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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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."
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By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2019
Paul Krugman
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."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
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."
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June 1, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 20, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
"The  firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 21, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 13, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The Obama administration "actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2011
Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas
stated on January 9, 2011 in a report on ABC News' "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Saturday's shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2011
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 12, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2010
Wesley Clark
Wesley Clark
stated on December 5, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
The Pentagon's survey about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy found that 92 percent of service members "agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat" without compromising "mission readiness."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on November 14, 2010 in "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
A proposal to reduce the deficit "involved large tax cuts for the top bracket."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 17, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on October 10, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Just like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "the AFL-CIO receives dues from foreign entities associated with it."
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October 12, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2010 in a speech:
"Groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections."
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October 11, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 26, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour:
The GOP's "Pledge to America" includes "a 20 percent cut ... for education. ... Eight million kids would have their college aid slashed under this budget."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2010
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on August 29, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."  
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September 2, 2010
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver
stated on August 29, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
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August 31, 2010
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on August 29, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 in an interview on ABC's ''This Week with Christiane Amanpour.'':
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 1, 2010 in on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":
The Bush administration "pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week:
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 18, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"We had 2 percent of the global market (for advanced batteries) when he (Obama) started. We now have 16 percent, headed to 40 percent by 2015."
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July 15, 2010
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