Statements we say are True
"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."
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."
For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office."
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on a taxpayer protection pledge.
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers.
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
"Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws."
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
"The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.
"Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in."
"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, "you can sue if you are unemployed and don't get the job and think you weren't hired because you are unemployed."
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