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We need to get a handle on what cases should be heard first, second and third. We can't pretend, with a six-year backlog in most jurisdictions, that we can handle all of the cases equally. – Judge Bruce Einhorn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You know, Gretchen Whitmer knew about it months in advance. But you know what, if we can get good PR from it, we can pretend like it's real. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Show of hands -- how many feds in the crowd ? I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some sort of, you know, federal kidnapping plot, you know, Gretchen Whitmer knew about it months in advance. But you know what, if we can get good PR from it, we can pretend like it's real. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Pretend I want to go to Wegman's, but I'm actually in a Redner's, but I would tell you I'm shopping in a Wegner's. – John Fetterman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As I stand here tonight,equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise, there’s no question that the Republican Party todayis dominated, driven and intimidated byDonald Trumpand the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While Michelle Vallejo’s comments denying the existence of the border crisis are reprehensible, they’re not surprising, vallejo knows that she must pretend the Biden Border Crisis doesn’t exist to stay in the good graces of her liberal donors and her party’s radical leadership. – De La Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a scandal that thepolitical Left is doing everything in its power to suppress, the basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teachers unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn't happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns. – Christopher Rufo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Keep writing complaints & yelling at the back office customer care of SBI Securities, but none will hear you and shamelessly pretend as if there is no problem with their web and mobile trading platform and complaining to SEBI against brokerage firm means wasting own time and headache – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheishmpatel_1 1 year ago
And remember, Democrats don't believe in democracy … [and] they know their ideas are unpopular. It's why they hide from what they believe. How many Democrats talk about gun control, how many Democrats talk about silencing free speech or taking away your religious liberty? They pretend they don't believe it. – Scott Applewhite	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
FOX and others like it pretend that it’s providing information nobody else is covering. The audience is made to feel they’re in on a secret, only they are over-informed and the rest of us live on a bubble devoid of inconvenient truths. Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines( Fox News). – Philippe Reines	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I will not pretend this will be painless. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've never been in that position before, that was kind of exciting for me. Zac Taylor always kind of jokes,' Hey, don't pretend like the headset goes out, so you can call your own plays.'. – Joe Burrow	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When we think about the horrible mass shootings, I don’t pretend to know that we could have stopped it or not, but if in fact, we could have delivered some mental health services, there may have been a chance. – Sam Liccardo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Lawmakers in the states at the bottom can't pretend to be ignorant about the importance of gun laws after looking at this report. – Shannon Watts	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The foundational basis of our lawsuit is that these are male offenders being housed in women’s prisons, to pretend that they are female, in language or what we say about them or how we talk about them, goes against the whole basis of the lawsuit. – Lauren Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Shame on Jill Biden, i would never allow my husband -- if he was losing his cognizant discipline – I would never allow him to go on TV or pretend that he’s running for president… but this is a power-hungry family. – Jill Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Late Late Show, they don’t pretend to be news. – Prince Harry , from left	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My patients joke with me. They ask me, 'Doctor, am I living longer yet' I say, 'I don't know, but you're living better.' The goal in our groups is not to pretend you're going to make your cancer go away but to live well in the face of cancer. – Dr. David Spiegel	added by Best-Quotes 2 years ago
This is still money, it isn't pretend. – Lissette Monzon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You don't want to make that the high point of the dog's day, so when you walk in, you pretend you don't have a dog... until he is calm, you shouldn't give him any direct attention. – Katherine Houpt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To go into Obama's city to pretend there are Trump supporters running around with MAGA hats ? Give me a break. – Nenye Uche	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is just me trying to convince Billie Eilish that I didn't care, i know that I cared and I was just literally coming up with some stupid quote that would make me pretend that I didn't care. – Billie Eilish	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was completely staged and totally fake, it was a ring that Ramona was wearing. And she took it off and gave it to Harry Dubin during season 12 to pretend that it was Harry Dubin during season 12 … it was oneupmanship. – Heather Thomson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have just elected from among us a woman who is uniquely and passionately Barbadian, does not pretend to be anything else( and) reflects the values of who we are. – Mia Mottley	Found on CNN 2 years ago

We need to get a handle on what cases should be heard first, second and third. We can't pretend, with a six-year backlog in most jurisdictions, that we can handle all of the cases equally.

– Judge Bruce Einhorn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You know, Gretchen Whitmer knew about it months in advance. But you know what, if we can get good PR from it, we can pretend like it's real.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Show of hands -- how many feds in the crowd ? I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some sort of, you know, federal kidnapping plot, you know, Gretchen Whitmer knew about it months in advance. But you know what, if we can get good PR from it, we can pretend like it's real.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pretend I want to go to Wegman's, but I'm actually in a Redner's, but I would tell you I'm shopping in a Wegner's.

– John Fetterman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I stand here tonight,equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise, there’s no question that the Republican Party todayis dominated, driven and intimidated byDonald Trumpand the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While Michelle Vallejo’s comments denying the existence of the border crisis are reprehensible, they’re not surprising, vallejo knows that she must pretend the Biden Border Crisis doesn’t exist to stay in the good graces of her liberal donors and her party’s radical leadership.

– De La Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a scandal that thepolitical Left is doing everything in its power to suppress, the basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teachers unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn't happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns.

– Christopher Rufo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Keep writing complaints & yelling at the back office customer care of SBI Securities, but none will hear you and shamelessly pretend as if there is no problem with their web and mobile trading platform and complaining to SEBI against brokerage firm means wasting own time and headache

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

And remember, Democrats don't believe in democracy … [and] they know their ideas are unpopular. It's why they hide from what they believe. How many Democrats talk about gun control, how many Democrats talk about silencing free speech or taking away your religious liberty? They pretend they don't believe it.

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

FOX and others like it pretend that it’s providing information nobody else is covering. The audience is made to feel they’re in on a secret, only they are over-informed and the rest of us live on a bubble devoid of inconvenient truths. Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines( Fox News).

– Philippe Reines

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will not pretend this will be painless.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never been in that position before, that was kind of exciting for me. Zac Taylor always kind of jokes,' Hey, don't pretend like the headset goes out, so you can call your own plays.'.

– Joe Burrow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When we think about the horrible mass shootings, I don’t pretend to know that we could have stopped it or not, but if in fact, we could have delivered some mental health services, there may have been a chance.

– Sam Liccardo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Lawmakers in the states at the bottom can't pretend to be ignorant about the importance of gun laws after looking at this report.

– Shannon Watts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The foundational basis of our lawsuit is that these are male offenders being housed in women’s prisons, to pretend that they are female, in language or what we say about them or how we talk about them, goes against the whole basis of the lawsuit.

– Lauren Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Shame on Jill Biden, i would never allow my husband -- if he was losing his cognizant discipline – I would never allow him to go on TV or pretend that he’s running for president… but this is a power-hungry family.

– Jill Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Late Late Show, they don’t pretend to be news.

– Prince Harry , from left

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My patients joke with me. They ask me, 'Doctor, am I living longer yet' I say, 'I don't know, but you're living better.' The goal in our groups is not to pretend you're going to make your cancer go away but to live well in the face of cancer.

– Dr. David Spiegel

added by Best-Quotes
2 years ago

This is still money, it isn't pretend.

– Lissette Monzon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You don't want to make that the high point of the dog's day, so when you walk in, you pretend you don't have a dog... until he is calm, you shouldn't give him any direct attention.

– Katherine Houpt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To go into Obama's city to pretend there are Trump supporters running around with MAGA hats ? Give me a break.

– Nenye Uche

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is just me trying to convince Billie Eilish that I didn't care, i know that I cared and I was just literally coming up with some stupid quote that would make me pretend that I didn't care.

– Billie Eilish

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was completely staged and totally fake, it was a ring that Ramona was wearing. And she took it off and gave it to Harry Dubin during season 12 to pretend that it was Harry Dubin during season 12 … it was oneupmanship.

– Heather Thomson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have just elected from among us a woman who is uniquely and passionately Barbadian, does not pretend to be anything else( and) reflects the values of who we are.

– Mia Mottley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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