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Search results for "This is one of the coldest summers you'll experience for the rest of your life."

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Danielle Pletka stated on November 25, 2018 in in a panel discussion:
"We need to also recognize that we just had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."
By John Kruzel• November 28, 2018
Hillary Clinton stated on May 04, 2008 in Indianapolis:
"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 6, 2008
Mitt Romney stated on August 26, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"In 2008, candidate Barack Obama attacked John McCain for proposing cuts to Medicare."
By Molly Moorhead• August 26, 2012
John McCain stated on August 18, 2008 in :
On torture.
By Robert Farley• August 18, 2008
Facebook posts stated on August 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Video shows former first lady Michelle Obama “accidentally reveals what really happened to their chef.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 30, 2023
David Dewhurst stated on June 11, 2010 in a speech:
"Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City."
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 18, 2010
Facebook posts stated on August 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Former President Barack Obama “reacts to chef’s wife blaming him for the death of her husband Talafi Cambell.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 24, 2023
Instagram posts stated on May 15, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”
By Tom Kertscher• May 17, 2023
University of Oregon stated on September 03, 2013 in a radio interview.:
"Things like … having Friday classes have been shown to be very effective on college campuses" in reducing drinking.
By Ian K. Kullgren• September 13, 2013
Jay Hottinger stated on January 11, 2011 in a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives:
"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."
By Tom Feran• January 21, 2011
Steve Adler stated on April 25, 2018 in a tweet:
Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."    
By W. Gardner Selby• April 26, 2018
Dan Gelber stated on July 26, 2010 in a campaign flier.:
Dave Aronberg's career legal experience is "less than two years as Asst. AG/private attorney."
By Aaron Sharockman• July 28, 2010
Chain email stated on October 15, 2013 in an email and social media posts:
Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries "FOR LIFE," which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to "$803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical."
By Becky Bowers• October 17, 2013
X posts stated on January 07, 2014 in posts on Twitter:
It’s warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.
By Julie Kliegman• January 7, 2014
George LeMieux stated on May 10, 2011 in a Web ad:
"(George) LeMieux never requested a single earmark and pushed to ban them all."
By Robert Farley• May 12, 2011
Instagram posts stated on May 09, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“George Soros is a roaring, cold-blooded Nazi sociopath.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 14, 2024
Joe Biden stated on November 30, 2021 in a conversation at a technical college in Minnesota:
“I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer.”
By Jon Greenberg• December 3, 2021
Michele Bachmann stated on July 24, 2011 in a prepared statement:
Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, "The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 26, 2011
Robert Barber stated on July 24, 2011 in a Providence Journal commentary:
Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 14, 2011
Tim Scott stated on November 26, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"If you don't pay income taxes ... you'll have more money" under the Republican tax plan.
By Louis Jacobson• November 29, 2017

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