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The Other 98%
stated on March 31, 2016 in a Facebook image:

"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 6, 2016 in a speech to the AFL-CIO Convention:

When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."

By Anna Orso, Dan Levy • April 6, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 30, 2016 in a CNN interview:

Says his free public university tuition program "is paid for … by a tax on Wall Street's speculation."

By Lauren Carroll • April 4, 2016

LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 in a tweet:

North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 in a campaign speech:

Says Donald Trump "wants us to pull out of NATO."

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2016

Viral media reports
stated on March 22, 2016 in Newspaper, television and social media:

Emory University students were provided counseling after someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus.

By Jim Tharpe • March 31, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 in a Tampa Bay Times interview:

"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."

By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee:

"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:

"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on March 17, 2016 in a campaign press release:

Congressman Jeff Denham "has agreed all illegal immigrants should be detained, arrested and deported."

By Chris Nichols • March 28, 2016

Vicky Hartzler
stated on March 24, 2016 in an interview with ABC17 News:

"We have less Americans working now than in the ’70s."

By Conner Smith • March 26, 2016

Wisconsin Alliance for Reform
stated on March 8, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg agreed to use a technicality to give a convicted sex offender a new hearing because "he didn’t understand the charge."

By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2016

Danny Tarkanian
stated on February 9, 2016 in an interview on Ralston Live:

Nevada Republicans "didn’t do one single thing to cut spending" in 2015.

By Riley Snyder • March 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 in a victory speech after the March 15 primaries:

"Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support."

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016

Mark Herring
stated on March 10, 2016 in a letter:

"Every (U.S. Supreme Court) nominee since 1875 has received a nomination hearing."

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • March 20, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 in a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on November 21, 2015 in a TV ad that ran mostly in Iowa:

Says Donald Trump and Marco Rubio opposed Cruz’s "efforts to defund Planned Parenthood."

By Emma Hinchliffe • March 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2016 in a campaign ad:

"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist."

By Aaron Sharockman, Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 in a Univision/Washington Post Democratic debate:

Regarding her State Department email practices, "my predecessors did the same thing."

By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2016

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