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"I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question."
Dan Webster supports "privatization of Social Security, deep cuts in Social Security."
"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
"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."
"The federal government is now on track" for the second-largest budget deficit "in 65 years."
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger."
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
"Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War."
"Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die."
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