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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on June 17, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2019

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 in an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

John Boehner
stated on November 6, 2011 in an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour:

"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."

By Molly Moorhead • November 10, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011

Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 in a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':

"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011

Paul Krugman
stated on July 31, 2011 in on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

"The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2011

Arianna Huffington
stated on July 24, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Most countries have no debt ceiling."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2011

James Clyburn
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table."

By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011

Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011

Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011

Tim Pawlenty
stated on May 29, 2011 in ABC's "This Week":

Medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."

June 1, 2011

David Stockman
stated on May 1, 2011 in an interview on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':

Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2011

Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011

Joe Walsh
stated on April 17, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2011

Chris Van Hollen
stated on April 10, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. They've demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2011

Mike Pence
stated on April 10, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

A Republican proposal changes Medicare for those under age 55 so that they will "participate in the same kind of health plan that members of Congress do."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 13, 2011

George Will
stated on April 3, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011

Robin Wright
stated on March 20, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

The coalition of Arab states against Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2011

George Will
stated on March 13, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

Federal spending is "all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2011

John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011

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