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Crime 11/3/2016

“We have the highest murder rate in this country in 45 years.”

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Emails 10/31/2016

“This is bigger than Watergate.”

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Health care 10/28/2016

“Obamacare is a disaster. And you remember, I called that from before it was approved.”

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Immigration 10/27/2016

“Donald Trump says he’d deport 16 million people.”

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Foreign policy 10/26/2016

“Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium — gave Russia for a big payment.”

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Emails 10/25/2016

“The man that was investigating her from the FBI, his wife runs for office, and they give her more than $675,000 to run.”

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Immigration 10/24/2016

“Hillary Clinton allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.”

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Foreign policy 10/21/2016

“ISIS is in 32 countries.”

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Campaign 10/21/2016

“The Clinton campaign has paid people to disrupt, violently, our rallies, and to incite absolute total bedlam.”

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Emails 10/19/2016

“The Department of Justice, the State Department and the FBI colluded, got together, to make Hillary Clinton look less guilty .”

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Immigration 10/19/2016

“Then there’s the issue of illegal immigrants voting.”

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Campaign 10/19/2016

“Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.”

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Economy 10/18/2016

“Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ ”

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Campaign 10/17/2016

“The Clintons used $400 million in aid and U.S. taxpayer funds to build what amounted to a massive sweatshop.”

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Biography 10/14/2016

“These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. ... You study these people, and you’ll understand.”

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Campaign 10/13/2016

Hillary Clinton “lost as much as $6 billion in taxpayer money while she was running the State Department.”

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Biography 10/12/2016

“Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!”

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Health care 10/11/2016

“The Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow.”

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Foreign policy 10/6/2016

“George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.”

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Foreign policy 10/4/2016

I “got the treaty cutting Russia’s nuclear arms”

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Biography 10/3/2016

“We’re opening the Old Post Office. Under budget, ahead of schedule.”

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Economy 9/30/2016

The Great Recession “was in large part because of tax policies” of George W. Bush.

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Biography 9/28/2016

“That was a lawsuit brought against many real estate firms, and it’s just one of those things.”

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Crime 9/28/2016

“No, you’re wrong” that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional.

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Health care 9/26/2016

“On November 1 ... new [Obamacare premium] numbers are coming out which will show 40, 50, 60 percent increases. They want to delay it until after the election.”

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Crime 9/22/2016

“If he looks like he comes from that part of the world, we’re not allowed to profile. Give me a break.”

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Immigration 9/20/2016

“These attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system, which fails to properly vet and screen the individuals or families coming into our country.”

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Biography 9/19/2016

“She sent me door to door in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on behalf of children with disabilities who weren’t able at that time to attend public schools.”

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Economy 9/16/2016

“Perhaps most shockingly, 1 in 6 men aged 18 to 34 are either in jail or out of work.”

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Economy 9/16/2016

“Right now, 92 million Americans are on the sideline outside of the workforce, and they’re not a part of our economy.”

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Economy 9/15/2016

“That’s legal: If you find out about somebody else’s salary even if you’re doing exactly the same job, you can be retaliated against” or fired.

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Biography 9/14/2016

“One of them even said: ‘If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I’ll die.’ And they weren’t kidding around. It was intense. It got very personal.”

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Immigration 9/13/2016

“Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants.”

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Biography 9/12/2016

“Here is another example of pay-for-play.”

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Miscellaneous 9/8/2016

On military sexual assaults: “What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together [in the military]?”

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Immigration 9/2/2016

“Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities.”

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Economy 8/31/2016

“Since President Obama came into office, another 2 million Hispanics have joined the ranks of those in poverty.”

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Immigration 8/29/2016

“We need to believe him [Donald Trump] when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.”

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Economy 8/24/2016

“Fifty-eight percent of your [African American] youth is unemployed.”

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Economy 8/22/2016

“We now have 15 million new jobs that have been created in the last 7 1/2 years.”

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Immigration 8/20/2016

In Hillary Clinton’s America, “illegal immigrants … [are] collecting Social Security benefits, skipping the line.”

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Crime 8/19/2016

“The policies put into place by Rudy [Giuliani] ultimately brought down crime by 76 percent and murder by 84 percent.”

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Miscellaneous 8/18/2016

“Hillary Clinton doesn’t have that strength and stamina.”

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Biography 8/11/2016

“The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida, to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home.”

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Emails 8/9/2016

“Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.”

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Trade 8/8/2016

“Yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements.”

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Biography 8/6/2016

“The press came out with headlines: ‘Trump throws baby out of arena.’ So dishonest.”

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Veterans 8/5/2016

“He [John McCain] has not done a good job for the vets.”

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Miscellaneous 8/4/2016

“She raised like $50 or $60 million and 20 people gave it.”

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Foreign policy 8/3/2016

“Our incompetent secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran.”

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Economy 8/3/2016

“I think having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country.”

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Biography 8/2/2016

On mocking disabled reporter: “I started imitating somebody ... somebody that was groveling.”

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Emails 7/31/2016

“[FBI] Director Comey said my answers were truthful.”

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Biography 7/27/2016

“I have nothing to do with Russia.”

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Veterans 7/13/2016

“A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day.”

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Foreign policy 7/7/2016

“He [Saddam Hussein] killed terrorists. He did that so good.”

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Emails 7/5/2016

“When I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account.”

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Trade 6/30/2016

“China will enter the TPP through the back door at a later date.”

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Biography 6/27/2016

“Hillary Clinton laundered money to Bill Clinton through Laureate Education.”

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Biography 6/24/2016

Pro-Clinton ads quote Trump’s comments on women and nuclear weapons without context.

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Biography 6/20/2016

“This first lady worked with Democrats and Republicans to fix it, creating the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”

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Foreign policy 6/16/2016

“Media fell all over themselves criticizing what Donald Trump ‘may have insinuated about @POTUS.’ But he’s right”

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Immigration 6/15/2016

“The president has the right to ban any group or anybody that he feels is going to do harm to our country.”

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Biography 6/7/2016

“This case [Trump University lawsuit] should have ended years ago on summary judgment.”

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Miscellaneous 6/6/2016

“Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes known as Pocahontas, bought foreclosed housing and made a quick killing.”

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Campaign 5/27/2016

“I think he [Trump] needs to release his tax returns. The only two we have show that he hasn’t paid a penny in taxes.”

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Foreign policy 5/27/2016

“Look what he’s done this past week ... heaping praise on a dangerous dictator in North Korea.”

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Campaign 5/27/2016

“I don’t think [Bernie Sanders] had a single negative ad ever run against him.”

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Miscellaneous 5/25/2016

Donald Trump “called theories of possible foul play ‘very serious’ and the circumstances of [Vince] Foster’s death ‘very fishy.’”

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Miscellaneous 5/24/2016

“Nobody in this country was worse than Bill Clinton with women.”

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Guns 5/18/2016

“FACT: Donald Trump would force schools to allow guns in classrooms on his first day in office.”

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Immigration 5/16/2016

“When you look at that migration [in Europe], you see so many young, strong men.”

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Immigration 5/13/2016

“Your crime numbers are so crazy, they’re going through the roof” because of illegal immigration.

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Taxes 5/12/2016

On federal tax returns, “There’s nothing to learn from them.”

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Trade 5/9/2016

“NAFTA was signed by Bill Clinton.”

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Campaign 5/6/2016

“You know who started the birther movement? ... Hillary Clinton.”

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Campaign 5/4/2016

Cruz “didn’t deny” a National Enquirer report on Ted Cruz’s father’s role in the Kennedy assassination.

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Foreign policy 5/3/2016

Vladimir Putin “said Trump’s a genius.”

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Immigration 5/2/2016

“There are scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism,” and “dozens and dozens more” per each case known publicly.

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Foreign policy 4/25/2016

“ISIS is making a fortune now in Libya” on oil.

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Campaign 4/22/2016

John Kasich “never had one negative ad against him. ”

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Guns 4/20/2016

Bernie Sanders “voted for the bill that gave special protection — immunity from liability — to the gun makers and sellers.”

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Guns 4/12/2016

“The highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont.”

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Abortion 4/7/2016

A Wisconsin judge “compared birth control, which millions of women use every year, to murder.”

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Campaign 4/6/2016

“I have 2.5 million more votes than he [Sanders] does.”

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Immigration 4/4/2016

Ted Cruz “wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give more amnesty to illegal immigrants.”

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Economy 4/2/2016

“We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt. … I think I could do it fairly quickly.”

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Biography 3/31/2016

“You know who else evolved? Ronald Reagan evolved” on the abortion issue.

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Trade 3/30/2016

“We pay, number one, a totally disproportionate share of NATO.”

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Miscellaneous 3/28/2016

“But Time magazine gave that information” on the Wisconsin budget deficit under Gov. Scott Walker.

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Immigration 3/21/2016

On the H-1B visa, “We shouldn’t have it.”

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Trade 3/18/2016

“We don’t win at trade.”

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Miscellaneous 3/15/2016

“John Kasich helped Wall Street predator Lehman Brothers destroy the world economy.”

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Education 3/14/2016

Common Core is “education through Washington, D.C.”

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Immigration 3/8/2016

“Two thousand years ago, China built the Great Wall of China. This is a serious wall.”

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Miscellaneous 3/5/2016

In Flint, Mich., “our city’s children were poisoned by toxic water because their governor wanted to save a little money.”

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Biography 3/3/2016

“I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”

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Biography 2/27/2016

“I’ve won most of the lawsuits” against Trump University.

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Biography 2/25/2016

“I was totally against the war in Iraq.”

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Emails 2/24/2016

“You look at General Petraeus, you look at all the other people that did a fraction of what she [Hillary Clinton] did.”

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Social Security 2/22/2016

George W. Bush’s “plan was to give the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street.”

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Health care 2/18/2016

“We can save as much as $300 billion a year” on prescription drugs.

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Immigration 2/15/2016

“People are pouring in, pouring in, and they’re doing tremendous damage if you look at the crime, if you look at the economy.”

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Immigration 2/11/2016

“It’s $8 billion” to build the border wall.

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Veterans 2/10/2016

The Koch brothers “formed an organization” to privatize Veterans Affairs.

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Emails 2/4/2016

“When you receive information, of course, there has to be some markings, some indication that someone down the chain thought that this was classified and that was not the case.”

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Education 2/2/2016

Common Core is “bureaucrats in Washington telling you how to manage your child’s education.”

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Economy 1/20/2016

On unemployment, “the real number’s like 22, 23 percent.”

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Guns 1/14/2016

On the “Charleston loophole,” “my opponent voted for it, Senator Sanders.”

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Economy 1/11/2016

“Everybody who’s looked at my [Wall Street] proposals says my proposals are tougher, more effective, more comprehensive.”

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Taxes 1/7/2016

“I’m the only candidate running, in either party [who pledges] ... to raise incomes, not taxes, on the middle class.”

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Foreign policy 12/7/2015

“I predicted Osama bin Laden … was coming in to do damage.”

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Foreign policy 12/6/2015

9/11 hijackers’ “wives knew exactly what was going to happen.”

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Biography 11/30/2015

NASA rejected her letter as a teen, “saying that they weren’t accepting women.”

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Foreign policy 11/22/2015

“There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down” on 9/11.

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Immigration 11/18/2015

“Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.”

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Veterans 11/17/2015

“Over 300,000 veterans died waiting for care.”

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Biography 11/12/2015

Clinton claimed she tried to join the Marines.

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Emails 11/9/2015

The State Department had between “90 and 95 percent” of Clinton’s work-related emails in its system.

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Miscellaneous 11/5/2015

“We have a huge population in our prisons for nonviolent, low-level offenses that are primarily due to marijuana.”

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Veterans 11/2/2015

A “number of surveys” show veterans “are satisfied with their treatment.”

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Miscellaneous 10/28/2015

DOMA “was a defensive action” to prevent anti-gay U.S. constitutional amendment.

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Biography 10/21/2015

“I was visited by people from the White House asking me to sort of, could I be silenced” about opposition to the Iraq invasion.

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Guns 10/16/2015

“Forty percent of guns are sold at gun shows, online sales.”

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Immigration 10/8/2015

Obama “wants to take in 200,000” Syrian refugees.

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Taxes 9/29/2015

His claim his tax plan is “going to cost me a fortune.”

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Emails 9/28/2015

The State Department asked about emails because “they found gaps in the record keeping.”

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Foreign policy 9/11/2015

John Kerry “didn’t want to discuss the hostages [in Iran] because we didn’t want to complicate the negotiation.”

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Emails 9/10/2015

“Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email.”

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Emails 8/27/2015

“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.”

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Immigration 8/25/2015

“How crazy — 7.5% of all births in U.S. are to illegal immigrants, over 300,000 babies per year.”

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Economy 8/21/2015

“Our real unemployment rate is 42 percent.”

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Immigration 8/20/2015

“The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011.”

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Miscellaneous 8/19/2015

Obama “spent $4 million in legal fees to make sure that nobody ever saw” records showing his citizenship.

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Biography 8/11/2015

“Some of the things that [Megyn Kelly] said, I didn’t say, okay?”

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Economy 7/13/2015

The U.S. would’ve had a “balanced budget and a surplus that would have paid off our national debt” if a Democrat had become president after Bill Clinton.

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Emails 7/9/2015

On emails, “everything I did was permitted.”

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Immigration 7/8/2015

Mexicans are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

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Economy 5/29/2015

One Republican “dismissed equal pay as ‘a bogus issue.’ Another said Congress was ‘wasting time’ worrying about it.”

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Economy 5/22/2015

“It should not take longer to start a business in America than it does in Canada or France. But that is the fact.”

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Taxes 5/20/2015

“Something is wrong when ... hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than truck drivers or nurses.”

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Immigration 5/15/2015

“A lot of the detention facilities for immigrants are run by private companies ... there is actually a legal requirement that so many beds be filled.”

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Immigration 5/11/2015

“Undocumented workers in New York pay more in taxes than some of the biggest corporations in New York.”

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Immigration 5/7/2015

“Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship.”

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Biography 4/29/2015

“Under Canadian law, all charities are prohibited from disclosing individual donors without prior permission from each donor.”

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Economy 4/16/2015

“There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the American worker.”

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