"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."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in >>Details
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"
Barack Obama on Monday, October 27th, 2008 in a television advertisement >>Details
"Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one."
National Republican Trust PAC on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice."
Barack Obama on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio >>Details
"You had supported John McCain's military strategies pretty adamantly until this race."
Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in St. Louis >>Details
John McCain's health care plan "leaves you on your own to pay McCain’s health insurance tax."
Barack Obama on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama's health care plan is "to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program."
Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in St. Louis >>Details
Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
Joe Biden on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in vice presidential debate in St. Louis >>Details
John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."
Joe Biden on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in St. Louis >>Details
Obama "has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year."
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
House Republicans "weren't part of the negotiations" on the Wall Street bailout plan.
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate."
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 in a speech in Dunedin, Fla. >>Details
"Barack Obama has the longest track record of any candidate in this election in support of the 'Bridge To Nowhere.' "
John McCain on Monday, September 15th, 2008 in a news release. >>Details
"Last week Senator Obama's running mate said, get this, 'Raising taxes is patriotic.' "
John McCain on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in Reading, Pa. >>Details
"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."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Golden, Colo. >>Details
"I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it."
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details
McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 in Virginia >>Details
Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'
John McCain on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere."
John McCain on Monday, September 8th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'"
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention. >>Details
Obama is the Senate's "most liberal."
John McCain on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."
Joe Lieberman on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"Barack Obama and Joe Biden oppose new drilling at home and oppose nuclear power."
Republican National Committee on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in a statement on the RNC Web site >>Details
"John McCain wants to privatize Social Security."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"I argued for years that we need to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy.' "
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in in a speech in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
On Obama, “The press warns the ‘Taxman Cometh.’”
John McCain on Friday, August 15th, 2008 in >>Details
John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in in a television ad. >>Details
Barack Obama promises higher taxes on "the sale of your home."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in in a radio ad. >>Details
"John McCain intervened, which helped Airbus get that Pentagon contract."
Campaign Money Watch on Monday, June 9th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Obama "says he'll raise taxes on electricity."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."
John McCain on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 in an interview with the Kansas City Star >>Details
"He made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras."
John McCain on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 in a TV ad >>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
Obama "voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft."
Republican National Committee on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad >>Details
"There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication."
John McCain on Monday, July 7th, 2008 in remarks to reporters by campaign adviser Carly Fiorina in Washington, D.C. >>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
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Joe Biden on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"I didn't say" it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president.
Ralph Nader on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program >>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
"In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in a speech in New Orleans >>Details
"I've supported every investigation (into Hurricane Katrina) and ways of finding out how – what caused the tragedy. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 in a news conference in Baton Rouge, La. >>Details
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
Republican National Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details
"We are winning the popular vote."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico >>Details
"We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks."
John McCain on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 in Greensdale, Wis. >>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
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
"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 "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
"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
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
Rev. Wright said "that al-Qaida and the American flag were the same flags."
John McCain on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 in Coral Gables, Fla. >>Details
Says Obama flip-flopped on a gas-tax "holiday."
Republican National Committee on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in a Web video. >>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
After Reagan took office, "we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. What we did was we cut taxes."
John McCain on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 in campaign event in Westport, Conn. >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it "will lessen worldwide demand for oil" and reduce prices.
John McCain on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in a speech in Brooklyn, N.Y. >>Details
Obama supports "teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships."
Focus on the Family Action on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 in a Web article >>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
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
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."
Tennessee Republican Party on Monday, February 25th, 2008 in a news release >>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
"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
"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris >>Details
In the Florida Republican primary, "we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in an interview on "Face the Nation" >>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
Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.
John McCain on Saturday, January 26th, 2008 in Fort Myers, Fla. >>Details
"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mitt Romney on Monday, January 28th, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Fla. >>Details
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>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
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>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
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in a TV ad >>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
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Detroit >>Details
"I do provide universal health care."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in an email press release >>Details
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Rudy Giuliani on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in Washington, D.C. >>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
"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
"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."
Mitt Romney on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a TV ad airing in New Hampshire. >>Details
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."
Tom Tancredo on Monday, September 10th, 2007 in >>Details
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in >>Details
"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in a news release >>Details
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."
Mike Gravel on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage “have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock.”
Sam Brownback on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
Sen. Clinton said “the surge of troops in Iraq was ‘working.’ Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge ‘has failed’ and that we should ‘begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.’”
John McCain on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in a news release >>Details
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