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I don't think President Biden's textbook approach to correctly handling the discovery of misplaced documents will have any impact on his re-election if he decides to run, the difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges. – Brad Woodhouse	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is again the misplaced vilification of American law enforcement, let's talk about New York specifically. I think we've learned by now that police are not the problem. – Betsy Brantner Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re watching the death of women’s sports right before our eyes in the name of some misplaced sense of equity, female athletes are watching their hard work and lifelong dreams being ripped away by biological males who aren’t talented enough to be competitive in male sports. – Gina Ciarcia	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sadly, our school board’s priorities have often been severely misplaced, our kids must come first. – London Breed	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, which I think you've earned, I believe you deserve a chance... please understand that there will be only one chance, if you violate my conditions, that will be an indication that my trust was misplaced. – District Judge Amy Berman Jackson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by davidr.38494 2 years ago
I think policy is rather overdoing International Energy Agency, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced. – Joe BidenLarry Summers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think policy is rather overdoing it, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced. – Larry Summers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Can we keep that commitment to America? No more misplaced priorities. The American people deserve better. America is worth fighting for. Americans rights are worth fighting for. Their dreams are worth fighting for. Their voices are worth fighting for. And most importantly, their voices are worth being heard on this floor. – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty. – Marvin Cooley	added by Normando 3 years ago
Shaming individuals who are at a party or in a park may give us a sense of control in the moment, but it's misplaced energy. – Julia Marcus	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced. – Pastor Fred Jackson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Trust. Trust. Thats all I can say, we as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced. – Pastor Fred Jackson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Wall Street seems to have some concerns about Guzman's lack of experience in politics and 'heterodox' economic views. I think these views are misplaced, as far as experience, Guzman has been involved in sovereign and quasi-sovereign situations. And his views on growth rather than austerity led recoveries are spot on. – Hans Humes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The most recent trade escalation increases the risk of recession on top of what is now a synchronized global slowdown, for investors, the hope of a trade deal is entirely misplaced at present. – Eleanor Creagh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point. – Liz Rosenberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't see any quick end to this state of the markets until we see some resolution, constructive dialogue and something very solid in terms of deals. But the hopes for that are a bit misplaced currently. – Prakash Sakpal	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's a lot of negativity about technology, some of it's fair, some of it's misplaced. – Mark Zuckerberg	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What this really is is misplaced criticism of Bill McRaven. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That fear, from a law enforcement perspective, is highly misplaced, it may be effective at energizing the base, but it creates a needless fear of the caravan. – Undersecretary John Cohen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
At this particular point, Rod Rosenstein's priorities are misplaced, for his unwillingness to come before Congress and allow us to conduct proper congressional oversight, it's time that Rod Rosenstein steps down. Rod Rosenstein should do so immediately. And in doing that, I think it would serve the country well, it would serve this President well. – Mark Meadows	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have to look at this, we lost control of the game, we misplaced a lot of passes, we lost confidence... it was inexplicable. – Fernando Santos	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I understand that some journalists and observers have recently expressed concern that the antitrust division no longer believes that vertical mergers can be efficient and beneficial to competition and consumers, rest assured these concerns are misplaced. – Makan Delrahim	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Mr. Cohen has been placed in the crosshairs by Mr. Trump, he has been set-up to take the fall. An enormous amount of misplaced faith has been placed on his shoulders and I do not believe he has the mettle to withstand it. – Michael Avenatti	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

I don't think President Biden's textbook approach to correctly handling the discovery of misplaced documents will have any impact on his re-election if he decides to run, the difference between the two is apples and rotten oranges.

– Brad Woodhouse

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is again the misplaced vilification of American law enforcement, let's talk about New York specifically. I think we've learned by now that police are not the problem.

– Betsy Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re watching the death of women’s sports right before our eyes in the name of some misplaced sense of equity, female athletes are watching their hard work and lifelong dreams being ripped away by biological males who aren’t talented enough to be competitive in male sports.

– Gina Ciarcia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sadly, our school board’s priorities have often been severely misplaced, our kids must come first.

– London Breed

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, which I think you've earned, I believe you deserve a chance... please understand that there will be only one chance, if you violate my conditions, that will be an indication that my trust was misplaced.

– District Judge Amy Berman Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

– Alfred North Whitehead

added by davidr.38494
2 years ago

I think policy is rather overdoing International Energy Agency, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced.

– Joe BidenLarry Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think policy is rather overdoing it, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced.

– Larry Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Can we keep that commitment to America? No more misplaced priorities. The American people deserve better. America is worth fighting for. Americans rights are worth fighting for. Their dreams are worth fighting for. Their voices are worth fighting for. And most importantly, their voices are worth being heard on this floor.

– House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.

– Marvin Cooley

added by Normando
3 years ago

Shaming individuals who are at a party or in a park may give us a sense of control in the moment, but it's misplaced energy.

– Julia Marcus

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced.

– Pastor Fred Jackson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Trust. Trust. Thats all I can say, we as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced.

– Pastor Fred Jackson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Wall Street seems to have some concerns about Guzman's lack of experience in politics and 'heterodox' economic views. I think these views are misplaced, as far as experience, Guzman has been involved in sovereign and quasi-sovereign situations. And his views on growth rather than austerity led recoveries are spot on.

– Hans Humes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The most recent trade escalation increases the risk of recession on top of what is now a synchronized global slowdown, for investors, the hope of a trade deal is entirely misplaced at present.

– Eleanor Creagh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are out of the realm of focusing squarely on the US Treasury or the Iranian central bank governor or Iran's oil minister. It does seem a bit of an afterthought, which is oddly misplaced, to discuss the power of sanctions when there is no meaningful new economic measure that will create a powerful new impact at this point.

– Liz Rosenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We don't see any quick end to this state of the markets until we see some resolution, constructive dialogue and something very solid in terms of deals. But the hopes for that are a bit misplaced currently.

– Prakash Sakpal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's a lot of negativity about technology, some of it's fair, some of it's misplaced.

– Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What this really is is misplaced criticism of Bill McRaven.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That fear, from a law enforcement perspective, is highly misplaced, it may be effective at energizing the base, but it creates a needless fear of the caravan.

– Undersecretary John Cohen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At this particular point, Rod Rosenstein's priorities are misplaced, for his unwillingness to come before Congress and allow us to conduct proper congressional oversight, it's time that Rod Rosenstein steps down. Rod Rosenstein should do so immediately. And in doing that, I think it would serve the country well, it would serve this President well.

– Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have to look at this, we lost control of the game, we misplaced a lot of passes, we lost confidence... it was inexplicable.

– Fernando Santos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I understand that some journalists and observers have recently expressed concern that the antitrust division no longer believes that vertical mergers can be efficient and beneficial to competition and consumers, rest assured these concerns are misplaced.

– Makan Delrahim

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mr. Cohen has been placed in the crosshairs by Mr. Trump, he has been set-up to take the fall. An enormous amount of misplaced faith has been placed on his shoulders and I do not believe he has the mettle to withstand it.

– Michael Avenatti

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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