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
"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
"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
"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."
John McCain on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a campaign stop at Miami children’s hospital >>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
Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in an interview on "This Week." >>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
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
"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's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>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
"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
"He positions himself as proenvironment, 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
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
"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
"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."
Republican National Committee on Friday, February 29th, 2008 in a graphic on the RNC website. >>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
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
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>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
"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
"(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."
John McCain on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."
Mike Huckabee on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>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
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Boca Raton. >>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
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
John McCain on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich. >>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
“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
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"...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."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC. >>Details
"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."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview. >>Details
Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a debate in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."
Club for Growth on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate 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
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in an interview >>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
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 in an appearance on Fox News Sunday >>Details
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.”
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in a newspaper interview. >>Details
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in “Innovators in Action” magazine >>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
"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet’s words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
"As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details
"My husband has not withheld a single document."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details
"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."
John McCain on Friday, September 28th, 2007 in a speech to the Hispanic Business Expo in Detroit. >>Details
"There was a report that came out from the FBI – a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details
"I've got the most international experience here."
Bill Richardson on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>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 Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
Sen. Obama "made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 in >>Details
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."
Barack Obama on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in >>Details
"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you’re not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you’re officially nominated.”
Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN >>Details
"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."
Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details
President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."
Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details
"John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser
John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."
John McCain on Monday, October 8th, 2007 in a campaign Web site. >>Details
"I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
“I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>Details
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in a campaign event carried on CNN. >>Details
"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"21-million Americans could have a four-year college scholarship for the money we've squandered in Iraq. 7.6-million teachers could have been hired last year if we weren’t squandering this money."
Mike Gravel on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."
Dennis Kucinich on Monday, August 27th, 2007 in a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong. >>Details
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Barack Obama on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in the campaign's website. >>Details
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."
Joe Biden on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
“John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party.”
Chris Dodd on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in an interview on CNN's The Situation Room >>Details
"When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs."
Dennis Kucinich on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details
We live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in article on his campaign Web site >>Details
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
Barack Obama supported keeping troops in Iraq, but now he wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.
Republican National Committee on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.
Republican National Committee on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details
"He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have changed their positions (on the Iraq war withdrawal) to follow Chris Dodd."
Chris Dodd on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details
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