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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 a House hearing on Benghazi:
Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015
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stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web:
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on October 19, 2015 comments on the Daily Show:
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • October 22, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2015 an interview on CNN's "New Day":
Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 21, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015
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stated on October 15, 2015 a graphic circulating on the Internet:
Says Bernie Sanders once said, "Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa:
The gun industry is "the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate:
Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate:
On the Keystone XL pipeline
No Flip
By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate:
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate:
Says as secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and "hoped it would be the gold standard."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate:
"Sen. Sanders did vote five times against the Brady bill."
True
By Linda Qiu • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 on NBC's Today Show:
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."
Mostly True
By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 comments on "State of the Union":
"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on October 11, 2015 comments on "Meet the Press":
Says Republican Rep. Charlie Dent wants to kick the Freedom Caucus out of the Republican conference "for voting our conscience."     
False
By Linda Qiu • October 11, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:
"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015
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