The president can't; only states can
"The president … by executive order" could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
None of those things
The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, May 20th, 2013
Scientists tell us this is nonsense
"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Overhead is 5 percent at most, not 70 percent
Of every "three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Uh, except for that Pants on Fire...
"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Nearly the opposite
Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Most of that was under Bush, not Obama
"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 31st, 2011
Obama's lows are higher than most presidents' lows
"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Wrong in 2009, and wrong today
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 1st, 2011
One wrong statement
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
It's after writing off all your business expenses.
Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
A small fraction of that amount was for alcohol
"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
She should read the other 1,989 pages
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
ACORN not getting money, not collecting data
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 26th, 2009
Bachmann's claim wrong, and illegal
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Swine flu isn't blue
In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 30th, 2009