John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 in a news release >>Details
"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions."
Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."
Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."
Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point."
Barack Obama on Saturday, July 12th, 2008 in a conversation with reporters aboard plane >>Details
"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a statement e-mailed to reporters. >>Details
McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.
Barack Obama on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 in an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters >>Details
"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."
Barack Obama on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 in Afghanistan >>Details
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in a speech in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a speech in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in the campaign's energy plan. >>Details
John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq.
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 in in an ad on the Internet >>Details
"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Joe Biden on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."
Wesley Clark on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" >>Details
Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details
"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."
Barack Obama on Friday, June 13th, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio >>Details
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich. >>Details
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Barack Obama on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors >>Details
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
Barack Obama on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church >>Details
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a campaign e-mail to reporters >>Details
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 in a speech in Chicago, Ill. >>Details
John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.
The Democratic National Committee on Friday, June 13th, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 in an interview on Fox News' America’s Election HQ >>Details
"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"We are winning the popular vote."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico >>Details
John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 in a statement by campaign spokesman Bill Burton >>Details
"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren’t actively fundraising here."
Barack Obama on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 26th, 2008 in a speech in Las Cruces, N.M. >>Details
It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in Sioux Falls, S.D. >>Details
McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won’t care about this.' "
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in a speech in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It’s a bad idea today. Sen. McCain’s campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age."
Barack Obama on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a speech in Gresham, Ore. >>Details
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>Details
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Charleston, W.V. >>Details
"NATO hasn’t provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Miss. >>Details
McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>Details
"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
"If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7½ years."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Logan, W. Va. >>Details
"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' "
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'"
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in Indianapolis >>Details
There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and "we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years."
Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in a speech at a Democratic Party dinner >>Details
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."
Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details
"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. >>Details
Hillary Clinton advocates "a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators."
The Democratic National Committee on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a news release. >>Details
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."
Bill Clinton on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 in Pittsburgh >>Details
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters >>Details
"Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details
"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in an online ad. >>Details
Says she is the subject of 60 books.
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 in a forum on faith-related issues at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. >>Details
"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in a television debate in Philadelphia. >>Details
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details
"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. >>Details
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."
Bill Clinton on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in Boonville, Ind. >>Details
"My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination until June."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board >>Details
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in a news conference in Greensburg, Pa. >>Details
"John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"McCain opposes a woman's right to choose."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."
MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."
Hillary Clinton on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in Eugene, Ore. >>Details
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."
Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details
"(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee."
Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details
"I remember landing under sniper fire."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa. >>Details
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. >>Details
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
"Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details
Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>Details
"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a flier sent to voters in Ohio >>Details
Clinton said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 in Lorain, Ohio >>Details
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in Austin, Texas >>Details
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.
The Democratic National Committee on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 in a Web video. >>Details
Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a campaign event in Robstown, Texas. >>Details
"I have 35 years' experience making change."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview >>Details
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in a conference call to reporters led by Cilnton pollster Mark Penn >>Details
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."
Bill Clinton on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 in Portland, Maine >>Details
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va. >>Details
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in Iowa >>Details
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."
Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th, 2008 in an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday. >>Details
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina >>Details
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."
Bill Clinton on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in >>Details
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."
Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."
Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."
John Edwards on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas..."
Bill Clinton on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in in Pahrump, Nev. >>Details
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details
"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas. >>Details
"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."
John Edwards on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details
Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."
Bill Clinton on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 in Dartmouth, N.H. >>Details
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."
Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."
Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
“You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.”
Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."
Bill Richardson on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."
Chris Dodd on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a debate in Philadelphia >>Details
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."
John Edwards on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. >>Details
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 19th, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa >>Details
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."
Chris Dodd on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa >>Details
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 in a news release >>Details
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out.”
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
"I do provide universal health care."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Plymouth, N.H. >>Details
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa >>Details
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
"Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue."
Dennis Kucinich on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"My husband has not withheld a single document."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
John Edwards on Monday, October 29th, 2007 in a speech in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
Edwards says if Congress won't pass universal health care, he'll tell Congress: "I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."
John Edwards on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency."
Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"I've got the most international experience here."
Bill Richardson on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."
Joe Biden on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in statement on Web site >>Details
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."
Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
“The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.”
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democra