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As opposed to trying to have a conversation about how to beat a Republican.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This pro-criminal New York DA has failed to uphold the law for violent criminals, yet weaponized the law against political enemies.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
You know, one of the things I’d say is that red-on-red violence, so to speak, is something that the mass media enjoys, the road to socialism runs through a divided Republican Party. One thing we should do is keep our focus on the actual problem: That is President Biden.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
For America to be at our best, we have to work together, we must come together on a common ground, built on common sense.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wish he had lived long enough to see perhaps another man of color elected president of the United States.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have not taken the time to watch the hearings. I feel like the best use of my time is fighting the inflationary effects.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we asked the jury for is to return a verdict that reflected the truth about his death and that reflected justice for what was taken from this family, we think that the jury verdict did deliver both truth and justice.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And Joe Biden has played right into his hands by killing the Keystone XL pipeline in this country and making it harder for us to use the energy we have in America right now.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to do homework on how to make a better place and how to market that. We should not spend more time on the darker angels that seem to be overcast over this country. We should be piping hope into every corridor of this country. I need to do a better job of marketing the greatness of this nation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To think that we had a chance to really refund and resource some of the priorities that would make these neighborhoods safer and healthier and better, to walk away from that because of what was on the table is hard.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do think that you would have a meaningful piece of legislation if you focus specifically on things that Cory Booker have in common and gave Cory Booker a little breathing room for the things that Cory Booker don't, but Cory Booker're not there yet. Cory Booker're going to keep working on what Cory Booker're working on and hopefully Cory Booker get that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we have to continue to find a space of common ground that is as large as possible before surrendering anything, i think there's been like the same group of issues that we've been circling around and so hopefully we'll meet with Tim Scott tomorrow to find out where Tim Scott is.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's June or bust, some House progressives've got three weeks in June to get this done.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we all should be concerned about changes, the question is, are those concerns merited ? That's a different question. We should be concerned, though. If we can get to the spot they want to be in, they'll say yes. If we don't, then they'll say no.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If Chuck Grassley take qualified immunity out of a deal, wouldn't Chuck Grassley lose all the Democrats on it completely ? i think you have answered your own question.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We continue to work on the process, and I think we have good, good progress over the weekend I thought, and I think we can see the end of the tunnel.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think we're going to resolve that, that is a bridge too far for me.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Their America and my America aren't the same America, if in fact they think that discriminating is the fastest way to end discrimination.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Intolerance so often comes from the left with words like 'Uncle Tim' and the 'n-word' being used against me, and last night what was trending in social media was 'Uncle Tim,' and they doubled down on this concept of liberal oppression. It is stunning in 2021 that those who speak about ending discrimination want to end it by more discrimination.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That happened because Republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all Americans.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Three months in, the actions of this president and his party are pulling us further and further apart.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our best future won’t come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams, it will come from you — the American people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future, our public schools should have reopened months ago.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This Administration inherited a tide that had already turned, the coronavirus is on the run!
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year has not suddenly become a racist relic, race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have experienced the pain of discrimination, i get called Uncle Tom, and the N-word by progressives, by liberals.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
To every kid growing up in poverty wondering if fitting in means dumbing down, the answer is no, to every single mom who struggles to make ends meet, who wonders if her efforts are in vain, they are not.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think we're actually making progress overall, i hate to litigate and/or fight with through the press on these issues. They are really important issues to communities that are very vulnerable. We are trying to get to a place where we can solve those issues.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A very healthy relationship, that does not mean we all agree, but the good news is I think we trust each other enough to actually make progress on substantive issues where there is disagreement. I think it's really helped.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You do your homework and you do your best to... anticipate what he's going to say and be in a position to share with the nation a different way, at least what I think is a better way.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know there is more work to be done to ensure the bad apples do not define all officers — the vast majority of whom put on the uniform each day with integrity and servant hearts, we must all come together to help repair the tenuous relationship between law enforcement and Black and minority Americans.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You can ask the question, but I'm not going to answer the question.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think so, i think that there are a number of Democrats that have proposals that actually put the burden on the employer, not the employee or the department. I've spoken to many senators on the left who are very amenable and open to that. I think we will bridge that gap.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But finding interesting, fascinating and exciting candidates will be our task.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's another race that we'll raise the money for and win, we're off and running. We're talking to candidates, we're recruiting candidates, we're raising money.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think he should correct it, if he doesn't correct it, I guess he didn't misspeak.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no question. President Trump should not have retweeted and President Trump should just take it down.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was stopped this year, driving while black, and so this issue continues and that's why it's so important for us to say: 'We hear you, we're listening to your concerns.'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We don't have any information around no-knock warrants, so for us to start a conversation with banning no-knocks doesn't sound like a solid position based on any data because we don't have that data. Once we have the information, we can then turn to the training that is necessary to de-escalate situations.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was stopped this year, driving while black, and so this issue continues and that's why it's so important for us to say, 'We hear you, we're listening to your concerns.'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're not a racist country. We deal with racism because there's racism in the country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think us waiting a month before we vote is a bad decision, i hope we are willing to take up the legislation and let's get on the record. And if it fails, it fails. Finding seven folks on the other side of the aisle who want to see this thing to move forward will be helpful.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we should all be interested in getting every aspect of the legislation that we can across the finish line, and to those things that stand in the way -- qualified immunity, decertification of officers -- we should keep working until we can find a solution if we can. I'm not sure if we can on those two issues but I don't want that to stand in the way of what we can get accomplished.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no actual database on no-knocks. We don't know when it's used, to whom it's used against. We don't know the race, the sex, the age, we know nothing about no-knocks, except for the Breonna Taylor situation that was tragic without question.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think there's a way for us to deal with it, decertification would be a path that I would be interested in looking at.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I could not believe my ears, that he would stoop so low to tell folks what they should do, how they should think and what it means to be black.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
( Biden's) saying to 1.3 million African Americans that you are not black ? Who in the heck does Joe Biden think Joe Biden is ? that is the most arrogant, outrageous comment I've heard in a very long time and I take offense to that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy youre going to beat right there, maybe, maybe ? Maybe, maybe ? Lindsey Graham ?
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is the political version of a death row trial. I get Republican Sen. Tim Scott absolute rejection of the process.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think the President of Ukraine, when the President started talking about the server, which has to do with the 2016 election, the President of Ukraine started talking about continuing the investigation and that's what started that part of the conversation, so, I see it a little differently than you guys.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I have to reject the premise of your question. If we're talking about someone who actually is not a whistleblower -- he only heard it hearsay -- than that brings everything into question, certainly, the actual facts matter.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Yeah, I think any allegations made that seem to have merit we should take a look at, i have not seen the allegation so I can't comment on it specifically.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That's one of those things, he says, one of those outliers of an issue that still raises real concern, and that he is still looking for ways to continue to address that and hammer on that.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This week, a Department of Justice memo written under President George H.W. Bush was released that shed new light on Mr. Farr's activities. This, in turn, created more concerns. Weighing these important factors, this afternoon I concluded that I could not support Mr. Farr's nomination.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I want to talk to the person who wrote the DOJ memo, that came out last night in Washington Post, i want a chance to talk to the actual drafter of the( memo).
Found on CNN 5 years ago
John McCain has served John McCain country in many facets and a building named after John McCain makes a lot of sense to me, i think the fact of the matter is a prisoner of war for five years who decides to stay there, someone who served in Congress, served in United States Russell Senate, someone who believed in American exceptionalism. Sounds like a good idea.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This piece of legislation sends a message that together, as a nation, we condemn the actions of those that try to divide us with violence and hate.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Thank God for a powerful mom and amazing mentor who saw more in me than I could see in myself.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
When you fail Spanish and English, no one calls you bilingual, they call you bi-ignant, thank God for a powerful mom and amazing mentor who saw more in me than I could see in myself.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Legislative solutions can be additives, but they're never primary, never has it been primary for a man's heart to be changed by what you do in a legislative body.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
For me, it's hard to hate what you know, and it's just so simple. It's hard to hate what you know.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
His rhetoric is not artful, to say the least, and at times he makes statements that I wish wasn't so divisive in that statement, but I think the need still remains. This started for us a year and a half ago or so. This is not new for us. This is not new for the nation.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have always respected Senator Booker as a colleague. This is not a decision I would have made.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What we have seen over the last 11 days is Marco's momentum is real.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The reality of it is the American Dream is still alive. It is still healthy. We need a president who helps us get there and that guy is Marco Rubio.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Folks who are stuck and mired in poverty can look to the leadership of Marco Rubio to help solve some of the challenges that we haven't been able to solve in 50 years.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we are going to be successful at the ballot box, so to speak, we are going to have to make sure that our conversation encompasses the whole of America.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of hyperbolic language is used during campaign season, we need to focus on serious solutions to address the real dangers presented by ISIS.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
For some, that flag represents that history. And for so many others, it represents a pain and oppression. I'm looking forward to our state leaders getting together, and having a robust conversation after the funerals about what's the next step, i am going to make sure that I'm a part of that conversation. My voice will be clear. My position will be stated.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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