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Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2019 a speech

"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."

By Madlin Mekelburg • August 27, 2019

Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing

France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017

Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview

"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."

By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017

Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 Radio interview

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016

Rick Perry
stated on August 2, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.

By Linda Qiu • August 2, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president

"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."

By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech at the National Press Club

"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president

"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 a visit to Deerfield, NH

"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."

By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech in Iowa

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 an oped column

On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune

On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech

"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"

By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad

"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."

By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech.

"America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world."

By Sean Gorman • March 2, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.

"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature

Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa

The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015

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