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Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview
"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."
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By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 29, 2016 an interview
Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."
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April 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Huey Rey Fischer
Huey Rey Fischer
stated on February 8, 2016 a press release
"There isn’t a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire
"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."    
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By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 a posting on the Clinton website
"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 3, 2015 remarks in San Antonio
As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on August 7, 2015 a Washington Post column
Says Bernie Sanders chose "to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 12, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 a town hall in Nashua, N.H.
"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on CNN's State of the Union
Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.
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By Linda Qiu • June 23, 2015
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 a news conference
The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."  
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By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2015 a roundtable at a community college
"The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on April 9, 2015 a news conference
"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."
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By Dave Umhoefer • April 16, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
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By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 a news release.
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
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By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
Ernest Almonte
Ernest Almonte
stated on October 5, 2014 an interview on WLNE's "On the Record"
"I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2014
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