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

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

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 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 February 28, 2016 on CNN's "State of the Union.":

Donald Trump has "described Hillary Clinton as one of the best secretaries of state in history."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2016

Tom Daschle
stated on February 29, 2016 an op-ed:

U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.

By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:

"Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War on Iraq. I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported it."

By Linda Qiu • February 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

China has "total control, just about, of North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa:

"We get practically nothing compared to the cost of" keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.

By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:

"The head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those (Syrian) refugees."

By Linda Qiu • December 16, 2015

Michael Needham
stated on November 22, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

In 2013, the United States "accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees."

By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.:

"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.

By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate:

Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth undercard GOP debate. :

"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."

By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China."

By Anna Bruzgulis • November 11, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet:

Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015

Viral image
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.

By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015

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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015

Ron Dermer
stated on July 13, 2015 a speech to a pro-Israel Christian group:

"In a few months, this deal would give Iran $150 billion" for its $300 billion to $400 billion economy, which is "like $8 trillion flowing into the United States treasury."

By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 20, 2015 a speech:

Says Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2015

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