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They have been in power for 12 years. The damage they have done is profound. Twelve years of economic stagnation. Twelve years of declining public services. Twelve years of empty promises, enough is enough. We don't need to change the Tory at the top -- we need a proper change of government. We need a fresh start for Britain. – Keir Starmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own. – Native American	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While the dawn is still in the dark, God whispers new promises. Listen to those whispers and manifest your dreams. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 1 year ago
Gulf Arab states believe that The US should be present at the table for Iran to deliver on any promises made to them. – Elham Fakhro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Last year we made promises to fundamentally change and improve how we establish and expedite presumptions -- now we're keeping them, we are taking a new approach to presumptives that takes all available science into account, with one goal in mind : Getting today's Veterans -- and vets in the decades ahead -- the benefits they deserve as fast as possible. – Denis McDonough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We hope to go to Sharm el-Sheikh with a clear roadmap of what has been accomplished with respect to those promises made, and what has been done to raise the level of ambition and commitment from those who haven't yet done that, that's our current target, with this effort here. We're currently gearing up to try to make sure that we can get done all the things I just described. – John Kerry	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The fact that we are an energy giant, potentially, and that we can have inexpensive energy here in the United States, that’s also relatively clean and natural gas, gives us so many advantages economically and promises to allow us to resume high-end manufacturing and so forth at lower cost then the rest of the world, and as we learned from COVID, it’s very important that we have here in United States the vital resources that we need and that we’re not dependent on other countries. – William Barr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Since the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is one of the most important promises, I think that it will probably be implemented as a tangible action first, in that case, I have a concern that gender conflict and women's human rights may go further backward. – Yun Ji-yeong	Found on CNN 2 years ago
An indictment of this magnitude is a condemnation of a system infected with promises of pay-to-play, and the era of corruption and self-dealing among Illinois politicians must end, the conduct alleged in this indictment is deplorable and a stark violation of the public's trust. Michael Madigan must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. – Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity. – Dar Crammond	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
More than a month ago, President Biden assured a very war-weary nation that putting troops in or around Ukraine was not on the table. Well, now it looks like that's right up there with the other promises President Biden made, like if you get vaxxed, you can go back to normal and just 100 days of masking. – Lia Thomas	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's no time to start like today, i'm going to start by keeping the promises I made to the American people. – President Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Like those who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, we will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father's dream for a more equal and just America. – Martin Luther	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's incredible, i think this is just an example to the rest of the country that parents' voices make a difference in their children's lives, and Glenn Youngkin is delivering on promises that he gave throughout his campaign and on day one, he kept them. – Rachel Pisani	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Democrats need to stop covering for the Biden administration’s failed COVID response and hiding behind closed door briefings with administration witnesses, like they are doing today, the American people deserve transparency and accountability, but all they’ve gotten from the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are broken promises. – James Comer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Moscow is simultaneously driving the false narrative that NATO is threatening Russia, that NATO plans to station military infrastructure in Ukraine to stir conflict with Russia, that NATO swore after the cold war not to admit countries in Eastern Europe, and that NATO has broken those promises, each of those claims is false. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In too many neighborhoods, gangs are targeting young boys – young boys with promise, young boys with a whole history and opportunity in front of them, but they’re targeting them with false promises of wealth, an easy life, and a sense of purpose and belonging. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Deeper than that is the reality that we can no longer continue to exploit the lives and the pain of our communities, every two to four years we see politicians coming to sacred space, to our congregations, and making promises to our members and saying how life in this realm is going to get better for our congregations and members. And then we end up in moments like this, where we are on the brink of tremendous failure. – Stephany Spaulding	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am so angry with Chesa Boudin right now. He makes San Francisco’s criminal justice system a complete joke, the killer of my 6-year-old son will likely serve less time than the age of my son because of Chesa's campaign promise. Boudin's campaign promises do not protect San Franciscans and ensure justice – they only allow criminals, and in this case, murderers, to return to the community. – Jason Young	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Before this presidential term ends, the administration must issue long-term standards strong enough to usher in the age of electric vehicles, they must close the loopholes and force automakers to actually deliver electric vehicles, rather than just churning out promises to make them. – Dan Becker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If they have policies regarding freedom of speech and the protection of free expression, if they are statements that are made by the administrators about how they will protect the free speech of their students, those policies and those statements are treated as creating a contractual obligation by the university to actually live up to those promises right and protect the speech of the students and of the community. And students and the community rely on those promises. – Alyza Lewin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Releasing it on Black Friday after Thanksgiving on one of the slower news cycles of the year is emblematic of what the report said and did, it's certainly a complicated mix of factors but ultimately the result is a tremendously cautious and tepid approach on these issues, and an approach that doesn't follow through on campaign promises that were made. – Kyle Tisdel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We expect a return on our investment and for politicians to deliver on their elected promises. – Varshini Prakash	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Young people handed Senate Democrats everything they needed in 2020 : a governing majority and a popular mandate. If they fail to deliver their agenda, then they will be the reason young people disengage from politics forever, we expect a return on our investment and for politicians to deliver on their elected promises. – Varshini Prakash	Found on CNN 2 years ago

They have been in power for 12 years. The damage they have done is profound. Twelve years of economic stagnation. Twelve years of declining public services. Twelve years of empty promises, enough is enough. We don't need to change the Tory at the top -- we need a proper change of government. We need a fresh start for Britain.

– Keir Starmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own.

– Native American

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the dawn is still in the dark, God whispers new promises. Listen to those whispers and manifest your dreams.

– Amit Ray

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Gulf Arab states believe that The US should be present at the table for Iran to deliver on any promises made to them.

– Elham Fakhro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Last year we made promises to fundamentally change and improve how we establish and expedite presumptions -- now we're keeping them, we are taking a new approach to presumptives that takes all available science into account, with one goal in mind : Getting today's Veterans -- and vets in the decades ahead -- the benefits they deserve as fast as possible.

– Denis McDonough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We hope to go to Sharm el-Sheikh with a clear roadmap of what has been accomplished with respect to those promises made, and what has been done to raise the level of ambition and commitment from those who haven't yet done that, that's our current target, with this effort here. We're currently gearing up to try to make sure that we can get done all the things I just described.

– John Kerry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact that we are an energy giant, potentially, and that we can have inexpensive energy here in the United States, that’s also relatively clean and natural gas, gives us so many advantages economically and promises to allow us to resume high-end manufacturing and so forth at lower cost then the rest of the world, and as we learned from COVID, it’s very important that we have here in United States the vital resources that we need and that we’re not dependent on other countries.

– William Barr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is one of the most important promises, I think that it will probably be implemented as a tangible action first, in that case, I have a concern that gender conflict and women's human rights may go further backward.

– Yun Ji-yeong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An indictment of this magnitude is a condemnation of a system infected with promises of pay-to-play, and the era of corruption and self-dealing among Illinois politicians must end, the conduct alleged in this indictment is deplorable and a stark violation of the public's trust. Michael Madigan must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

– Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity.

– Dar Crammond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

More than a month ago, President Biden assured a very war-weary nation that putting troops in or around Ukraine was not on the table. Well, now it looks like that's right up there with the other promises President Biden made, like if you get vaxxed, you can go back to normal and just 100 days of masking.

– Lia Thomas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no time to start like today, i'm going to start by keeping the promises I made to the American people.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like those who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, we will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father's dream for a more equal and just America.

– Martin Luther

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's incredible, i think this is just an example to the rest of the country that parents' voices make a difference in their children's lives, and Glenn Youngkin is delivering on promises that he gave throughout his campaign and on day one, he kept them.

– Rachel Pisani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Democrats need to stop covering for the Biden administration’s failed COVID response and hiding behind closed door briefings with administration witnesses, like they are doing today, the American people deserve transparency and accountability, but all they’ve gotten from the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are broken promises.

– James Comer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Moscow is simultaneously driving the false narrative that NATO is threatening Russia, that NATO plans to station military infrastructure in Ukraine to stir conflict with Russia, that NATO swore after the cold war not to admit countries in Eastern Europe, and that NATO has broken those promises, each of those claims is false.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In too many neighborhoods, gangs are targeting young boys – young boys with promise, young boys with a whole history and opportunity in front of them, but they’re targeting them with false promises of wealth, an easy life, and a sense of purpose and belonging.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Deeper than that is the reality that we can no longer continue to exploit the lives and the pain of our communities, every two to four years we see politicians coming to sacred space, to our congregations, and making promises to our members and saying how life in this realm is going to get better for our congregations and members. And then we end up in moments like this, where we are on the brink of tremendous failure.

– Stephany Spaulding

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am so angry with Chesa Boudin right now. He makes San Francisco’s criminal justice system a complete joke, the killer of my 6-year-old son will likely serve less time than the age of my son because of Chesa's campaign promise. Boudin's campaign promises do not protect San Franciscans and ensure justice – they only allow criminals, and in this case, murderers, to return to the community.

– Jason Young

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Before this presidential term ends, the administration must issue long-term standards strong enough to usher in the age of electric vehicles, they must close the loopholes and force automakers to actually deliver electric vehicles, rather than just churning out promises to make them.

– Dan Becker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If they have policies regarding freedom of speech and the protection of free expression, if they are statements that are made by the administrators about how they will protect the free speech of their students, those policies and those statements are treated as creating a contractual obligation by the university to actually live up to those promises right and protect the speech of the students and of the community. And students and the community rely on those promises.

– Alyza Lewin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Releasing it on Black Friday after Thanksgiving on one of the slower news cycles of the year is emblematic of what the report said and did, it's certainly a complicated mix of factors but ultimately the result is a tremendously cautious and tepid approach on these issues, and an approach that doesn't follow through on campaign promises that were made.

– Kyle Tisdel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We expect a return on our investment and for politicians to deliver on their elected promises.

– Varshini Prakash

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Young people handed Senate Democrats everything they needed in 2020 : a governing majority and a popular mandate. If they fail to deliver their agenda, then they will be the reason young people disengage from politics forever, we expect a return on our investment and for politicians to deliver on their elected promises.

– Varshini Prakash

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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