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Rick Santorum stated on February 29, 2012 in a speech near Knoxville, Tenn.:

"If you look up the dictionary definition of happiness at the time of our founders … happiness was not doing what you want to do but doing what you ought to do."

By Becky Bowers• March 7, 2012

Jim Lamon stated on June 02, 2022 in a statement posted on Twitter:

Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”

By Ellie Borst• June 16, 2022

Tim O'Brien stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview:

Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies."

By Bill McCarthy• February 26, 2020

Bill McCoshen stated on March 11, 2016 in a talk show:

Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."

By Tom Kertscher• March 17, 2016

Mark Pocan stated on April 09, 2015 in a news conference:

"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."

By Dave Umhoefer• April 16, 2015

Aziz Ansari stated on June 16, 2015 in comments on "The Daily Show":

"46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact" in Japan.

By Katie Sanders• June 23, 2015

Facebook posts stated on November 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“AARP endorsed Biden” and “says if you are past 75 you should just die and go away.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• November 19, 2020

Facebook posts stated on April 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Bill O'Reilly wrote a post claiming that the coronavirus was created as a bioweapon by the Chinese government.

By Samantha Putterman• April 23, 2020

Michele Bachmann stated on July 27, 2009 in a statement on the House floor:

Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."

By Robert Farley• August 12, 2009

Mitt Romney stated on March 12, 2012 in a campaign memo:

President Barack Obama is "ending Medicare as we know it."

By Louis Jacobson• March 22, 2012

Bloggers stated on March 20, 2013 in blog posts:

The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.

By Becky Bowers• March 22, 2013

Facebook posts stated on September 03, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that "freedom is lost gradually from uninterested, uninformed and uninvolved people."

By Samantha Putterman• October 4, 2019

Jimmy Carter stated on September 20, 2010 in Former President Jimmy Carter, Sept. 20, during an NBC interview about his latest book :

Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson.

By Willoughby Mariano• October 5, 2010

Facebook posts stated on August 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Winston Churchill said, "You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."

By Samantha Putterman• September 4, 2019

Ann Marie Buerkle stated on August 10, 2010 in a page on her campaign website:

"The Obama Health and Human Services Department is planning to compile a federal health record on all U.S. citizens by 2014," including "each individual’s Body Mass Index."

By Louis Jacobson• August 30, 2010

Sarah Palin stated on August 07, 2009 in a message posted on Facebook:

Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 10, 2009

Tim Echols stated on May 13, 2013 in a twitter post:

There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.

By Eric Stirgus• May 22, 2013

Kayleigh McEnany stated on July 06, 2021 in a TV segment:

“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”

By Bill McCarthy• July 9, 2021

Mark Pocan stated on April 07, 2017 in an interview:

In Congress, "on the Democratic side of the room, you’ve got men and women of all different races; on the other side, you’ve got a bunch of white men in dark suits, all over 55 or so."

By Tom Kertscher• April 28, 2017

Jeb Bush stated on March 05, 2013 in in his book 'Immigration Wars':

"Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status."

By Amy Sherman• March 22, 2013

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