"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."
Barack Obama on Friday, October 17th, 2008 in a speech in Roanoke, Va. >>Details
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
Sarah Palin on Friday, October 24th, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 in Hershey, Pa. >>Details
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in North Carolina >>Details
"Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 in a rally in Bensalem, Pa. >>Details
On which team he's rooting for in the World Series.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 in >>Details
"AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice."
Barack Obama on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio >>Details
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."
Sarah Palin on Monday, October 6th, 2008 in Clearwater, Fla. >>Details
"I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 in a speech in Dunedin, Fla. >>Details
"Last week Senator Obama's running mate said, get this, 'Raising taxes is patriotic.' "
John McCain on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in Reading, Pa. >>Details
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."
Barack Obama on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 in >>Details
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."
John McCain on Friday, September 19th, 2008 in Green Bay, Wis. >>Details
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Elko, Nev. >>Details
"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Golden, Colo. >>Details
McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Elko, Nev. >>Details
“Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress.”
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in a speech in Tampa >>Details
"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Golden, Colo. >>Details
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."
Sarah Palin on Saturday, September 6th, 2008 in a radio address >>Details
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 in Virginia >>Details
"When George Bush said we shouldn’t investigate why the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Joe Biden on Monday, September 15th, 2008 in St. Clair Shores, Mich. >>Details
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"My grandfather came home from ... (World War II) exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day."
John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'"
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention. >>Details
Sarah Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention >>Details
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said, quote, 'I can’t stand John McCain.' "
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention >>Details
"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them."
John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power."
John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in >>Details
"I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican Nationention in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
Barack Obama supports plans to raise "income taxes ... payroll taxes."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."
Joe Lieberman on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."
Joe Lieberman on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.' "
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention >>Details
"As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies."
Sarah Palin on Friday, August 29th, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent "a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska."
Sarah Palin on Friday, August 29th, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase.
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech at Democratic National Convention >>Details
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
McCain’s energy plan is a "single-answer proposition" — new domestic oil drilling.
Brian Schweitzer on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in >>Details
McCain "still thinks it’s okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. >>Details
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."
Mark Warner on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in her address at the Democratic National Convention. >>Details
"John McCain wants to privatize Social Security."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
John McCain on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in Orange County, Calif. >>Details
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"Whether in Illinois or Washington, Barack Obama has bridged partisanship to bring about significant reform."
Nancy Pelosi on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in >>Details
Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."
Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
McCain, “voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... "
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 in Youngstown, Ohio >>Details
"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I argued for years that we need to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy.' "
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in in a speech in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
Oil companies "haven't touched" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in Lansing, MI >>Details
"First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge."
John McCain on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a speech in Las Vegas >>Details
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"We now have a pro-American president in France, which shows if you live long enough, anything can happen in this world."
John McCain on Monday, July 21st, 2008 in a speech in South Portland, Maine >>Details
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in a speech in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
Obama "voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation."
John McCain on Monday, July 14th, 2008 in a speech in San Diego >>Details
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a speech in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."
Barack Obama on Friday, June 13th, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio >>Details
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich. >>Details
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Barack Obama on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors >>Details
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
Barack Obama on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church >>Details
We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in Houston, Texas >>Details
"I joined the Gang of 14, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, so that we wouldn’t blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to."
John McCain on Saturday, June 14th, 2008 in a virtual town hall meeting >>Details
"We must deal with the here and now and assure affordable fuel for America by increasing domestic production."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in Houston, Texas >>Details
Obama "wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in a speech on energy in Houston >>Details
"In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in a speech in New Orleans >>Details
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 in a speech in Chicago, Ill. >>Details
Sen. Obama wants to "enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and we’ve never had an accident."
John McCain on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 in a speech in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"We are winning the popular vote."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico >>Details
"We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks."
John McCain on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 in Greensdale, Wis. >>Details
McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won’t care about this.' "
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in a speech in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It’s a bad idea today. Sen. McCain’s campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age."
Barack Obama on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a speech in Gresham, Ore. >>Details
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
"Sen. Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions."
John McCain on Monday, May 19th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
Iran "might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'" as Obama says.
John McCain on Monday, May 19th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Charleston, W.V. >>Details
"NATO hasn’t provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Miss. >>Details
"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
"If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7½ years."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Logan, W. Va. >>Details
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."
John McCain on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a campaign stop at Miami children’s hospital >>Details
There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and "we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years."
Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in a speech at a Democratic Party dinner >>Details
"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. >>Details
After Reagan took office, "we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes."
John McCain on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 in campaign event in Westport, Conn. >>Details
If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it "will lessen worldwide demand for oil" and reduce prices.
John McCain on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in a speech in Brooklyn, N.Y. >>Details
"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. >>Details
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
"I remember landing under sniper fire."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa. >>Details
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a campaign event in Robstown, Texas. >>Details
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va. >>Details
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in Iowa >>Details
John McCain has said the economy is "not his strong suit."
Mitt Romney on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.
John McCain on Saturday, January 26th, 2008 in Fort Myers, Fla. >>Details
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
Mitt Romney on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Pensacola. >>Details
Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas..."
Bill Clinton on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in in Pahrump, Nev. >>Details
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
John McCain on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich. >>Details
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>Details
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. >>Details
" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
John McCain on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg >>Details
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 19th, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa >>Details
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa >>Details
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
John Edwards on Monday, October 29th, 2007 in a speech in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."
John McCain on Friday, September 28th, 2007 in a speech to the Hispanic Business Expo in Detroit. >>Details
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H. >>Details
"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>Details
“With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in a campaign event carried on CNN. >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000.”
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Poor people go to a "payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest."
John Edwards on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in a speech in Americus, Ga. >>Details
"I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes" and been the lone dissenter.
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in a speech in Sioux City, Iowa >>Details
"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."
Dennis Kucinich on Monday, August 27th, 2007 in a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong. >>Details
"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary."
Bill Richardson on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who’d already made up their minds."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally. >>Details
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.”
Barack Obama on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in New Hampshire >>Details
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Oklahoma City. >>Details
“The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn’t for the crime decline in New York City.”
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York. >>Details
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
John McCain on Monday, August 6th, 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa >>Details
“I’m the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war.”
Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
"The president is brain-dead."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.
John Edwards on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 in New York City. >>Details
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details
“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details
"Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
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