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And so when a lot of the controversy took place and my brother and I were away at school, there was no Internet during that era and I ca n’t even recall a daily newspaper in the Binghamton, New York, area but it was n’t covering the things that The News were at the time. – Hakeem Jeffries	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s been a lot of controversy about this subject matter for years, i’ve been in practice (for), like, 29 years, and this has been an issue of discussion for that entire time. – Alyssa Dweck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The verdict is out on the controversy about whether some of these smaller banks were allowed to not partake in all of the … regulations, and maybe that left them more exposed. – Christine Romans	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is getting a little bit difficult to get more because the inventory is starting to dry up after the controversy. – John Mocadlo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
President Biden is dealing with a ‘drip’ controversy that has no end in sight and each new revelation makes his criticisms of former President Trump appear ever more hypocritical, when it comes to legal issues, the White House has to be very careful to not intervene politically in this type of investigation. But at the same time, you can't ignore the issue. There's a fine line that Biden and the White House need to walk on. – Giancarlo Sopo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The new year is off to a rough start for President Biden, whatever bounce he may have had from the GOP’s lackluster midterms and the drawn-out speaker election may be dissipating. The timing of the classified documents controversy is especially bad for him in light of his rumored 2024 announcement since it neutralizes what was going to be one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump. – Giancarlo Sopo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I am not a criminal, this [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good. – George Santos	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They wouldn't be expending so much resources and controversy about taking our vote unless there was a reason and it was actually powerful and had the actual power to change some things. – Jibriel Dubignon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If in doubt, let the speech exist, if it's a gray area, I would say, let the tweet exist. But obviously in the case where there's perhaps a lot of controversy, you would not necessarily want to promote that tweet. – Elon Musk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think it's important to state here that there was an opportunity for the NCAA to adopt more strict policies in inclusion of trans athletes, and they could've done that in February, but it seems as though they chose not to, or they chose to avoid litigation by changing their stance halfway through the season and causing bigger problems for themselves, i think that, had they adopted USA Swimming's policies which are more strict than their own, we could have avoided a lot of the controversy that took place over the weekend and you and I could be sitting here talking about and celebrating the accomplishments by these incredible athletes. – Justin Casterline/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But in today’s world, our children are increasingly exposed to a cacophony of controversy and opinion through social media, so it’s important for parents to provide a comfortable environment in which our kids can learn, discuss and develop opinions about what is going on in the world. – Connor Boyack	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Joe Rogan BREAKS SILENCE AFTER NEIL YOUNG'S SPOTIFY CONTROVERSY They’re taking all this stuff that I’ve ever said that’s wrong and smooshing it all together. – Joe Rogan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think I can pretty confidently say, we won't lose any elections over that issue, anywhere in the country, people are concerned about a wholly different set of concerns. Inflation, an out-of-control border, Afghanistan withdrawal, the controversy over covid. I mean, the thought that a single Senate race in America would be decided over that issue strikes me as being wildly out of touch with what the American people are interested in. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The practical effect of all this back and forth is that more wetlands and streams are now protected than was the case under the Trump rule, but the controversy has not gone away and there is sure to be much more litigation with the prospect for conflicting judicial opinions. – Pat Parenteau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We still don't really know -- and there's some controversy about this -- whether Omicron causes the same kind of severity of disease or whether it's a somewhat milder form of the illness. – Francis Collins	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The controversy surrounding the bill helped build a national debate around her death and the issue of how foreigners are treated in Japan. – Kosuke Oie	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What I like is the fact that no one is thinking about what happened before, what was the controversy, what was the noise, or where was this artist making music last year. – Harvey Mason	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Netflix's goal is to be TV, and to be that they have to cover everything, and that's their strength, they have so much content. It's a volume play to cover all of those bases. But when you do that, when you take risks, you're going to cause some controversy. It's impossible not to. – Dave Chappelle	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We told Federation Internationale de Volleyball( FIVB) and the Greek team that we can not agree with the [ twins' ] international transfer according to our regulation that players who caused public controversy can not transfer internationally. – The KVA	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There is controversy surrounding the use of artificial sweeteners because a lot of people are using them for weight loss, while some studies suggest they may be helpful, others show they may be contributing to weight gain, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Our study looked at different population groups to tease out some of the reasons behind those conflicting results. – Kathleen Page	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The biggest controversy will be : How do you change people's behavior ? do you do this by incentives, and by educating people, or do you do this by [ increasing ] prices and costs ? – Carsten Brzeski	Found on CNN 3 years ago
A missile defense system (i.e. Iron Dome) defends civilians from missiles. Hence the name. Only in a morally inverted universe would this be considered a 'controversy,'. – Ritchie Torres	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If this were President Trump, would there be a push for impeachment? We know the answer is yes. If this phone call didn't happen, if it was simply the Afghan debacle under President Trump? Would there be impeachment? Absolutely. If two top FDA executives resigned under President Trump, would there be a controversy? Yes, clearly we're not playing by the same rules a year ago. – Will Cain	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's unfortunate that this( controversy) is happening over what is probably a good practice, mary Lin works Mary Lin tail off to make sure every child is set up for success. – Andee Schroeder	Found on CNN 3 years ago

And so when a lot of the controversy took place and my brother and I were away at school, there was no Internet during that era and I ca n’t even recall a daily newspaper in the Binghamton, New York, area but it was n’t covering the things that The News were at the time.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s been a lot of controversy about this subject matter for years, i’ve been in practice (for), like, 29 years, and this has been an issue of discussion for that entire time.

– Alyssa Dweck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The verdict is out on the controversy about whether some of these smaller banks were allowed to not partake in all of the … regulations, and maybe that left them more exposed.

– Christine Romans

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is getting a little bit difficult to get more because the inventory is starting to dry up after the controversy.

– John Mocadlo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden is dealing with a ‘drip’ controversy that has no end in sight and each new revelation makes his criticisms of former President Trump appear ever more hypocritical, when it comes to legal issues, the White House has to be very careful to not intervene politically in this type of investigation. But at the same time, you can't ignore the issue. There's a fine line that Biden and the White House need to walk on.

– Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The new year is off to a rough start for President Biden, whatever bounce he may have had from the GOP’s lackluster midterms and the drawn-out speaker election may be dissipating. The timing of the classified documents controversy is especially bad for him in light of his rumored 2024 announcement since it neutralizes what was going to be one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump.

– Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am not a criminal, this [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.

– George Santos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They wouldn't be expending so much resources and controversy about taking our vote unless there was a reason and it was actually powerful and had the actual power to change some things.

– Jibriel Dubignon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If in doubt, let the speech exist, if it's a gray area, I would say, let the tweet exist. But obviously in the case where there's perhaps a lot of controversy, you would not necessarily want to promote that tweet.

– Elon Musk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's important to state here that there was an opportunity for the NCAA to adopt more strict policies in inclusion of trans athletes, and they could've done that in February, but it seems as though they chose not to, or they chose to avoid litigation by changing their stance halfway through the season and causing bigger problems for themselves, i think that, had they adopted USA Swimming's policies which are more strict than their own, we could have avoided a lot of the controversy that took place over the weekend and you and I could be sitting here talking about and celebrating the accomplishments by these incredible athletes.

– Justin Casterline/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But in today’s world, our children are increasingly exposed to a cacophony of controversy and opinion through social media, so it’s important for parents to provide a comfortable environment in which our kids can learn, discuss and develop opinions about what is going on in the world.

– Connor Boyack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joe Rogan BREAKS SILENCE AFTER NEIL YOUNG'S SPOTIFY CONTROVERSY They’re taking all this stuff that I’ve ever said that’s wrong and smooshing it all together.

– Joe Rogan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think I can pretty confidently say, we won't lose any elections over that issue, anywhere in the country, people are concerned about a wholly different set of concerns. Inflation, an out-of-control border, Afghanistan withdrawal, the controversy over covid. I mean, the thought that a single Senate race in America would be decided over that issue strikes me as being wildly out of touch with what the American people are interested in.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The practical effect of all this back and forth is that more wetlands and streams are now protected than was the case under the Trump rule, but the controversy has not gone away and there is sure to be much more litigation with the prospect for conflicting judicial opinions.

– Pat Parenteau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We still don't really know -- and there's some controversy about this -- whether Omicron causes the same kind of severity of disease or whether it's a somewhat milder form of the illness.

– Francis Collins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The controversy surrounding the bill helped build a national debate around her death and the issue of how foreigners are treated in Japan.

– Kosuke Oie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What I like is the fact that no one is thinking about what happened before, what was the controversy, what was the noise, or where was this artist making music last year.

– Harvey Mason

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Netflix's goal is to be TV, and to be that they have to cover everything, and that's their strength, they have so much content. It's a volume play to cover all of those bases. But when you do that, when you take risks, you're going to cause some controversy. It's impossible not to.

– Dave Chappelle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We told Federation Internationale de Volleyball( FIVB) and the Greek team that we can not agree with the [ twins' ] international transfer according to our regulation that players who caused public controversy can not transfer internationally.

– The KVA

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is controversy surrounding the use of artificial sweeteners because a lot of people are using them for weight loss, while some studies suggest they may be helpful, others show they may be contributing to weight gain, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Our study looked at different population groups to tease out some of the reasons behind those conflicting results.

– Kathleen Page

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The biggest controversy will be : How do you change people's behavior ? do you do this by incentives, and by educating people, or do you do this by [ increasing ] prices and costs ?

– Carsten Brzeski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A missile defense system (i.e. Iron Dome) defends civilians from missiles. Hence the name. Only in a morally inverted universe would this be considered a 'controversy,'.

– Ritchie Torres

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If this were President Trump, would there be a push for impeachment? We know the answer is yes. If this phone call didn't happen, if it was simply the Afghan debacle under President Trump? Would there be impeachment? Absolutely. If two top FDA executives resigned under President Trump, would there be a controversy? Yes, clearly we're not playing by the same rules a year ago.

– Will Cain

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's unfortunate that this( controversy) is happening over what is probably a good practice, mary Lin works Mary Lin tail off to make sure every child is set up for success.

– Andee Schroeder

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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