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Rand Paul stated on September 04, 2014 in an op-ed for Time magazine:
In Tripoli, "jihadists today swim in our embassy pool."
By Steve Contorno• September 11, 2014
Rob Wittman stated on December 09, 2015 in an interview.:
"Only nine" coalition nations with the U.S. "are truly actively involved" in fighting the Islamic State.
By Sean Gorman• December 22, 2015
Greg Abbott stated on September 19, 2014 in a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:
"I’ve been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS."
By Dylan Baddour• October 3, 2014
Michael McCaul stated on October 31, 2017 in an interview by Fox News:
Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS."
By W. Gardner Selby• November 10, 2017
Marco Rubio stated on February 13, 2015 in a radio interview:
ISIS is "now the predominant Islamist group in Benghazi."
By Joshua Gillin• February 19, 2015
Newt Gingrich stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:
"Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that’s just one country."
By Jon Greenberg• July 21, 2016
Mike Rogers stated on June 15, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq. 
By Steve Contorno• June 18, 2014
David Gregory stated on August 10, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Islamic State, or ISIS, was "cast off by al-Qaida because" it was "considered too extreme."  
By Linda Qiu• August 13, 2014
Kelli Ward stated on July 03, 2016 in a campaign advertisement:
Says Sen. John McCain spent the July 4 weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan, selling "F-16s and advanced weapons to the folks who harbored Osama bin Laden."
By Anthony Cave• July 14, 2016
Tom Cotton stated on April 24, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama," compared to zero "in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush."
By Louis Jacobson• April 26, 2013
Seth Moulton stated on January 31, 2017 in a CNN interview:
"ISIS is already using the rhetoric from the Trump administration, the text of this executive order, to incite attacks against us and to recruit more terrorists to their side."
By Miriam Valverde• February 7, 2017
Bloggers stated on September 15, 2014 in Internet posts:
"Three of five detainees swapped (for Bowe Bergdahl) are now ISIS leaders."
By Louis Jacobson• September 18, 2014
Mitt Romney stated on March 06, 2012 in a speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee:
Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of "peace through strength" is why "the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in."
By Louis Jacobson• March 7, 2012
Glenn Beck stated on March 19, 2015 in a Facebook post:
"A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list."
By Louis Jacobson• March 20, 2015
Donald Trump stated on January 30, 2018 in the 2018 State of the Union address:
Says one year later, "the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and Syria."
By Jon Greenberg• January 31, 2018
Leo Berman stated on April 04, 2011 in a House committee hearing:
Says judges are using Shariah law in Dearborn, Mich.
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 14, 2011
Jill Stein stated on October 17, 2016 in a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin:
"We’re already bombing seven countries."
By W. Gardner Selby• October 21, 2016
Barack Obama stated on February 07, 2010 in an interview on CBS:
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
By Robert Farley• February 13, 2010
Louie Gohmert stated on April 17, 2013 in an interview on C-SPAN.:
Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.
By W. Gardner Selby• April 23, 2013
Bloggers stated on January 04, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Rep. Rashida Tlaib "wears the symbolic scarf patterned after the Islamic terrorist state."  
By Jon Greenberg• January 17, 2020

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