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The interdiction agencies are trying to get smarter at the task, which is of course what they ought to do, but we shouldn’t count on success, and we should make policy as if those drugs are going to be easily available.

Mark Kleiman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Think about that, but we will never hear that from Ayatollah Obama because that's what he really is, he is, in whatever way, I don't know what his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is, but he's got them in all kinds of positions of power, other smarter people than me have have laid out the case and shown who these people are. I'm just seeing the result. You're seeing the results. You've been asking yourself, 'Why is it that he won't actually call Islamic jihadism, Islamic jihadism? Why is it that he's so passionate about taking away your guns, taking away your First Amendment, your right to speak the truth about this great evil?' But that's because it works. That's because it's part of a plan. That's because the left has always been more organized. They've had playbooks because they have people that get paid in the ivory towers to concoct these plans.

Tim Donnelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have to find ways of helping our NHS service to be more efficient, when we start working smarter and using technology, you can see the great advantages that offers and frees up the time of doctors and nurses to do what they do best : to provide that human care to patients.

Mobasher Butt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I hate it, I meet these people, they call it the elite, we got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we're smarter than they are and they say they're the elite. You're the elite, we're the elite.

Donald TrumpPresident Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are getting smarter, and maybe played by the same rules as the rest of the world, but we kept our dignity and our sportsmanship and if we were down it was because we were fouled. I am proud of the discipline.

Gareth Southgate

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's a particularly acute issue here with President Donald Trump, who I think as more time has elapsed in his tenure, feels more and more confident that, you know, he doesn't really need any advice from anybody and he's smarter than everybody else.

James Clapper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As a state, we could no longer afford to wait on needed changes at the federal level, so Michigan has stepped up to give our residents a smarter, safer rule – one that better safeguards water systems in all communities.

Rick Snyder

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

CFIUS needs to get much smarter and more agile, regimes like China’s nowadays can access knowhow through multiple channels both direct and indirect. CFIUS’s mandate needs to be flexible enough to cover all those currently existing and new schemes as they emerge.

Alan Tonelson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think it will make people work better and smarter and harder and also be able to do things like spend time with their families because we're not robots. We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race.

Michael Tubbs

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Don’t reduce visas but get smarter about how we allocate them.

Daniel Garza

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

’Young Sheldon’ has made a huge impact on our schedule in the short time it’s been on the air, while the show’s DNA is clearly rooted in ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ ‘Young Sheldon’ has staked out its own place in the TV universe with a unique creative tone, brilliant writing and a gifted multi-generational cast. We can’t wait to see Chuck, Steve, Jim and Todd’s vision for how the Cooper family deals with Sheldon growing a year older…and smarter.

Kelly Kahl

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To the people of Alabama, thank Kayla Moore for being smarter than they think Kayla Moore are.

Roy Moores wife

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The easy way to be smarter than your competitors, is to do what they don't do.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

When we started to round up the cats to take them inside, some of them actually ran inside knowing it was time to take shelter, sometimes I think they’re smarter than the human beings.

Dave Gonzales

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.

Sheriff Grady Judd

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We lost the race by three minutes, so we came back the next year a little smarter in how we manage diabetes, a little more experienced in the race, and we set a world record of 5 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes.

Phil Southerland

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What we are doing tomorrow is replacing the across-the-board hiring freeze that we put into place on day one in office and replacing it with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan.

Mick Mulvaney

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There can and certainly will come a time when our tools are smarter than our users, when machines become our key tools, and the machine surpass our ability to think and react, we begin to approach a point where we could in fact lose control. When those machines begin to act autonomously from the humans then we are in an area of the unknown.

Former CIA officer Henderson Cooper

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

They’re making us smarter.

Ray Kurzweil

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think he’s smarter than I am. He’s not going to step in the same potholes, the industry has changed. It’s like the kind of film has changed. If you want to make substantial stories and things that are profound and mean something you kind of have to delve into the independent realm... He called Hacksaw Ridge a big independent film, noting that the film is not even that huge a budget or anything. Andrew Garfield plays Desmond T. Doss, a United States Army corporal and combat medic during WWII who won a Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms. Mel Gibson said bold men like Doss exist in the world today. MORE : Mel Gibson to be honored.

Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The men and women who own and operate American startups and small businesses say complex and expensive regulations are among the biggest challenges they face when starting or growing their businesses or creating new jobs, through Rethink Red Tape, we hope to change that. We need smarter regulation that balances the need to protect our families, consumers and the environment while promoting a thriving small business economy.

Karen Kerrigan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Nothing projects intelligence quite like confidence. When you believe in yourself, it shows, and research shows that believing in yourself improves your performance on cognitive tasks. Self-doubt, on the other hand, impairs your performance. What’s worse is that other people pick up on this doubt, which makes you appear less intelligent to them. If you want people to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. If you’re really smart, you should n’t have to use big words to broadcast it. True intelligence speaks for itself, so you don’t have to show off your impressive vocabulary. In addition, you always run the chance of being wrong. Using a big word incorrectly makes you look, well, not so smart. So, if you want to appear more intelligent, stop studying the dictionary and just focus on communicating effectively. Related : 8 Great Tricks for Reading People's Body Language Communication expert Leonard Mlodinow makes the case that even if two people say exactly the same thing, the one who says it most expressively will be perceived as being smarter. If two speakers utter exactly the same words, but one speaks a little faster and louder and with fewer pauses and greater variation in volume, that speaker will be judged to be more energetic, knowledgeable, and intelligent.

Leonard Mlodinow

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I know they have 150 PhD economists over there who are probably smarter than I am, but they're misreading the situation, this, to me is, the worst possible thing they can do.

Donald Selkin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We'll have to work harder and be smarter, we can beat any company, whatever advantage they've got, if we use our resources better than they do.

Chief Executive Ian Read

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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