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"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."

"If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it."

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what "would, in effect, be death panels."

U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson, John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."

"We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor."

The results of Atlanta Public School’s 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests "have not been questioned."

The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.

Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."

"I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet."

"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.

Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."

"You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War.

In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct.

Said they reached a  "power-sharing agreement" with Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle

Vows to keep Georgia's race for governor "civil" and focused on the "positive."

Says campaign contributions to her rival for a state House seat was money intended for schoolchildren.

Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been "fighting hard" to let illegal immigrants vote.

"We have my opponent Sam Olens to thank for [the Arizona immigration ruling] since he was on the team that got Clinton elected."

"Nobody’s invited us" to the Obama events in Atlanta.

Karen Handel "would have felt like it was OK to go in and abort" Sarah Palin's son Trig, who has Down syndrome.

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