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I have more questions: Chicago, what happened with Kim Foxx and that prosecutor? The D.A.'s team? What was going on there? I have so many questions and was Jussie Smollett involved in any way in perpetrating something bigger, something was that was like a woke moment gone awry? We don’t know, and we may never know. But it bears asking the questions because the tax dollars were spent, and we as a public were manipulated. – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
China has been a bad actor and everyone knows it — from continuing to stonewall on the WHO investigation of COVID-19 origins to perpetrating genocide and committing mass humans rights violations,’ i’m glad to see the Biden Administration take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough. – Tim Ryan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But I had a very strange reaction: I felt sorry for the kids who were perpetrating it, i really felt horrible for them. Their lives are going to be over. – Drew Pinsky	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The guys who come to college at seemingly greatest risk for perpetrating rape are not the guys who are at greatest risk once they're in college. – Kevin Swartout	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Today is a fabulous day. Nearly four months ago, we told you that Denise Huskins' was right -- that she was not only innocent of perpetrating a hoax, but that she was a victim of a very serious and violent crime. And today there is vindication, the Vallejo Police Department owes an apology to Ms. Huskins and Mr. Quinn. – Douglas Rappaport	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's typically a pretty small handful of the kids who are continually perpetrating bullying behavior. – Susan Swearer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is counterintuitive, but the truth is that notwithstanding the threat of ISIL, notwithstanding people being beheaded publicly and burned publicly and the atrocities that they are perpetrating. And it is a serious, serious challenge to us, notwithstanding that, there is actually less threat and less probability of people dying in some sort of violent conflict today than at any time in human history. – State John Kerry	Found on CNN 9 years ago

I have more questions: Chicago, what happened with Kim Foxx and that prosecutor? The D.A.'s team? What was going on there? I have so many questions and was Jussie Smollett involved in any way in perpetrating something bigger, something was that was like a woke moment gone awry? We don’t know, and we may never know. But it bears asking the questions because the tax dollars were spent, and we as a public were manipulated.

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

China has been a bad actor and everyone knows it — from continuing to stonewall on the WHO investigation of COVID-19 origins to perpetrating genocide and committing mass humans rights violations,’ i’m glad to see the Biden Administration take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough.

– Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But I had a very strange reaction: I felt sorry for the kids who were perpetrating it, i really felt horrible for them. Their lives are going to be over.

– Drew Pinsky

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The guys who come to college at seemingly greatest risk for perpetrating rape are not the guys who are at greatest risk once they're in college.

– Kevin Swartout

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Today is a fabulous day. Nearly four months ago, we told you that Denise Huskins' was right -- that she was not only innocent of perpetrating a hoax, but that she was a victim of a very serious and violent crime. And today there is vindication, the Vallejo Police Department owes an apology to Ms. Huskins and Mr. Quinn.

– Douglas Rappaport

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's typically a pretty small handful of the kids who are continually perpetrating bullying behavior.

– Susan Swearer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is counterintuitive, but the truth is that notwithstanding the threat of ISIL, notwithstanding people being beheaded publicly and burned publicly and the atrocities that they are perpetrating. And it is a serious, serious challenge to us, notwithstanding that, there is actually less threat and less probability of people dying in some sort of violent conflict today than at any time in human history.

– State John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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