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"Immigrants are more fertile."

"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."

"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."

"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."

"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."

Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."

"One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.

The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."

"There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010."

"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor."

"Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S."

"During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted" by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.

Says President Barack Obama is trying to "pack" the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to the press, trying to pass them off as real."

A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules.

Says the word "Dhimmitude" is on page 107 of the health care law and means "Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance."

"Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 1986 amnesty act" gave Barack Obama about 15 million additional Hispanic votes in 2012.

Says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told insurance companies "they couldn't inform their policyholders of what they thought the impact of Obamacare would be on them."

Says the inspector general for the IRS said there was "no political motivation" and "no outside influence" for targeting of tax-exempt applications from tea party groups  

Says that since he took office, "there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States."

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