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William Cohen

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Oct 10, 2022

I think the pedal to the metal policy has to be on the part of President Zelenskyy and the West.

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Sep 6, 2022

The fact that he had those documents in his possession is offense enough. If I had had those in my house after leaving office, I will be in handcuffs by this time.

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Sep 6, 2022

If I had those in my house after leaving office, I would be in handcuffs by this time. And so I think the Justice Department has gone out of its way to show deference to the former president.

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Jul 26, 2022

Whatever happened to States' rights? I thought that was a fundamental tenet of the Conservative Party's philosophy.

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Jul 26, 2022

In the past, the Insurrection Act, which was passed in 1807 was invoked first by President Eisenhower to help Black children have safe passage into a school.

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Jul 26, 2022

Remember your oath of office. Do not allow the military to be used for political purposes. Your oath is to the Constitution and not to any one President.

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Jul 26, 2022

He wanted to consider using the Insurrection Act to go after people who are protesting the killing of Black people, really a total misuse of the authority of the government there and every conservative should speak out against what he is…

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Mar 22, 2022

But we need outside help, from the Russians - the Chinese, and the Indians, the two big powers that either buy weapons, from Russia, or buy oil, from Russia. They need to intervene, and get to Mr. Putin, to say, 'This can't go on because…

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Mar 16, 2022

I think President Biden's going to have to ask the Chinese, is Russian oil thicker than Ukrainian blood?

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Mar 10, 2022

I think, President Putin is in a position now, where there should be a path, or a way, out of this.

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Mar 10, 2022

It's clear that he can't conquer the hearts and minds, of the Ukrainian people.

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Mar 10, 2022

He, Putin, overestimated his abilities, with his military, and underestimated the fighting spirit, of the Ukrainian people.

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Feb 22, 2022

We're watching the possibility of real time viewing of mass slaughter. What Putin is able to do, he has choices as all of your contributors have pointed out, he can do it swiftly, moving into one city, perhaps trying to decapitate the…

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Feb 22, 2022

I think we, in the United States and the West have to make the decision right now, impose all of the sanctions because he's not going to be deterred, but he needs to feel some pain and the longer he feels it, the better it is going to be…

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Feb 22, 2022

You think the U.S. should go farther than it has? That the Biden administration should go farther than it has in terms of sanctions rather than a kind of escalating scale of sanctions, depending on how far he goes into Ukraine? It should…

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Sep 26, 2021

What is unforgivable is that there are so many Republicans who are willing to turn away to not look at the facts of what the former President did, how he stoked an insurrection.

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Sep 26, 2021

What President Trump did, a former president was not conservative. That was radical, that was row, that was undermining democracy and trying to overthrow our constitutional government.

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Aug 11, 2021

I find it hard to believe that we have been reduced to a point now where we're asking the Taliban not to attack our embassy.

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Aug 11, 2021

I think the president made the right decision to get more troops in there to get us out as quickly and safely as we can.

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Jul 13, 2021

If he gives me an order which doesn't meet that test, I have a duty to step up and resign and tell the world why I'm resigning.

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Jul 13, 2021

I have said this on multiple occasions, going four years, five years ago, saying I thought that the former President was unfit to be Commander-in-Chief for the reasons I felt at that time were pretty evident.

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Jul 13, 2021

I think his mercurial nature is impetuous. He has no sense of value for the rule of law.

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May 13, 2021

To see what is taking place now, it is shameful and shameless and those members who are trying to say, no big deal on January 6th, they are trying to perform a frontal lobotomy on the American people, a side effect, which is mental…

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May 13, 2021

What Liz Cheney is doing is not only trying to save the Republican Party, she is trying to save the country. She is trying to save democracy, because if we don't have truth, as George Shultz, former Secretary of State said, without truth…

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