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I’ve told everyone in the White House, from the chief of staff to the first lady.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Fake. No clue who this is.

George Santos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young, and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life.

George Santos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Well, some changes, unfortunately, have already been locked in place, sea level increases are going to continue no matter what we do now. But, we can prevent much larger sea level increases — much more rapid increases in temperatures.

Al Gore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.

Al Gore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Well, I'm concerned. There's a standard that we follow when it comes to members of Congress and classified information. The door to my office is closed. The person that presents the document to me takes it out of a locked briefcase, hands it to me and watches as I read it. When I finish reading it, he takes it back, puts it in the briefcase and leaves the scene, that's how carefully we review these documents. To think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let's be honest about it. When that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it because it's not supposed to happen, whether it was the fault of a staffer or an attorney, it makes no difference. The elected official bears ultimate responsibility.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but what happened and followed from it is significantly different, donald Trump defied those who knew the documents were in place and ultimately led to, involuntarily, a court order and a search of his Mar-a-Lago hotel resort to find out how many documents were there.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This FOMC is also loath to repeat the premature policy pivot that allows inflation to resurge, demanding even tighter monetary policy which creates a recession.

Katie Nixon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Treasuries become something that people are worried about holding, then that has ripple effects throughout capital markets throughout the world, in ways that are really difficult to predict.

Louise Sheiner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

2011 was the first time in a long time that we came close to a debt ceiling breach, and that was a time when there was a lot of political fragmentation and there was a strong desire to essentially attach spending cuts to any debt ceiling increase.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s no other way around it, there’s no way that Congress is going to cut spending 20% in the middle of the year. It would plunge the economy into a recession. It would be a terrible policy.

Louise Sheiner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The honest truth is, no one knows, a widespread default by the US government is not something we’ve ever experienced and not something we’ve ever even come close to experiencing.

Michael Pugliese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Financial markets and private sector actors tend to react ahead of that date, if there is the anticipation that we will get very close to that drop-dead date, then financial market volatility generally tends to increase, stock prices tend to react adversely.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone, somewhere is going to get shortchanged if the government doesn’t have all of its money, whether that’s Social Security beneficiaries, defense contractors, civil service employees, veterans, [etc.].

Michael Pugliese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you would be hard pressed to say [the debt ceiling debacle] was a positive thing, i think of it more as one other hurdle among a lot of other hurdles for the economy as it emerged from 9% unemployment at the time.

Michael Pugliese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier.

Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes when I look at people, I think, ‘Wow, you are such incredible organisms and our atoms all share the same deep history that goes back to the big bang,’.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to get into the heads of scientists who made great discoveries — to see their advances as they did and understand how they were received at the time, i was surprised that almost every time, the initial reaction to groundbreaking theories was skepticism and dismissal.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So many things happened that could’ve gone another way.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So many scientific certainties have been overthrown since our great-grandparents were alive, that’s part of the fun of the book.

Jim WATSON / AFP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m drawn to unsung heroes with dramatic stories that people haven’t heard before, so, I was pleased that many of the most gripping stories in the book turned out to be about people who I hadn’t known about.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now we know that the origin of the universe, the making of elements in stars, the creation of the solar system and Earth and the early history of our planet was incredibly tumultuous.

Author Levitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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