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William Taylor
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 in impeachment inquiry testimony:
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
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By Tom Kertscher • November 14, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 11, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 14, 2018
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech in Youngsville, NC:
"The pace of missile development between (Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un) has increased the testing about twenty-fold."
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By Will Doran • April 24, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
stated on February 15, 2017 in a joint press conference with President Donald Trump:
In the "past few weeks," President Donald Trump pointed out "Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, ‘Israel must be destroyed.’ "
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By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2016 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic convention:
"We put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 in remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:
"As secretary of state, (Hillary Clinton) worked hard to get strong sanctions against Iran's nuclear program" and "got Russia and China to support them."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:
Says Donald Trump said the U.S. should "encourage" Japan to get nuclear weapons.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic primary forum:
"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."
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By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015
Tim Echols
Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 in an opinion piece in a trade magazine:
"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."
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By April Hunt • November 10, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 27, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor":
Russia and China "absolutely said pretty clearly" they would not keep economic sanctions on Iran if the United States "walked away from the deal."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 30, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 5, 2015 in an interview with the 'New York Times.':
"Iran’s defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 9, 2015
Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney
stated on March 22, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The IAEA, or the International Atomic Energy Agency, "last month said the Iranians are not currently living up to their obligations."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 21, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."  
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By Jon Greenberg • December 21, 2014
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 in the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:
"Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they’re rushing to build a lot more. They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 23, 2012 in a speech in Miami:
"We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2012
Mike Fasano
Mike Fasano
stated on October 11, 2011 in a news article:
"Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be." A planned nuclear plant repair "will only increase that percentage."
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By Becky Bowers • October 18, 2011
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on November 28, 2010 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Obama's position on nuclear arms is a "march toward global zero."
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By Robert Farley • November 30, 2010