copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2024-04-23): Accessibility in the News- Knowledge is Power "Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Action will delineate and define you.." ― Thomas Jefferson
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2019-07-24): "You will walk out of here tonight knowing that our students are fashion design professionals from the day they enter this amazing University," Jefferson President Dr. Stephen K. Klasko told the audience. [...] In his lighthearted acceptance speech, Kressley joked that the audience should message Bravo to get his show renewed and thanked Jefferson for the honor that has previously gone to such luminaries as Tommy Hilfiger, Geoffrey Beene and Stuart Weitzman. "This has been a labor of love," says Kressley, concluding with a quote from Thomas Jefferson. That’s all I do. I’m just being me."
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2010-07-23): Obviously, I side with Aristotle - to do is to be. What are you doing to be the person you think you are or want to become?
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2022-08-23): This is how you can apply this in your life: [...] You can do the same thing with yourself, with your marriage, with your family, with your work, with your business, with your health — wherever you simply need to take action.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2015-06-29): Sometimes it's hard to muster up the confidence you need to get through some of life's big moments. I get that. In fact, I think that's normal. {smile} But to me, this quote about living life out loud is more about our daily lives. How we act today, tomorrow and the next day. Personally, I think confidence is one of the most attractive attributes you could exude. Be confident in who you are. Step out of your comfort closet and show the world the real you. And when possible, avoid merely walking the path you've chosen... STRUT it. I'm a bit of a history buff especially when it comes to American history. So I'll leave you with a few words of wisdom from Jefferson. You may already know that Thomas Jefferson was a confident man and he expected the people around him to be confident, too. Anyway, he once said, "Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. I like this quote. I get fired up every time I hear it. How about you? Are you getting fired up picturing Jefferson shouting at you to act while passionately motioning with his arms?
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2021-12-12): Action is the name of the game when it comes to achieving anything. [...] Action is the shortest path between where you are now and somewhere else. [...] Nothing defines you more than the life you have created for yourself. It is the sum of all your creative expressions and acts, your passions, your beliefs and your choices. And all these boils down to your actions.
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2021-10-04): More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson challenged us with this question: "Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. The words could not ring truer today, at a time when paradoxically, there are so many opportunities to act, to impact your world in a global way – and at the same time, when the pandemic and other threats seem to impose new restrictions to action. [...] - "Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic." – Dale Carnegie
Claim: Claims that Thomas Jefferson said, "Do you want to know who you are? Act! Action will delineate and define you!" (Viral Quote, 2019-10-08)
Evidence (2015-11-17): Quote 1: "Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-09-30): There is no evidence Walz was in Hong Kong right before or during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Local reports show that he likely did not leave for China until August 1989.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-09-24): Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, has made at least three false claims over the last two weeks about the Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. Two of Walz’s false claims are related to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation think tank’s detailed right-wing blueprint for the next Republican administration. Project 2025 has been the subject of multiple false or misleading claims from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign this summer. [...] Walz claimed in a speech in North Carolina last Tuesday: "And now Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their abortion bans." He made an even more dramatic claim in a speech in Wisconsin on September 14: "Think about what they’re saying in Project 2025: you’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-08): In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz repeated some of the same false and misleading talking points that he and his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, have made before, including in recent debates. [...] Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz falsely claimed that Project 2025 calls for the tracking of "all pregnancies" and would require people "to register with a new federal agency" upon getting pregnant. The conservative playbook advocates the reporting of all miscarriages and abortions but does not stipulate the monitoring of all pregnancies. [...] For years, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been criticized by some for his response to riots in his state after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. That criticism picked up again this month when Vice President Kamala Harris chose Walz to be her running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Here we provide a brief timeline of events.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz felt like a civil and relatively restrained conversation about the issues at the top of American voters' minds going into the 5 November election. [...] Walz quickly noted that it was a "damning non-answer". [...] Walz did no harm to the Democratic ticket and showed some of the Midwestern charm that made him Harris’s choice.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Walz, meanwhile, was asked why he previously said he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. The governor has repeatedly claimed he was in China during the protests during his year-long stint as a high school teacher in the southeastern Chinese town of Foshan starting in 1989, though according to local newspaper clipping obtained by ABC News, it appears he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989, about two months after the protests ended. [...] When pressed by the moderator further, he conceded that he "misspoke" and that he was in Hong Kong the year of the massacre but not at the time it happened.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump praised their respective running mates -- Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance -- as their campaigns worked to spin how well they performed at Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate. [...] But Walz struggled to explain why he had in the past "misspoke" about being in Hong Kong and witnessing the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989, despite the weekslong protest concluding in June, months before he traveled there. [...] In a play-by-play live commentary on social media, Trump painted Walz as appearing "nervous," incompetent and even "weird." Trump in particular seized on Walz struggling to answer for the alleged discrepancy in his visit to Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests, portraying him as a liar.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): 1 of 5 | Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance (L) and Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz shake hands before the start of the vice presidential debate in New York on Tuesday. Photo by Al Drago/ UPI | [...] During the debate, both candidates were allowed to clarify issues surrounding their backgrounds. Walz admitted that he was in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. "All I said on this was as I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just say that's what I've said," Walz argued. "So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Who are US vice presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance? [...] With Trump so far declining a second debate with Harris, the vice presidential debate between Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and Republican counterpart JD Vance could mark the last time candidates from each campaign meet face to face before the election. [...] Walz, the Democratic nominee, has spent more than two decades in elected office.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): They also pinned down the candidates when they evaded answers, with Brennan pressing Walz to say he misspoke in the past about being in China’s Tiananmen Square during the deadly 1989 protests. Brennan also pushed Vance for specifics on Trump’s mass deportation plan and whether he would separate parents from children, but didn’t get a specific answer. [...] Walz said he ‘misspoke’ about being in Hong Kong during 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Walz once described being in Hong Kong during the May 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that turned deadly that June. But contemporaneous news reports contradict that timeline. The CBS News debate moderators asked Walz to explain this discrepancy, and Walz said he "misspoke."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): The vice presidential candidates, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, on Tuesday engaged in a fast-moving, largely civil debate on a wide range of issues. Here’s a look at some false and misleading claims from the debate. [...] Walz wrongly claims Project 2025 creates pregnancy registry [...] THE FACTS: This claim misrepresents a bill Walz signed into law in 2023, updating language about the care of newborns.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): False: Walz claimed he was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests Walz: "All I said on this was, I got there that summer and misspoke on this. That is what I have said. So, I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests, went in and from that I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance." Details: In 2014, then-Rep. Walz said he was in mainland China during the Tiananmen Square protests between April and June 1989 during a congressional hearing to mark 25 years since the massacre. According to a congressional transcript, Walz said, "As the events were unfolding, several of us went in. I still remember the train station in Hong Kong."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Despite a mostly civil debate between Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the two disagreed repeatedly not just on policy, but also on the facts. We referee some of those competing claims, and other factual missteps by the vice presidential candidates. [...] Walz claimed that Trump "gave the tax cuts that predominantly went to the top class. What happened there was an $8 trillion increase in the national debt, the largest ever." [...] Jaramillo, Catalina. "Walz’s False Project 2025 Pregnancy Monitoring Claims." FactCheck.org. 1 Oct 2024.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-08-06): In a viral moment from his introduction as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took a political and personal jab at former President Donald Trump over crime. [...] The last part of Walz’s statement referred to Trump’s May conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. [...] Tim Walz, remarks at a rally in Philadelphia, Aug. 6, 2024
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): MODERATOR: "Governor, you said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests 1989, but Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of that year. Can you explain that discrepancy?" [...] Walz lived in China for about a year, teaching in the southern city of Foshan. His stint with the nonprofit organization WorldTeach started in the summer of 1989, just two months after the Tiananmen Square massacre. [...] Walz also once described being in Hong Kong in May 1989, during the student uprising that culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre, the reporting from APM Reports notes — an assertion that is belied by newspaper accounts at the time.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz met in an Oct. 1 vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News that was cordial and heavy on policy discussion — a striking change from the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that often devolved into personal attacks. Vance and Walz acknowledged occasional agreement with each other on policy points and respectfully addressed one another throughout the debate. But they also blamed each other’s running mates for problems facing the U.S., including immigration and inflation. WATCH: CBS cuts Vance’s mic during fact check on immigration The moderators, "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O’Donnell and "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan, had said they planned to encourage candidates to fact-check each other, but sometimes clarified after candidates’ answers. They also pinned down the candidates when they evaded answers, with Brennan pressing Walz to say he misspoke in the past about being in China’s Tiananmen Square during the deadly 1989 protests. Brennan also pushed Vance for specifics on Trump’s mass deportation plan and whether he would separate parents from children, but didn’t get a specific answer.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Walz misleadingly claimed to have been in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. [...] Minnesota Public Radio reported Monday that publicly available accounts contradict a 2014 statement made by Walz, then a member of the U.S. House, during a hearing that commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre. Walz suggested that he was in the then-British colony of Hong Kong in May 1989, but he appears to have been in Nebraska. Public records suggest he left for Hong Kong and China in August of that year.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) met on the debate stage Tuesday night in what is likely to be the only vice-presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. Throughout the event, the two candidates sought to depict their opponents’ stances as at odds with their running mates, while sparring with civility over immigration, abortion, the economy, and more. [...] When pressed by moderators to explain his claim that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests, Walz said he "misspoke" when he said he had visited Hong Kong on June 4, 1989, the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. On Tuesday, CNN reported that Walz claimed in a June 2019 radio interview to have been in the city when the massacre unfolded. CNN also cited Walz saying during a 2014 House hearing that he "was in Hong Kong in May 1989" and that, "as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Walz depicted Trump as wrong on the issues and a chaotic leader. Vance rebuffed him with every answer and made the case for the man he once heavily criticized. [...] Walz, meanwhile, was pressed on his misleading claim, which was investigated this week by Minnesota Public Radio and other outlets, that he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. Confronted with his misstatements about his travels to China years ago, Walz defended himself by saying, "I’ve not been perfect." In fact, he said, "I’m a knucklehead at times." Eventually, he acknowledged he misspoke about his history.
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-04): The latest example centers on Walz’s past claim that he was in Hong Kong during China’s deadly Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Walz moved to China that year to teach English, and he later launched a company that brought U.S. students to the country on educational trips. Several news outlets reported this week that Walz was actually in Nebraska at the time of Tiananmen Square and didn’t leave for China until more than two months after the massacre there. Walz was questioned about the discrepancy during his debate against Ohio U.S. Sen. JD Vance on Tuesday. [...] Walz elaborated further in a brief exchange with reporters in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, saying, "Look, I have my dates wrong." He said he was in Hong Kong in August 1989, not in the spring, and that being there at that time "was profound for me — that was the summer of democracy."
Claim: President Donald Trump's campaign claimed that 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was wrong to say that he was in Hong Kong right before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Trump Campaign, 2024-09-30)
Evidence (2024-10-01): The vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was something that’s become increasingly rare in modern American politics: normal. [...] Walz says he ‘misspoke’ about his presence at Tiananmen Square New reporting by Minnesota Public Radio News and APM Reports in the lead up to Tuesday’s debate called into question Walz’s claims about how frequently he traveled to China, which he has previously said was as many as "about 30 times." Reports contradicted those claims and specifically whether the Minnesota governor was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.