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
"Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings."
John McCain on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a news release >>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
"We are winning the popular vote."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico >>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
"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
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."
Bill Clinton on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 in Pittsburgh >>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
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in a news conference in Greensburg, Pa. >>Details
"I am a candidate. I have not withdrawn."
Mike Gravel on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a YouTube video >>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
"Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
John McCain "said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president."
James Dobson on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 in a statement read on the Laura Ingraham Show >>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
"Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in a conference call to reporters led by Cilnton pollster Mark Penn >>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
"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
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
"(John McCain) was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry."
Citizens United Political Victory Fund on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."
John McCain on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."
Chris Dodd on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a debate in Philadelphia >>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
"This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>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
"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
“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'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in a comment to reporters in London. >>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
"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
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
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