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She came in late. She purposely sat next to me because she wanted to get her social media hits. – Gabriel Sterling	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They're purposely sending this economy towards recession. – Robert Yawger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You know what – in making my show I always expected the best for my audience and they always delighted me, because Americans are really sharp, and they get it, and so what I see John Fetterman doing is purposely muddying the water. – Mehmet Oz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Of course, you know, if you attack civilians on purpose, target civilians purposely, then that’s not – that is a crime, so, these actions are under review by our State Department, and, of course, there will be and there’s a process that will go through to review all of this. – Lloyd Austin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He's pushing for government intrusion into workplaces and doctor's offices. It's all in service to his presidential ambitions, republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is purposely picking fights that rev up Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis base. And the intention is to secure the loyalty of the base Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump share. – Nadine Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize the long-term impact on Russia and minimize the impact on the United States and our allies. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The president has been consistent on this issue and the issue at hand, the issue I was there last night in the chamber of the Senate and the issue is there are two bills… that have been the solution that has been offered to address the fact that around our country states have put in place laws that are purposely making it more difficult for the American people to vote. – President Harris	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Cultural Revolution was a period of chaos, purposely unleashed by Mao because he felt comfortable in chaos, this is almost the exact opposite. – Andrew Nathan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They dropped all the weapons charges and they charged me with the lowest level of misdemeanor, which is something called assault four, which alleges that I purposely placed at least one other person in apprehension of immediate physical injury, i said, ‘Well, I guess I did. That was all point of the guns.’. – Mark McCloskey	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Public inquiries indicate that some people may purposely drink, inhale, or spray their skin with disinfectants, without understanding that use of disinfectants in Read MoreSo can cause serious harm to their bodies. – Vincent Hill	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We finally, potentially, got the answer, it gives me peace to know -- at least now I know and we know that she wasn't, she didn't purposely leave us. It's nothing that we did. And that really, really makes me feel good to know. – Luis Colon Jr.	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Weve set this up purposely so if there is alignment, we can run this fast and get it through to the presidents desk. Were not there yet, but that would be my desire. – Jeff Fortenberry	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Trump has consistently and rightly said that where a voter can not make it to the polls, they should request an absentee ballot, the President has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal mail-in voting systems, like the one that led to California's train wreck primary, and traditional absentee mail voting systems, like the tried and true system in North Carolina — a distinction Democrats and many in the mainstream media purposely ignore to sow confusion. – Thea McDonald	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This action, which is a gift to the coal industry at the expense of all Americans, is an attack on public health justified by a phony cost-benefit analysis that purposely inflates the cost of MATS and ignores the value of the human health benefits. – Ellen Kurlansky	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We went through hell, unfairly, did nothing wrong - did nothing wrong. I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit, not purposely, but I've done things wrong. – President Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have been very focused on expanding the company into India [ and ] the Middle East, this is a fantastic app to serve those networks... equally strong, equally loud, but purposely built for emerging markets. – Cecilia Qvist	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They targeted my client. They planned to entrap her at that performance that night and they subsequently succeeded, and if ultimately it shows that in fact it was politically motivated, and they purposely sought her out and attempted to use the force of the badge and the law in order to arrest her, that's a very serious matter. – Michael Avenatti	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is unethical to purposely expose women and their unborn babies to marijuana during pregnancy to study outcomes, marijuana in pregnancy is... not as black and white as something like alcohol. – Katrina Mark	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right. – Chaim Siegel	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's (Musk is) sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right. – Chaim Siegel	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Then a man came over and shoved his badge in my face and took the bag out of the bin and then plopped it back in sideways so it purposely would n’t fit. – Natalia Rutkowski	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She asked me to put the bag into the bin which I did and she said, ‘ OK, well the person who swiped has to see it. ’ I said, ‘ This is the third time I’ve done it. ’ then a man came over and shoved his badge in my face and took the bag out of the bin and then plopped it back in sideways so it purposely would n’t fit. – Natalia Rutkowski	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think it’s clear that this is not the case of a company that forgot to register, or didn’t know that they had to register, fusion GPS purposely, and quite deliberately, chose not to register so that their activity would fly under the radar, leading people to see the result of their work as organic and real, pushing a noble vision of truth, instead of what it actually is –smear campaigns in return for large enough retainers. – Thor Halvorsson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Initially I think I was shocked, quite emotional speaking to my wife about the near miss I had, i think I'm in an anger phase just because someone purposely drove a car at me. – Rob Lyon	Found on CNN 7 years ago

She came in late. She purposely sat next to me because she wanted to get her social media hits.

– Gabriel Sterling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're purposely sending this economy towards recession.

– Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know what – in making my show I always expected the best for my audience and they always delighted me, because Americans are really sharp, and they get it, and so what I see John Fetterman doing is purposely muddying the water.

– Mehmet Oz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Of course, you know, if you attack civilians on purpose, target civilians purposely, then that’s not – that is a crime, so, these actions are under review by our State Department, and, of course, there will be and there’s a process that will go through to review all of this.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's pushing for government intrusion into workplaces and doctor's offices. It's all in service to his presidential ambitions, republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is purposely picking fights that rev up Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis base. And the intention is to secure the loyalty of the base Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump share.

– Nadine Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize the long-term impact on Russia and minimize the impact on the United States and our allies.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The president has been consistent on this issue and the issue at hand, the issue I was there last night in the chamber of the Senate and the issue is there are two bills… that have been the solution that has been offered to address the fact that around our country states have put in place laws that are purposely making it more difficult for the American people to vote.

– President Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Cultural Revolution was a period of chaos, purposely unleashed by Mao because he felt comfortable in chaos, this is almost the exact opposite.

– Andrew Nathan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They dropped all the weapons charges and they charged me with the lowest level of misdemeanor, which is something called assault four, which alleges that I purposely placed at least one other person in apprehension of immediate physical injury, i said, ‘Well, I guess I did. That was all point of the guns.’.

– Mark McCloskey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Public inquiries indicate that some people may purposely drink, inhale, or spray their skin with disinfectants, without understanding that use of disinfectants in Read MoreSo can cause serious harm to their bodies.

– Vincent Hill

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We finally, potentially, got the answer, it gives me peace to know -- at least now I know and we know that she wasn't, she didn't purposely leave us. It's nothing that we did. And that really, really makes me feel good to know.

– Luis Colon Jr.

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weve set this up purposely so if there is alignment, we can run this fast and get it through to the presidents desk. Were not there yet, but that would be my desire.

– Jeff Fortenberry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

President Trump has consistently and rightly said that where a voter can not make it to the polls, they should request an absentee ballot, the President has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal mail-in voting systems, like the one that led to California's train wreck primary, and traditional absentee mail voting systems, like the tried and true system in North Carolina — a distinction Democrats and many in the mainstream media purposely ignore to sow confusion.

– Thea McDonald

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This action, which is a gift to the coal industry at the expense of all Americans, is an attack on public health justified by a phony cost-benefit analysis that purposely inflates the cost of MATS and ignores the value of the human health benefits.

– Ellen Kurlansky

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We went through hell, unfairly, did nothing wrong - did nothing wrong. I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit, not purposely, but I've done things wrong.

– President Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have been very focused on expanding the company into India [ and ] the Middle East, this is a fantastic app to serve those networks... equally strong, equally loud, but purposely built for emerging markets.

– Cecilia Qvist

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They targeted my client. They planned to entrap her at that performance that night and they subsequently succeeded, and if ultimately it shows that in fact it was politically motivated, and they purposely sought her out and attempted to use the force of the badge and the law in order to arrest her, that's a very serious matter.

– Michael Avenatti

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is unethical to purposely expose women and their unborn babies to marijuana during pregnancy to study outcomes, marijuana in pregnancy is... not as black and white as something like alcohol.

– Katrina Mark

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right.

– Chaim Siegel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Tesla's been trying to run full tilt, he's (Musk is) sleeping overnight on the production floor. I don't think there is any way they'd purposely want to slow production. It tells me something's not quite right.

– Chaim Siegel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Then a man came over and shoved his badge in my face and took the bag out of the bin and then plopped it back in sideways so it purposely would n’t fit.

– Natalia Rutkowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She asked me to put the bag into the bin which I did and she said, ‘ OK, well the person who swiped has to see it. ’ I said, ‘ This is the third time I’ve done it. ’ then a man came over and shoved his badge in my face and took the bag out of the bin and then plopped it back in sideways so it purposely would n’t fit.

– Natalia Rutkowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think it’s clear that this is not the case of a company that forgot to register, or didn’t know that they had to register, fusion GPS purposely, and quite deliberately, chose not to register so that their activity would fly under the radar, leading people to see the result of their work as organic and real, pushing a noble vision of truth, instead of what it actually is –smear campaigns in return for large enough retainers.

– Thor Halvorsson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Initially I think I was shocked, quite emotional speaking to my wife about the near miss I had, i think I'm in an anger phase just because someone purposely drove a car at me.

– Rob Lyon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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