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It tends to cause dysfunction in their lives. – Christian Hart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November. – Lawrence Hogan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction. – Hakeem Jeffries	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the 1970s, three quarters of the Congress, both Republican and Democrat, House and Senate, were vets, 75%. Today, we're sitting around 15%. It's a record low in our nation's history, and I'm convinced that it is a big part of the explanation why we have a record amount of dysfunction. – Michael Waltz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The elephant in the room is that we wait until the brain deteriorates to the point of dysfunction before we treat this disease, that's like saying wait until you lose half of the beta cells in your pancreas before we diagnose diabetes. – Rudy Tanzi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Senate Veterans ' are going to die, senate Veterans ''re not going to get Senate Veterans ' benefits, Senate Veterans ''re not going to get Senate Veterans ' health care all because of our dysfunction. – Senate Veterans '	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is possible that sicker individuals or people with immune dysfunction are at higher risk of reinfection and adverse health outcomes after reinfection. – Ziyad Al-Aly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am grateful to President Biden for the honor of nominating me, and I wish this administration well as it strives to overcome the paralyzing political gridlock that threatens far more than our nation's border, frankly, the dysfunction threatens America's heart and soul. – Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
When the commission is made up of or includes politicians, then dysfunction is going to occur. – Mark Gaber	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We were seeing digital health companies primarily focusing on stigmatized issues in men's health, such as hair loss or erectile dysfunction, i started thinking : Is that a model for safe, discreet, affordable abortion access ? – Kiki Freedman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have seen one-party rule with the minority completely shut out, one-party rule leads to what it always leads to, corruption and government dysfunction. – Brian Dahle	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The lack of any strong candidates in this Pennsylvania GOP Georgia US Senate field has attracted wealthy out-of-staters who see the field's dysfunction as an opportunity to buy a Georgia US Senate seat, whoever limps out of this primary is going to be seriously damaged for the general. – Jack Doyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've never really had a formal estimate made of how many people have been struggling with this, this is a really unusual event in terms of olfactory dysfunction and an unprecedented consequence of a pandemic that's never really been observed before. – Sandeep Robert Datta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It lends itself to dysfunction, we should have a system where you send a party to DC, and they are able to enact an agenda. – Emily Kirkland	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Adrenaline is an anti-erection chemical and is the main driver in the fight-or-flight response, when men have had failed attempts at sex, or they have developed anxiety and stress because of previous failed attempts, adrenaline kicks in and contributes to erectile dysfunction by shifting the blood away from the penis. The term' psychological erectile dysfunction' puts the blame on the man. I prefer to call it' adrenaline-mediated erectile dysfunction.'. – Paul Gittens	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There has never been a presidency in modern times when America’s dysfunction has been so fully on display. – Aaron David Miller	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Jackie Bray added, Bureaucracy and dysfunction, and all kinds of barriers to serving patients. The director of clinical operations at the Queens Hospital Center, Dr. Timothy Tan, also spoke with the Times and slammed the incompetence of city officials for not taking some of the pressure off overburdened hospitals, by sending more patients to the Billy Jean King facility. Knowing what our patients had to endure in an overcrowded emergency department, its frustrating how few patients were treated at facilities such as Billie Jean King. – Timothy Tan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's still so much we have yet to learn about Covid-19. Why are some cases worse than others ? The multidisciplinary research team at Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program is trying to find out, while this young woman still has a long and potentially risky road to recovery given how sick she was with multi-organ dysfunction for weeks preceding the transplant, we hope she will make a full recovery. – Rade Tomic	Found on CNN 3 years ago
By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get. – Sam Greene	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Governors are leading on the front lines of this crisis, and we need Congress to work together to support our effort, this is no time for partisan dysfunction -- it's going to take all of us working together in order to save thousands of lives. – Larry Hogan of Maryland	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think the important message is at the very least, you need to pay attention to your underlying risk factors for heart disease, smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol, and if you have erectile dysfunction to make sure that you're treating those even more aggressively. – Ron Blankstein	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare, but I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Alzheimer's disease causes degeneration of brain cells, and this leads to the outward symptoms you see on a day-to-day basis, this includes problems early on with short-term memory and later problems with speaking and executive dysfunction, like managing cell phones, medications, and finances. Patients can also have depression or other neuropsychiatric symptoms, like delusions or hallucinations. – Chad Hales	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Sentiment affects stock prices in the short term and my bigger worry is what dysfunction in D.C. will do to market confidence, could we see a pullback on the magnitude of what we saw in December? It's certainly possible. – Michael Lippert	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

It tends to cause dysfunction in their lives.

– Christian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November.

– Lawrence Hogan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are looking for a willing partner to solve problems for the American people, not save the Republicans from their dysfunction.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the 1970s, three quarters of the Congress, both Republican and Democrat, House and Senate, were vets, 75%. Today, we're sitting around 15%. It's a record low in our nation's history, and I'm convinced that it is a big part of the explanation why we have a record amount of dysfunction.

– Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The elephant in the room is that we wait until the brain deteriorates to the point of dysfunction before we treat this disease, that's like saying wait until you lose half of the beta cells in your pancreas before we diagnose diabetes.

– Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Senate Veterans ' are going to die, senate Veterans ''re not going to get Senate Veterans ' benefits, Senate Veterans ''re not going to get Senate Veterans ' health care all because of our dysfunction.

– Senate Veterans '

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is possible that sicker individuals or people with immune dysfunction are at higher risk of reinfection and adverse health outcomes after reinfection.

– Ziyad Al-Aly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am grateful to President Biden for the honor of nominating me, and I wish this administration well as it strives to overcome the paralyzing political gridlock that threatens far more than our nation's border, frankly, the dysfunction threatens America's heart and soul.

– Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When the commission is made up of or includes politicians, then dysfunction is going to occur.

– Mark Gaber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were seeing digital health companies primarily focusing on stigmatized issues in men's health, such as hair loss or erectile dysfunction, i started thinking : Is that a model for safe, discreet, affordable abortion access ?

– Kiki Freedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have seen one-party rule with the minority completely shut out, one-party rule leads to what it always leads to, corruption and government dysfunction.

– Brian Dahle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The lack of any strong candidates in this Pennsylvania GOP Georgia US Senate field has attracted wealthy out-of-staters who see the field's dysfunction as an opportunity to buy a Georgia US Senate seat, whoever limps out of this primary is going to be seriously damaged for the general.

– Jack Doyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've never really had a formal estimate made of how many people have been struggling with this, this is a really unusual event in terms of olfactory dysfunction and an unprecedented consequence of a pandemic that's never really been observed before.

– Sandeep Robert Datta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It lends itself to dysfunction, we should have a system where you send a party to DC, and they are able to enact an agenda.

– Emily Kirkland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Adrenaline is an anti-erection chemical and is the main driver in the fight-or-flight response, when men have had failed attempts at sex, or they have developed anxiety and stress because of previous failed attempts, adrenaline kicks in and contributes to erectile dysfunction by shifting the blood away from the penis. The term' psychological erectile dysfunction' puts the blame on the man. I prefer to call it' adrenaline-mediated erectile dysfunction.'.

– Paul Gittens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There has never been a presidency in modern times when America’s dysfunction has been so fully on display.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Jackie Bray added, Bureaucracy and dysfunction, and all kinds of barriers to serving patients. The director of clinical operations at the Queens Hospital Center, Dr. Timothy Tan, also spoke with the Times and slammed the incompetence of city officials for not taking some of the pressure off overburdened hospitals, by sending more patients to the Billy Jean King facility. Knowing what our patients had to endure in an overcrowded emergency department, its frustrating how few patients were treated at facilities such as Billie Jean King.

– Timothy Tan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There's still so much we have yet to learn about Covid-19. Why are some cases worse than others ? The multidisciplinary research team at Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program is trying to find out, while this young woman still has a long and potentially risky road to recovery given how sick she was with multi-organ dysfunction for weeks preceding the transplant, we hope she will make a full recovery.

– Rade Tomic

Found on CNN
3 years ago

By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get.

– Sam Greene

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Governors are leading on the front lines of this crisis, and we need Congress to work together to support our effort, this is no time for partisan dysfunction -- it's going to take all of us working together in order to save thousands of lives.

– Larry Hogan of Maryland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think the important message is at the very least, you need to pay attention to your underlying risk factors for heart disease, smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol, and if you have erectile dysfunction to make sure that you're treating those even more aggressively.

– Ron Blankstein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare, but I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Alzheimer's disease causes degeneration of brain cells, and this leads to the outward symptoms you see on a day-to-day basis, this includes problems early on with short-term memory and later problems with speaking and executive dysfunction, like managing cell phones, medications, and finances. Patients can also have depression or other neuropsychiatric symptoms, like delusions or hallucinations.

– Chad Hales

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Sentiment affects stock prices in the short term and my bigger worry is what dysfunction in D.C. will do to market confidence, could we see a pullback on the magnitude of what we saw in December? It's certainly possible.

– Michael Lippert

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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