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Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail it was a mistake to have the personal email server. I think what's, in retrospect, incredibly ironic and deeply frustrating to a lot of us is that Director Comey felt entitled to go in front of the country, unauthorized, and lecture Secretary Clinton about Hillary Clinton use when it turns out Director Comey was doing the same thing. – Robby Mook	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Even though it left me with more debt than I ever thought I would have, in retrospect, it was the best decision I ever made for Autumn Trafficante ; imagining my life without facial feminization surgery is the stuff of nightmares for me, yet that is the reality for the vast majority of trans women. – Autumn Trafficante	Found on CNN 6 years ago
In retrospect, I wish I had been here from day one, i think in some cases, in terms of staffing or serving the President, that first six months was pretty chaotic and there were people some people hired that maybe shouldn't have hired some people. – John Kelly	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Although he vigorously denies using physical force, Mr. Weinstein has himself recognized that his contact with women was indefensible and incredibly hurtful, in retrospect, I knew enough in 2015 that I believe I should have been on notice of a problem, and done something about it. I don’t know what, if anything, happened after 2015, but to the extent it did, I think I have some responsibility. I also think that if people had taken action earlier it would have been better for Mr. Weinstein. – David Boies	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Looking back in retrospect and regretting your past, you miss the opportunities in front of you. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 6 years ago
I remember, and still do to this day, looking around all the faces of the people in the audience next to me and around me, and I saw the happiness that they were experiencing as a result of what these performers were doing. And I remember looking at my mom and saying, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ And she took that to mean music. I’m not sure in retrospect if that’s what I meant, but that’s what it turned out to be for me. – Hank Williams	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I never had any doubt from day one, when Dylan went missing -- I knew that Mark had something to do with it, …In hindsight, in retrospect, I see many signs that should have triggered something. – Elaine Hall	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently, for me, this was opposition research. – Trump Jr.	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It was a hard choice, I still believe in retrospect the right choice, i can't consider for a second whose political fortunes will be affected. – James Comey	Found on CNN 7 years ago
One must judiciously retrospect not just his actions but also reactions of the other in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion. The primary fallacy is that you're assuming that the other is functioning out of awareness - which is falsity and this further aggrevates the mental agony, driving you farther from reality. Watch on! – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 7 years ago
Earnings in Japan haven't been that bad, against very conservative guidance, which in retrospect was appropriate, i'm surprised there's been a failure to recognise more of the positives. – Stefan Worrall	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I take classification seriously. I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked. And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, ‘Well, … among those 300 people, they made the wrong call,’ at the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The market had clearly worked itself into a frenzy of expectations demanding that the BOJ take action, and in retrospect that looks like a misguided view that failed to recognise the dilemma that recent economic dynamics have presented for the BOJ. – Stefan Worrall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In retrospect, when we talk to people, sometimes they’ll say they have felt symptoms at other times, but they didn’t bring up the issue, so they never diagnosed it at the time, but it may have been a concussion. – Andrew Russman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In retrospect, I regret all of it, all the way back to seeing the city move to a different drinking water source. You can't put a dollar amount of the devastation to our community, our kids, and it was completely avoidable. – Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This wasn't the first time we identified a bad breach in the NGP-VAN system, in retrospect, I got a little panicky because our data was totally exposed, too. We had to have an assessment, and understand of how broad the exposure was and I had to document it so that I could try to calm down and think about what actually happened so that I could figure out how to protect our stuff. – Josh Uretsky	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In retrospect, this didn't turn out to be convenient at all and I regret that this has become such a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, the facts are stubborn -- what I did was legally permitted. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Could we have done it better? Could the Page Board have handled it better? In retrospect, probably yes. But at that time, what we knew and what we acted upon was what we had. – Dennis Hastert	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Again, in retrospect, perhaps we would have done things differently but his suicide attempts were back in '08 and '09. This was 2015. I don't know that the physician knew about the missing person report, and we weren't there at the time to see what actually happened. That's one of the challenges with looking at medical records afterward and why it's so important to do good documentation. – Elspeth Cameron Ritchie	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This seems like it was a very tough situation, in retrospect -- and this happens very commonly after a suicide -- you look back and you look back and you see all kinds of red flags or information that one person knew but another person didn't know, and if you put it all together, yes, maybe he should have been hospitalized. – Elspeth Cameron Ritchie	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. – Douglas MacArthur	added by anonymous 10 years ago
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. – Hunter S. Thompson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. – Woodrow Wilson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. – Bob Hope	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail it was a mistake to have the personal email server. I think what's, in retrospect, incredibly ironic and deeply frustrating to a lot of us is that Director Comey felt entitled to go in front of the country, unauthorized, and lecture Secretary Clinton about Hillary Clinton use when it turns out Director Comey was doing the same thing.

– Robby Mook

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Even though it left me with more debt than I ever thought I would have, in retrospect, it was the best decision I ever made for Autumn Trafficante ; imagining my life without facial feminization surgery is the stuff of nightmares for me, yet that is the reality for the vast majority of trans women.

– Autumn Trafficante

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In retrospect, I wish I had been here from day one, i think in some cases, in terms of staffing or serving the President, that first six months was pretty chaotic and there were people some people hired that maybe shouldn't have hired some people.

– John Kelly

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Although he vigorously denies using physical force, Mr. Weinstein has himself recognized that his contact with women was indefensible and incredibly hurtful, in retrospect, I knew enough in 2015 that I believe I should have been on notice of a problem, and done something about it. I don’t know what, if anything, happened after 2015, but to the extent it did, I think I have some responsibility. I also think that if people had taken action earlier it would have been better for Mr. Weinstein.

– David Boies

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Looking back in retrospect and regretting your past, you miss the opportunities in front of you.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

I remember, and still do to this day, looking around all the faces of the people in the audience next to me and around me, and I saw the happiness that they were experiencing as a result of what these performers were doing. And I remember looking at my mom and saying, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ And she took that to mean music. I’m not sure in retrospect if that’s what I meant, but that’s what it turned out to be for me.

– Hank Williams

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I never had any doubt from day one, when Dylan went missing -- I knew that Mark had something to do with it, …In hindsight, in retrospect, I see many signs that should have triggered something.

– Elaine Hall

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In retrospect, I probably would have done things a little differently, for me, this was opposition research.

– Trump Jr.

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It was a hard choice, I still believe in retrospect the right choice, i can't consider for a second whose political fortunes will be affected.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
7 years ago

One must judiciously retrospect not just his actions but also reactions of the other in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion. The primary fallacy is that you're assuming that the other is functioning out of awareness - which is falsity and this further aggrevates the mental agony, driving you farther from reality. Watch on!

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

Earnings in Japan haven't been that bad, against very conservative guidance, which in retrospect was appropriate, i'm surprised there's been a failure to recognise more of the positives.

– Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I take classification seriously. I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked. And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, ‘Well, … among those 300 people, they made the wrong call,’ at the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The market had clearly worked itself into a frenzy of expectations demanding that the BOJ take action, and in retrospect that looks like a misguided view that failed to recognise the dilemma that recent economic dynamics have presented for the BOJ.

– Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In retrospect, when we talk to people, sometimes they’ll say they have felt symptoms at other times, but they didn’t bring up the issue, so they never diagnosed it at the time, but it may have been a concussion.

– Andrew Russman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In retrospect, I regret all of it, all the way back to seeing the city move to a different drinking water source. You can't put a dollar amount of the devastation to our community, our kids, and it was completely avoidable.

– Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This wasn't the first time we identified a bad breach in the NGP-VAN system, in retrospect, I got a little panicky because our data was totally exposed, too. We had to have an assessment, and understand of how broad the exposure was and I had to document it so that I could try to calm down and think about what actually happened so that I could figure out how to protect our stuff.

– Josh Uretsky

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In retrospect, this didn't turn out to be convenient at all and I regret that this has become such a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, the facts are stubborn -- what I did was legally permitted.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Could we have done it better? Could the Page Board have handled it better? In retrospect, probably yes. But at that time, what we knew and what we acted upon was what we had.

– Dennis Hastert

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Again, in retrospect, perhaps we would have done things differently but his suicide attempts were back in '08 and '09. This was 2015. I don't know that the physician knew about the missing person report, and we weren't there at the time to see what actually happened. That's one of the challenges with looking at medical records afterward and why it's so important to do good documentation.

– Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This seems like it was a very tough situation, in retrospect -- and this happens very commonly after a suicide -- you look back and you look back and you see all kinds of red flags or information that one person knew but another person didn't know, and if you put it all together, yes, maybe he should have been hospitalized.

– Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

– Douglas MacArthur

added by anonymous
10 years ago

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

– Hunter S. Thompson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

– Woodrow Wilson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

– Bob Hope

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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