Statements about History
Says during George W. Bush’s administration "we were losing millions of jobs per month," while under Barack Obama we have "three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month."
Under Barack Obama, the U.S. now has the "lowest workforce since (President Jimmy) Carter."
"Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last 50 years."
Says Obama is only president in history who has deliberately removed the words "endowed by their Creator" when referring to the Declaration of Independence.
"Redistribution" has "never been a characteristic of America."
When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, "Republicans stood on the sidelines"
"Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)."
"Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans."
In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than "in the Reagan recovery."
Says Barack Obama "robbed Medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... Obamacare."
President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict "only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada … We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon."
"When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ... (had) more debt per person than any other state in the country."
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