Sarah Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
"I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions..."
"When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel."
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."
"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."
"I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country."
"(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California."
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
MikeHuckabee.com gets "more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate."
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."
"As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen."
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