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There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission.

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

I would like to confirm that Perri Reid was the only person who ever suggested that Chilli leave TLC.

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

I've never linked team selection to offering prayers, and reports suggesting otherwise are all wrong.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

I'm okay with suggestions but I want to do what I believe in, because I'm inspired by an idea.

Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.

I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll tell me and give me their suggestions and what they think.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.