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Bob Corker
stated on February 15, 2017 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 an interview on ABC's This Week

"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."

By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016

Michael Morell
stated on September 19, 2016 an open letter to Donald Trump

Says Donald Trump has outlined "policies that read like a Kremlin wish list."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 22, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 at the White House

Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we’ve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking."

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 5, 2016

Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 26, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention

"Human trafficking is the third-biggest criminal enterprise in the world."

By Jon Greenberg • July 27, 2016

Van Jones
stated on July 7, 2016 a panel discussion on CNN

African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2016

Clay Aiken
stated on June 12, 2016 a posting on Twitter

"A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton "plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) … including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 a Clinton campaign tweet

Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Doonesbury
stated on January 11, 2015 the Sunday comics

The CIA paid two psychologists $81 million "to develop and run their torture program."

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2015

Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on December 18, 2014 a press conference

Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."

By Amy Sherman • December 23, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference

In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."

By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014

Reza Aslan
stated on September 29, 2014 an interview on "CNN Tonight"

Says female genital mutilation is "a central African problem," not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.

By Katie Sanders • October 2, 2014

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on September 2, 2013 a CNN interview

Says there's a "100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons."

By Becky Bowers • September 5, 2013

Christopher Plante
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview

"The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 23, 2013

Joe Lieberman
stated on May 6, 2010 a press conference

The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."

By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2010

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