"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
Barack Obama on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
"We are within the margin of error."
John McCain on Friday, October 31st, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."
Joe Biden on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
If parents "don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined."
John McCain on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 in Waterloo, Iowa >>Details
Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.
John McCain on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it."
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details
Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.
Sarah Palin on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska >>Details
On whether global warming is man-made.
Sarah Palin on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska >>Details
"Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made."
John Kerry on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." >>Details
Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only "2,000 out of 20-million acres."
Sarah Palin on Friday, August 29th, 2008 in an interview on CNBC >>Details
Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq."
Lindsey Graham on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in an interview on ABC News' This Week >>Details
When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
John McCain on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. >>Details
Sarah Palin "has had 12 years of elected office experience."
John McCain on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. >>Details
Biden is "one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate."
Howard Dean on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.
John McCain on Monday, July 28th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live >>Details
"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."
Barack Obama on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 in Afghanistan >>Details
"I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail."
John McCain on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in an appearance on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” >>Details
"The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they're engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity."
Bob Barr on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview with Fox News. >>Details
McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."
Wesley Clark on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" >>Details
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in a comment by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 in an interview on Fox News' America’s Election HQ >>Details
"My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in a television interview. >>Details
"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in Indianapolis >>Details
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details
McCain says the price of a gas tax "holiday" would be about the same as "a Bridge to Nowhere (or) another pork barrel project."
John McCain on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in an interview on "This Week." >>Details
Obama "has no experience or background at all in national security affairs."
John McCain on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 in interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” >>Details
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview >>Details
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."
Bill Clinton on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 in Portland, Maine >>Details
Barack Obama said "he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad."
George W. Bush on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in Camp David >>Details
"I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions..."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel."
Mike Huckabee on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. >>Details
In the Florida Republican primary, "we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in an interview on "Face the Nation" >>Details
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."
Mitt Romney on Monday, January 14th, 2008 in a TV interview on CBS. >>Details
"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."
Ron Paul on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 in a Meet the Press interview >>Details
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC. >>Details
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, December 16th, 2007 in "Meet the Press" interview >>Details
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. >>Details
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."
Duncan Hunter on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 in a Fox News interview >>Details
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."
John McCain on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Interview on Fox News >>Details
MikeHuckabee.com gets "more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in interview on Fox News >>Details
"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in Fox News interview >>Details
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 in an appearance on Fox News Sunday >>Details
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet’s words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings."
Fred Thompson on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details
"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you’re not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you’re officially nominated.”
Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN >>Details
"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."
Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details
In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."
Tom Tancredo on Monday, September 10th, 2007 in >>Details
"John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser
John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
"Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 in a forum hosted by Slate/Yahoo/Huffington Post. >>Details
“I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in >>Details
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
"In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a comment by husband Bill Clinton on Larry King Live. >>Details
“John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party.”
Chris Dodd on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in an interview on CNN's The Situation Room >>Details
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