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We’re not looking for enforcement, we’d like to get through the night with no arrests, no summonses, we’re there just to make everyone feel safe, but we will [make] arrests when need be. Our goal is that our presence there will deter any issues. – Stephen Spataro	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is not the norm, I'd say 99.99 percent of the time, everything does go well, in the last two decades, this has not occurred in Ohio. This was a very unfortunate and not a great incident to occur but it shouldn't deter people who want to help others through the gift of organ donation. – Heather Mekesa	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I cannot deter with the leftovers from the Cold War forever in the future. – Charles Richard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Based on what I have learned so far, I believe these were an appropriate and reasonable use of force intended for defensive purposes, the Intelligence Committee will closely review the basis for this strike, including an assessment of whether this action will truly deter or prevent further attacks by these militias using UAVs and other means. – The Intelligence	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own. – Sam Liccardo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They seem to think that it's going to deter us from protecting the land. They are fundamentally missing the point of what water protectors are doing, which is willing to put ourselves our freedom, our bodies, our personal comfort on the line for something greater than ourselves. – Tara Houska	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's ample research that long sentences don't deter crime. It's actually the swiftness and the surety of consequences that deters crime, not the length of the sentence, the length of the sentence just costs the state and communities and families hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars and destroys lives. It doesn't make us safer. It's a myth. – Restore Justice	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Getting rid of the death penalty is very important because there's always the grave risk that an innocent person can be convicted, it's a matter where people who are on death row can be executed by mistake. But also, I think it's a matter of the misapplication of the law and that the death penalty has been proven not to work to deter or prevent crime the way people hoped it would. – Fernando Bermudez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To the extent that you can’t deter through direct action, you can get some of these facilitators on notice. – Tom Holt	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I thought Thomas Chabot and Mike Reilly team defense was great tonight, when you’re forechecking well and you’re reloading hard and guys are getting back through the middle, those are the things that kind of add up and deter the other team from creating those scoring chances. – Thatcher Demko	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My team needs a clear picture of our force posture around the world and our operations to deter our enemies, we need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion or catch-up that our adversaries may try to exploit. – Jake Sullivan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We will continue to invest in advanced capabilities to give the Australian Defence Force more options to deter aggression against Australia's interests. – Linda Reynolds	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This action ensures we have sufficient capability available to respond to any threat and to deter any adversary from acting against our troops during the force reduction. – Rebecca Rebarich	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The calculation of the Trump team is that will be too politically costly and that will deter the Joe Biden team from even trying, but a lot of Democrats will be unhappy to see Joe Biden not undo this, we're talking about a nuclear deal that prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and you're willing to forgo that just because you don't want to undo some [ sanctions ] designations ? – Trita Parsi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They were trying to deter people from voting, because they knew they couldn't win them over. – Krishnan Guru-Murthy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My office has received a recording of a robocall targeting Detroit voters using racially-charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail, it is an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote. – Jocelyn Benson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Because the addendum is not public, today's vote is no substitute for action by the Administration and intelligence community to more fully brief the American people on what foreign powers may be doing to influence the election and do so in real time, we must not have another presidential election marred by foreign interference when there was more we could do to prevent it, deter it and expose it to the American people. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you want to be rich, never give up. When you have persistence, you will not only come out ahead of most people, more importantly, you will learn. Every time you do something, there is always a chance that you might fail. But that does not make you a failure. It’s because you had not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure should not deter you from trying. – Matthew Dube (at weed thumb)	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Our primary strategy is to deter and prevent election fraud from taking place. I prefer compliance with the law over criminal convictions, but those who try to meddle with our elections will be held accountable. – Mac Warner	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If surveillance cameras are placed in public places, there's no problem -- they can monitor and deter unlawful acts. But they shouldn't appear in our private spaces, i can't bear the thought that our everyday lives are completely exposed to the government's scrutiny. – William Zhou	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The importance of deterrence isn't confined to Iran, in all cases, we must deter foes to defend freedom. That's the whole point of President Trump's work to make our military the strongest it's ever been. – State Mike Pompeo on Monday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our ability to deter attacks had obviously broken down. The Iranians had been given a number of red lines and were crossing those lines, this was a legitimate act of self-defense because it disrupted ongoing attacks that were being conducted, a campaign against the Americans. And it reestablished deterrence, it responded to attacks that had been already committed. – Attorney General William Barr	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We discussed with him other options that are available, and I would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from Iran. – Mark Esper	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
But that shouldn't deter us from looking, it just shows that there may be medicines yet to be discovered and we shouldn't turn our eyes up at traditional medicine just because it's not tested yet. – Jake Baum	Found on CNN 4 years ago

We’re not looking for enforcement, we’d like to get through the night with no arrests, no summonses, we’re there just to make everyone feel safe, but we will [make] arrests when need be. Our goal is that our presence there will deter any issues.

– Stephen Spataro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is not the norm, I'd say 99.99 percent of the time, everything does go well, in the last two decades, this has not occurred in Ohio. This was a very unfortunate and not a great incident to occur but it shouldn't deter people who want to help others through the gift of organ donation.

– Heather Mekesa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I cannot deter with the leftovers from the Cold War forever in the future.

– Charles Richard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Based on what I have learned so far, I believe these were an appropriate and reasonable use of force intended for defensive purposes, the Intelligence Committee will closely review the basis for this strike, including an assessment of whether this action will truly deter or prevent further attacks by these militias using UAVs and other means.

– The Intelligence

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own.

– Sam Liccardo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They seem to think that it's going to deter us from protecting the land. They are fundamentally missing the point of what water protectors are doing, which is willing to put ourselves our freedom, our bodies, our personal comfort on the line for something greater than ourselves.

– Tara Houska

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's ample research that long sentences don't deter crime. It's actually the swiftness and the surety of consequences that deters crime, not the length of the sentence, the length of the sentence just costs the state and communities and families hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars and destroys lives. It doesn't make us safer. It's a myth.

– Restore Justice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Getting rid of the death penalty is very important because there's always the grave risk that an innocent person can be convicted, it's a matter where people who are on death row can be executed by mistake. But also, I think it's a matter of the misapplication of the law and that the death penalty has been proven not to work to deter or prevent crime the way people hoped it would.

– Fernando Bermudez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To the extent that you can’t deter through direct action, you can get some of these facilitators on notice.

– Tom Holt

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I thought Thomas Chabot and Mike Reilly team defense was great tonight, when you’re forechecking well and you’re reloading hard and guys are getting back through the middle, those are the things that kind of add up and deter the other team from creating those scoring chances.

– Thatcher Demko

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My team needs a clear picture of our force posture around the world and our operations to deter our enemies, we need full visibility into the budget planning underway at the Defense Department and other agencies in order to avoid any window of confusion or catch-up that our adversaries may try to exploit.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We will continue to invest in advanced capabilities to give the Australian Defence Force more options to deter aggression against Australia's interests.

– Linda Reynolds

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This action ensures we have sufficient capability available to respond to any threat and to deter any adversary from acting against our troops during the force reduction.

– Rebecca Rebarich

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The calculation of the Trump team is that will be too politically costly and that will deter the Joe Biden team from even trying, but a lot of Democrats will be unhappy to see Joe Biden not undo this, we're talking about a nuclear deal that prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and you're willing to forgo that just because you don't want to undo some [ sanctions ] designations ?

– Trita Parsi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They were trying to deter people from voting, because they knew they couldn't win them over.

– Krishnan Guru-Murthy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My office has received a recording of a robocall targeting Detroit voters using racially-charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail, it is an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote.

– Jocelyn Benson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Because the addendum is not public, today's vote is no substitute for action by the Administration and intelligence community to more fully brief the American people on what foreign powers may be doing to influence the election and do so in real time, we must not have another presidential election marred by foreign interference when there was more we could do to prevent it, deter it and expose it to the American people.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you want to be rich, never give up. When you have persistence, you will not only come out ahead of most people, more importantly, you will learn. Every time you do something, there is always a chance that you might fail. But that does not make you a failure. It’s because you had not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure should not deter you from trying.

– Matthew Dube (at weed thumb)

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Our primary strategy is to deter and prevent election fraud from taking place. I prefer compliance with the law over criminal convictions, but those who try to meddle with our elections will be held accountable.

– Mac Warner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If surveillance cameras are placed in public places, there's no problem -- they can monitor and deter unlawful acts. But they shouldn't appear in our private spaces, i can't bear the thought that our everyday lives are completely exposed to the government's scrutiny.

– William Zhou

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The importance of deterrence isn't confined to Iran, in all cases, we must deter foes to defend freedom. That's the whole point of President Trump's work to make our military the strongest it's ever been.

– State Mike Pompeo on Monday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our ability to deter attacks had obviously broken down. The Iranians had been given a number of red lines and were crossing those lines, this was a legitimate act of self-defense because it disrupted ongoing attacks that were being conducted, a campaign against the Americans. And it reestablished deterrence, it responded to attacks that had been already committed.

– Attorney General William Barr

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We discussed with him other options that are available, and I would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from Iran.

– Mark Esper

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

But that shouldn't deter us from looking, it just shows that there may be medicines yet to be discovered and we shouldn't turn our eyes up at traditional medicine just because it's not tested yet.

– Jake Baum

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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