Recalling how his discrimination suit was tossed out of court on "national security" grounds, he added: "I think it is deplorable how I am denied the opportunity to utilize the courts to defend my civil rights, yet they can use the same system to most likely charge me with a supposed crime".
"I have to say I'm still very upset and I think it's deplorable that the Speaker (of the House) did not bring this ($60 billion) bill up and the whole package that addresses Hurricane Sandy relief in the lame duck session in the last days of Congress," said U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Monmouth and Middlesex.
"I think it's deplorable," Ms. White said of the federal denial, her hands gripping the chain-link fence.
"I think it's deplorable when leftwing playwrights like David Hare, who have worn their socialist colours on both sleeves for so many years, should accept a knighthood.
Novelist JG Ballard rejected a CBE for services to literature the same year, saying: "I think it's deplorable when left-wing playwrights like David Hare, who have worn their socialist colours on both sleeves for so many years, should accept a knighthood.
If the reports are true, it is deplorable".
The Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, made it clear, in remarks at a separate news conference, she would not support punishing the college for hosting the event, even though, she said, "I think this event is deplorable — I think it is an anti-Israel event".
"I think this is deplorable," she said.
"I think they're deplorable, a disgrace.
A woman in a cowboy hat positioned herself in front of the protesters and held box lids scrawled with the words "I'm a deplorable" (referencing a recent Clinton gaffe) and "There's a new sheriff in town and his name is Donald Trump".
