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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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