"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
John McCain on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a statement by a spokesman >>Details
Eliminating earmarks "would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit."
Bob Barr on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a news conference announcing his Libertarian candidacy in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"It is just a fact that Hamas, apparently the North American spokesperson, is endorsing Senator Obama."
John McCain on Friday, April 25th, 2008 in a media availability in Little Rock, Ark. >>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
"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."
Florida Consumer Action Network on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in a press conference in Tampa >>Details
"My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in a television interview. >>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
The Rev. Wright compared "the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior."
John McCain on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 in Coral Gables, Fla. >>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
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
"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
John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires."
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>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 committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing."
John McCain on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 in a news conference in Columbus, 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
"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
"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
"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
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn. >>Details
John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times."
Citizens United Political Victory Fund on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in in a TV ad >>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
"He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."
John McCain on Monday, January 28th, 2008 in an automated call to voters >>Details
Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla. >>Details
Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
Chain e-mail on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in >>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
"And he’s the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
The church Barack Obama belongs to has a "nonnegotiable commitment to Africa."
Chain e-mail on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in >>Details
"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!"
Spike the Romney Attack Dog on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 in a mailer from the Romney campaign to Iowans >>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
"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."
Ron Paul on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 in a Meet the Press interview >>Details
"Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 in a Web ad >>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
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mitt Romney on Friday, December 28th, 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
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mitt Romney on Monday, December 10th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
Romney failed to take action against "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts.
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Web "Spend-O-Meter" >>Details
"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."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings."
Fred Thompson on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>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
“Mayor Giuliani’s lawsuit killed the line-item veto.”
Mitt Romney on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in >>Details
Clinton has "raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry."
John Edwards on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce."
Fred Thompson on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
“Mitt Romney opposed the gun lobby, even Ronald Reagan."
Log Cabin Republicans on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in >>Details
"The founders advised non-interventionism."
Ron Paul on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando >>Details
He received "A" ratings from "every conservative organization that gives ratings."
Tom Tancredo on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."
Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details
Mitt Romney has "a pro-choice record."
Log Cabin Republicans on Friday, October 19th, 2007 in >>Details
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Chris Dodd on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
"Today New Mexico (has) the sixth-fastest growing economy."
Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."
Bill Richardson on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Took on the Olympics and turned them around"
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress."
Ron Paul on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a statement on his campaign Web site. >>Details
“We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"
Chris Dodd on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details
"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who’d already made up their minds."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally. >>Details
"We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."
Ron Paul on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
"Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.
Bill Richardson on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details
“I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent.”
Duncan Hunter on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Oklahoma City. >>Details
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
John McCain on Monday, August 6th, 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa >>Details
“Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance.”
Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
“I’m the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war.”
Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.
John Edwards on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 in New York City. >>Details
"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details
"I used tax cuts to help create over 80,000 jobs in New Mexico."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in a TV Ad. >>Details
New Mexico moved "up to" sixth in the nation in job growth.
Bill Richardson on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in a TV Ad. >>Details
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