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I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy. – Leo Valdez	added by anonymous 4 years ago
The Chinese don't insult us, they don't go down and tell the world that we've given this much money to the Pacific islands. They don't do that. They're good people, definitely better than Morrison. – Frank Bainimarama	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As far as I'm concerned, most of the time it's not necessary to shoot off at the mouth and respond every time, having got to this point, I shouldn't have to take this kind of insult and slander. – Briton Duncan Scott	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is out of control, what I've been trying to do my 34 years serving my nation is to save lives, so for you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love of my country and for children, that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed. – Thomas Homan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
She comes home to New America and nothing. I think New America's kind of an insult. – Jim Coleman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
For Gulf Coast refiners already hit by Venezuela sanctions, Iran sanctions, Canada's cuts and OPEC cuts, this adds insult to injury, the number of alternative sources of heavy crude is narrowing. – Sandy Fielden	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's kind of an insult to the American people that we can't decide for ourselves. – Margo Hammond	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This blizzard will further exacerbate flooding in Nebraska with the added insult of heavy snowfall to eventually melt. – Ryan Maue	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Congressman Deutch mischaracterized data on allegations of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, or inappropriate sexual behavior made by minors at care facilities operated by HHS grantees. Congressman Deutch even went so far as to level the unfounded assertion that members of the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement( ORR) federal staff were the subjects of sexual abuse allegations. This was totally false, congressman Deutch knowing mischaracterization of the data -- and Congressman Deutch impugning of the ORR federal staff -- was an immoral and indecent insult to all of the career civil servants who are dedicated to ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of the children in the unaccompanied alien children( UAC) program. – Jonathan Hayes	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The president's comment that lawmakers visiting Afghanistan is a 'public relations event' is an insult to the brave men and women serving in harm's way. – Elaine Luria	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
CBP officers, they are angered by the fact that they are required to work throughout the shutdown and not be paid, because they recognize they are doing important security and important trade and travel work for the country, so to not be paid adds insult to injury. – Tony Reardon	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The George Washington National Forest, Monongahela National Forest and Appalachian Trail are George Washington National Forest. The Administration was far too eager to trade them away for a pipeline conceived to deliver profit to The Administration developers, not gas to consumers, this pipeline is unnecessary and asking fracked gas customers to pay developers to blast this boondoggle through our public lands only adds insult to injury. – Patrick Hunter	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The word Jew as an insult was not common when I went to school, now it is, and it's even an insult at schools where there are no Jewish students. That's a problem. – Felix Klein	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It wasn't enough to just do what they did to me, they had to so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show. – Roseanne Barr	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In order for you to insult me or verbally abused me, I would have to value your opinion. – Werley Nortreus	added by anonymous 5 years ago
Barack Obama is the president of the United States and he couldn't say, 'Hey, these are Islamic jihadists. I just got informed of this by the FBI.' Instead he lies, he comes out and lies because we all know this information was out there, but he didn't want to insult the faith that I believe he is secretly following, a follower, or he is simply sympathetic because they're doing the dirty work. Because he ultimately wants to see this country punished and taken down for what he considers to be crimes against the rest of the world. – Tim Donnelly	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it, this time, I used it as an insult. I crossed a line. I regret it and I do apologize. She continued :. – Both Bee and TBS	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The alliance is very important and I think there's ways of communicating our displeasure with things without trying to insult and break the alliance apart. – Bob Corker	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That was a fairly serious insult directed against Pompeo. – Christopher Hill	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Mr Trump sends every day a new message that creates uncertainty in the market, trump's order to OPEC members to increase production is a great insult to those governments and nations, and destabilizes the market. – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Calls to abolish ICE are an insult to these heroic law enforcement officers who make sacrifices every day to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and protect our safety and security. – White House	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The tax is an absolute insult to Ugandans...we already buy data which the government taxes, why should we again have to pay this money to government to access these platforms? and in any case these are now essential communications channels that people use to reach loved ones, communicate with friends, socialites and mobilize civically...the tax reflects the highest form of greed. – Dickens Kamugisha	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These politicians, these people that we’re expected to be civil to, our public servants that we elected to do a job… they work for us, you can’t just casually harass these people. You have to insult them specifically. – Michelle Wolfs	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
While I unequivocally believe in second chances, I also believe in the rule of law, desperate to ward off a challenge from Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo’s unilateral action is an insult to the legislature, the courts, crime victims and the voters of the State of New York. – Marcus Molinaro	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy.

– Leo Valdez

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The Chinese don't insult us, they don't go down and tell the world that we've given this much money to the Pacific islands. They don't do that. They're good people, definitely better than Morrison.

– Frank Bainimarama

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As far as I'm concerned, most of the time it's not necessary to shoot off at the mouth and respond every time, having got to this point, I shouldn't have to take this kind of insult and slander.

– Briton Duncan Scott

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is out of control, what I've been trying to do my 34 years serving my nation is to save lives, so for you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love of my country and for children, that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed.

– Thomas Homan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

She comes home to New America and nothing. I think New America's kind of an insult.

– Jim Coleman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For Gulf Coast refiners already hit by Venezuela sanctions, Iran sanctions, Canada's cuts and OPEC cuts, this adds insult to injury, the number of alternative sources of heavy crude is narrowing.

– Sandy Fielden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's kind of an insult to the American people that we can't decide for ourselves.

– Margo Hammond

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This blizzard will further exacerbate flooding in Nebraska with the added insult of heavy snowfall to eventually melt.

– Ryan Maue

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Congressman Deutch mischaracterized data on allegations of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, or inappropriate sexual behavior made by minors at care facilities operated by HHS grantees. Congressman Deutch even went so far as to level the unfounded assertion that members of the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement( ORR) federal staff were the subjects of sexual abuse allegations. This was totally false, congressman Deutch knowing mischaracterization of the data -- and Congressman Deutch impugning of the ORR federal staff -- was an immoral and indecent insult to all of the career civil servants who are dedicated to ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of the children in the unaccompanied alien children( UAC) program.

– Jonathan Hayes

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The president's comment that lawmakers visiting Afghanistan is a 'public relations event' is an insult to the brave men and women serving in harm's way.

– Elaine Luria

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

CBP officers, they are angered by the fact that they are required to work throughout the shutdown and not be paid, because they recognize they are doing important security and important trade and travel work for the country, so to not be paid adds insult to injury.

– Tony Reardon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The George Washington National Forest, Monongahela National Forest and Appalachian Trail are George Washington National Forest. The Administration was far too eager to trade them away for a pipeline conceived to deliver profit to The Administration developers, not gas to consumers, this pipeline is unnecessary and asking fracked gas customers to pay developers to blast this boondoggle through our public lands only adds insult to injury.

– Patrick Hunter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The word Jew as an insult was not common when I went to school, now it is, and it's even an insult at schools where there are no Jewish students. That's a problem.

– Felix Klein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It wasn't enough to just do what they did to me, they had to so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show.

– Roseanne Barr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In order for you to insult me or verbally abused me, I would have to value your opinion.

– Werley Nortreus

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Barack Obama is the president of the United States and he couldn't say, 'Hey, these are Islamic jihadists. I just got informed of this by the FBI.' Instead he lies, he comes out and lies because we all know this information was out there, but he didn't want to insult the faith that I believe he is secretly following, a follower, or he is simply sympathetic because they're doing the dirty work. Because he ultimately wants to see this country punished and taken down for what he considers to be crimes against the rest of the world.

– Tim Donnelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is a word I have used on the show many times, hoping to reclaim it, this time, I used it as an insult. I crossed a line. I regret it and I do apologize. She continued :.

– Both Bee and TBS

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The alliance is very important and I think there's ways of communicating our displeasure with things without trying to insult and break the alliance apart.

– Bob Corker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That was a fairly serious insult directed against Pompeo.

– Christopher Hill

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mr Trump sends every day a new message that creates uncertainty in the market, trump's order to OPEC members to increase production is a great insult to those governments and nations, and destabilizes the market.

– Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Calls to abolish ICE are an insult to these heroic law enforcement officers who make sacrifices every day to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and protect our safety and security.

– White House

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The tax is an absolute insult to Ugandans...we already buy data which the government taxes, why should we again have to pay this money to government to access these platforms? and in any case these are now essential communications channels that people use to reach loved ones, communicate with friends, socialites and mobilize civically...the tax reflects the highest form of greed.

– Dickens Kamugisha

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These politicians, these people that we’re expected to be civil to, our public servants that we elected to do a job… they work for us, you can’t just casually harass these people. You have to insult them specifically.

– Michelle Wolfs

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While I unequivocally believe in second chances, I also believe in the rule of law, desperate to ward off a challenge from Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo’s unilateral action is an insult to the legislature, the courts, crime victims and the voters of the State of New York.

– Marcus Molinaro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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