Statements from the National: 2012 U.S. President's race
Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.
Mitt Romney "supervised a company guilty of massive Medicare fraud."
Says he was "exonerated in every single case" in 1990s ethics violations charges.
"Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare."
Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns."
"You can't pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes."
Says a federal judge in San Antonio "issued a ruling that … not only could the students not pray at their graduation, if they used the word ‘benediction,’ the word ‘invocation,’ the word ‘God,’ asked the audience to stand or asked for a moment of silence, he would put the superintendent in jail."
"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."
Says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
President Obama told people "to skip coming here (Las Vegas) for conventions and meetings."
"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent."
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
Says President Barack Obama "has an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would raise the price of gasoline by 25 cents a gallon."
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
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