Statements we say are Half-True
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
President Obama has "said he is going to cut veterans' benefits."
Says Mitt Romney "put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board."
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
"More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats. That’s what the president’s done. He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
"We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will."
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