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We cannot hold America’s full faith and credit hostage, the debt ceiling is not something to be trifled with. – Mitch Landrieu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage. – Trevor Reed	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Obviously, those charges sound extremely fishy, charging a journalist with espionage, and I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage. – Trevor Reed	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ve never been closer to falling apart. Our national security is at risk, our economy is crumbling, our foreign relations are at their lowest point ever, we don’t know what to say to our children about their future in this country. We have been taken hostage by a bunch of extremists with no brakes and no boundaries. – Yair Lapid	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what their plans are, instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history. – Baquer Namazi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am grateful for the hard work of dedicated public servants across the U.S. Government who made this possible, and who continue to deliver on my Administration’s unflinching commitment to keep faith with Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained all around the world. – Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The sad thing is that Gretchen Whitmer will tie your hands, put a gun to your head, and ask if you're ready to talk, for someone so worried about being kidnapped, Gretchen Whitmer sure is good at taking business hostage and holding it for ransom. – Tudor Dixon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage, we never gave up hope that he would survive and come home safely to us. – Charlene Cakora	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is a single party in power, a one-party regime, a big cancer this country needs to get rid of, a cancer that feeds on everything to continue to govern, today we can see everywhere that everyone is tired of this party, this single party that holds Angola hostage to its interests, this single party that does not allow Angola to be a democracy. – Costa Junior	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At the time, we thought we were the only survivors, houston was still holding about 80 students hostage in a classroom, and no one knew what was going on. – Lynda Vanartsdalen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's my understanding that the Senate currently won't even do business unless this bill gets put forward because of the sponsor and his ability to hold our entire chamber, and his, hostage. – Travis Grantham	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
She violated Russian law, and now she’s being prosecuted. It’s not about being a hostage. There are lots of American citizens here. They’re enjoying their freedoms… but you have to obey the laws. – Dmitry Peskov	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The thing that you have to understand is countries like North Korea -- Russia now, obviously, China, Syria, Iran, Venezuela -- countries like that are going to take Americans hostage no matter what. – Trevor Reed in a CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm aware that there are political groups in the US that are committed to confrontation, that would like to hold the people of Latin America and the Caribbean hostage, as is the case of the blockade against Cuba, which is highly promoted by Cuban politicians who have a lot of influence in the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but I consider the blockade inappropriate, and inhumane(...) an entire people can not suffer for the interest of a group, so the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador government must decide on this because it is a matter of human rights, which has to do with sovereignty. – Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When it comes to our efforts to free Americans, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, Ambassador( Roger) Carstens -- he will go anywhere, he will talk to anyone if it means that we're able to come home with an American, to reunite that American with her or his family, that is true in the case of Austin Tice. It is true in the case of Paul Whelan. It is true in the case of the Americans who are detained in Iran and Americans who are detained around the world. – Ned Price	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It should have happened a long time ago, we should have been arming the Ukrainians for the last year, we weren't. We should have been doing much more on domestic production of oil, instead we're going backwards, and we gave Putin the card to hold us hostage. – Chris Christie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people, President Biden was giving something you rarely get in geopolitics: a second chance. But if he signs this deal, if he signs this instrument of simultaneous surrender to Iran, Russia, and China, he will squander the second chance and America will suffer in the process, it’s like giving Putin the pistol to point at our heads to hold us hostage. It makes absolutely no sense and again, it undermines everything that President Biden promised with respect to Vladimir Putin. – Mike Gallagher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Take power into your own hands, it looks like it will be easier for us to come to an agreement( with you) than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis that has settled in Kyiv and taken hostage the entire Ukrainian people. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The hostage played a sort of hero's role by, in that split second that he had, forcing a breakthrough in this situation, otherwise it could have been a very long and unpleasant night and maybe longer. – Chief Frank Paauw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To those who are still there, to those of you who are there with the sole objective of causing disruption and chaos, there'll be serious consequences for this lawless activity, we will continue to raise the consequences against those who are holding millions of jobs and people hostage. – Doug Ford	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Threatening the safety of Americans or any innocent civilians is always unacceptable, and hostage-taking is an act of particular cruelty and cowardice, the Taliban must immediately release Mark before it can expect any consideration of its aspirations for legitimacy. This is not negotiable. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening, without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself. – Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Hi, Kayla Sullivan reporting live from outside my son’s bedroom, where he’s currently being detained until nap time is over, now this story does involve a minor, so I can’t release specifics, but what I can confirm is my son is a 2-year-old ‘terrorist’ who held me hostage at the Olive Garden. – Kayla Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

We cannot hold America’s full faith and credit hostage, the debt ceiling is not something to be trifled with.

– Mitch Landrieu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage.

– Trevor Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously, those charges sound extremely fishy, charging a journalist with espionage, and I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage.

– Trevor Reed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve never been closer to falling apart. Our national security is at risk, our economy is crumbling, our foreign relations are at their lowest point ever, we don’t know what to say to our children about their future in this country. We have been taken hostage by a bunch of extremists with no brakes and no boundaries.

– Yair Lapid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what their plans are, instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history.

– Baquer Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am grateful for the hard work of dedicated public servants across the U.S. Government who made this possible, and who continue to deliver on my Administration’s unflinching commitment to keep faith with Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained all around the world.

– Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The sad thing is that Gretchen Whitmer will tie your hands, put a gun to your head, and ask if you're ready to talk, for someone so worried about being kidnapped, Gretchen Whitmer sure is good at taking business hostage and holding it for ransom.

– Tudor Dixon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage, we never gave up hope that he would survive and come home safely to us.

– Charlene Cakora

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a single party in power, a one-party regime, a big cancer this country needs to get rid of, a cancer that feeds on everything to continue to govern, today we can see everywhere that everyone is tired of this party, this single party that holds Angola hostage to its interests, this single party that does not allow Angola to be a democracy.

– Costa Junior

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the time, we thought we were the only survivors, houston was still holding about 80 students hostage in a classroom, and no one knew what was going on.

– Lynda Vanartsdalen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's my understanding that the Senate currently won't even do business unless this bill gets put forward because of the sponsor and his ability to hold our entire chamber, and his, hostage.

– Travis Grantham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

She violated Russian law, and now she’s being prosecuted. It’s not about being a hostage. There are lots of American citizens here. They’re enjoying their freedoms… but you have to obey the laws.

– Dmitry Peskov

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The thing that you have to understand is countries like North Korea -- Russia now, obviously, China, Syria, Iran, Venezuela -- countries like that are going to take Americans hostage no matter what.

– Trevor Reed in a CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm aware that there are political groups in the US that are committed to confrontation, that would like to hold the people of Latin America and the Caribbean hostage, as is the case of the blockade against Cuba, which is highly promoted by Cuban politicians who have a lot of influence in the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but I consider the blockade inappropriate, and inhumane(...) an entire people can not suffer for the interest of a group, so the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador government must decide on this because it is a matter of human rights, which has to do with sovereignty.

– Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When it comes to our efforts to free Americans, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, Ambassador( Roger) Carstens -- he will go anywhere, he will talk to anyone if it means that we're able to come home with an American, to reunite that American with her or his family, that is true in the case of Austin Tice. It is true in the case of Paul Whelan. It is true in the case of the Americans who are detained in Iran and Americans who are detained around the world.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It should have happened a long time ago, we should have been arming the Ukrainians for the last year, we weren't. We should have been doing much more on domestic production of oil, instead we're going backwards, and we gave Putin the card to hold us hostage.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because of the bravery of the Ukrainian people, President Biden was giving something you rarely get in geopolitics: a second chance. But if he signs this deal, if he signs this instrument of simultaneous surrender to Iran, Russia, and China, he will squander the second chance and America will suffer in the process, it’s like giving Putin the pistol to point at our heads to hold us hostage. It makes absolutely no sense and again, it undermines everything that President Biden promised with respect to Vladimir Putin.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Take power into your own hands, it looks like it will be easier for us to come to an agreement( with you) than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis that has settled in Kyiv and taken hostage the entire Ukrainian people.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The hostage played a sort of hero's role by, in that split second that he had, forcing a breakthrough in this situation, otherwise it could have been a very long and unpleasant night and maybe longer.

– Chief Frank Paauw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To those who are still there, to those of you who are there with the sole objective of causing disruption and chaos, there'll be serious consequences for this lawless activity, we will continue to raise the consequences against those who are holding millions of jobs and people hostage.

– Doug Ford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Threatening the safety of Americans or any innocent civilians is always unacceptable, and hostage-taking is an act of particular cruelty and cowardice, the Taliban must immediately release Mark before it can expect any consideration of its aspirations for legitimacy. This is not negotiable.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening, without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself.

– Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Hi, Kayla Sullivan reporting live from outside my son’s bedroom, where he’s currently being detained until nap time is over, now this story does involve a minor, so I can’t release specifics, but what I can confirm is my son is a 2-year-old ‘terrorist’ who held me hostage at the Olive Garden.

– Kayla Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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