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Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Republican Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
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"...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."
Republican Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC.
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"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Republican Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview.
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"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Democrat Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas
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"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."
Republican Rudy Giuliani on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
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The latest Truth-O-Meter items researched by Neil Skene
Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Republican Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
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"...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."
Republican Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC.
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"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Republican Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview.
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"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
Republican Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in “Innovators in Action” magazine
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"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."
Republican Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.
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Recent stories by Neil Skene
Huckabee's 'liberal' problem: No one doubts Mike Huckabee's sincerity as a social conservative, but his sympathy tax hikes and government programs haunts him.
Who made Big Apple sweeter?: Rudy Giuliani presided over an economic rebound in New York City, but his claims ignore the nation's economic expansion. And he doesn't mention the less rosy details of his tenure.
Recent stories researched by Neil Skene
Huckabee's 'liberal' problem: No one doubts Mike Huckabee's sincerity as a social conservative, but his sympathy tax hikes and government programs haunts him.
Neil Skene is a Tallahassee writer and a contributor to PolitiFact.
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