"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."
John McCain on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 in remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt >>Details
"Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me."
John McCain on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."
Sarah Palin on Saturday, October 11th, 2008 in an interview with reporters >>Details
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."
Douglas Holtz-Eakin on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in a conversation with reporters. >>Details
The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 in Chester, Va. >>Details
John McCain has seven houses.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod >>Details
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
John McCain on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, Calif. >>Details
Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."
John McCain on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 in an interview with the Kansas City Star >>Details
"There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication."
John McCain on Monday, July 7th, 2008 in remarks to reporters by campaign adviser Carly Fiorina in Washington, D.C. >>Details
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Joe Biden on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."
Ralph Nader on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program >>Details
"I didn't say" it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president.
Ralph Nader on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program >>Details
"He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps."
Ralph Nader on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in a radio interview with Democracy Now! >>Details
"I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"You know, the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in an interview with Springfield, Mo., News-Leader >>Details
When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren’t actively fundraising here."
Barack Obama on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in Sioux Falls, S.D. >>Details
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
John McCain on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a statement by a spokesman >>Details
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."
Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details
"My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination until June."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board >>Details
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."
Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details
"(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee."
Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details
"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview. >>Details
"The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Washington Post interview. >>Details
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.”
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in a newspaper interview. >>Details
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI’s crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa >>Details
“We had a No Child Left Behind — a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it’s had a big impact here. It’s improved schools.”
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
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