John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Joe Biden on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 in a television interview >>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
"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
"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
"I've supported every investigation (into Hurricane Katrina) and ways of finding out how – what caused the tragedy. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 in a news conference in Baton Rouge, La. >>Details
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
Republican National Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a Web ad >>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
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
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>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
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
"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
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
Rev. Wright said "that al-Qaida and the American flag were the same flags."
John McCain on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 in Coral Gables, Fla. >>Details
Says Obama flip-flopped on a gas-tax "holiday."
Republican National Committee on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in a Web video. >>Details
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in a television ad >>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
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>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
Obama supports "teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships."
Focus on the Family Action on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 in a Web article >>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
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."
Tennessee Republican Party on Monday, February 25th, 2008 in a news release >>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
"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
"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris >>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
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
"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mitt Romney on Monday, January 28th, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Fla. >>Details
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>Details
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in a TV ad >>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
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Detroit >>Details
"I do provide universal health care."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in an email press release >>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
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."
Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."
Mitt Romney on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a TV ad airing in New Hampshire. >>Details
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a debate in Orlando, Fla. >>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
"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
"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in a news release >>Details
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."
Mike Gravel on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage “have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock.”
Sam Brownback on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
Sen. Clinton said “the surge of troops in Iraq was ‘working.’ Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge ‘has failed’ and that we should ‘begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.’”
John McCain on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in a news release >>Details
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