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I think the judge has been pretty amazing about describing his situation with alcohol and with beer. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
-- a move that his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has long insisted is the main reason why the President shouldn't even consider sitting down with Robert Mueller. But what President Donald Trump is describing above isn't a perjury trap at all.Read MoreLet's define the term first : A perjury trap is when a prosecutor asks questions of a witness knowing that witness will lie. In order to lure someone into a perjury trap, you have to know two things beyond any doubt : 1) The facts behind the question and 2) That the person you are asking the question of is going to lie about the facts.It's not at all clear that's what would be going on with a Mueller-Trump sit-down -- on matters related to Comey or anything else. And in fact, the scenario President Donald Trump lays out isn't even close to a perjury trap. Instead it's a. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Nobody believes that I got out of that for free, i left the White House $ 16 million in debt. But you typically have ignored gaping facts in describing this. And I bet you don't even know them. This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me. – Bill Clinton	Found on CNN 6 years ago
TWITTER BANS ADS FROM RUSSIAN MEDIA OUTLETS RUSSIA TODAY AND SPUTNIK We're well aware of this one, and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and deranking those kinds of sites. – Eric Schmidt	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The reason we studied this is very simple, every time I was writing a research paper and I was describing what we knew about the genetics of obesity, I didn't have a reference. – David Meyre	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Addressing around the world actually doesn't work very well. The U.N. says that three-quarters of countries have an inadequate system. And you consider that a lot of nations in Africa and Brazil,( in) huge parts of the cities they just never made an address. And people live with no way of describing where they live. – Chris Sheldrick	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Thank you to the whole House and staff for your kindness and compassion to our family today and for describing so well the Jo we love. #MoreInCommon. – Brendan Cox	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I turned in my chair and it was right there in front of me. The lyrics just poured out because all it boiled down to was describing the picture. – Guy Clark	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Describing the problem is a lot easier than trying to solve it. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think if you talk to people who live in communities that deal with these issues all the time, they will say to you that what these videos are showing us now is what people in many minority communities have been talking about for years, and what they've been describing for years, but they haven't been believed, they have been dismissed, mainly because people don't want to believe that law enforcement can overstep. And of course, it's not every law enforcement officer. But when it happens, the impact that it has, the gash that it leaves, in the web of trust that we need in order for everyone to feel safe, is tremendous. And so that's why these incidents resonate so deeply. – Loretta Lynch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Did the famous shipbuilder, Donald Mackay specify as 'right' or'left' when describing the 'yardarms' on the masts of his globe-girdling China Clipper sailing ships? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 9 years ago
It is hard for me not to use profanity in describing it, we should be using the leverage of the debt ceiling to actually enforce spending restraint. – The Kentucky senator	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The veterans were very good at describing their wounds, there was one patient who thought they were having problems, we brought them into clinic and there was an infection. – Michael Vella	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I can tell you that there was a pretty candid exchange of views, i think we've been pretty blunt in describing the concerns that we have with China's behavior in cyberspace. We have been blunt in our assessment that that has significant consequences for our economy and for our national security. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He wasn't the giant they were describing him as. – Jane Lazarre	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If something happens to catch my eye, I will take a picture of it, but it's not like I am chasing around for photographs with the camera in my hand, i try to photograph a mix between personal and quiet moments, with scenes which are also describing the daily activities and interactions of the community. – Yasmin Balai	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There is no new song in the sense that we sat down and wrote a new KISS tune, that's been overstated quite honestly. We'd be better off describing it as an Easter egg. It's not Easter and it's not an egg, but at the same time, it's something that if you stay until the end, you will enjoy something unexpected. – Paul Stanley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's when the pipeline is open, and that eternal moment -- as he is describing -- which is where music really lives, is open to us and we become the vessel to which that passes, so in a way music is about bringing eternity to time. – Phil Lesh -LRB- bass -RRB-	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think this is extortion, I have no other way of describing it. – Zeev Elkin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Amphibians are declining so rapidly that scientists are oftentimes describing new species from museum specimens because the animals have already gone extinct in the wild, and very recently. – Katherine Krynak	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
What I'm describing is accountability, a common-sense, middle-ground approach, If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. – Louis Aragon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 10 years ago
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I think the judge has been pretty amazing about describing his situation with alcohol and with beer.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

-- a move that his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has long insisted is the main reason why the President shouldn't even consider sitting down with Robert Mueller. But what President Donald Trump is describing above isn't a perjury trap at all.Read MoreLet's define the term first : A perjury trap is when a prosecutor asks questions of a witness knowing that witness will lie. In order to lure someone into a perjury trap, you have to know two things beyond any doubt : 1) The facts behind the question and 2) That the person you are asking the question of is going to lie about the facts.It's not at all clear that's what would be going on with a Mueller-Trump sit-down -- on matters related to Comey or anything else. And in fact, the scenario President Donald Trump lays out isn't even close to a perjury trap. Instead it's a.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Nobody believes that I got out of that for free, i left the White House $ 16 million in debt. But you typically have ignored gaping facts in describing this. And I bet you don't even know them. This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.

– Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
6 years ago

TWITTER BANS ADS FROM RUSSIAN MEDIA OUTLETS RUSSIA TODAY AND SPUTNIK We're well aware of this one, and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and deranking those kinds of sites.

– Eric Schmidt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The reason we studied this is very simple, every time I was writing a research paper and I was describing what we knew about the genetics of obesity, I didn't have a reference.

– David Meyre

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Addressing around the world actually doesn't work very well. The U.N. says that three-quarters of countries have an inadequate system. And you consider that a lot of nations in Africa and Brazil,( in) huge parts of the cities they just never made an address. And people live with no way of describing where they live.

– Chris Sheldrick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Thank you to the whole House and staff for your kindness and compassion to our family today and for describing so well the Jo we love. #MoreInCommon.

– Brendan Cox

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I turned in my chair and it was right there in front of me. The lyrics just poured out because all it boiled down to was describing the picture.

– Guy Clark

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Describing the problem is a lot easier than trying to solve it.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think if you talk to people who live in communities that deal with these issues all the time, they will say to you that what these videos are showing us now is what people in many minority communities have been talking about for years, and what they've been describing for years, but they haven't been believed, they have been dismissed, mainly because people don't want to believe that law enforcement can overstep. And of course, it's not every law enforcement officer. But when it happens, the impact that it has, the gash that it leaves, in the web of trust that we need in order for everyone to feel safe, is tremendous. And so that's why these incidents resonate so deeply.

– Loretta Lynch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Did the famous shipbuilder, Donald Mackay specify as 'right' or'left' when describing the 'yardarms' on the masts of his globe-girdling China Clipper sailing ships?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
9 years ago

It is hard for me not to use profanity in describing it, we should be using the leverage of the debt ceiling to actually enforce spending restraint.

– The Kentucky senator

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The veterans were very good at describing their wounds, there was one patient who thought they were having problems, we brought them into clinic and there was an infection.

– Michael Vella

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I can tell you that there was a pretty candid exchange of views, i think we've been pretty blunt in describing the concerns that we have with China's behavior in cyberspace. We have been blunt in our assessment that that has significant consequences for our economy and for our national security.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He wasn't the giant they were describing him as.

– Jane Lazarre

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If something happens to catch my eye, I will take a picture of it, but it's not like I am chasing around for photographs with the camera in my hand, i try to photograph a mix between personal and quiet moments, with scenes which are also describing the daily activities and interactions of the community.

– Yasmin Balai

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There is no new song in the sense that we sat down and wrote a new KISS tune, that's been overstated quite honestly. We'd be better off describing it as an Easter egg. It's not Easter and it's not an egg, but at the same time, it's something that if you stay until the end, you will enjoy something unexpected.

– Paul Stanley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's when the pipeline is open, and that eternal moment -- as he is describing -- which is where music really lives, is open to us and we become the vessel to which that passes, so in a way music is about bringing eternity to time.

– Phil Lesh -LRB- bass -RRB-

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think this is extortion, I have no other way of describing it.

– Zeev Elkin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Amphibians are declining so rapidly that scientists are oftentimes describing new species from museum specimens because the animals have already gone extinct in the wild, and very recently.

– Katherine Krynak

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What I'm describing is accountability, a common-sense, middle-ground approach, If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you're a criminal, you'll be deported.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

– Louis Aragon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
10 years ago

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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