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Mark Shields
Mark Shields
stated on December 21, 2012 in the PBS NewsHour:
Since 1968, "more Americans have died from gunfire than died in … all the wars of this country's history."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 8, 2013 in on Facebook:
In 2011, more people were murdered with knives, "hands or feet" or "clubs and hammers" than with any type of rifle.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on December 8, 2012 in a weekly newsletter:
"This week the House of Representatives voted to remove the word ‘lunatic’ from federal law."
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By Amy Sherman • December 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 in a presidential debate:
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:
Says Mitt Romney suggested that "employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage."
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By Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 16, 2012 in in a town-hall debate in Long Island, N.Y.:
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, ‘This plant kills.’"
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By Stephen Koff, Molly Moorhead • October 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:
Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 11, 2012 in a debate in Danville, Ky.:
"There's not one Democrat who endorses" the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan.
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By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 in the first presidential debate:
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 in a presidential debate in Denver:
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 3, 2012 in a presidential debate:
Says Obama promised to cut the deficit in half.
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By Molly Moorhead • October 4, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 17, 2012 in remarks at a campaign fundraiser:
"Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."
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By Molly Moorhead • September 18, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 in a convention speech:
The Obama administration is allowing state waivers from welfare work requirements "only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent."
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By Molly Moorhead • September 10, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Bob King
Bob King
stated on September 5, 2012 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs."
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By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for "the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget."
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By Becky Bowers • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 30, 2012 in remarks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
At Bain Capital, "we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised."
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By Becky Bowers • August 31, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 30, 2012 in remarks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
In his first TV interview as president, Obama said we "should talk to Iran."
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By Katie Sanders • August 31, 2012
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on August 26, 2012 in a TV interview:
Mitt Romney "gave away his father's inheritance."
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By Becky Bowers • August 27, 2012
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