All Pants on Fire! statements involving Rick Perry

Jobbed on jobs?

Rick Perry

The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, January 26th, 2015

Nowhere near a record

Rick Perry

The United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

Multiple flaws make a fire

Rick Perry

More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

Few from"terrorist" countries or havens

Rick Perry

Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

Evidence absent

Rick Perry

"Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 5th, 2013

Check 'in' box

Rick Perry

Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Ridiculous distortion

Rick Perry

Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Perry was there

Rick Perry

Says Texas did not bail out a loan program he oversaw as state agriculture commissioner.

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, December 18th, 2011

More U.S. agents than ever patrol the border

Rick Perry

"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 23rd, 2011

A ridiculous claim no matter who says it

Rick Perry

"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 12th, 2011

Not $2 billion and not from Obama

Rick Perry

Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

It was False once. Repeating claim sets meter aflame

Rick Perry

Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 6th, 2011

It's not even a good comeback

Rick Perry

Says Bill White is refusing to debate.

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Except for that one two weeks ago

Rick Perry

"We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, July 19th, 2010

Avoid carbon tax for now, White actually wrote

Rick Perry

"My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' "

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Reduction by at least 300,000 is not "about the same"

Rick Perry

"The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, April 5th, 2010

Claim omits El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville and other burgs where most people live

Rick Perry

My "border security efforts have led to a 60 percent decrease in border crime."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Democrats cast the crucial votes

Rick Perry

"Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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