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All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward, or a criminal, or both. – Max Muller	added by Normando 5 months ago
I think the motives for this conflict are primarily internal and not the divisions about Iran, there are transformations taking place within Iraqi politics and rising ambitions from different parties who wish to consolidate power. – Mohammed Shummary	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Why is Netflix putting out a series like this ? all these people with these interesting political motives, all teaming up to create content for you to consume. – Michelle Wolf	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The concept of deputy gangs has just been nothing but a political campaign waged by the board against a sheriff they want to get rid of, it's (the investigation) designed for political motives only. It's not designed to get any information because everything that we've had, we've already given to the inspector general. – Alex Villanueva	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I just disagree with this idea that speaking facts can possibly be hateful. I mean, you can say it with a hateful tone, sure I guess, but a fact is a fact, and it doesn’t really matter what your motives are in stating it. Simply stating a fact is not hate speech, there is something that needs to give here with these policies. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’ve done some of it. What they can do moving forward is they can have supporters come in that can speak to perhaps the changes that have occurred at Playboy, further affirm that Hefner and his family are no longer involved, and point to others who have actually said positive things about Hefner. It’s also about having people understand what could be some of the motives and drivers behind some of these allegations. – Eric Schiffer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to reiterate that the so-called genocide in Xinjiang is nothing but a rumor backed by ulterior motives and an outright lie. – Zhao Lijian	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Middle schoolers can have a hard time assuming positive intent, and it can help to encourage them to think more expansively about someone's motives. – Phyllis Fagell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Had these materials, and many other things now revealed by Pennisi, been properly disclosed by the government, no grand jury or trial jury would ever credit his tales, his capitalizing on his cooperation calls into question his prior testimony and his motives to fabricate now. – Anthony DiPietro	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses require accuracy, precision, and justice. I’m encouraged that the FBI has updated its classification of that nearly catastrophic event to reflect the actual motives of the assailant, and I commend Director Wray for his oversight of that correction, i will continue to work with the Bureau toward investigating what led to the original 'suicide by cop' determination. – Brad Wenstrup	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I know about my motives! you are using them as pawns because it serves your ridiculous political purpose! – Jim Jordan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream - the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order - or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. – President Ronald Reagan	added by Normando 3 years ago
Motives include joyriding and to facilitate anonymity while committing other crimes, to include robberies and shootings. – Superintendent David O. Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits. – Edward L. Bernays	added by Normando 3 years ago
Of course they want to be on the winning side, but I think there's almost a sense of shame over getting in bed with Trump. If business wants to take a shower and cleanse themselves, I'll happily focus on this change of attitude rather than any self-serving motives. – Greg Valliere	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The motives of his recent moves at DoD and NSA remain unclear and are of course speculative, although the partisan personnel he put in place certainly suggest that he is stacking the deck, ultimately to win the fight over further declassification of intel related to the 2016 Russian investigation, if he did the same at CIA, install a new hyper-partisan director who would agree to further declassification efforts, it would not only expose and compromise highly classified sources and methods, but also taint the agency in the eyes of our international partners. Simply put, that puts America at great risk. – Marc Polymeropoulos	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If the intelligence was properly gathered but read by someone with two motives, one legit and one not, I don't expect a prosecution, but I am not prepared to say that the DOJ inquiry is presumptively improper. – Stewart Baker	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Do not be intimidated or misled, exploited by those with ulterior motives and in particular, do not be a rumour monger yourself, or join the anti-China forces in stigmatizing or demonizing the legislation. – Xie Feng	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Too much public discourse today is sullied by ad hominem rhetoric, that is, attempts to discredit an argument not by proving that it is unsound but by attacking the character or motives of the argument's proponents, the majority regrettably succumbs to this trend. – Justice Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Ambassador Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the President, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward, or a criminal, or both.

– Max Muller

added by Normando
5 months ago

I think the motives for this conflict are primarily internal and not the divisions about Iran, there are transformations taking place within Iraqi politics and rising ambitions from different parties who wish to consolidate power.

– Mohammed Shummary

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Why is Netflix putting out a series like this ? all these people with these interesting political motives, all teaming up to create content for you to consume.

– Michelle Wolf

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The concept of deputy gangs has just been nothing but a political campaign waged by the board against a sheriff they want to get rid of, it's (the investigation) designed for political motives only. It's not designed to get any information because everything that we've had, we've already given to the inspector general.

– Alex Villanueva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just disagree with this idea that speaking facts can possibly be hateful. I mean, you can say it with a hateful tone, sure I guess, but a fact is a fact, and it doesn’t really matter what your motives are in stating it. Simply stating a fact is not hate speech, there is something that needs to give here with these policies.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’ve done some of it. What they can do moving forward is they can have supporters come in that can speak to perhaps the changes that have occurred at Playboy, further affirm that Hefner and his family are no longer involved, and point to others who have actually said positive things about Hefner. It’s also about having people understand what could be some of the motives and drivers behind some of these allegations.

– Eric Schiffer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to reiterate that the so-called genocide in Xinjiang is nothing but a rumor backed by ulterior motives and an outright lie.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Middle schoolers can have a hard time assuming positive intent, and it can help to encourage them to think more expansively about someone's motives.

– Phyllis Fagell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Had these materials, and many other things now revealed by Pennisi, been properly disclosed by the government, no grand jury or trial jury would ever credit his tales, his capitalizing on his cooperation calls into question his prior testimony and his motives to fabricate now.

– Anthony DiPietro

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses require accuracy, precision, and justice. I’m encouraged that the FBI has updated its classification of that nearly catastrophic event to reflect the actual motives of the assailant, and I commend Director Wray for his oversight of that correction, i will continue to work with the Bureau toward investigating what led to the original 'suicide by cop' determination.

– Brad Wenstrup

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I know about my motives! you are using them as pawns because it serves your ridiculous political purpose!

– Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream - the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order - or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

– President Ronald Reagan

added by Normando
3 years ago

Motives include joyriding and to facilitate anonymity while committing other crimes, to include robberies and shootings.

– Superintendent David O. Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.

– Edward L. Bernays

added by Normando
3 years ago

Of course they want to be on the winning side, but I think there's almost a sense of shame over getting in bed with Trump. If business wants to take a shower and cleanse themselves, I'll happily focus on this change of attitude rather than any self-serving motives.

– Greg Valliere

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The motives of his recent moves at DoD and NSA remain unclear and are of course speculative, although the partisan personnel he put in place certainly suggest that he is stacking the deck, ultimately to win the fight over further declassification of intel related to the 2016 Russian investigation, if he did the same at CIA, install a new hyper-partisan director who would agree to further declassification efforts, it would not only expose and compromise highly classified sources and methods, but also taint the agency in the eyes of our international partners. Simply put, that puts America at great risk.

– Marc Polymeropoulos

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If the intelligence was properly gathered but read by someone with two motives, one legit and one not, I don't expect a prosecution, but I am not prepared to say that the DOJ inquiry is presumptively improper.

– Stewart Baker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Do not be intimidated or misled, exploited by those with ulterior motives and in particular, do not be a rumour monger yourself, or join the anti-China forces in stigmatizing or demonizing the legislation.

– Xie Feng

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Too much public discourse today is sullied by ad hominem rhetoric, that is, attempts to discredit an argument not by proving that it is unsound but by attacking the character or motives of the argument's proponents, the majority regrettably succumbs to this trend.

– Justice Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Ambassador Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the President, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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