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Truth shall always be truth, no matter how much darkness tries to cover it; truth is forever true. He who refuses truth shall one day drink of God's wrath. There is a time for everything, even a time for judgment. He that has ears hears, and he that closes his ear should also be prepared to drink the cup of divine justice. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
We are getting very close to go time. The fact that we’re where we’re at should concern a lot of us. That is because Joe Biden refuses to come to the table. – Jennifer Kiggans	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should, it’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations. – Matt Allen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've seen that Herschel Walker has a disturbing history pattern of violence against women, against his own family. And he takes and he refuses to take responsibility for that, and he refuses even to answer questions. So, the question right now is this: is that who we want representing Georgia? – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I hate to bother you with this matter, but it appears that it is not going to stop; and such is not helpful. The vice chair ran for chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, she lost but she refuses to accept the results, i was elected as chair without a runoff. But our vice chair is doing everything at her command to frustrate, undermine, interfere, and prevent the Democratic Party from moving foward. She is also challenging my leadership. – Chairman Randy Kelley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Russians will do everything to end the conflict in Ukraine as quickly as possible, but Kyiv refuses to negotiate. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You keep trying to make that case. I don't consider any Trump supporters a threat to the country, i do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, refuses to acknowledge an election…changing the way you count votes, that is a threat to democracy. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. – Alex Kozinski	added by Normando 1 year ago
The State of Arizona is providing voluntary transportation for asylum seekers only to Washington, D.C., not New York, president Biden created the crisis at the border — he’s failed to respond to calls for action and refuses to even visit the border, so we’re bringing the issue a little closer to home for President Biden. – Doug Ducey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Just like in the primary, Dr. Oz's campaign will also have ample resources to get its message out, mehmet Oz has been busy campaigning across the state, meeting with voters, and attending both small dollar and high dollar fundraising events, but John Fetterman refuses to campaign and meet with voters who are concerned about the disastrous Biden-Fetterman agenda. – Brittany Yanick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When an elected DA refuses to follow the law, won't consider facts, evidence or circumstances of the case and is guided by politics over justice, you have George Gascon. – Jon Hatami	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented actionto protect Americans andsecure our southern border. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A strong woman is still a strong woman even if the world refuses to acknowledge her. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
Fixer-Saviors believe that they have been given a sign( often by God or a higher power) to save the criminal. Arielle Baskin-Sommers often refuses to acknowledge evidence of guilt, insists he was framed, and believes that Arielle Baskin-Sommers has unique insight into his psyche. – Casey Jordan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's been an explosion of child pornography due to the internet and computer systems, and she refuses to use that as a sentence enhancer, which I think puts her on the low end, and secondly, she will not look at the number of images downloaded. I think both of those are mistakes. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health, it’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site. – Scott Wiener	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She’s a principled conservative who is interested in solving problems and empowering parents and making sure schools are accountable and transparent and promoting rigor, i don’t think this is something that given her druthers she would prefer to focus on, but she refuses to bullied. – Frederick Hess	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Incite against a member and you’re stripped. End of story. She refuses to even apologize. – Lauren Boebert	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So if NATO still refuses to discuss this theme or the guarantees or ideas put forward by the President of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, of course we will take measures to ensure that our security, our sovereignty and our territorial integrity does not depend on anyone else. – Sergey Lavrov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Anytime, anywhere you want, you want to do a 24/7 special, I’ll do it, he’s been invited on – I think I’ve done six, 10 shows in the last week. Every single show says the same thing at the end. ‘We invited Glenn Youngkin, he refuses' – You are running for governor! He’s got to quit hiding. He wouldn’t debate me for months. I mean, it is just insane. You are running for governor. How can you not answer tough questions? – Terry McAuliffe	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so. – Eric Schmitt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Before he takes on additional tasks he must secure the border, start supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in their mission, and sincerely apologize to the mounted Border Patrol for the false attacks he has waged against them. In the alternative, if he continues to refuse to do his job and refuses to apologize to the mounted Border Patrol, he should resign. – Betsy Brantner Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If we end up in court we may finally get the regulatory clarity the SEC refuses to provide. But regulation by litigation should be the last resort for the SEC, not the first. – Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Gavin Newsom is afraid to answer for his failed record. He allowed crime and homelessness to skyrocket, he shut down schools for an entire year, and he slashed wildfire prevention funding. I’m not afraid to stand on my record and answer tough questions from voters and the media, but Newsom refuses to take accountability for his indefensible actions. We must recall him. – Kevin Faulconer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Truth shall always be truth, no matter how much darkness tries to cover it; truth is forever true. He who refuses truth shall one day drink of God's wrath. There is a time for everything, even a time for judgment. He that has ears hears, and he that closes his ear should also be prepared to drink the cup of divine justice.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

We are getting very close to go time. The fact that we’re where we’re at should concern a lot of us. That is because Joe Biden refuses to come to the table.

– Jennifer Kiggans

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should, it’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations.

– Matt Allen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've seen that Herschel Walker has a disturbing history pattern of violence against women, against his own family. And he takes and he refuses to take responsibility for that, and he refuses even to answer questions. So, the question right now is this: is that who we want representing Georgia?

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I hate to bother you with this matter, but it appears that it is not going to stop; and such is not helpful. The vice chair ran for chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, she lost but she refuses to accept the results, i was elected as chair without a runoff. But our vice chair is doing everything at her command to frustrate, undermine, interfere, and prevent the Democratic Party from moving foward. She is also challenging my leadership.

– Chairman Randy Kelley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Russians will do everything to end the conflict in Ukraine as quickly as possible, but Kyiv refuses to negotiate.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You keep trying to make that case. I don't consider any Trump supporters a threat to the country, i do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, refuses to acknowledge an election…changing the way you count votes, that is a threat to democracy.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

– Alex Kozinski

added by Normando
1 year ago

The State of Arizona is providing voluntary transportation for asylum seekers only to Washington, D.C., not New York, president Biden created the crisis at the border — he’s failed to respond to calls for action and refuses to even visit the border, so we’re bringing the issue a little closer to home for President Biden.

– Doug Ducey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just like in the primary, Dr. Oz's campaign will also have ample resources to get its message out, mehmet Oz has been busy campaigning across the state, meeting with voters, and attending both small dollar and high dollar fundraising events, but John Fetterman refuses to campaign and meet with voters who are concerned about the disastrous Biden-Fetterman agenda.

– Brittany Yanick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When an elected DA refuses to follow the law, won't consider facts, evidence or circumstances of the case and is guided by politics over justice, you have George Gascon.

– Jon Hatami

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented actionto protect Americans andsecure our southern border.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A strong woman is still a strong woman even if the world refuses to acknowledge her.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

Fixer-Saviors believe that they have been given a sign( often by God or a higher power) to save the criminal. Arielle Baskin-Sommers often refuses to acknowledge evidence of guilt, insists he was framed, and believes that Arielle Baskin-Sommers has unique insight into his psyche.

– Casey Jordan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's been an explosion of child pornography due to the internet and computer systems, and she refuses to use that as a sentence enhancer, which I think puts her on the low end, and secondly, she will not look at the number of images downloaded. I think both of those are mistakes.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health, it’s unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site.

– Scott Wiener

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She’s a principled conservative who is interested in solving problems and empowering parents and making sure schools are accountable and transparent and promoting rigor, i don’t think this is something that given her druthers she would prefer to focus on, but she refuses to bullied.

– Frederick Hess

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Incite against a member and you’re stripped. End of story. She refuses to even apologize.

– Lauren Boebert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So if NATO still refuses to discuss this theme or the guarantees or ideas put forward by the President of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, of course we will take measures to ensure that our security, our sovereignty and our territorial integrity does not depend on anyone else.

– Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Anytime, anywhere you want, you want to do a 24/7 special, I’ll do it, he’s been invited on – I think I’ve done six, 10 shows in the last week. Every single show says the same thing at the end. ‘We invited Glenn Youngkin, he refuses' – You are running for governor! He’s got to quit hiding. He wouldn’t debate me for months. I mean, it is just insane. You are running for governor. How can you not answer tough questions?

– Terry McAuliffe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so.

– Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Before he takes on additional tasks he must secure the border, start supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in their mission, and sincerely apologize to the mounted Border Patrol for the false attacks he has waged against them. In the alternative, if he continues to refuse to do his job and refuses to apologize to the mounted Border Patrol, he should resign.

– Betsy Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we end up in court we may finally get the regulatory clarity the SEC refuses to provide. But regulation by litigation should be the last resort for the SEC, not the first.

– Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Gavin Newsom is afraid to answer for his failed record. He allowed crime and homelessness to skyrocket, he shut down schools for an entire year, and he slashed wildfire prevention funding. I’m not afraid to stand on my record and answer tough questions from voters and the media, but Newsom refuses to take accountability for his indefensible actions. We must recall him.

– Kevin Faulconer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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