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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
"We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election."
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By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
True
By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 26, 2016 a tweet
"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."  
True
October 7, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 19, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention
Says Hillary Clinton "said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not true."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 8, 2016 an interview on CNN
"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech
"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"When I was secretary of state, I had a very high approval rating."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."
True
By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 a GOP debate at the University of Miami
Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."  
True
By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016
Right to Rise
Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.
Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016
Our Principles PAC
Our Principles PAC
stated on February 14, 2016 a web ad
Says Donald "Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 8, 2016 remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered
North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."
True
By Anthony Cave • February 16, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 a town hall in Manchester, N.H.
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech at Georgetown University
"Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen."
True
By Linda Qiu • November 24, 2015
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on July 5, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
"Greece is not a big economy. It's about the size of metropolitan Miami."
True
By Jon Greenberg • July 6, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 remarks at an economic summit in Orlando
"You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
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