Sentence_id
int64
16
34.5k
Text
stringlengths
15
833
Annotation
stringclasses
1 value
Verdict
stringclasses
3 values
Label
int64
0
1
Label_txt
stringclasses
2 values
27,516
That's unacceptable for us, and it's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,520
They need to be tightened.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,525
Nothing Governor Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,529
And the fact is, while we were coordinating an international coalition to make sure these sanctions were effective, you were still invested in a Chinese state oil company that was doing business with the Iranian oil sector.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,531
And with respect to our attitude about the Iranian revolution, I was very clear about the murderous activities that had taken place and that was contrary to international law and everything that civilized people stand for.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,537
That's in America's national interest and that will be the case so long as I'm president.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,540
And -- and -- we should not have wasted these four years to the extent they -- they continue to be able to spin these centrifuges and get that much closer.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,542
Number two, Mr. President, the reason I call it an apology tour is because you went to the Middle East and you flew to Egypt and to Saudi Arabia and to Turkey and Iraq.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,543
And by the way, you skipped Israel, our closest friend in the region, but you went to the other nations.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,544
And by the way, they noticed that you skipped Israel.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,546
You said that on occasion America had dictated to other nations.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,547
Mr. President, America has not dictated to other nations.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,548
We have freed other nations from dictators.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,550
If we're going to talk about trips that we've taken -- when I was a candidate for office, first trip I took was to visit our troops.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,553
I went to Yad Beshef (ph), the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,554
And then I went down to the border towns of Storok (ph), which had experienced missiles raining dowm from Hamas.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,555
And I saw families there who showed me there where missiles had come down near their children's bedrooms.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,558
So that's how I've used my travels, when I travel to Israel and when I travel to the region.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,559
And the -- the central question at this point is going to be: Who is going to be credible to all parties involved?
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,562
And that kind of credibility is precisely why we've been able to show leadership on a wide range of issues facing the world right now.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,574
Let's come back to what the president was speaking about, which is what's happening in the world and the president's statement that things are going so well.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,575
Look, I look at what's happening around the world, and i see Iran four years closer to a bomb.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,577
I see jihadists continuing to spread, whether they're rising or just about the same level, hard to precisely measure, but it's clear they're there.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,582
They're back away from a nuclear proliferation treaty that we had with them.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,588
... the damage in his -- in his own party.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,590
I mean, I'm -- I'm pleased that you now are endorsing our policy of applying diplomatic pressure and potentially having bilateral discussions with the Iranians to end their nuclear program.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,591
But just a few years ago you said that's something you'd never do.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,594
The same way that you said that it was mission creep to go after Gadhafi.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,595
When it comes to going after Osama bin Laden, you said, well, any president would make that call.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,597
And you said we should ask Pakistan for permission.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,598
And if we had asked Pakistan permission, we would not have gotten him.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,600
You know, after we killed bin Laden I was at ground zero for a memorial and talked to a young women who was four years old when 9/11 happened.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,603
And she said to me, "You know, by finally getting bin Laden, that brought some closure to me."
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,605
And I make that point because that's the kind of clarity of leadership, and those decisions are not always popular.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,606
Those decisions generally -- generally are not poll-tested.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,607
And even some in my own party, including my current vice president, had the same critique as you did.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,622
Well, we're going to be finished by 2014, and when I'm president, we'll make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,623
The commanders and the generals there are on track to do so.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,624
We've seen progress over the past several years.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,626
There are now a large number of Afghan Security Forces, 350,000 that are ready to step in to provide security and we're going to be able to make that transition by the end of 2014.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,629
And I say that because I know a lot of people that feel like we should just brush our hands and walk away.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,634
And so a Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to us.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,635
And so we're going to have to remain helpful in encouraging Pakistan to move towards a more stable government and rebuild the relationship with us.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,636
And that means that our aid that we provide to Pakistan is going to have to be conditioned upon certain benchmarks being met.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,640
We ended the war in Iraq, refocused our attention on Afghanistan, and we did deliver a surge of troops.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,642
And we are now in a position where we have met many of the objectives that got us there in the first place.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,644
We went because there were people who were responsible for 3,000 American deaths.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,645
And so we decimated Al Qaida's core leadership in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,646
We then started to build up Afghan forces.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,648
Now, that transition has to take place in a responsible fashion.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,649
We've been there a long time, and we've got to make sure that we and our coalition partners are pulling out responsibly and giving Afghans the capabilities that they need.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,650
But what I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,651
And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury,...
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,653
When he came home and he wanted to become a nurse, he had to start from scratch.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,655
The first lady has done great work with an organization called Joining Forces putting our veterans back to work.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,656
And as a consequence, veterans' unemployment is actually now lower than general population.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,657
It was higher when I came into office.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,658
So those are the kinds of things that we can now do because we're making that transition in Afghanistan.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,667
You have the ISI, their intelligence organization, is probably the most powerful of the -- of three branches there.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,672
But we have some work to do.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,674
We -- we had to go into Pakistan.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,677
And -- and that upset them, but obviously there was a great deal of anger even before that.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,682
Because inside Pakistan, you have a -- a large group of Pashtun that are -- that are Taliban.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,684
And that's one of the reasons the Afghan Security Forces have so much work to do to be able to fight against that.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,686
But we do need to make sure that as we -- as we send support for them, that this is tied to them making progress on -- on matters that would lead them to becoming a civil society.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,689
And it's widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes, and I support that and entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology, and believe that we should continue to use it, to continue to go after the people that represent a threat to this nation and to our friends.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,693
We talk a lot about these things, but you look at the -- the record, you look at the record.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,694
You look at the record of the last four years and say is Iran closer to a bomb?
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,701
No, they haven't had talks in two years.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,704
We created partnerships throughout the region to deal with extremism in Somalia, in Yemen, in Pakistan.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,707
And we have stood on the side of democracy.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,710
In Libya we stood on the side of the people.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,711
And as a consequence, there's no doubt that attitudes about Americans have changed.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,713
And we want to shrink those groups and those networks and we can do that.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,715
The truth, though, is that Al Qaeda is much weaker than it was when I came into office.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,721
Well, I think it will continue to be terrorist networks.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,724
So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,725
I know Americans had seen jobs being shipped overseas; businesses and workers not getting a level playing field when it came to trade.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,726
And that's the reason why I set up a trade task force to go after cheaters when it came to international trade.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,728
And we've won just about every case that we've filed, that has been decided.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,731
And we put a stop to it and as a consequence saved jobs throughout America.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,734
They feel as if they had finally an administration who was going to take this issue seriously.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,740
Well, first of all, it's not government that makes business successful.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,742
Let me also note that the greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,744
China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world.
crowdsourced
0.0
0
No
27,746
They don't want to see protectionism.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,748
So they want the economy to work and the world to be free and open.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,749
And so we can be a partner with China.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,750
We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,752
Now, they look at us and say, Is it a good idea to be with America?
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,755
They look at the fact that we owe 'em a trillion dollars and owe other people $16 trillion in total, including that.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,761
They look at America's commitments around the world and they see what's happening, and they say, well, OK. Is America going to be strong?
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,763
We'll also make sure that we have trade relations with China that work for us.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,764
I've watched year in and year out as companies have shut down and people have lost their jobs because China has not played by the same rules, in part by holding down artificially the value of their currency.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,765
It holds down the prices of their goods.
crowdsourced
1.0
1
Yes
27,766
It means our goods aren't as competitive and we lose jobs.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,768
They're making some progress; they need to make more.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,771
They have to understand we want to trade with them.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,772
We want a world that's stable.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No
27,777
Well, they sell us about this much stuff every year, and we sell them about this much stuff every year.
crowdsourced
-1.0
0
No