He didn't say they shouldn't do it or directly criticize them for doing it.

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My position is that where unions are wrong (or where I think they are wrong) I will criticize them.

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So I'd rather be -- I'd rather criticize them for thinking less far ahead than criticizing them for thinking too far ahead.

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Grover Norquist would criticize them if they do, harshly.

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Congress has started to criticize them.

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Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

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Ignore the loud minority of folks who criticize your recent Star Wars films, and listen to the much larger majority who loved them and made them so successful.

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