"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."
John McCain on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a campaign stop at Miami children’s hospital >>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
"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. >>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
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
"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. >>Details
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>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
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a campaign event in Robstown, Texas. >>Details
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va. >>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
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in Iowa >>Details
John McCain has said the economy is "not his strong suit."
Mitt Romney on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>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
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
Mitt Romney on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Pensacola. >>Details
Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas..."
Bill Clinton on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in in Pahrump, Nev. >>Details
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
John McCain on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich. >>Details
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>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
" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
John McCain on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg >>Details
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 19th, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa >>Details
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa >>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
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
John Edwards on Monday, October 29th, 2007 in a speech in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."
John McCain on Friday, September 28th, 2007 in a speech to the Hispanic Business Expo in Detroit. >>Details
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H. >>Details
"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>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 opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in a campaign event carried on CNN. >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000.”
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
Poor people go to a "payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest."
John Edwards on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in a speech in Americus, Ga. >>Details
"I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes" and been the lone dissenter.
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in a speech in Sioux City, Iowa >>Details
"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."
Dennis Kucinich on Monday, August 27th, 2007 in a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong. >>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
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
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Oklahoma City. >>Details
“The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn’t for the crime decline in New York City.”
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York. >>Details
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
John McCain on Monday, August 6th, 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa >>Details
“I’m the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war.”
Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
"The president is brain-dead."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.
John Edwards on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 in New York City. >>Details
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details
“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details
"Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
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