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Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
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"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
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Jamie Oliver
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Donna Brazile
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or ...
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Arne Duncan
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
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Ann Marie Buerkle
"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health ...
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Glenn Beck
"The federal government is now on track" for the second-largest budget deficit "in 65 ...
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Glenn Beck
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Barack Obama
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President Obama is a Muslim.
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Franklin Graham
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
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Michael Bloomberg
"There is already a mosque four blocks away."
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Harry Reid
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
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"Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence."
Michael Thurmond "authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgia’s senior citizens and working families."
"Paul Broun Jr. sides with sexual deviants to support sale of 'crush videos.' "
On running a "civil and polite" campaign.
"Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and they've done it without creating one job."
U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in "dirty" campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
Republican candidate for Georgia governor "dabbled" in birther conspiracy theories.
"It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000."
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"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."
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