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You’ll hear from Ms. Carroll herself, she’ll testify about the allegations and how Donald Trump responded with vicious lies meant to destroy her. – Shawn Crowley	Found on CNN 11 months ago
This was a senseless, unprovoked and vicious murder. – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we need to break the vicious cycle for the people in terms of national interest without neglecting such a prolonged strained relationship between South Korea and Japan. – Foreign Minister Park	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This increased anxiety and fatigue increases the likelihood of experiencing these jerks, resulting in a vicious cycle of insomnia and sleep deprivation. – Raj Dasgupta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In an era where the radicals on the right inspire revulsion and anxiety and the most vicious kind of cheers, having a Democratic leader who gives you the sense that things are going to be OK is exactly what the doctor ordered. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When states respond to shortages by reducing standards rather than increasing salaries and improving working conditions, what they’re doing is creating a vicious cycle. They get people in who are underprepared. Those people leave at two to three times the rate of those who have come in with preparation. you’re undermining student achievement. – Linda Darling Hammond	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Look, the tape was perhaps not totally conclusive but, to me, it was pretty conclusive and it was vicious and violent and hard to believe — over a traffic violation. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The weapons on this list are designed to do one thing and one thing only: kill people in a horribly brutal, vicious way. – Darren Bailey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The fact of the matter is, millions of people have been killed in vicious circumstances on a regular basis throughout history, they went to the Congo in the late 19th century and decimated it. – Roger Hallam	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm incredibly grateful to the people of Western Montana for once again placing their trust in me to fight for them in Washington, D.C. The voters saw through the vicious lies and deceit of my opponent and radical political groups, i'd like to thank everyone who voted for me on Election Day and all those who volunteered with our campaign to get the word out. For those of you who did not vote for me, my door is always open and you'll find me to have an open ear, open mind, and shoot straight when we disagree. – Ryan Zinke	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters controlled by radical left scoundrels, lawyers, and the media who tell them what to do. – Former President Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They're resurrecting a really vicious, powerful architecture in Washington, DC, to take over Kim Crockett election laws, and that's the avenue to their permanent power, because they really don't think Kim Crockett're capable of governing Kim Crockett at the local level is state level and they wan na be in charge. And they wan na be in charge permanently. – Kim Crockett	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don't want to be in a 1970s vicious circle where you end up with salaries increasing, inflation increasing and so on and so forth. You never get out of this. – Grant Shapps	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Liz Cheney, you're fired, wyoming deserves a congresswoman who stands up for you and your values, not one who spends all of her time putting you down and going after your president in the most vicious way possible. – President Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 1 year ago
People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These children come in in debt to vicious cartels thousands and thousands of dollars. The teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America, and the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human trafficked into sex slavery, joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We will do all we can to protect society from this defendant, who is accused of a vicious murder, we will not be deterred in our efforts to see that all the facts are presented to a jury in a fair trial and that justice is done. – Dane Schiller	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
These corrections are always vicious and sudden, and it is amazing how quickly all of the experts and pundits and gurus change their tune, the market always has amnesia. – Vasant Dhar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What happened here is simple and straightforward -- terrorism, terrorism, domestic terrorism, violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Russia has a history of vicious and savage reprisals against civilians in any area when any kind of resistance movement is taking place. It's moved already to deport people from Mariupol to the remote parts of Russia, which is straight out of Russia's 20th century script for dealing with these problems. – Keir Giles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
[My father] was injured at Leningrad and the Nazi army he was part of did vicious harm to the great city and to its brave people, when my father arrived in Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lies of his government. – Gustav Schwarzenegger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

You’ll hear from Ms. Carroll herself, she’ll testify about the allegations and how Donald Trump responded with vicious lies meant to destroy her.

– Shawn Crowley

Found on CNN
11 months ago

This was a senseless, unprovoked and vicious murder.

– District Attorney Erik Nasarenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we need to break the vicious cycle for the people in terms of national interest without neglecting such a prolonged strained relationship between South Korea and Japan.

– Foreign Minister Park

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This increased anxiety and fatigue increases the likelihood of experiencing these jerks, resulting in a vicious cycle of insomnia and sleep deprivation.

– Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In an era where the radicals on the right inspire revulsion and anxiety and the most vicious kind of cheers, having a Democratic leader who gives you the sense that things are going to be OK is exactly what the doctor ordered.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When states respond to shortages by reducing standards rather than increasing salaries and improving working conditions, what they’re doing is creating a vicious cycle. They get people in who are underprepared. Those people leave at two to three times the rate of those who have come in with preparation. you’re undermining student achievement.

– Linda Darling Hammond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Look, the tape was perhaps not totally conclusive but, to me, it was pretty conclusive and it was vicious and violent and hard to believe — over a traffic violation.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The weapons on this list are designed to do one thing and one thing only: kill people in a horribly brutal, vicious way.

– Darren Bailey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The fact of the matter is, millions of people have been killed in vicious circumstances on a regular basis throughout history, they went to the Congo in the late 19th century and decimated it.

– Roger Hallam

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm incredibly grateful to the people of Western Montana for once again placing their trust in me to fight for them in Washington, D.C. The voters saw through the vicious lies and deceit of my opponent and radical political groups, i'd like to thank everyone who voted for me on Election Day and all those who volunteered with our campaign to get the word out. For those of you who did not vote for me, my door is always open and you'll find me to have an open ear, open mind, and shoot straight when we disagree.

– Ryan Zinke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters controlled by radical left scoundrels, lawyers, and the media who tell them what to do.

– Former President Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They're resurrecting a really vicious, powerful architecture in Washington, DC, to take over Kim Crockett election laws, and that's the avenue to their permanent power, because they really don't think Kim Crockett're capable of governing Kim Crockett at the local level is state level and they wan na be in charge. And they wan na be in charge permanently.

– Kim Crockett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don't want to be in a 1970s vicious circle where you end up with salaries increasing, inflation increasing and so on and so forth. You never get out of this.

– Grant Shapps

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Liz Cheney, you're fired, wyoming deserves a congresswoman who stands up for you and your values, not one who spends all of her time putting you down and going after your president in the most vicious way possible.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
1 year ago

People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. The United States continues to demonstrate our resolve and our capacity to defend the American people against those who seek to do us harm.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These children come in in debt to vicious cartels thousands and thousands of dollars. The teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America, and the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human trafficked into sex slavery, joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We will do all we can to protect society from this defendant, who is accused of a vicious murder, we will not be deterred in our efforts to see that all the facts are presented to a jury in a fair trial and that justice is done.

– Dane Schiller

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

These corrections are always vicious and sudden, and it is amazing how quickly all of the experts and pundits and gurus change their tune, the market always has amnesia.

– Vasant Dhar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happened here is simple and straightforward -- terrorism, terrorism, domestic terrorism, violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Russia has a history of vicious and savage reprisals against civilians in any area when any kind of resistance movement is taking place. It's moved already to deport people from Mariupol to the remote parts of Russia, which is straight out of Russia's 20th century script for dealing with these problems.

– Keir Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[My father] was injured at Leningrad and the Nazi army he was part of did vicious harm to the great city and to its brave people, when my father arrived in Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lies of his government.

– Gustav Schwarzenegger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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