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“Look, the bad guy is the bad guy, I don't care what color he is, when you go to war, if you know the enemy and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red. … You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of color or people of Hispanic origin.”

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In a State House press conference. http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/26/house-democrats-condemn-lepage-attack-on-westbrook-legislator/ (August 26, 2016)

“My brain was slower than my mouth.”

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As quoted by The Times. http://time.com/4172603/paul-lepage-chris-christie-maine-2016-election/ (January 8, 2016)

“You know and I know and everybody in the state knows that the overwhelming majority of the people that have been arrested this year, coming out of Connecticut and New York, have been black and Hispanic, it's not a matter of race, it's a matter of fact. Are there some white ones? Yes, there are some white people.”

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At a town hall meeting in North Berwick. http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/25/aclu-of-maine-asks-lepage-to-produce-binder-of-recent-maine-drug-arrests/ (August 25, 2016)

“I apologize to Jewish Americans if they feel offended. But I also apologize to Japanese Americans that were put in prison during World War II, and I also apologize to those people that were accused of being communists during McCarthyism, because that's not the American way.”

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About LePage's statements on the IRS. As quoted by Seven Days. http://7d.blogs.com/blurt/2012/07/maine-gov-paul-lepage-doubles-down-on-gestapo-comment-after-brock-fundraiser.html (July 12, 2012)

“It's really one thing to have one party behind you, it's another thing not to have any party behind you.”

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In a radio interview. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/paul-lepage-maine-governor.html (August 31, 2016)

“It's hard to hear what they're saying. Have you ever tried to say, 'What's the special today?' to somebody from Bulgaria? And the worst ones — if they're from India. I mean, they're all lovely people, but you gotta have an interpreter. Or how many of you try to return something on Amazon on a telephone?”

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About workers with accents. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/maine-gov-paul-lepage-mocks-immigrant-workers-speech-article-1.2613543 (April 25, 2016)

“The Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated, maybe the IRS is not quite as bad — yet. … They're headed in that direction.”

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As quoted by Seven Days. http://7d.blogs.com/blurt/2012/07/maine-gov-paul-lepage-doubles-down-on-gestapo-comment-after-brock-fundraiser.html (July 12, 2012)

“I have a heart. I have a heart for Maine people.”

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As quoted by The Times. http://time.com/4172603/paul-lepage-chris-christie-maine-2016-election/ (January 8, 2016)

“We the people have been told there is no choice. You must buy — the IRS.”

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As quoted by Seven Days. http://7d.blogs.com/blurt/2012/07/maine-gov-paul-lepage-doubles-down-on-gestapo-comment-after-brock-fundraiser.html (July 12, 2012)

“Obamacare is forcing the American people to buy health insurance or else pay a tax. Our health care system is moving toward one that rations care and negatively impact millions of Americans.”

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Statement of Governor LePage on Gestapo Comment http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=409920&v=article2011 (July 9, 2012)

“There's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful.”

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In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr. http://mpbn.net/post/lepage-calls-father-slain-muslim-american-soldier-con-artist#stream/0 (August 25, 2016)

“I'd like to shoot him.”

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About cartoonist George Danby. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/paul-lepage-cartoonist_n_7664744.html (June 26, 2015)

“These aren't the people who take drugs, these are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've got to deal with down the road.”

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As quoted by The Times. http://time.com/4172603/paul-lepage-chris-christie-maine-2016-election/ (January 8, 2016)