Creates a new statement matching the keyword arguments specified.
        Returns the created statement.

def create(self, **kwargs):
        """
        Creates a new statement matching the keyword arguments specified.
        Returns the created statement.
        """
        Statement = self.get_model('statement')
        Tag = self.get_model('tag')

        session = self.Session()

        tags = set(kwargs.pop('tags', []))

        if 'search_text' not in kwargs:
            kwargs['search_text'] = self.tagger.get_bigram_pair_string(kwargs['text'])

        if 'search_in_response_to' not in kwargs:
            in_response_to = kwargs.get('in_response_to')
            if in_response_to:
                kwargs['search_in_response_to'] = self.tagger.get_bigram_pair_string(in_response_to)

        statement = Statement(**kwargs)

        for tag_name in tags:
            tag = session.query(Tag).filter_by(name=tag_name).first()

            if not tag:
                # Create the tag
                tag = Tag(name=tag_name)

            statement.tags.append(tag)

        session.add(statement)

        session.flush()

        session.refresh(statement)

        statement_object = self.model_to_object(statement)

        self._session_finish(session)

        return statement_object