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John McCain stated on September 04, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:

"My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy."

By Alexander Lane• September 4, 2008

Eric Cantor stated on November 14, 2011 in a news conference.:

The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."

By Sean Gorman• December 5, 2011

David Gregory stated on July 25, 2010 in an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:

"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."

By Louis Jacobson• July 28, 2010

Marco Rubio stated on September 20, 2015 in an interview on "This Week.":

"We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy."

By Joshua Gillin• September 20, 2015

Rick Santorum stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.:

Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."

By Becky Bowers• January 24, 2012

Donald Trump stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet:

"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism."

By Louis Jacobson• April 23, 2019

Antonio Villaraigosa stated on December 08, 2016 in an op-ed :

"California is once again the sixth-largest economy in the world. If you add the GDP’s of Washington and Oregon, California would surpass the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy in the world."

By Chris Nichols• December 15, 2016

Pari Sabety stated on November 04, 2010 in a presentation at a conference:

"The (Ohio) economy is on the mend. … It is in better shape than it was when we took office."

By Aaron Marshall• November 19, 2010

Ron Johnson stated on October 10, 2012 in a television interview:

Says President Barack Obama "did not come into office with the economy in a free fall."

By James B. Nelson• November 26, 2012

Tim Kaine stated on October 24, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":

When Obama took office "the economy of the United States was actually shrinking for the first time in about 70 years."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• November 5, 2010

Paul Krugman stated on July 05, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

"Greece is not a big economy. It's about the size of metropolitan Miami."

By Jon Greenberg• July 6, 2015

Harry Reid stated on December 04, 2010 in the Senate floor:

"The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy."

By Robert Farley• December 6, 2010

Donald Trump stated on September 03, 2017 in an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."

By Tom Kertscher• September 6, 2017

Mitt Romney stated on October 22, 2012 in the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:

"Latin America’s economy is almost as big as the economy of China."

By Louis Jacobson• October 23, 2012

Barack Obama stated on January 20, 2015 in his 2015 State of the Union address:

"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."

By Lauren Carroll• January 21, 2015

Bobby Jindal stated on February 26, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Our economy (in Louisiana) has grown 50 percent faster than the national GDP, even since the national recession."

By Louis Jacobson• February 27, 2014

Barack Obama stated on September 06, 2012 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:

"After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas."

By Becky Bowers• September 10, 2012

Barack Obama stated on January 03, 2012 in an Obama for America video:

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."

By Becky Bowers• January 6, 2012

Scott Walker stated on January 21, 2024 in TV interview:

"(The) top issue for college students is the economy."

By Hope Karnopp• February 2, 2024

Paul Ryan stated on March 18, 2011 in a private briefing to Members of Congress:

"The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation can't conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue."

By Louis Jacobson• March 21, 2011

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