Statements by Democrats
Obama
Mostly true
"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


Clinton
False
"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in Indianapolis >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
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


Obama
Mostly true
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."

Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."

Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details


Clinton
True
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
True
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
True
"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


Clinton
True
Hillary Clinton advocates "a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
Half-True
"McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators."

The Democratic National Committee on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a news release. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."

Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."

Bill Clinton on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 in Pittsburgh >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."

Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters >>Details


Clinton
True
"Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
True
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in an online ad. >>Details


Clinton
True
Says she is the subject of 60 books.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 in a forum on faith-related issues at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. >>Details


Clinton
True
"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in a television debate in Philadelphia. >>Details


Clinton
True
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details


Obama
False
"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


Obama
True
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."

Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."

Bill Clinton on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in Boonville, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"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


Clinton
Half-True
"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


MoveOn.org
True
"John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
"McCain opposes a woman's right to choose."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
Half-True
"He positions himself as proenvironment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


Clinton
False
"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in Eugene, Ore. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
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


Obama
True
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."

Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details


Clinton
True
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."

Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details


Clinton
True
"(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee."

Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
"I remember landing under sniper fire."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
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


Obama
True
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"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


Obama
True
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Obama
False
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details


Obama
True
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


Clinton
False
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


Obama
Mostly true
"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


Clinton
True
"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


Clinton
Pants on fire!
Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
True
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details


Obama
Half-True
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>Details


Obama
False
"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a flier sent to voters in Ohio >>Details


Obama
True
Clinton said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 in Lorain, Ohio >>Details


Obama
True
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


Obama
False
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in Austin, Texas >>Details


Obama
True
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
Half-True
The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.

The Democratic National Committee on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 in a Web video. >>Details


Clinton
False
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


Clinton
Mostly true
"I have 35 years' experience making change."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"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


Clinton
Half-True
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Clinton
True
Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Clinton
True
"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


Clinton
False
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."

Bill Clinton on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 in Portland, Maine >>Details


Obama
False
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


Obama
False
"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


Obama
Mostly true
"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


Obama
True
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


Clinton
True
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


Obama
True
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."

Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th, 2008 in an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details


Obama
True
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
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


Obama
True
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


Obama
Barely True
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


Obama
Half-True
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina >>Details


Clinton
True
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."

Bill Clinton on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Obama
True
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."

Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Obama
False
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."

Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Edwards
True
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."

John Edwards on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
False
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


Clinton
Mostly true
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
True
"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas. >>Details


Clinton
False
"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Obama
True
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Edwards
Half-True
"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."

John Edwards on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."

Bill Clinton on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 in Dartmouth, N.H. >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."

Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Biden
False
"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


Biden
False
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"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


Clinton
True
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Clinton
True
"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
“You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.”

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Richardson
True
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."

Bill Richardson on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Dodd
Mostly true
"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


Obama
False
"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


Biden
Barely True
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."

Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Edwards
Mostly true
"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."

John Edwards on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Richardson
Barely True
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."

Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"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


Clinton
True
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


Obama
False
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."

Barack Obama on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"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


Clinton
True
"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


Dodd
True
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."

Chris Dodd on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


Biden
True
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Clinton
True
"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


Clinton
True
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 in a news release >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out.”

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"I do provide universal health care."

Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Plymouth, N.H. >>Details


Richardson
False
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


Obama
False
"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

Barack Obama on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa >>Details


Obama
False
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."

Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
True
"When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details


Richardson
False
"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."

Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details


Richardson
True
"Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade."

Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details


Kucinich
True
"Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue."

Dennis Kucinich on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"My husband has not withheld a single document."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details


Edwards
Mostly true
"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


Edwards
Pants on fire!
Edwards says if Congress won't pass universal health care, he'll tell Congress: "I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."

John Edwards on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Biden
Pants on fire!
Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency."

Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Richardson
Half-True
"I've got the most international experience here."

Bill Richardson on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Clinton
False
"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Biden
False
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

Joe Biden on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in statement on Web site >>Details


Biden
Barely True
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."

Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Clinton
True
“The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.”

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Edwards
Mostly true
Clinton has "raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry."

John Edwards on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Kucinich
False
"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."

Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Dodd
True
"Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act."

Chris Dodd on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Sen. Obama "made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 in >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."

Barack Obama on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in >>Details


Richardson
Half-True
"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


Richardson
Half-True
"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."

Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details


Edwards
True
"What happens is people like Warren Buffett — and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right."

John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in Davenport, Iowa >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
Half-True
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
True
"First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn’t."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Edwards
Half-True
"John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser

John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details


Dodd
Mostly true
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."

Chris Dodd on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
True
"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program."

Joe Biden on Monday, October 15th, 2007 in >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Edwards
False
"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


Clinton
True
"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a television ad >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Edwards
Half-True
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


Clinton
True
"Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 in a forum hosted by Slate/Yahoo/Huffington Post. >>Details


Edwards
False
"I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan."

John Edwards on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
Barely True
"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in a news release >>Details


Obama
True
"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


Richardson
Mostly true
"Today New Mexico (has) the sixth-fastest growing economy."

Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. >>Details


Kucinich
True
"Social Security ... is solid through about 2040 without any changes whatsoever."

Dennis Kucinich on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details


Biden
False
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details


Richardson
Mostly true
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."

Bill Richardson on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"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


Obama
True
Obama “won health care for 150,000 people.”

Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 in >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
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


Clinton
True
"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


Clinton
Half-True
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


Clinton
True
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000.”

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Dodd
Mostly true
“We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"

Chris Dodd on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details


Edwards
True
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


Clinton
False
English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can’t print ballots in any other language."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 in New Hampshire. >>Details


Kucinich
Half-True
"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


Clinton
Mostly true
"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


Clinton
True
"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


Richardson
Pants on fire!
"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


Obama
Half-True
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."

Barack Obama on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in the campaign's website. >>Details


Biden
Half-True
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."

Joe Biden on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Obama
True
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard >>Details


Dodd
Half-True
“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


Richardson
Mostly true
"Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.

Bill Richardson on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details


Kucinich
Half-True
"When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs."

Dennis Kucinich on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details


Kucinich
True
“Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don’t have any health care at all, don’t have any health insurance.”

Dennis Kucinich on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details


Obama
False
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


Richardson
Mostly true
“Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance.”

Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details


Kucinich
Mostly true
“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


Biden
True
"You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."

Joe Biden on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in CNN/YouTube debate in Charleston, S.C. >>Details


Biden
Pants on fire!
"The president is brain-dead."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Edwards
Mostly true
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