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I think this is one more political move by those who chose to investigate me and one more retaliation for launching the impeachment process. – Eduardo Cunha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I also want to make it very clear that retaliation against those who hold different or critical views is contrary to the values of the University of Oregon, which is dedicated to free speech and academic freedom. – Michael Schill	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The culture of retaliation continues, at this point in the VA, you risk your job, you risk your reputation if you speak up for patient care problems. You do not risk your job if you retaliate against someone. And it should be just the reverse. – Katherine Mitchell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no way I'd recommend anyone, any professional join the VA right now, because (VA Secretary Robert) McDonald has not made any substantial progress in holding people that do whistleblower retaliation accountable. – Katherine Mitchell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The issue is much deeper and more troubling than just staffing WIPO’s Ethics Office with temporary personnel, i filed a complaint of retaliation on Oct. 8, 2014, almost two months before my term at World Intellectual Property Organization ended, and the agency at first did nothing about it. – James Pooley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The time is for peace. The time is not for senseless killing, retaliation, reprisal. – Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Israel has been striking at ‘ tin cans ’ in retaliation ; that’s what they’ve done so far. – Hillel Frisch	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation. – President Santos	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are very concerned whenever we hear about retaliation associated with reports of sexual assault, and we are open to any information, analysis, insight and partnerships that will help us craft and improve our way forward. – Laura Seal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They worry that it's not going to...( change) anything, and then they worry,' Is there going to be retaliation ?' And so they just don't really have the confidence that the school is going to handle it. – Susan Swearer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
One assault is still too many, and there's still more work to be done -- especially when it comes to guarding against retaliation, but today's report shows we're on the right track as our sweeping reforms continue to take root. – Claire McCaskill	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will, whenever the evidence shows retaliation is engaged in, hold them accountable. – Meghan Flanz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Retaliation — that seems to be the first step whenever a whistleblower comes forward. – Richard Tremaine	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that's a poetic description of what has happened and poetry, like most language, is limited but it does have wings ... to carry a point, Giuliani pushes for Lynch confirmation 'A moderately tough confirmation' Senate Republicans adamantly deny the delay in scheduling a vote on Lynch's nomination is because she is African-American. Many point out that Lynch, if confirmed, would be replacing the country's first African-American attorney general who was confirmed by an overwhelming margin. Instead, Republicans and Democrats say the delay is part of an ongoing partisan battle. For some, it's part of a fight over a human trafficking bill that has stalled in the Senate. For others, the delay is retaliation for President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. On the eve of Holder's announcement of his plans to leave the Department of Justice, the political number crunchers at FiveThrirtyEight.com predicted whoever the President nominated would. – Lorenzo Lynch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It never occurred to me for a second that a careful and attentive jury like this would find either discrimination or retaliation and I'm glad to have been proven right about that. – Lynne Hermle	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Now is the perfect time to speak my mind without fear of retaliation. – George Zimmerman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When police tried to stop them, they stoned police and beat officials with batons. In retaliation, police baton-charged them followed by tear gas firing. – Nayab Haider	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
?To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because (Canadian Prime Minister Stephen) Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq, so we are retaliating, the Mujahedin of this world ... just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you're not even safe in your own land, and you gotta be careful. – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
?To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because (Canadian Prime Minister Stephen) Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq. – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've carefully reviewed this case and found nothing to substantiate the speculation in the complaint or the allegation of retaliation, and we're confident a court will agree with us, we always encourage employees to raise concerns that they may have, and take such reports seriously. – Microsoft Corp	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
However, too many of these respondents indicated they perceived social and/or professional retaliation as a result of making a report. – The Pentagon	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will take whatever steps may be necessary including retaliation to achieve a fair resolution. – Gerry Ritz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. – Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think this is one more political move by those who chose to investigate me and one more retaliation for launching the impeachment process.

– Eduardo Cunha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I also want to make it very clear that retaliation against those who hold different or critical views is contrary to the values of the University of Oregon, which is dedicated to free speech and academic freedom.

– Michael Schill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The culture of retaliation continues, at this point in the VA, you risk your job, you risk your reputation if you speak up for patient care problems. You do not risk your job if you retaliate against someone. And it should be just the reverse.

– Katherine Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no way I'd recommend anyone, any professional join the VA right now, because (VA Secretary Robert) McDonald has not made any substantial progress in holding people that do whistleblower retaliation accountable.

– Katherine Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The issue is much deeper and more troubling than just staffing WIPO’s Ethics Office with temporary personnel, i filed a complaint of retaliation on Oct. 8, 2014, almost two months before my term at World Intellectual Property Organization ended, and the agency at first did nothing about it.

– James Pooley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The time is for peace. The time is not for senseless killing, retaliation, reprisal.

– Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Israel has been striking at ‘ tin cans ’ in retaliation ; that’s what they’ve done so far.

– Hillel Frisch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

– President Santos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are very concerned whenever we hear about retaliation associated with reports of sexual assault, and we are open to any information, analysis, insight and partnerships that will help us craft and improve our way forward.

– Laura Seal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They worry that it's not going to...( change) anything, and then they worry,' Is there going to be retaliation ?' And so they just don't really have the confidence that the school is going to handle it.

– Susan Swearer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One assault is still too many, and there's still more work to be done -- especially when it comes to guarding against retaliation, but today's report shows we're on the right track as our sweeping reforms continue to take root.

– Claire McCaskill

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We will, whenever the evidence shows retaliation is engaged in, hold them accountable.

– Meghan Flanz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Retaliation — that seems to be the first step whenever a whistleblower comes forward.

– Richard Tremaine

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think that's a poetic description of what has happened and poetry, like most language, is limited but it does have wings ... to carry a point, Giuliani pushes for Lynch confirmation 'A moderately tough confirmation' Senate Republicans adamantly deny the delay in scheduling a vote on Lynch's nomination is because she is African-American. Many point out that Lynch, if confirmed, would be replacing the country's first African-American attorney general who was confirmed by an overwhelming margin. Instead, Republicans and Democrats say the delay is part of an ongoing partisan battle. For some, it's part of a fight over a human trafficking bill that has stalled in the Senate. For others, the delay is retaliation for President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. On the eve of Holder's announcement of his plans to leave the Department of Justice, the political number crunchers at FiveThrirtyEight.com predicted whoever the President nominated would.

– Lorenzo Lynch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It never occurred to me for a second that a careful and attentive jury like this would find either discrimination or retaliation and I'm glad to have been proven right about that.

– Lynne Hermle

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Now is the perfect time to speak my mind without fear of retaliation.

– George Zimmerman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When police tried to stop them, they stoned police and beat officials with batons. In retaliation, police baton-charged them followed by tear gas firing.

– Nayab Haider

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

?To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because (Canadian Prime Minister Stephen) Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq, so we are retaliating, the Mujahedin of this world ... just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you're not even safe in your own land, and you gotta be careful.

– Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

?To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in retaliation for Afghanistan and because (Canadian Prime Minister Stephen) Harper wants to send his troops to Iraq.

– Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We've carefully reviewed this case and found nothing to substantiate the speculation in the complaint or the allegation of retaliation, and we're confident a court will agree with us, we always encourage employees to raise concerns that they may have, and take such reports seriously.

– Microsoft Corp

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

However, too many of these respondents indicated they perceived social and/or professional retaliation as a result of making a report.

– The Pentagon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We will take whatever steps may be necessary including retaliation to achieve a fair resolution.

– Gerry Ritz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

– Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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