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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
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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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Barack Obama
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Franklin Graham
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Michael Bloomberg
"There is already a mosque four blocks away."
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Mark Tapscott
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Harry Reid
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The Rhode Island Truth-O-Meter
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
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"1 in 4 Rhode Islanders under the age of 65 does not have health insurance."
In Rhode Island "there are 150 different pension plans for public workers."
"(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare."
"One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry."
"Mr. Caprio is a career politician who has never worked in the private sector."
Rhode Island is "at the top of the country for alcohol-related fatalities."
Lincoln Chafee "voted with President George W. Bush and the conservative leadership 76% of the time."
"We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain."
Repealing the sales tax on boats in Rhode Island has spawned 2,000 companies, 7,000 jobs and close to $2 billion a year in sales activity.
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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."
— Randi Weingarten
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
— Harry Reid
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
— Joe Sestak-
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
— Jamie Oliver
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"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
— Donna Brazile
