copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2019-06-26): The question from Chuck Todd to Senator Elizabeth Warren was direct: "What do you do about the hundreds of millions of guns already out there, and does the federal government have to play a role in dealing with them?" It was an effective query, one that, arguably, cuts to the heart of America’s gun problem, which claimed nearly forty thousand lives last year. A 2017 study estimated that there are three hundred and ninety-three million civilian-owned firearms in the United States, a rate of 120.5 guns for every hundred residents, twice that of the second-highest nation, Yemen. Yet Warren, who has been battling with Senator Bernie Sanders to win over the Democratic Party’s left wing, sidestepped the question. She offered up a quotable sound bite—"Gun violence is a national health emergency in this country, and we need to treat it like that"—and talked about the need to "double down on research," an allusion to how the N.R.A. succeeded, during the mid-nineteen-nineties, in effectively cutting off federal funding for gun-violence research. Yet she was unwilling, even after Todd probed her a second time, to raise the possibility of policies like the mandatory gun-buyback program that Australia undertook two decades ago, after a devastating mass shooting, which was found to be effective in reducing gun deaths. Gun-control advocates have made undeniable strides in this country over the last few years, but Warren’s caution on the issue was a reminder of how politically fraught the issue remains, at least in the eyes of some candidates.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2017-02-08): When Senate Republicans silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during debate over the nomination of Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general, they sparked a furious response — but also used a rule that's meant to encourage civil debate. [...] First, the facts. Warren spoke on the Senate floor. She criticized Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama and the nominee to lead the Justice Department. Warren read a letter from Coretta Scott King, written in 1986 as Sessions sought a post as a federal judge. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow had questioned Sessions' work as a federal prosecutor: "Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters." [...] According to Senate Republicans, Warren impugned the "conduct or motive" of Sessions, who is expected to be confirmed as attorney general Wednesday night.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2016-06-10): In June 2016, at least two memes were circulated featuring a quote purportedly from Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren saying, "If the Republicans disarm, all is well and good. [...] Before 2015, a nearly identical version of the quote existed, but that version was widely and consistently attributed to former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, not Elizabeth Warren: We were unable to locate any interviews, footage, clips, tweets, or other instances in which Elizabeth Warren said anything remotely resembling the phrase quoted above.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2024-01-10): Disarming police can also make police officers themselves safer. Policing is not a uniquely dangerous job to begin with — while fatal injuries are more common than in typical employment, the rates are comparable to those for HVAC installation workers.118 Police fatalities do not even primarily result from violent encounters.119 While American police and their defenders might argue that this is precisely because they are armed, police in countries that routinely make use of unarmed officers perceive themselves to be safer without guns.120 And they may well be right — armed police raise the stakes for law enforcement encounters, both incentivizing members of criminal organizations to carry guns and raising the tension for everyone involved, including law-abiding gun owners.121 Reducing tension during police encounters makes both police and the public safer.122 [...] Therefore this is what the Lord says: "I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them."
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2022-11-02): I used to think the warnings from conservatives, libertarians and gun enthusiasts about the ‘slippery slope’ were overblown.But I was wrong. As I look back over the past decade, I see that their warnings were justified. The Democratic party wasn’t against the second amendment when I joined — but they’ve since removed all mention of it from their national party platform. The Democratic Socialists of America, a faction which has become increasingly vocal through members like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib, published an essay in 2018 titled "The Second Amendment is a Threat to Us All." Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing for credit card companies to track and report all sales of firearms and ammunition, a backdoor effort to create a national gun registry, which would be unconstitutional and has so far failed to pass in Congress. President Biden relentlessly pushes for gun confiscation and reinstating the assault weapons ban. Meanwhile, they are politicizing Federal agencies like the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, and using them to target law-abiding Americans who oppose the radical so-called woke agenda of this Administration. They are dangerously showing their authoritarian instincts through their rhetoric, policies, and actions — undermining our God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution at every turn. The actions of today’s Democrat party and the Biden Administration are proving how visionary our founders were in ensuring the Second Amendment came after the First Amendment. We cannot fold under the pressure of tyranny. Our rights shall not be infringed.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2023-04-12): The Elizabeth Warren clip, by the way, is a great clip. It’s a reminder of what you can do in a short space of time. In 59 seconds, she single-handedly destroyed Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign on the debate stage in Las Vegas in the Democratic presidential debate. It was a masterpiece, to the point where Wikipedia amended its entry for Bloomberg that night to say, "Murdered by Elizabeth Warren; time of death: whatever it was in Las Vegas." [...] And if you want to unilaterally disarm them, say, "I will only high-mindedly address the premises and conclusions of your argument," while your opponent is busy saying, "Trust me, I’m a doctor or a general," building up their expertise. It’s your job to do down their expertise and credibility, to question it at the very minimum. This is not a book about logic, it’s a book about rhetoric. Rhetoric and logic are different things.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2020-10-15): Mueller report has Democrats and Republicans feuding—just how bad could it get? [...] Some historians have been saying there was a similar political divide in 1860 to what we’re seeing today. Do you agree?
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2023-11-21): Kate Shaw Everyone else is misunderstanding it, and that’s a problem. So just please clarify. I mean, she said it with a straight face. [...] Leah Litman Still needed an anger translator. Exactly. That’s what I wanted her to say. [...] Kate Shaw As an aside, Justice Stevens really loved that clip.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2019-10-27): What a load of nonsense. [...] A friend who is active in the organization Veterans for Peace told me about the bill, which his organization supports. The Democratic presidential candidates Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, John Delaney, and Marianne Williamson all have expressed their support. Each has joined in calling upon Congress to rescind the nation’s highest military honor from twenty cavalrymen who took part in the massacre at Wounded Knee. [...] or confined on tiny reservations until the missionaries and teachers and government farmers wiped away any trace of their identity as native peoples; or assimilated into the American body politic; or "terminated" in the middle decades of the twentieth century, with the reality of their native nations erased by congressional statute. Indians were supposed to disappear.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2017-02-28): This entire matter is a prime example of the many ways that the Republican leadership continues to play "hardball" with the Obama Administration and with the Clinton campaign — about the Supreme Court, about all legislation, about everything. The Republicans are about attack and obstruction. [...] She is being attacked by the right wing because the right wing hates her, and the right wing hates her because she is a liberal and a feminist and a woman and because she supports the things that most anger the right wing: gender equality, reproductive freedom, equality for gays and lesbians, gun control, racial equality, and civil rights. [...] Let us defeat a Republican neofascist by electing a Democratic neoliberal feminist.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2019-10-16): You know what—we do all of this willingly, on our own time, on our own dime, because we believe in it that much. [...] People who seek to disarm you while preferring to have the same means of defense for themselves. Michael Bloomberg—my friend Tucker Carlson said this today so I can't steal it without attributing it to him. He said that Michael Bloomberg wants to ban every single gun that his bodyguards carry. Now think about that. That's true. [...] And this is why gun control fails. People who want to disarm you—they have no good argument and they're fighting all of you. You are people who go back to where you live and you plug into your community and you hold the line. You have been holding the line all over the country.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2019-08-22): It’s no different than Republicans reflexively raising their hands in debates on behalf of capital punishment & abortion bans & arming every 11-yr-old with an automatic. Democrats overreact to everything & Republicans underreact to anything. The result is Democrats getting Republicans reelected who then further doom immigration reform, health care, higher education, economic fairness, the planet — [...] Warren has a reputation as the smartest candidate in the race b/c she is. Unlike Sanders, she knows pragmatism has its place if you want to accomplish anything — and that she was a Republican in a previous life is as much a plus as a minus as far as I’m concerned. Best about her: She fights. Down & out at least a couple times over the year, nevertheless she persists, as Mitch McConnell once put it, and she persists in the face of a sexism on both Right & Left that takes her to task for not spelling out more specifically a health-care plan that Sanders gets away with not putting a price tag on. Warren never says die. As nominee & President she would be Persister-in-Chief. Her campaign, however, is a knotty mass of wonky dispositions in search of a vision or at least the expression of one. I can only suppose her displeasure with other Democrats in recent debates has meant to serve as an audition for taking on Trump, in which case a better audition might have been taking on Trump.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2022-04-13): Democrats are not immune to the extremism virus either. While the Democratic party hasn’t lost its bearings in the way the Republican party has, it is skewed by its own zealots. In the 2020 presidential primaries, for example, progressive activists pushed candidates to impose a moratorium on deportations, to abolish private health insurance, and to ban fracking, among other demands. Both Kamala Harris and Cory Booker pledged to decriminalize illegal border crossing and ban fracking. Elizabeth Warren endorsed reparations for African-Americans and Native Americans, and Pete Buttigieg recommended packing the Supreme Court. Those issues weren’t top of mind for average Democrats, let alone for average voters, yet the candidates were responding to incentives. [...] The two-party system has not proven to be a solid foundation for democracy. Time to disarm the crazies.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2017-03-27): And yet now, for the first time in a great many years, the party that is not in the White House has concluded reluctantly that for the sake of the country it now has to abandon that tradition of bipartisan support. In a position paper issued this year, the Republican Party said, in a landmark statement: "The time has come when Republicans must balance their responsibility as citizens with their tradition of bipartisanship." Former Senator Bill Brock, the Republican National Chairman, said: "We have all watched American foreign policy deteriorate in its effectiveness, coordination and international impact during the past two years with first amusement, then concern and now a deep anxiety." [...] That’s not an exaggeration. A look around the world makes it very clear that we are talking about survival. The loss of American influence and power is a very real threat to this country and its security. [...] The foreign policy of this country must be challenged and changed. We must stop the deterioration of our military strength; we must stop negotiating disarmament treaties which disarm us without equally disarming our enemies; we must develop a policy that will stop the Russian and Cuban advances in the Middle East and Africa; we must re-establish a presence in the Pacific; we must strengthen our intelligence gathering capabilities, our trade policies and the value of the dollar in relation to the currencies of other countries.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2022-07-25): Yet now there are many people on both sides of the Atlantic who are going about marching in favor of peace as if we haven’t got it, as if it is something that we need to look forward to. I think it would be very dangerous indeed if we were to forsake the basis of the peace we now enjoy in favor of another approach that has not been proven. Or indeed, an approach that has been proven the other way—because the peace activists of the 1930s led us directly into the Second World War by causing the Western democracies to disarm in the face of the Nazi build-up. To disarm today in the face of the growing Soviet build-up would be catastrophic. [...] I’ve yet to meet anybody who would dispute what we all know about the horror of nuclear war. It must be the prime objective of all of us to do all we can, as individuals and jointly, to see that we never have a world war in the nuclear age. But I believe it is vital that we should be ruled in these matters by our head and not by our heart, by our reason and not by our emotions. [...] Because this point is crucial, let’s hear two more respected American voices about it. First, writer and activist Midge Decter:
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2021-11-18): Nothing that has happened in the time since that column was published has changed my assessment. The American constitutional system has not yet slumped into a lifeless heap on the floor, but it is only a matter of time. If anything, it has become even more obvious how badly broken the system is, with an orgy of extreme gerrymandering underway in the states—where Democrats are, understandably, refusing to unilaterally disarm in the states that they control, even though they would gladly give up their gerrymanders if Republicans would do the same. [...] I respectfully disagree. It will not matter whether Republicans need to lie, override the vote, or anything else. Once back in power—whether or not Donald Trump is around to occupy the Oval Office when the time comes—this is a party that has been learning the lessons of 2020. They long ago decided that they did not want to change their views to appeal to more voters, leaving themselves with an increasingly unpopular platform that requires desperate measures on their part to make sure that they remain in power, no matter what voters want.
Claim: Claims Elizabeth Warren said, "If Republicans disarm, all is well and good. If they refuse to disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-16)
Evidence (2016-03-30): There have been a couple of cases of Republican senators trying to weaken the Dodd-Frank Act. Elizabeth Warren has been a much more successful defender of that bill than Sen. Sanders has been. There was this complaint, "Oh she had contributions from Wall Street." So did Barack Obama. So does almost every Democrat because you can’t unilaterally disarm. [...] Because the Massachusetts Republican Party has moved to the right along with the rest of the Republican Party. The Republican side in Massachusetts is a lot less different from the rest of the country than it used to be.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2019-06-23): The Daily Caller News Foundation found no evidence that Lenin ever said or wrote this quote.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2018-06-28): Lenin, Vladimir I. 1908. Letter (168) to Maxim Gorky, February 7, 1908. In LCW 34: 379–382.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2006-11-06): Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR. [...] In 1917, exhausted by World War One, Russia was ripe for change. Assisted by the Germans, who hoped that he would undermine the Russian war effort, Lenin returned home and started working against the provisional government that had overthrown the tsarist regime. He eventually led what was soon to be known as the October Revolution, but was effectively a coup d'etat. Almost three years of civil war followed. The Bolsheviks were victorious and assumed total control of the country. During this period of revolution, war and famine, Lenin demonstrated a chilling disregard for the sufferings of his fellow countrymen and mercilessly crushed any opposition.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2024-01-21): But that response was only 10 percentage points lower than one to the same question a decade earlier, suggesting Lenin remains important. Lenin’s hold on Russia’s heart is still strong enough that three years ago, the Union of Russian Architects succumbed to a public outcry and canceled a competition soliciting suggestions for how the Red Square mausoleum could be repurposed. That competition did not even specifically call for the removal of Lenin’s body. Lenin died on Jan. 21, 1924, at age 53, severely weakened by three strokes. His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, wanted him to be buried in a conventional grave. Lenin’s close associates had feared his death for months. Artist Yuri Annenkov, summoned to do his portrait at the dacha where he was convalescing, said he had "the helpless, twisted, infantile smile of a man who had fallen into childhood." Amid those concerns, Josef Stalin told a Politburo meeting of a proposal by "some comrades" to preserve Lenin’s body for centuries, according to a history by Russian news agency Tass.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Revolutionary activity of Vladimir Lenin The Russian communist revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin began his active revolutionary activity in 1892, and continued till assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire and converted to Marxism, Lenin moved to St. Petersburg. There he joined a revolutionary cell, and became a vocal advocate for Marxism within the revolutionary socialist movement. Entering a relationship with fellow Marxist Nadezhda Krupskaya, he toured Western Europe to build ties with other Russian revolutionary emigres and learn more about the international Marxist movement. Upon returning to Russia, he was arrested for sedition in 1895 and exiled to Shushenskoye in the Minusinsky District of eastern Siberia for three years. There, he devoted his time to translating and writing revolutionary texts, marrying Krupskaya in July 1898.
Claim: Claims that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once said, "If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-23)
Evidence (2024-08-22): Vladimir Lenin (born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia—died January 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern (Communist International) and the posthumous source of "Leninism," the doctrine codified and conjoined with Karl Marx’s works by Lenin’s successors to form Marxism-Leninism, which became the Communist worldview.