenceVice and not as Trump's surrogate, and helping others, but Mike PenceVice's kind of like a jet trying to land with a storm over the airport. Mike PenceVice's in a holding pattern until Donald Trump decides.

– Erick Erickson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I see a breaking celebrity-related story that is equal parts shocking, fun and addictive, I know it's TMZ, whether via broadcast or digital, TMZ has brought its brand-defining energy and sense of urgency to fans across the planet.

– Fox Entertainment

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Young people are socialized to feel fragile and overawed by uncertainty (and as a result)… the defining feature of the current Western 21st century version of personhood is its vulnerability. Although society still upholds the ideal of sel-determination and autonomy, the values associated with them are increasingly overridden by a message that stresses the quality of human weakness. And if vulnerability is, indeed, the defining feature of the human condition, it follows that being fearful is the normal state…

– Frank Furedi

added by Normando
2 years ago

A lot of the EITC expansion is a lot of states saying : Hey, we know this one group of workers has been particularly hard hit, because the defining characteristic of this last year is that if you were a lower-income worker, you probably lost your job and got hammered.

– Richard Auxier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think to me the defining question is how both sides use the next three and a half years, and if it's sort of a transformative period, or if it's more of a return to the status quo pre-Trump, i don't think we're going to get an answer to that at this summit, but I think that's sort of the defining choice that's out there.

– Thomas Wright

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This vote has made it official: Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party, donald Trump’s big lie is now the defining principle of what was once the party of Lincoln.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we avoid confronting what happened here just a few short months ago, we can be sure that intimidation, coercion, and violence will become a defining feature of our politics for generations to come.

– Peter Meijer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It will be judged like this, how good or bad job you are doing is judged by many factors by different people. Externally, it’s only when you win or lose. That is the defining moment.

– Mikel Arteta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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