The accuracy of the Obama tax calculator

Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."

"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."

Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."

"For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost."

Medicare spends "$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies."

"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.

"AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice."

On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."

"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."

John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."

Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."

"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."

"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."

"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."

Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes.

"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."

Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."

Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."

Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."

"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."