"I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome," she said.
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"She is without a doubt a decent person," he says.
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They have Phil Kessel, someone no decent person can root against.
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Remember people, it costs you nothing to be a decent person!
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President Trump is not a decent person and Joe Biden is.
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How can one be a decent person in a fallen world?
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Poor Taylor — they've spent this episode being nothing but a decent person.
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Today, abandoning Trump is what you do if you're a decent person.
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Every decent person opposes the trafficking of human beings for sexual exploitation.
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On the outside, you're this decent person who's easy to get along with.
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I always have regarded him as brilliant and as a truly decent person.
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She believed that he was a decent person with a few serious flaws.
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Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants.
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I believe he's a decent person but I think he has to resign.
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"The prime minister must be a decent person," Mr. Sánchez told Mr. Rajoy.
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"We met like any decent person these days—on social media," Salahi said.
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Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants.
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If you try to be a decent person, they take it for weakness.
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Like we say in Mexico, muy muy buenachona — a really really decent person.
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To be clear: No decent person approves of such use of the N-word.
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"I may look like a weirdo, but I'm actually a very nice, decent person."
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Meanwhile, his brother Alvin insists he's a decent person—while hinting at past prejudice.
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They swear he is a kind, decent person incapable of the crime in question.
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They haven't listened, but at least we know that Russ is a decent person.
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"Don't let their partisan squabbles divide us on something every decent person wants," Kimmel said.
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"Bannon is a very decent person who feels very strongly about the country," Trump said.
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"No, I think what's important is that the president is a decent person," she says.
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In my ward, the superintendent (the leader, later renamed ward captain) was a decent person.
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Noah Q. Berg from Southwest-Central Wilmington, N.C., thought a man must be a decent person: I think that "being a man" is not about being aggressive and strong and it isn't about fitting into gender roles, but rather about being a decent person.
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I do know that behind all the anger in Chad, there is probably a decent person.
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Senator McCain made sure they knew Barack Obama is an American citizen and 'a decent person.
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Most of the electorate simply does not see him as a good or even decent person.
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One of the deeply held beliefs that most of us have is, 'I'm a decent person.
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Gref said in a statement that he knew Calvey to be an honest and decent person.
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Second: Because Wright experienced emotions, some of them painful, he must be a fundamentally decent person.
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Why would a decent person be carrying a weapon of war ostentatiously on a public street?
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We pose a question: Is Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) the only decent person on Wall Street?
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday said Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a "very decent" person.
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Every decent person already agrees that the league's insistence on rewarding losses is an absolutely terrible idea.
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"I don't know of a more experienced, better person — a more decent person in politics," he continued.
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While I obviously hold no brief for McConnell, that ad should be condemned by every decent person.
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If you actually love this person, and you're a decent person, you need to be more careful.
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After all, what decent person would rally against covering those who fall under any of those three categories?
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But she's a fundamentally good and decent person who knows what she's doing who will be an outstanding president.
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I didn't think it was ... You called him a nice guy, you said that he was a decent person.
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It's not even remotely a desired outcome and it is an inhuman impulse for any decent person to want that.
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Any decent person should have known to steer clear of mentioning it unless referring respectfully to recipients of the medal.
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She is a decent person and strong leader who understood the moment, rose to it and did an amazing thing.
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Many conservatives and even some liberals have lauded him as both a superbly qualified judge and a fundamentally decent person.
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"He is a decent person," he told a man who had volunteered that he was "scared" of an Obama presidency.
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And if you're a basically decent person like Cam, well, it gives you the chance to show that off too.
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HowToGeek recommends that if you're tech-savvy, and just a decent person, to change the shutdown time to a future time.
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I know you don't want to get kudos for it, but being a decent person is a hard thing to do.
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And what makes a good, decent person—never pushing, never digging in too deeply—isn't necessarily what makes an effective documentarian.
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"If I can meet with a dictator in Uganda, I can surely meet with a decent person in America," Grassley had said.
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Aristotle may have exaggerated the importance of good character to friendship; a decent person can be the friend of a charming rogue.
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That October night in Minnesota when he called Obama a "decent person" is remembered as a moment McCain stood up to bigotry.
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But many voters surely saw him as authentic, relatable — a loving father and decent person disgusted with the nastiness coming his way.
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I think of myself as a kind, decent person, but I think that people who are assholes think of themselves the same way.
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He's on friendly footing with Rachel, and he has a winning contestant who's also a decent person; obviously it's going to fall apart.
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In a moral crunch, she's not interested in integrity; her stance threatens their marriage and Rob's wobbly sense that she's a decent person.
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Becoming a decent person requires an awful lot of dying in "Happy Death Day," a snappy horror-comedy with a gentle romantic spine.
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"If you win, the cost to democracy is enormous because the prime minister must be a decent person and you are not," he said.
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But his attorney described him as "an honest, decent person who has faithfully worked for the city of Flint and its residents" for years.
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A federal judge ruled that his employer could legally do so, because there's no law saying your boss has to be a decent person.
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So he does what any decent person would, which is make a video mea culpa on his phone and send it to his victim.
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It's obviously something for any decent person to keep in mind, but it doesn't make passionate politics culpable for the ills of the world.
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"He's never been in trouble; he's a veteran, a graduate of Yale University, an upstanding member of society and a very decent person all around."
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"If I can meet with a dictator in Uganda, I can surely meet with a decent person in America," Mr. Grassley said at the time.
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If you are a decent person, you won't like that, but Penn State knows it doesn't have to give a shit about what you think.
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Some Republicans have warned that if Judge Kavanaugh's nomination fails, no decent person will ever want to be put up for the Supreme Court again.
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Elena no doubt thinks of herself as a decent person, in the way that people who mistake politeness and decorum for true kindness often do.
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In fact, he has essentially misremembered the entire period, casually transforming himself into a decent person rather than the pitiful father he has actually been.
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"As a study in depravity, the story is excellent, with Marlowe standing out as almost the only fundamentally decent person in it," wrote our reviewer.
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He has all the manifest skills and traits of a successful politician—not all of which are good—but I think he's an extraordinarily decent person.
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It's a masterclass in how to be a decent person when you don't fully understand and might even not accept the person with whom you're talking.
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It is this stellar record and Judge Kavanaugh's reputation as a genuinely decent person that make him the right Supreme Court appointment at the right time.
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So you did what any decent person would do: You asked the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to force your uncle to go to your wedding. Right?
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If you are just a decent person who believes in expanding equality, respecting choice and identity and civil rights, your vision of America is in jeopardy.
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They have taken the racist "14 words" mantra and brought it into the open, using racial epithets that no decent person would tolerate, let alone speak.
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If everybody agrees that we all need to be donating, say, 10 percent of our income to be a decent person, then it will be easy.
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"Victims often try to appease the extortionist, but these efforts just allow him to retain the underserved mantle of a decent person," Mr. de Becker wrote.
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After mentioning his 14-year friendship with Trump and declaring him a "caring, genuine and decent person," Christie launched into a mock trial, of sorts, of Clinton.
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Harris seems like a decent person," Mr. Moore said, "but I just don't think she'd have a chance, and I don't want to throw away my vote.
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He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.
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TURNER: Yes, because everybody wants to know that somebody who is seeking, you know, the highest court in the land is a decent person, that is everything else.
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Unfortunately, Yiannopoulos is getting his 15 minutes of fame as he was recently brought on ABC's Nightline (presumably) to apologize — or prove that he's a halfway decent person.
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"IF you are a decent person and were in a meeting where @realDonaldTrump called immigrants 'animals,' you will denounce him NOW," demanded Representative Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat.
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Adele says she liked W.J. — "he was a clean, pleasant, decent person" — and might have stayed with him for a long time if they'd just had some privacy.
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A decent person who had an affair would, when faced with the prospect of that affair going public, tell their spouse what happened, apologize, and accept the consequences.
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"He just seemed really humble and, like, a decent person, which is not often come by in politicians," said Ms. Harrington, a catering manager at a Panera Bread restaurant.
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No good and decent person on this earth should be able to look you in the eye and say, with any shred of enthusiasm, that they "really like" Tinder.
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" McCain challenges the man, saying of Obama: "He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.
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The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens, even innocent children, shocked the conscience of every decent person.
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The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens -- even innocent children -- shock the conscience of every decent person.
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"The Brett Kavanaugh I know is a good and decent person, and I have never seen him treat women with anything but respect," conservative pundit Virginia Hume wrote on Twitter.
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Another problem is that even if my child grew up to be a decent person, they could easily end up being imprisoned on false charges by an angry, inhumane tyrant.
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The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens, even innocent children, shock the conscience of every decent person.
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That coincidence of purpose arises because some faith-related oppression and violence, up to and including genocide, is so manifestly horrific that any decent person would join the cry of outrage.
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While participating at an event for the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Wednesday, Murray, 68, called his Tootsie costar a "really decent person," according to the Associated Press.
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And over the past several years, these two comedies have wandered the crooked path between the two, trying to figure out how to be a decent person in a fallen world.
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I never selected them, deciding to play Harry as a bad cop but a decent person, and eventually the passive skill checks from Harry's internal Drama and Rhetoric and Electrochemistry calmed down.
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Laura Reston observed yesterday that Republicans have seized on the KKK controversy surrounding Trump to claim that he has, at long last, crossed a bright line that no decent person can sanction.
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The Jimmy we met in season one was a shady but basically decent person who wanted to do right by the two people he cared about most, Chuck McGill and Kim Wexler.
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A "deeply flawed human being" adrift in a "wicked" world, Fein, we're meant to understand, might have been a more humane and decent person had he been able to lose weight. Really?
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said last month that "If I can meet with a dictator in Uganda, I can surely meet with a decent person in America," regarding simply sitting down with Garland.
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The challenges are many but chief among them for me was acknowledging that considering yourself a good or decent person who believes in equality doesn't prevent you from being racist or supporting racist ideas.
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"We recognize that we aren't all flawless beings, so an otherwise decent person who slips up and says something that can be construed as bigotry will probably get away with a warning," she told me.
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That local Sicilians elected her to represent them in parliament in Rome was "probably because they saw that I was a decent person: that if I denounced Mafiosi, I was clean, at least," she explained.
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" Mr. Flanagan called Mr. Klein "a good and decent person who treats others with respect," while also saying "we take every allegation of sexual harassment seriously and will continue to encourage everyone to come forward.
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With what conscience can a decent person like Pravin ( a man schooled in Infosys values for over 30 years) tell his juniors that they should work hard and make sacrifice to reduce cost and protect margin?
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You can buy us all the Hermès Birkin bags you want, but if you don't respect our fundamental human rights, you can kindly hibernate out of public view until you learn how to be a decent person.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday night referred to her colleague Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a "very decent" person as she lamented what she characterized as the "dysfunction" surrounding the confirmation process for new justices.
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But I admire his obvious decency, his knowledge of Washington, his lack of partisan rancor and the reassurance he would bring to both America and the world that a sane and decent person sits in the Oval Office.
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"I have to talk to my son about any of the dangers of the world and how to carry himself, not just with authorities but making sure that he's a decent person around women as well," he said.
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Their formative experiences involved enduring a kind of repression which any decent person, Western or Soviet, would recognise as cruel and deplorable: the sort of crushing of the spirit that would make you appreciate whatever liberty you later enjoy.
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On the first cluster of issues, reasonable folk might disagree; over the second, no decent person could fail to be horrified, and opposing such horrors (from blasphemy trials to re-education camps) must surely be a common American concern.
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Western media is seen as equally untrustworthy; there's an online saying, "A decent person shouldn't be too CNN," that dates back to the anti-CNN frenzy of 2008 and 2009, when the network was seen as being anti-Chinese.
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Instead of making a slightly self-deprecating joke about leaving the parenting to his wife (while still being seen as a likable and decent person), he could try to address the underlying topic in an earnest and real way.
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"Survivors are being retraumatized by all of this, and we've been telling [senators] that we need a Supreme Court justice who is a fair and decent person," said Corder, who flew in from Oakland, California, to join the demonstrations.
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Continued fallout from Carl's heart-rending death in last week's episode dominates the action, as various characters clumsily process the loss and wonder what kind of world would take such a kind and decent person in the prime of his life.
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While Gary Johnson is a very decent person, he often says things so weird and bizarre, and so factually false or uninformed, that far too often when he speaks he reveals that he just doesn't know what he is talking about.
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This season came down to Nina trying to be a decent person only to die for it, Oleg struggling to understand his place in the world, Americans and Russians watching The Day After on the same couch together in horror.
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If they seem like a decent person, we're more apt to listen to their music with favorable ears; conversely, if we enjoy their work, there is part of us that automatically assumes that person embodies the values we assign to their music.
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Although a fundamentally decent person like Vinnie might rationalize the benefits of the brothels that arise in consequence — they keep the women out of the cold, say, and better protect them from abusive clients — there's nobody of Colvin's moral stature behind the operation.
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Duke himself was also the beneficiary of a Trump Tango, as the president spent days going to great lengths to disavow the support of white nationalists only to eventually, and reluctantly, "do the right thing" long after any decent person would have.
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Robert Harrison, a lawyer for Mr. Glasgow, said he could not comment on the specific charges, but described his client as "an honest, decent person" who had spent years working for the city of Flint and had worked his way up from the bottom.
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"Jim Jordan is a fine and decent person who has a lifetime history of being honorable and honest, unlike his accusers whose extremely troubled backgrounds and ongoing legal and financial troubles place the veracity of their allegations into the realm of ridiculous," Gohmert said in a statement.
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Take the "Elizabeth Warren always" meme that swept Twitter this summer: Though it warmly characterizes her as a relatably decent person ("Elizabeth Warren always replaces the toilet paper" and "Elizabeth Warren always boards with her correct boarding group"), it has a way of obscuring her political message.
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So even though the first two episodes of season two purposely mimic the show's very first episode (in which Eleanor wakes up in the Good Place and has to fake her way through being a decent person), watching the show while knowing the truth behind Michael's facade changes everything.
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It's the job of the crisis communications manager to keep those examples in the public eye so that even while critics say terrible things about Cosby, his supporters can cite times and events in his life that show he is, on balance, a decent person with human weaknesses.
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As someone who leans to the Democratic Party, I have no problem stipulating that all of the previous Republican presidential candidates in my voting lifetime — Ford, Reagan, the elder Bush, Dole, the younger Bush, McCain and Romney — every one of them was, at his core, a decent person.
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We have set up a very particular incentive structure for not only him but everyone else in politics, where the coverage that can be generated by abnormal, offensive behavior far outweighs the coverage on offer for simply trying to do a good job and be a decent person.
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"They don't get credit for at the very last minute when finally, the guy they nominated and supported is caught on tape saying things that no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about, much less act on," Obama said during remarks at a Democratic dinner in Columbus, Ohio.
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"People are more likely to see an attack as quote-unquote 'mean' if it is against someone they like and who they think is a decent person," said Karen Finney, who was senior spokeswoman for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonQueer Marine veteran launches House bid after incumbent California Rep.
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Most of the famous people are ashamed to speak or be seen by me there very much,as they're ashamed of the perverse and disgusting gatherings, I am a decent person and will not participate in these acts, so they use me as an example and torture me for my being a good person.
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" Yates, who served with Biden as deputy attorney general in the final two years of the Obama administration, described her former colleague as "a thoroughly decent person who will restore integrity and honor to the presidency," as well as "work to heal a country that has been selfishly ripped apart for personal and political gain.
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With the President's false and misleading statements now exceeding 5,000, according to the Washington Post, and a number of his famous former aides and loyalists -- Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates -- in the throes of criminal prosecution, the idea that Donald Trump's White House is a worthy place of employment for any decent person is now suspect.
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But what's distinctive about the American reaction, relative to what happens in other countries, is that the two sides of the gun debate can look at the same horrific incident, feel similar feelings of disgust and outrage — and yet settle on strikingly different interpretations of what those tragedies mean and how a decent person should respond to them.
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"Joe is the right person to beat Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE, because he is everything Trump is not--Joe is a good, decent person, who cares about others and understands the struggles that so many Americans face every day," Delaney said in a statement.
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" Speaking up for Obama A man said on the 2008 campaign trail that he had concerns about Barack Obama, telling McCain, "We're scared of an Obama presidency ... I'm concerned about someone that cohorts with domestic terrorists ..." McCain responded, amid boos, "I have to tell you he's a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States.
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"The failure of people in the rich nations to make any significant sacrifices in order to assist people who are dying from poverty-related causes is ethically indefensible," he wrote in "Achieving the Best Outcome," a 2002 essay: It is not simply the absence of charity, let alone of moral saintliness: It is wrong, and one cannot claim to be a morally decent person unless one is doing far more than the typical comfortably-off person does.
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Obama went on to blast Republicans: They know better, a lot of these folks who ran, and they didn't say anything, and so they don't get credit for, at the very last minute, when finally the guy they nominated and they endorsed and they supported is caught on tape saying things that no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about, much less laugh about or joke about, much less act on.
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So I spent the week having private arguments about whether it was really fair to ask a public servant to withdraw in a kind of tacit shame, for some greater ideological good, on the basis of a single unprovable allegation — and whether that kind of standard would inevitably lead to less-provable allegations against more probably-innocent figures down the road — and how you could expect any decent person to put themselves forward for high office in the climate such a precedent would create.
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It will shock you to hear that, I, Corbin Smith—a decent person who is just trying to watch some basketball with a sweater on—was staying in, sipping a cup of hot coco and cleaning my nicest monocle, just trying to enjoy a Memphis Grizzlies game, take in some subtle flip shots and delightfully unexpected and light and airy and sweet three pointers from my all-time favorite player, Marc Gasol, when all of a sudden, I look up from my hands and their polishing work and ... ... I yelp in terror and madness, every hair on my body standing on end, my screams so strained and terrified that my throat can only make the faintest of yelps.
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