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Barack Obama
stated on May 30, 2019 an on stage interview in Brazil:

"Anybody can buy any weapon, any time without much, if any, regulation. They buy it over the internet. They can buy machine guns."

By Jon Greenberg • June 4, 2019

Barack Obama
stated on September 28, 2016 a CNN town hall:

"If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased."

By Miriam Valverde • October 13, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on July 12, 2016 a speech at a memorial service in Dallas:

"We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book."

By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 a press conference at the North American Leaders Summit:

"During my administration, for example, we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs."

By Neelesh Moorthy • July 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show":

"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office."

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:

"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "

By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Detroit:

"The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in."

By Steve Contorno • January 22, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on November 14, 2014 a press conference in Burma:

Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else."

By Lauren Carroll • November 20, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 Brisbane, Australia, for the G20 summit:

Says Jonathan Gruber was "some adviser who never worked on our staff."

By Steve Contorno • November 19, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2014 a Saturday broadcast address:

Congress is on "vacation."

By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2014 a weekly address:

"The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old."

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on September 27, 2013 remarks at the White House:

"The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — (voted) to keep our government open."

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2013 a press availability:

"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 a speech in Washington, D.C. :

If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate:

"The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed."

By Molly Moorhead • October 24, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the final debate:

Says Mitt Romney was clear that he "would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy."

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 9, 2012 a campaign ad:

As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times."

By Molly Moorhead • October 15, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2012 an email to supporters:

Says economists Harvey Rosen and Martin Feldstein have said that "paying for (Mitt) Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000."

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2012 a campaign ad:

Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."

By Jon Greenberg • October 9, 2012

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