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At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election. – Susan Tyler Witten	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe. – Taylor Budowich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason. – Thomas Sowell	added by Normando 2 years ago
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic. – Ted Nugent	added by Normando 2 years ago
The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York. – Katie Vincentz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The constitutional right of American women to have their own decision on abortion ends today. This change is painful for those women who have unintended pregnancy, many will face a hard life. And this change happens in the US that advocates human rights vigorously. Pathetic. – Benjamin Weinthal	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It would get to the point when you go to a store you just cry, and that sounds crazy and pathetic and people are like,' Well, you can just try a different brand or try a different type,' and we tried. – Courtney Houston	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Abortion is a human right, the political attacks on our fundamental right to abortion -- the right to bodily autonomy, the right to chart our own course in life, the right to protect our health and well-being -- are grossly unconstitutional, immoral, disgraceful and pathetic. – Meg Schurr	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Boy, um,' Alice in Wonderland' ? I'm so pathetic when it comes to knowing what movies I've done. I'm sorry, i don't watch them. I feel better not watching them. I couldn't, um, I — what was the question ? – Johnny Depp	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s pathetic that schools are ignoring their mandate to educate students and instead act as though their real purpose is facilitating the parties.This is a great disservice to students. And a huge waste of money for parents, almost always ignored by these sponsors is the fact that you can’t protect emotionally vulnerable students from a broken heart when they follow the false pitch that all consequences — babies included — can be ignored. – Kristan Hawkins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You see all these videos on Instagram of people shoplifting like they’re going for a walk in the park. It’s pathetic that this is happening in the greatest city in the world. – Michael Rapaport	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To me, attacking someone over their religion is the most pathetic thing that a human being can do, we stand by him fully, we're backing him 200 %... our brotherhood, our friendship within the team -- nothing can be shaken. – Virat Kohli	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back into the Elf tights. – Jon Favreau	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s pathetic to see Terry McAuliffe recycle the same old empty promises, failed policies, and dishonest attacks that he’s been repeating for 12 years, now, McAuliffe wants to suppress and silence parents so his special interest allies can force their radical political agenda into classrooms and tell children what to think instead of teaching them how to think. Virginia parents are supporting Glenn Youngkin because he listens to them, respects them, and will restore excellence to our schools, raise teacher pay, and invest in the largest education budget in Virginia history. – Glenn Youngkin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I didn't care if I stuck out like a sore thumb, i remember a few days later when I went back to my LSAT class and stopped at a nearby gas station, a man yelled at me,' Go back to your country.' I stared back at him and his pathetic existence and walked away. – Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They say it to me before I have a chance to say it to them, it's sort of pathetic in a way, and exhilarating in a way, that people remember. – John McEnroe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Though we've come to expect the Georgia GOP to put their bad, unpopular policies ahead of the best interests of our state, it is no less pathetic that Brian Kemp and Republicans are unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions. – Scott Hogan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The MLB All-Star Game would be played in Georgia today were it not for Brian Kemp and Georgia Republicans' divisive, racist attack on voting rights -- plain and simple, though we've come to expect the Georgia GOP to put their bad, unpopular policies ahead of the best interests of our state, it is no less pathetic that Brian Kemp and Republicans are unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions. – Scott Hogan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's really just a pathetic statement after someone has gone to therapy publicly for sex shaming, working through my own depression, bereavement, and vulnerabilities at that time, i don't even say the words she says. – Sophia Laurent Abraham	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s a nonsense 'feel good’ rule that only burdens good people but does nothing to stop violent criminals and gangsters from obtaining guns, this is just one more pathetic gun control ploy from Joe Biden as he bows down to the Gun Control Lobby and their unlawful schemes to destroy the Second Amendment. – President Dudley Brownsaid	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Obama-Biden administration made a weak, pathetic, one-sided deal with the Castro dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist regime, i canceled the Obama-Biden sellout to the Castro regime. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Gavin Newsom is resorting to political desperation. He now, finally, has accepted the fact that there will be a recall election being held this year to decide the direction of California and his political fate, for him to continue to label the people’s campaign as extremist is sad, pathetic and just goes to show how out of touch he really is. – Randy Economy	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
'Put on your clothes, grandma. Hungry for attention, are you? A little desperate here? You’re pathetic,' why is sexiness and nudity applauded in a woman’s youth and reviled in her maturity? Because of men. – Paulina Porizkova	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation. – Dick Durbin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election.

– Susan Tyler Witten

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.

– Taylor Budowich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

– Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
2 years ago

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

– Ted Nugent

added by Normando
2 years ago

The refusal by the New York State Democratic Party to tackle the issues of crime and the economy is exactly why our state is leading the country in population loss, hochul and her pathetic henchmen are desperate to distract away from all of the ways they are destroying New York.

– Katie Vincentz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The constitutional right of American women to have their own decision on abortion ends today. This change is painful for those women who have unintended pregnancy, many will face a hard life. And this change happens in the US that advocates human rights vigorously. Pathetic.

– Benjamin Weinthal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would get to the point when you go to a store you just cry, and that sounds crazy and pathetic and people are like,' Well, you can just try a different brand or try a different type,' and we tried.

– Courtney Houston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Abortion is a human right, the political attacks on our fundamental right to abortion -- the right to bodily autonomy, the right to chart our own course in life, the right to protect our health and well-being -- are grossly unconstitutional, immoral, disgraceful and pathetic.

– Meg Schurr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Boy, um,' Alice in Wonderland' ? I'm so pathetic when it comes to knowing what movies I've done. I'm sorry, i don't watch them. I feel better not watching them. I couldn't, um, I — what was the question ?

– Johnny Depp

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s pathetic that schools are ignoring their mandate to educate students and instead act as though their real purpose is facilitating the parties.This is a great disservice to students. And a huge waste of money for parents, almost always ignored by these sponsors is the fact that you can’t protect emotionally vulnerable students from a broken heart when they follow the false pitch that all consequences — babies included — can be ignored.

– Kristan Hawkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You see all these videos on Instagram of people shoplifting like they’re going for a walk in the park. It’s pathetic that this is happening in the greatest city in the world.

– Michael Rapaport

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To me, attacking someone over their religion is the most pathetic thing that a human being can do, we stand by him fully, we're backing him 200 %... our brotherhood, our friendship within the team -- nothing can be shaken.

– Virat Kohli

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back into the Elf tights.

– Jon Favreau

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s pathetic to see Terry McAuliffe recycle the same old empty promises, failed policies, and dishonest attacks that he’s been repeating for 12 years, now, McAuliffe wants to suppress and silence parents so his special interest allies can force their radical political agenda into classrooms and tell children what to think instead of teaching them how to think. Virginia parents are supporting Glenn Youngkin because he listens to them, respects them, and will restore excellence to our schools, raise teacher pay, and invest in the largest education budget in Virginia history.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I didn't care if I stuck out like a sore thumb, i remember a few days later when I went back to my LSAT class and stopped at a nearby gas station, a man yelled at me,' Go back to your country.' I stared back at him and his pathetic existence and walked away.

– Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They say it to me before I have a chance to say it to them, it's sort of pathetic in a way, and exhilarating in a way, that people remember.

– John McEnroe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Though we've come to expect the Georgia GOP to put their bad, unpopular policies ahead of the best interests of our state, it is no less pathetic that Brian Kemp and Republicans are unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

– Scott Hogan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The MLB All-Star Game would be played in Georgia today were it not for Brian Kemp and Georgia Republicans' divisive, racist attack on voting rights -- plain and simple, though we've come to expect the Georgia GOP to put their bad, unpopular policies ahead of the best interests of our state, it is no less pathetic that Brian Kemp and Republicans are unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

– Scott Hogan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's really just a pathetic statement after someone has gone to therapy publicly for sex shaming, working through my own depression, bereavement, and vulnerabilities at that time, i don't even say the words she says.

– Sophia Laurent Abraham

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s a nonsense 'feel good’ rule that only burdens good people but does nothing to stop violent criminals and gangsters from obtaining guns, this is just one more pathetic gun control ploy from Joe Biden as he bows down to the Gun Control Lobby and their unlawful schemes to destroy the Second Amendment.

– President Dudley Brownsaid

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Obama-Biden administration made a weak, pathetic, one-sided deal with the Castro dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist regime, i canceled the Obama-Biden sellout to the Castro regime.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Gavin Newsom is resorting to political desperation. He now, finally, has accepted the fact that there will be a recall election being held this year to decide the direction of California and his political fate, for him to continue to label the people’s campaign as extremist is sad, pathetic and just goes to show how out of touch he really is.

– Randy Economy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

'Put on your clothes, grandma. Hungry for attention, are you? A little desperate here? You’re pathetic,' why is sexiness and nudity applauded in a woman’s youth and reviled in her maturity? Because of men.

– Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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