Johnny Isakson says Allowing all Bush income tax cuts to expire on Dec. 31 will amount to the largest tax increase in the history of America.

Context: a guest column in The Atlanta Journal Constitution


Donald Trump says Hillary Clintons State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of Americas uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Context: in a speech critiquing Hillary Clinton


Lawrence Odonnell says Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.

Context: MSNBC's "Last Word"


Scott Walker says In the past four or five presidential elections, people who poll high at the beginning are not the people who end up being the nominees.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says Under President Barack Obama, the United States has doubled our exports.

Context: a speech in Austin, Texas


Dave Obey says A ban on earmarks greatly weakens the authority Congress has over spending, to the benefit of the executive branch.

Context: a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Tom Petri says President Barack Obamas debt commission recommended converting Medicare to a system where Medicare participants are given a voucher to purchase insurance in the private market.

Context: a constituent newsletter


George Will says The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in governments competence was under Ronald Reagan.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


John Mccain says On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

Context: Nashville, Tenn.


Hillary Clinton says "Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."

Context: a conference call to reporters led by Cilnton pollster Mark Penn


Donald Trump says The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!

Context: a tweet


Thom Hartmann says The Kochs stand to make around $100 billion if the government approves the Keystone XL pipeline.

Context: a segment on his RT show


Scott Walker says Here in Wisconsin, weve put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years.

Context: an interview


James Crowley says Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol.

Context: a commentary in The Providence Journal


Tim Kaine says For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half.

Context: a senate hearing


Afscme says In Washington, Congressman Joe Heck supports privatizing (Social Security), turning our savings over to Wall Street and risking it on the stock market.

Context: a television ad


Lincoln Chafee says The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.

Context: a news conference


Greg Abbott says Texas proved in court that more than 200 dead people voted in the latest Texas election.

Context: an interview with Fox News.


Lynn Howe says Sal Esquivel wants a 5 percent state sales tax on groceries.

Context: a campaign mailer


John Carter says This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nations military installations.

Context: a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader


Joe Biden says In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer.

Context: a speech at the Vatican


Rick Scott says Regulations are an endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence.

Context: a speech to the Council of 100


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that theres no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


New Jersey Assembly Democrats says Gov. Chris Christie caused a 4.1 percent increase in property taxes in 2010, marking the highest increase since 2007.

Context: a press release


Donald Trump Jr says Unemployment numbers are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, its a total disaster.

Context: an interview on CNN


Wisconsin Manufacturers And Commerce says An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity.

Context: a radio ad


Kathie Glass says over 25 percent of the Texas budget funds services to non-U.S. citizens.

Context: a debate.


New Day America says Hillary Clinton has promised to raise taxes by $1 trillion dollars.

Context: a robocall


Lindsey Graham says People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. Its called drop and leave.

Context: an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren"


Florida Students Concealed Carry says According to the state of Florida, you are almost twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator than by someone who happens to carry a conceal-and-carry permit.

Context: Florida Senate higher education committee hearing


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says The five states that outlaw collective bargaining for teachers all rank below 44th in the nation in test scores, while Wisconsin ranks 2nd.

Context: in a Facebook post


Ron Paul says The Arab and the Muslim nations get twice as much money as Israel.

Context: a presidential debate


Paul Doughty says @Jorge_Elorza still think your plan is safe? Rescue Captain Kenyon just worked 96 hours straight. 96 hours.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says If youre one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.

Context: a speech at the White House


Wisconsin Sierra Club says state Sen. Alberta Darling is allowing mercury to harm our children because she voted against an electronics recycling bill.

Context: in campaign fliers


Michael Chippendale says The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who dont legally possess that firearm in the first place.

Context: a radio interview


Donald Trump says The Colorado caucus system for selecting Republican delegates is rigged.

Context: a TV interview


Vincent Buddy Cianci says Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls.

Context: an ABC-6 interview program


Facebook Posts says USA is #1 in gun violence.

Context: a post on the Internet


Bob Mcdonnell says This bill allows Virginia to join about 23 other states that have an ultrasound procedure before an abortion.

Context: a TV interview.


Marc Lamont Hill says Every 28 hours an unarmed black person is shot by a cop.

Context: a CNN segment


Joe Biden says "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."

Context: Philadelphia


Michele Bachmann says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census how many people are in our home.

Context: a Washington Times interview


Tim Grendell says You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day.

Context: a speech in the Ohio Senate


Scott Walker says From 2010-2014, median household income in Wisconsin has actually gone up 7.4 percent.

Context: a tweet


Raw Story says Georgia lawmaker pushes bill banning creation of glow in the dark human-jellyfish hybrids.

Context: headline over an article on the Raw Story website


Peter Kinder says This incident of supposed feces depicting a swastika on the wall of a bathrooms in one of the halls ... has been supported by zero fact.

Context: in comments on Breitbart


Robert Puente says San Antonio has seen 67% growth in water customers in the last 25 years, 0% more water used.

Context: a Texas Tribune Festival panel discussion


Steny Hoyer says up to a quarter of African Americans dont have government photo ID.

Context: an opinion column.


Jim Jordan says Obamaexempted Congress and their staff from the full effect of the (health care) law.

Context: a news release


Michele Bachmann says President Obamas uncle and aunt are illegal aliens ... whove been allowed to stay in this country.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate


Rachel Maddow says Despite what Donald Trump claims, there werent 15,000 people who turned out in Phoenix to see Trump speak.

Context: a segment on her show


Jon Kyl says Abortion services are well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Lgbt Progress says North Carolina spent almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year to convene a special session for HB2.

Context: a tweet


Michael Tyler says [U]nlike every other major transit system in the nation, MARTA has never received any significant, dedicated funding from the state of Georgia.

Context: an op-ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Chris Dodd says "John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party."

Context: an interview on CNN's <i>The Situation Room</i>


David Jolly says A federal judge said President Barack Obamas executive action on immigration is unconstitutional.

Context: a speech on the U.S. House floor


Scott Rigell says At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt.

Context: a Facebook post


Gina Raimondo says In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get drivers licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down.

Context: a television interview


Hillary Clinton says "I want to freeze interest rates for five years."

Context: Los Angeles, Calif.


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Two elections in a row (Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus) has screwed up counting the vote

Context: a television interview


Nathan Deal says The Georgia Department of Economic Development assisted with the creation of 28,776 jobs, an increase of 29 percent from last fiscal year, and $5.97 billion in investments, a 32 percent increase.

Context: news release


Mary Matalin says For the last decade the climate has been cooling.

Context: CNN's Situation Room program


Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association says Accidents are down 50 percent and injury accidents are down 60 percent in the rebuilt Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee.

Context: a radio ad


John Mccain says Obama opposes innovation, the electric car and "clean, safe, nuclear energy."

Context: a Web ad


Sheila Oliver says $57,000 is the mean [income] in our state for a family.

Context: an interview on WOR-AM


Ted Cruz says the one person (Donald Trump)has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge.

Context: on ABC's "This Week"


Bernie S says Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth.

Context: the first Democratic debate


Glenn Beck says The Muslim Brotherhood has openly stated they want to declare war on Israel.

Context: a comment on his television show


Lawrence Summers says On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Jeff Sessions says Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Mike Huckabee says Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income.

Context: a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando


Barack Obama says "Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."

Context: a speech at Georgetown University


Terry Mcauliffe says the Medicaid fraud rate in Virginia was fact-checked and found to be 0.47 percent.

Context: a radio interview.


Rush Limbaugh says The presence of gorillas calls into question the concept of evolution.

Context: the Rush Limbaugh Show


Scott Walker says Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.

Context: a news release


Jim Webb says The U.S. has 5 percent of the worlds population, 25 percent of the worlds known prison population.

Context: a conference.


Greg Abbott says There have been at least four incidents where bullets from Mexico have crossed the border.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says On oil drilling

Context: an announcement at Andrews Air Force Base


Facebook Posts says Today President Obama said there will NOT be a National Day of Prayer in May.

Context: a multitude of Facebook posts


Eric Cantor says "We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."

Context: a PBS interview.


Jamie Radtke says George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt, voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.

Context: a blog post.


Shirley Anderson says Elizabeth Townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a School Board candidate faulty advice.

Context: a campaign flyer


Joe Manchin says John Raese said he wants 1,000 laser systems put in the sky, and we need it right now.

Context: a campaign Web ad


David Gregory says The Islamic State, or ISIS, was cast off by al-Qaida because it was considered too extreme.

Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"


Rachel Maddow says The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a Koch brothers affiliated group.

Context: comments on her show


Karen Handel says The Senate immigration bill is filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos.

Context: a Twitter post


Mitt Romney says Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas


Colleen Kiernan says For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built.

Context: an interview


Kendrick Meek says "The governor switched his position once again on offshore oil drilling."

Context: an interview on CNN.


Michele Bachmann says The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy.

Context: a campaign event


Roger Williams says Barack Obama is a socialist.

Context: an Austin appearance with Wes Riddle, fellow GOP hopeful for US House.


Peter Barca says Under a new law regulating abortions, Even if youre raped, if you dont report it in the first 30 days, the Republicans will force you to have an ultrasound.

Context: an interview


Susan Yoshihara says Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been shattered by the latest and best social science and research.

Context: testimony before a R.I. Senate committee


Bill Mccollum says In my attorney generals office, weve cut the budget 18 percent.

Context: a debate.


Thom Tillis says In North Carolina, now were near the national average for unemployment.

Context: a debate


National Republican Congressional Committee says Obamacare includes a $700 billion cut from Medicare for seniors.

Context: a television ad


Everytown Gun Safety says The rate of U.S. female homicide victimsoutnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2 to 1.

Context: a Facebook meme


Kathie Tovo says Austin Energy is considering its first rate increase since 1994.

Context: “Voters Guide,” League of Women Voters of the Austin Area.


Stephen Colbert says Ronald Reagan reversed his worlds largest tax cut and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations.

Context: an interview with Ted Cruz


Greg Abbott says Wendy Davis is threatening to raise taxes up to $35 billion.

Context: a Facebook page


National Republican Congressional Committee says Alex Sink used a taxpayer-funded plane so she could get to a vacation in the Bahamas.

Context: in a Web campaign ad


Jason Kander says Roy Blunt voted to raise his own pay 12 times while in Congress.

Context: a campaign ad


John Mccain says Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.

Context: Fort Myers, Fla.


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump claimed our armed forces are a disaster.

Context: a speech at the Democratic convention


Paul Ryan says under Wisconsin law, he cannot remove his name from the ballot for re-election to Congress.

Context: a television interview


Crossroads Gps says In fighting collective bargaining changes, Democrats are trying to protect a system that pays unionized government workers 42 percent more than non-union workers.

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says Under Gov. Romneys definition ... Donald Trump is a small business.

Context: the first presidential debate in Denver


Michael Morell says The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.

Context: a broadcast of "Charlie Rose"


Tina Rosenberg says In Liberia, a girl is more likely to be married by 18 than to know how to read.

Context: an article


Hillary Clinton says "Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."

Context: a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania.


John Albers says It would be illegal for the Fulton County Commission to raise the county tax rate.

Context: In an emai to constituents


Richard Clarke says SaidPresident Barack Obama said he was going to stop (signature strikes).

Context: a panel on ABC "This Week"


Rick Perry says the national debt and President Barack Obamas refusal to control spending led to our nations credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history.

Context: a campaign video on his website


Peter Nehr says An Internet sweepstakes cafe is a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state.

Context: comments published in the 'St. Petersburg Times'


Mitt Romney says In 2008, candidate Barack Obama attacked John McCain for proposing cuts to Medicare.

Context: a campaign ad


Lloyd Doggett says Donna Campbell has called for ending all federal funding for education

Context: a campaign mailer


Defenders Wildlife Action Fund Defenders Wildlife says "Palin (proposed) a $150 bounty for the severed foreleg of each killed wolf."

Context: a TV ad


Jim Sensenbrenner says One of the biggest polluters in our country is the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Context: a discussion at a town hall meeting


Gary Johnson says the United States has treaties with apparently 69 countries where we are obligated to defend their borders. And these were treaties that were executive treaties, not authorized by Congress.

Context: an appearance on Meet the Press


Dennis Kucinich says "Social Security ... is solid through about 2040 without any changes whatsoever."

Context: Hanover, N.H.


Dwight Jones says under his utility rate plan, An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills.

Context: a statement.


Joe Biden says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would eliminate the guarantee of Medicare.

Context: the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.


Wendy Davis says Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.

Context: a TV ad


Donald Trump says We have a fire marshal that said, Oh we cant allow more people ... And the reason they wont let them in is because they dont know what the hell theyre doing.

Context: a rally speech


Janet Adkins says We have been teaching these (Common Core) standards in Florida schools since 2010.

Context: a Florida House subcommittee meeting


Alan Grayson says Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed the Quiones Plan because it was taxation without representation on a large scale.

Context: a campaign mailer


Donald Trump says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.

Context: a tweet


Sam Olens says If youre from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed.

Context: a radio news story


Terry Mcauliffe says On oil drilling off Virginias coast.

Context: a campaign statement.


Texas Petition says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.

Context: the White House's "We the People" petition web site


Emergency Committee Israel says When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no.

Context: a campaign ad


Sarah Palin says "As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes."

Context: a debate in St. Louis


Taxpayer Association Oregon says Mark Hass raised your taxes by $1 billion in a single day.

Context: a campaign mailer.


Marcy Kaptur says Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital.

Context: an MSNBC interview


Michael Madigan says Bruce Rauner is of record that he will fully support the Trump candidacy. Its documented. Its available.

Context: Interview with WSIU and WBBM, published Aug. 1.


Republican Party Florida says State pension fund staffers lost billions. Then Sink gave them bonuses.

Context: a television ad


Sara Stevenson says The Austin school district calendar lists 64 different dates for either a state-mandated test or make-up test.

Context: an op-ed column.


Rick Scott says Most of the newspapers that endorsed Alex Sink also endorsed Barack Obama.

Context: a debate


Mike Polensek says Were worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage.

Context: a public meeting


Barack Obama says John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."

Context: a debate in Nashville, Tenn.


Reince Priebus says President Barack Obama wants to raise the lowest (income) tax rate from 10 to 15 percent.

Context: an interview


Tom Barrett says Scott Walker eliminated his own office of economic development in the middle of this recession.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Oregon League Conservation Voters says Schaufler was the only Democrat who voted to stop the states health care reform plan.

Context: a campaign mailer


Wisconsin Manufacturers And Commerce says Typical minimum wage earners in America are teenagers living with their parents in middle class families.

Context: an opinion piece


John Axford says All travelers -- even babies -- arriving in the U.S. by air must have a passport.

Context: a Tweet


Carly Fiorina says she is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined.

Context: a column posted on Medium.com


Mark Warner says Right now we are spending at an all-time high, close to 25 percent of our GDP [is] being spent on the federal government. But our revenues are at an almost all-time low of about 15 percent [of GDP].

Context: a TV appearance.


Adam Hasner says Earlier this year, the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified before Congress that implementation of Obamacare would cost 800,000 jobs.

Context: a press statement


Bill Clinton says According to a recent poll, there are more young Republicans enrolled in their parents (health insurance) plans than young Democrats.

Context: a speech in Little Rock, Ark.


Ken Cuccinelli says [Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050.

Context: a speech to Tea Party activists.


Hillary Clinton says "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."

Context: Myrtle Beach, S.C.


Pete Sessions says Federal law for Obamacare navigators does not bar or even require screening for convicted felons, including individuals convicted of identity theft or fraud.

Context: an oped column


Michael Thurmond says Michael Thurmond authored major legislation that has provided more than $250 million in tax relief to Georgias senior citizens and working families.

Context: his campaign website


Elaine Boyer says [T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior.

Context: an interview


Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio would take away a womans right to choose for victims of rape or incest.

Context: a campaign ad


Lee May says DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.

Context: the 2015 State of the County address


Samuel Wurzelbacher says President Barack Obamas parents were communists.

Context: a letter published by the Christian Broadcasting Network


Facebook Posts says Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths.

Context: a Facebook post


Citizens Against Rail Taxes says None of $400 million the City of Austin proposes to spend on road projects will be used to add new lanes to congested roadways.

Context: a radio ad


Bobby Scott says (Rep. Bob Goodlattes) balanced budgetamendment does not require a balanced budget.

Context: a letter.


Put Alaska First Pac says It was Dan Sullivan who wrote a bill to cut Alaskans out of those decisions about where they can hunt and fish.

Context: a television ad


Janet Adkins says A school uniform policy helps with school safety, helps with truancy.

Context: a discussion about school uniforms


Yes On 79 says constitutional amendment would help to stop unfair, double taxation on real estate.

Context: an ad and on their website


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

Context: a TV ad


Josh Mandel says Sherrod Brown voted six times to raise his own pay.

Context: a campaign commercial


Scott Bruun says The size of our federal government has more than doubled since the year 2000.

Context: a statement on his website


Paul Broun says The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job.

Context: a press release


Brian Robinson says The changes to Georgias tax and fee structure is an overall tax cut.

Context: an interview


Chain Email says Obama wants to redesign the American flag "to better offer our enemies hope and love."

Context: a widely circulated e-mail


Facebook Posts says Gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years.

Context: a meme on social media


Tom Cotton says he voted for disaster relief and full funding of FEMA.

Context: a television ad


Sheldon Whitehouse says Thirteen hundred applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.

Context: an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire."


Barry Hinckley says Theres no money in Social Security.

Context: an appearance on Channel 6


Democratic National Committee says it cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000 when Mitt Romney and his staff purchased computer hard drives.

Context: a Democratic Natonal Committee advertisement


Charlie Crist says On support for gay marriage

Context: a Facebook post


Donna Seidel says A Republican-led softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit.

Context: a press release


Carl Hosticka says Julie Parrish voted to divert $160 million from public schools to private for-profit schools.

Context: a guest column


Chris Van Hollen says The employer mandate affects only 5 percent of businesses in this country.

Context: an interview with Fox News


John Lee says The study that states that more than 70 percent of the traffic on the Sellwood Bridge is to/from Clackamas County has been thoroughly debunked by The Oregonian.

Context: May 17 election voters pamphlet


Leonard Lance says Recently we have seen our government debt grow by $3.4 trillion during the first 29 months of the Obama administration -- the equivalent of about $4 billion per day.

Context: a column


John Edwards says Clinton has "raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry."

Context: a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.


Bobby Scott says If all of the [Bush-era] tax cuts expire on schedule, the budget will be close to being balanced in four years.

Context: a statement in the Times-Dispatch voters' guide


Senate Majority Pac says Scott Browns carrying some big oil baggage because he collected over $400,000 in campaign contributions.

Context: a TV ad


Cecile Richards says More than 60 percent of people in America support Planned Parenthood and only 11 percent approve of Congress.

Context: an interview by actress Lena Dunham


Valerie Jarrett says There is majority support for the Democrats' health care plans.

Context: an interview on ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'


Tony Perkins says We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Tim Ryan says From 05 to 09, weve had 1,100 soldiers commit suicide, one every 36 hours.

Context: a House committee hearing


Sam Adams says $30 million gap in stadium funding forced the Portland Beavers to leave.

Context: John Canzano's radio show


Rudy Giuliani says "Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up."

Context: a newspaper interview.


Paul Ryan says All 28 members of NATO have pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us.

Context: a speech


Scot Ross says Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt.

Context: a television interview


Occupy Democrats says Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states.

Context: a Facebook post


Ted Ferrioli says The Public Employee Retirement System is making more millionaires than the Oregon state lottery.

Context: an opinion column


Barack Obama says we have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000.

Context: his weekly radio address.


Robin Vos says In Wisconsin, unions can essentially give unlimited contributions to political parties, but business cant give any.

Context: an interview


Shemia Fagan says I sponsored the new Buy American law

Context: an Oregon Voters' Pamphlet statement


Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA.

Context: the Democratic debate in New York


Brian Robinson says Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget.

Context: an article


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton says she wants to, raise taxes on the middle class.

Context: a campaign video


Joe Biden says When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

Context: an interview on "The Today Show"


Jefferson Smith says A test last month at the MAX station at 162nd Avenue and East Burnside saw crime down 41 percent compared with December 2009

Context: an article in The Oregonian


Democratic National Committee says Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to the press, trying to pass them off as real.

Context: an email to supporters


Peter Barca says new GOP Wisconsin Assembly members voted to take funding away from their public schools in their districts to give it to private Milwaukee voucher schools.

Context: a newspaper column and other statements


Daniel Webster says Gov. Lawton Chiles said "if I were to become ... become speaker of the House it would be (his) worst nightmare."

Context: announcing his campaign for the U.S. House.


Vincent Fort says If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it.

Context: a newspaper column


Debra Medina says The governors not taking his own fiscal advice. ... In the first fiscal quarter of this year, weve seen a 13.5 percent increase in spending, double-digit spending out of the executive branch in the State of Texas.

Context: a Republican gubernatorial debate


Heidi Group says Following the 2009 session, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was acknowledged and thanked for his tireless efforts by Planned Parenthood, the nations premier abortion provider.

Context: a letter.


Brett Hulsey says Gov. Scott Walker has made Wisconsin 2nd in the nation in losing jobs.

Context: a news release


Bill Nelson says Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that gives Floridas public officials an easy way to avoid disclosing their personal finances.

Context: his campaign website


Yvette Mcgee Brown says Ohio today has the fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration.

Context: a speech at a candidates forum


Herman Cain says This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression.

Context: an op-ed


Charlotte Lehan says If the Sellwood Bridge is not replaced, it will have to be shut down within eight years.

Context: an opinion column


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Jim Renacci ran against the Washington establishment in the election, but is now hypocritically embracing it with big money, special interest fundraisers.

Context: a news release


Massachusetts Legislature says On whether the governor of Massachusetts should be able to appoint an interim U.S. senator

Context: votes in 2004 and 2009


Facebook Posts says In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker.

Context: on the Internet


Ted Cruz says In the last four years, our economy has grown on average 0.9 percent a year.

Context: an interview on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"


Mitt Romney says Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government.

Context: a debate


Sharron Angle says Harry Reid has voted to give illegals Social Security benefits even for the time they were here illegally.

Context: a campaign commercial


Chain Email says that President Obama said, Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?

Context: a chain e-mail


Mike Fasano says Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of nuclear plants or whatever they may be. A planned nuclear plant repair will only increase that percentage.

Context: a news article


Hillary Clinton says What the District of Columbia was trying to do(with its handgun ban) was to protect toddlers from guns.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Catherine Taylor says Theres nothing in the voting instructions that weve been getting in the last several elections that lets you know about the limitations of the master lever.

Context: an appearance on the Helen Glover Show


Bob Mcdonnell says On raising taxes.


Allen West says An Obamacare slush fund paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an anti-obesity campaign.

Context: a newsletter


Donald Trump says Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.

Context: a campaign rally in Springfield, Ohio


Ben Carson says There is currently no ability to vet these people, referring to Syrian refugees.

Context: an official statement posted on Facebook.


Zack Space says A bill to save teacher jobs is completely paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

Context: a letter


Michael Moore says during George W. Bushs administration we were losing millions of jobs per month, while under Barack Obama we have three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month.

Context: a tweet


Worldnetdaily says A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008.

Context: a news report


Americans Prosperity says Under the administration of Gov. Scott Walker, northern Wisconsins mining economy is moving forward and more people are getting good, high-paying jobs.

Context: a direct mail flier


Republican Party Florida says Obamacare prevents (Florida) from regulating insurance.

Context: a Facebook Q&A with Charlie Crist


Joseph Trillo says We got [the Quonset Business Park] for free and were getting zero dollars out of it into the state coffers other than the fact that it produces the jobs.

Context: a debate


Mika Brzezinski says Super Bowl Sunday has the highest rate of domestic violence.

Context: a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Barack Obama says "More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."

Context: a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa.


Melissa Johnson says Georgia has the 9th highest rate of adults, ages 18 to 64, without a high school diploma or GED.

Context: a report


Ron Paul says "We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."

Context: a debate in Durham, N.H.


Barack Obama says On mandating health care coverage.

Context: a television interview


Americans Tax Reform says Since President Obama took office, over 88,000 Ohio workers have lost their jobs.

Context: an election flier


Russ Feingold says Ron Johnson voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas.

Context: a TV ad


Jim Sullivan says he led the effort to build a new (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) engineering campus in Wauwatosa.

Context: a campaign mailer


Hillary Clinton says There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress that concluded nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make.

Context: on NBC's Today Show


Jon Huntsman says I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.


Tommy Thompson says On using embryonic stem cells for medical research.

Context: remarks at a Vatican conference


Jon Stewart says One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.

Context: an interview with Bill O'Reilly


John Dennis says Taxpayers pay $18,000 a month for House Speaker Nancy Pelosis district office in downtown San Francisco.

Context: a campaign commercial


Josh Mandel says Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, despite acknowledging that the EPAs cap-and-trade regulations are burdensome and could harm economic growth in Ohio.

Context: a news release


Americans Prosperity says (President Barack Obama gave) half a billion in taxpayer money to help his friends at Solyndra, a business the White House knew was on the path to bankruptcy.

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says "If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."

Context: Johnston, Iowa


Hillary Clinton says Im the only candidate in the Democratic primary, or actually on either side, who Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers are actually running ads against.

Context: comments on Meet the Press


John Matson says Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago.

Context: an interview on State of the State


Lindsey Graham says "The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."

Context: an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren


Bob Casey says In Afghanistan, it is very, very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an improvised explosive device, or IED.

Context: a conference call with reporters


Rick Scott says a federal plan to expand Medicaid would cost Florida taxpayers $26 billion over 10 years.

Context: a press conference


Jefferson Smith says I dont agree with Mr. Hales that we should give a sweeping break to the developers to allow them to build that infill housing without paying for those very basics.

Context: a debate


Credo Action says The Obama administration is proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obamas Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030.

Context: a YouTube video


Jay Hottinger says Wendys founder Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax.

Context: a radio interview


Hillary Clinton says I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Context: an interview on CNN's "American Morning."


Hillary Clinton says African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do.

Context: a TV ad


Paul Ryan says Over $1 trillion was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to give every single poor American a check for $22,000.

Context: a speech


David Simpson says I have always opposed drivers licenses for illegal aliens.

Context: a campaign press release


Chris Christie says Theres now been three independent investigations (into the bridge scandal) all of which have said that Christie did not have prior knowledge of or involvement in the lane closures.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Rob Cornilles says David Wu has presided over 137 months in which Oregons unemployment rate has been above the national average.

Context: The Oregonian's Voter Guide


Donald Trump says Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think youve made a mistake.

Context: a speech


Scott Bruun says Kurt Schrader cast the deciding vote that failed to extend tax cuts for Oregons middle-class families and small businesses.

Context: an e-mail


Mitt Romney says Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and theyre rushing to build a lot more. Theyll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future.

Context: the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.


David Jolly says Under a new federal regulation, it will cost Pinellas County $31 million to fix a single ditch.

Context: an Orlando debate


Chain Email says Gov. Scott Walker is openly backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions by at least a third for current and retired public employees

Context: a chain email


Glenn Beck says Many of the 9/11 conspirators came from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Context: his radio program


Newt Gingrich says Gangs have increased by 40 percent since this president was elected.

Context: a roundtable discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"


William Obrien says The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted.

Context: a letter to The Telegraph


Tammy Duckworth says Republican Mark Kirk is outsourcing his campaign to a Super PAC funded almost exclusively by a bunch of hedge fund billionaires. ...I dont have a Super PAC.

Context: an email fundraising letter


George Will says Wisconsin education agency urged white students to wear white wristbands as a reminder about your (white) privilege.

Context: a column


Dick Cheney says Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Marco Rubio says Surface temperatures on Earth have stabilized.

Context: an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly


Freedom Partners says Sen. Jeff Merkley voted six times for more debt.

Context: a television ad


Republican Party Florida says How many concerts would Taylor Swift have to perform to pay off one day of interest on our national debt? She would have to perform every day for three years.

Context: a Facebook post


Katrina Vanden Heuvel says Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans benefits over these last years.

Context: a discussion on CBS' "Face the Nation"


Chris Christie says the United States has the worlds greatest health care system.

Context: the keynote address at the Republican National Convention


David Perdue says U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston requested more earmarks than any other GA Congressman and all GA GOP members combined.

Context: In a Twitter post


Nathan Deal says Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta.

Context: his State of the State address


Johnny Isakson says Fifty-three percent of graduates from liberal arts colleges these days cant find jobs.

Context: a speech


Kris Jordan says Delaware County has more waterfront property than any other county in the state of Ohio

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


John Thrasher says he has never received any contributions from the Koch brothers.

Context: forum with Florida State students


Barack Obama says John McCain's health care plan "leaves you on your own to pay McCains health insurance tax."

Context: in a television ad


Sloan Roach says Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.

Context: a television interview


Andrew Napolitano says President AbrahamLincoln tried to arm the slaves.

Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"


Jon Huntsman says I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.


Sarah Palin says Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, Hey, youre not going to succeed.

Context: an interview on Fox


Rudy Giuliani says "I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."

Context: a debate in Dearborn, Mich.


Richard Saslaw says Governing magazine has estimated that in the states that dont expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states...

Context: a TV interview.


Jeb Hensarling says In a sweetheart deal members of Congress, thanks to the Obama administration, are going to be the only people in America to get subsidies in the Obamacare exchanges.

Context: a House floor speech


George Will says Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.

Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week


One New Jersey says Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires.

Context: A radio ad


Michael Turner says Some 20,000 Delphi salaried retirees lost up to 70 percent of their pensions as a result of political favoritism and backroom deals.

Context: a news release


Allen West says Florida Democrats put my Social Security number and my wifes Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.

Context: a Fox News interview


Free Market Florida says new EPA water regulations would force the state to make drainage canals every bit as clean as pristine Florida river systems.

Context: a web video.


Harry Reid says Sharron Angle supported "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners."

Context: a political ad


Ted Cruz says During eight years under Ronald Reagan, African-American median income rose by about $5,000.

Context: a town hall in Henniker, N.H.


Mark Warner says The largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America

Context: an interview.


Crime Victims United Oregon says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.

Context: a website


Barack Obama says After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.


James Carville says Jeb Bush has released 10 percent of his emails.

Context: a broadcast of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"


Nancy Pelosi says More private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 than in the eight years of the Bush administration.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"


Marcy Kaptur says Creeping defense commitments in (the Middle East) and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually.

Context: a speech in the House of Representatives


Melanie Crozier says Karen Handel would have felt like it was OK to go in and abort Sarah Palins son Trig, who has Down syndrome.

Context: a Politico article


Glee says The U.S. Census believes that by 2030 the majority of Americans will use Spanish as their first language.

Context: an episode on TV


Barbara Boxer says As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers.

Context: a political ad


Florida Education Association says Politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want.

Context: a campaign-style ad.


Presente says 91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college, but Marco Rubio opposes it.

Context: a television ad


Hillary Clinton says I remember landing under sniper fire.

Context: Washington, D.C.


Michele Bachmann says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America.

Context: a foreign policy debate in Washington, D.C.


Bill Mccollum says Bill McCollum on the Arizona immigration law.

Context: interviews with Florida media.


Lawrence Odonnell says There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea.

Context: an appearance on MSNBC.


Rush Limbaugh says Rick Perry is the guy that tracked down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.

Context: his radio program.


Joseph Mcnamara says Rhode Islands graduated driving license has saved hundreds of lives.

Context: a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House of Representatives


Will Weatherford says Eighty-five percent of Floridians who will benefit from expanding Medicaid are single, childless adults.

Context: an interview


Joe Zepecki says The Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary.

Context: an interview


New Georgia Encyclopedia says Georgia lawmakers fuel up for the session by feasting on wild hogs.

Context: New Georgia Encyclopedia entry on hogs in Georgia history


Facebook Posts says Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!

Context: a Facebook posting


Promote Oregon Leadership Pac Oregon House Republi says Will Rasmussen falsely claimed he had lived in the West Linn district for about a year.

Context: a campaign mailer


Rick Perry says Ninety-five percent of all the wages in Texas are above minimum wage.

Context: an interview on CNN's "Crossfire"


Joe Theismann says We dont have a (military) reserve force if something happens.

Context: a discussion on "Outnumbered"


Jack Murphy says Georgias illegal-immigration legislation simply follows existing federal law.

Context: a press release


Corey Lewandowski says theres 400,000 anchor babies born in the United States a year, which areindividuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can be U.S. citizens.

Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"


Blog Posting says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers budget okays disposing of unclaimed pound dogs to university research facilities.

Context: various blog postings critical of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker


Nathan Deal says Before the HOPE scholarship, 70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now, 70 percent of those stay in the state of Georgia.

Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club


Alex Sink says "No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle."

Context: response to questions about fundraising totals


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has spoken such lies about my foreign policy. They said I want Japan to get nuclear weapons. Give me a break.

Context: a rally in Sacramento, Calif.


Emma Darnell says The error rates for the Fulton County elections department are well below the average.

Context: a meeting


Kim Thatcher says Oregon concealed gun applications include home phone numbers, home address, Social Security numbers, what kinds of guns you have in the house whether you were dishonorably discharged from the military, what controlled substances you are taking and were you ever accused of -- accused, mind you -- of stalking.

Context: a House floor session


Kendrick Meek says "When I become the nominee, the Democratic nominee, I will be the only pro-choice candidate on the ballot."

Context: in a Democratic U.S. Senate debate


Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reeds Office says While the smoking rate nationally has fallen, more than 18 percent of Georgians still light up.

Context: press release


Hillary Clinton says While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked.

Context: her gun policy platform.


Joe Biden says John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."

Context: Denver


John Kasich says I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year. ... We have people who are check kiters and dont pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen.

Context: a gathering with reporters


Lee Fisher says Rob Portmans plan to tax, slash and privatize Social Security would devastate Ohioans.

Context: a campaign statement


Ron Paul says "The founders advised non-interventionism."

Context: Orlando


Gerald Mccormick says The state constitution clearly says theres not to be a state income tax in Tennessee.

Context: House floor debate over amending the state constitution to prohibit an income tax.


Barack Obama says The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.

Context: an interview on CBS


Marshall Faulk says Quarterbacks won the (Super Bowl) MVP more than 50 percent of the time.

Context: comments on the NFL Network


Mitt Romney says This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover.

Context: an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop


Jon Huntsman says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.

Context: a web advertisement


David Rivera says In the past, President Obama has refused to meet with representatives from Cuban exile organizations.

Context: a statement


Sherrod Brown says We buy 35 percent of all Chinese exports.

Context: a news conference


Bill Pascrell says 53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs.

Context: a speech on the House floor


Bob Mcdonnell says his transportation plan would make Virginia the first state in the nation to eliminate the state tax on gasoline.

Context: a news conference.


Mary Burke says Wisconsin now ranks among the top 10 states for out-migration.

Context: a report


Paul Levesque says Weve outdrawn the Super Bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that weve followed them in for the Super Bowl. Weve gone in after [the NFL] and surpassed their ticket sales.

Context: an interview on NYPost.com


Kathleen Falk says Wisconsin women are paid 81 cents to the dollar of a man doing the same job.

Context: a newspaper interview


Nj Can says the states pension and health benefits reform includes the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights.

Context: a petition


Ryan Downton says Paul Workman authored legislation providing amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Context: an open letter to voters.


Steve Santarsiero says Steve Santarsiero wrote PAs Gun Safety Law.

Context: a campaign mailer.


Joe Leibham says Common Core is a federal mandate.

Context: a news release


Robin Vos says Milwaukees police chief can fire officers for basically no cause.

Context: a statement at a committee meeting


George P Bush says 60 percent of Texas 8th graders are not proficient in math. Only 26% have a teacher with a undergraduate major in math.

Context: a Twitter post


Leticia Van De Putte says Ten retired nuns were barred from voting in the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary.

Context: remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate


National Federation Blind says Goodwill Industries International pays workers with disabilities wages as low as pennies per hour.

Context: a news release


Jd Hayworth says John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."

Context: a campaign commercial


Jill Vogel says In Virginia, people are going and getting marriage licenses who are 12 and 13, and 14 and 15 years old.

Context: legislative hearing.


Donna Brazile says Republican ideas on health care dont give people an option to even enroll in something that they can afford.

Context: a broadcast of CNN's Situation Room


Sean Hannity says You cant build a Christian church in Saudi Arabia.

Context: a broadcast the Sean Hannity radio show


Chain Email says The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year.

Context: a widely circulated e-mail


Mark Neumann says The federal government is spending $46,000 a year per family (or group of four) and could balance its budget by dropping that to $30,000.

Context: a television interview


Rachel Maddow says The Pentagon made up the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.

Context: comments on "The Rachel Maddow Show"


John Mccain says "(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."

Context: a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.


Hillary Clinton says The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent.

Context: her book, "Hard Choices."


Brian Birdwell says On campaign donations from Texas Capitol lobbyists.

Context: a Capitol-area fundraiser.


Kurt Schrader says In just a few decades, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.

Context: congressional website


David Perdue says There are only about 10 people in the United States Senate who have any real business experience.

Context: during an appearance in Middle Georgia


American Federation Children says Senator Jeff Plale saved my job -- and some 300 others at Bucyrus International.

Context: campaign literature distributed by an outside group


Joe Biden says 95 percent of the worlds customers are beyond our shores.

Context: a speech in San Diego


Gerald Daugherty says he is the reason we do not pay a toll every time we pass over the bridge at MoPac and William Cannon.

Context: a mailed campaign flier


Jeff Wentworth says he restored prayer and the pledge in our schools.

Context: a TV ad.


Barack Obama says Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."

Context: in a television ad


Americans Prosperity Florida says Patrick Murphys Pay More energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!

Context: a campaign mailer


Erick Erickson says Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress.

Context: a blog post


Barack Obama says 50 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed.

Context: a presidential debate


Mark Obenshain says Virginia Democrats recently enforced voter ID rules that were considerably more stringent than those contained in the state law they denounce.

Context: a newsletter.


Jennifer Shilling says Under Donald Trumps tax plan, the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average -- would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined.

Context: a teleconference


Thomas Garrett Jr says Federal money for Medicaid expansion is guaranteed for a few years and then goes away.

Context: an op-ed.


Republican Party Florida says Barack Obama will "raise Social Security taxes."

Context: campaign direct mail


Rob Eissler says Obesity kills 34 children per hour.

Context: remarks on the House floor


Josh Mandel says Sherrod Brown sent billions of our tax dollars to foreign countries.

Context: a television ad


Loretta Weinberg says PolitiFact listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies and our own untruthful Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifacts top five of Lie - en Governors.

Context: a column on Blue Jersey


Jim Greer says On whether President Obamas speeches to school children spread socialist ideology.

Context: a statement to the press


Hillary Clinton says The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clintons presidency was a hundred times what it was under President Ronald Reagan.

Context: an interview on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show"


Steve Kagen says Already, the mayor of Green Bay is having ribbon-cutting after ribbon-cutting for economic development around the new VA center.

Context: a newspaper article


Florida Democratic Party says (Bill) McCollum also voted for numerous amendments to weaken the legislation, even voting to make trains less accessible to those in wheelchairs.

Context: a press release


Stephen Sweeney says People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want womens health care. Theres issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasnt. Youve seen the actions hes taken on them.

Context: an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program


Ocean State Policy Research Institute says Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus spending -- Part II.

Context: a report


Republican Party Virginia says Phil Puckett voted no on sending the EPA a message that theyve gone too far not once, but twice.

Context: a blog post.


Rick Scott says A recent study revealed that, across the nation, taxes would have to be increased by an average of $1,300 a year just to support the currently unsustainable public employee pension systems. In Florida, that dollar figure translates to $813 a year.

Context: an e-mail to state employees


John Mccain says "Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000."

Context: in a television ad.


American International Group says AIG has fully repaid the federal government plus a profit of more than $22 billion.

Context: a TV ad


Mike Pence says The financial regulatory bill will kill jobs.

Context: a press release


Joe Biden says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."

Context: a speech in Springfield, Ill.


Leonard Lance says Barack Obama said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened.

Context: a debate


Ben Cannon says if we raise the number of third-graders who read at a third-grade level, we affect everything, from graduation rates to incarceration rates.

Context: a Portland Monthly article.


Donald Trump says The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.

Context: a rally in Fountain Hills, Ariz.


Yes 82 And 83 Campaign says Measures 82 and 83 authorize just one more casino.

Context: a campaign ad


Barbara Buono says as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Context: a column


Planned Parenthood Pac says John Kitzhaber is the only pro-choice candidate in the race for governor.

Context: a campaign mailer


Bono says When it comes to aid, "the United States is still about half as what European countries give as a percentage."

Context: an interview with the Associated Press


Jonathan Harris says You dont see Norway losing population, and its taxes are astronomical.

Context: a newspaper commentary


Campaign Regulate Marijuana Alcohol says marijuana use among Colorado high school students has not increased since legalization.

Context: a political advertisement


Charlie Crist says Expanding Medicaid would create 63k jobs.

Context: a tweet


Steven Rattner says Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Ellyn Bogdanoff says Florida is considered the fourth-largest gambling state in the nation.

Context: a newspaper article


Calvine Rollins says Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions.

Context: an op-ed


Bill Seitz says that Secretary of State Jon Husted and former secretary Jennifer Brunner both have supported a provision in Senate Bill 47 that would limit the days organizers have to collect signatures for initiative and referendum petitions.

Context: testimony before a House committee


Terry Mcauliffe says Ken Cuccinelli tried to shut down state government.

Context: a debate.


Barack Obama says When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ... (had) more debt per person than any other state in the country.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says that as Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney condemned coal-fired plants, saying they kill people.

Context: a news release


Democratic National Committee says College tuition rates in Texas jumped by 55% since 2003.

Context: an email blast


Dan Patrick says Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families.

Context: a press release titled “Lt. Governor Unveils Faith-Based Initiative on Foster Care Children,”


Lincoln Chafee says Rhode Island is one of only six states to use E-Verify.

Context: comments to reporters following a news conference


Jan Brewer says We know from ... the federal data, that they only stop or apprehend one out of four illegal people crossing our border.

Context: comments on CNN


Democratic National Committee says John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq.

Context: in an ad on the Internet


Rick Perry says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.

Context: a South Carolina forum.


Donald Trump says It is Hillary Clintons agenda to release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.

Context: a speech to the National Rifle Association


Eric Cantor says Youve got each day 10,000 new seniors, baby boomers, becoming eligible for the entitlement programs.

Context: a TV appearance.


Barack Obama says economists Harvey Rosen and Martin Feldstein have said that paying for (Mitt) Romneys tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.

Context: an email to supporters


Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board.

Context: a video campaign ad


James Roosevelt says Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional.

Context: a segment of WPRI's Newsmakers program


Shaun Donovan says Housing prices dropped for the 30 months prior to Barack Obama taking office, and they have stabilized, theyve been about flat since the president came in.

Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"


Peter Barca says You cant bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of whats going on, but you can bring a gun up there.

Context: an interview


Bill Clinton says Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."

Context: an interview on ABC's This Week


Tim Mcginty says he tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods.

Context: his campaign website


Ameripac says Compact fluorescent light bulbs are toxic and not environmentally friendly.

Context: a fundraising letter


Bob Seger says The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.

Context: an interview


Chris Christie says car insurance rates have decreased since about a decade ago because of market-based solutions that attracted more auto insurers to New Jersey.

Context: an "On the Line" interview with Steve Adubato


Katrina Vanden Heuvel says At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on RD.

Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's 'This Week'


Rob Portman says Ohio is probably top five in the country, sadly, in terms of heroin overdoses. Its now exceeded car accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in Ohio.

Context: a radio interview


Ron Paul says The U.S. military is in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Tampa


Chris Matthews says The Russians didnt wear uniforms when they came in to Ukraine.

Context: a segment on "Hardball"


Mitt Romney says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.


Democratic National Committee says Rick Perry doesnt think there should be a federal minimum wage.

Context: an email blast


Scott Walker says Since I took office, Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary.

Context: a campaign news release


Trent Franks says It is truethat we know that ISIS is present in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)

Context: a phone conference


Tom Coburn says The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be a middle-class benefit. Its not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year.

Context: an interview with CNN


Nathan Deal says A real result of his term is Georgia having the lowest taxes per capita of any state.

Context: campaign flyer


Antonin Scalia says Most of the black scientists in this country dont come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools.

Context: a Supreme Court hearing


Democratic Governors Association says Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive

Context: Democratic Governors Association website


Paul Krugman says Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts.

Context: a column


Florida Democratic Party says Bill McCollum "cost the rest of us billions" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that "skyrocketed" to $4.7 trillion.

Context: an advertisement by the Florida Democratic Party


David Dewhurst says The White House had a live video feed of the Benghazi attacks as they occurred.

Context: an interview with the Texas Observer


Rob Portman says a Pro-Stimulus economist admits it is not working

Context: a posting on Facebook


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first hed want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them.

Context: a rally in Florida


Frank Lautenberg says In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.

Context: a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate


Bud Chiles says Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care.

Context: a campaign website


Ted Cruz says President Barack Obama has been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years.

Context: an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"


Sheldon Whitehouse says The oceans have become 30 percent more acidic.


Moms Demand Action Gun Sense America says The book Little Red Riding Hood is something thats been banned in America, but not assault weapons.

Context: an ad shared on social media


Glenn Beck says Thomas Jefferson created the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

Context: his Fox News program


Jack Kingston says The nations food supply is 99.99 percent safe.

Context: a newspaper article


Alex Sink says 150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.

Context: a meeting of the Florida Cabinet


Seth Magaziner says In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either dont have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and theyre still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on.

Context: an appearance on “10 News Conference”


Dennis Kucinich says "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."

Context: a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong.


Rachel Maddow says Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsins finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year.

Context: a segment on her television talk show


Lee Holloway says Weve saved over $100 million of (health care) costs in Milwaukee County. I did that.

Context: a meeting with Journal Sentinel reporters and editors


David Dewhurst says that from 1992 through 2010, every statewide candidate drawing over 43 percent of the vote in a Republican Texas primary won the resulting runoff.

Context: a memo from campaign pollster Mike Baselice.


Ron Paul says members of the military have sent him more campaign contributions than theyve sent President Barack Obama and more than twice what theyve sent other Republican presidential candidates.

Context: an interview.


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Robert Hurt has a plan to cut education by 40 percent.

Context: a radio ad.


John Oxendine says "To say a family has to buy a product from a private company is clearly beyond the delegated powers of the U.S. Constitution."

Context: a televised debate on Fox 5


Scott Brown says The federal health care law raises taxes and cuts Medicare.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Colin Powell says "The president has added close to 68,000 troops in the last year, since he came into office, not just the 30,000 you hear, but the others that were added before that."

Context: an interview on ABC News' "This Week"


Rick Perry says I vetoed more than $3 billion in spending. Lawmakers and I cut taxes for 40,000 small businesses. Now Texas is No. 1 in job creation. The nations five best housing markets are right here in Texas. We balanced five state budgets and we cut state spending.

Context: a TV advertisement.


Bill Pascrell says President Barack Obama has not raised taxes.

Context: an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump called pregnant employees an inconvenience.

Context: a rally in Columbus, Ohio


Ted Cruz says Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

Context: Senate floor speech on the Obamacare law


Mitt Romney says "McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."

Context: a TV ad


Jim Renacci says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost 20 or 40 million dollars.

Context: a radio interview


Phil Gingrey says Amid the crisis at our southern border, there are reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as Ebola virus.

Context: a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Sam Adams says for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.

Context: a video online


Marco Rubio says If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest.

Context: an e-mail


John Wisniewski says While (Chris Christie) talks about job creation, we dont see jobs being created in this state.

Context: an NJToday interview


Florida Democratic Party says Taking the Fifth Amendment in a deposition about the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he founded means a truthful answer to the questions that (Rick Scott) was asked would incriminate him.

Context: a TV ad.


Choose New Jersey says We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world.

Context: an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal


Sarah Palin says "The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."

Context: a speech to investors in Hong Kong


Donna Brazile says The (Wisconsin) governor has proposed tax giveaways to corporations.

Context: an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."


Bike Austin says Bike lanes and sidewalks have been proven to reduce crashes by up to 38 percent on Austins streets.

Context: a press release


John Fredericks says Every illegal immigrant can be eligible for up to $36,000 to $38,000 in earned income tax credits without paying a dime in.

Context: a radio show.


Jon Huntsman says You look at defense were spending more than the rest of the world combined.

Context: a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.


Allen West says The Navy is bringing charges against a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property.

Context: a blog on his website


Jeanne Shaheen says when Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation

Context: an interview on The Daily Rundown


Barack Obama says The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years.

Context: the State of the Union Address


Val Demings says Daniel Webster used taxpayer funds to build a lobbyist lounge.

Context: a campaign commercial


Oregon Lottery says 97 cents of every dollar played represents over $500 million dollars that is returned to Oregonians every year to help support job creation, schools, state parks and watersheds.

Context: an advertisement


Rick Scott says We got a million jobs.

Context: a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks


Joanne Kloppenburg says Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has prejudged matters that are likely to come before the court.

Context: a newspaper interview


Joe Scarborough says Hillary Clinton sent a memo to all State Department staff that said you should not do State Department business on personal email.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Republican Party Texas says Bill White has presided over the construction of what may be the worlds largest abortion clinic.

Context: an e-mail.


Suzanne Bonamici says PolitiFact Oregon gave Rob Cornilles a Pants on Fire for a claim about taxes and fees.

Context: a press release


Tim Kaine says As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.

Context: a TV ad.


Naral Pro Choice America says One in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she reaches the age of 45.

Context: a website post.


National Republican Congressional Committee says Ann Kuster turned a blind eye to those in need of funding by voting against funding for our nations veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

Context: an advertisement


Jeb Bush says One person has been fired at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.

Context: a speech at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day dinner


Fulton County Health And Wellness says Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.

Context: a press release


Chain Email says "Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"

Context: a Facebook status update message


Conservative Solutions Pac says Trump refuses to denounce the KKK.

Context: a Conservative Solutions PAC ad, first aired on Feb. 29


Ted Cruz says Barack Obama broke a decades-old policy of not negotiating with terrorists.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Tim Pawlenty says From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year.

Context: his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story"


Marco Rubio says Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world.

Context: a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed


Blog Posting says Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination.

Context: posts on the Internet


Providence City Council says Semi-automatic weapons, whether pistol or rifle, were designed for use by the military on the battlefield.

Context: a council resolution


Iowans Some Semblance Christian Decency says Herman Cain is a pro-choice candidate.

Context: parking lot fliers outside an Iowa candidate event


Keith Olbermann says Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year.

Context: a comment on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'


Jefferson Smith says if elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.

Context: a press release


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation.

Context: a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters


John Boehner says In the stimulus, "$15 million dollars went to 'build a bigger, better airport' for the town of Ouzinkie, Alaska, population 165."

Context: a press release


Cocks Not Glocks says You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class at the University of Texas.

Context: a Cocks not Glocks call to protest on Facebook


Bernie S says For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, the real unemployment rate is 51 percent.

Context: a rally in Portland, Maine


Barack Obama says Weve seen more manufacturing jobs created since Ive been president than anytime since the 1990s. Thats a fact.

Context: in a town hall


Charlie Crist says "President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations)."

Context: a written statement


National Right Life Committee says The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover any legal abortion.

Context: a prepared statement


Rick Perry says Abortion is the second-most conducted surgical procedure in this country.

Context: a radio interview.


Bobby Jindal says In New Orleans, nearly100 percent of our kids are in charter schools.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Barack Obama says The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. Its just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to.

Context: remarks in Ottawa, Canada


Lee Fisher says If you want to see the jobs that Ive saved and created in this storm he helped create, go anywhere in Ohio.

Context: a debate


Austinites Geographic Representation says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. or Texas with no geographic representation on its city council.

Context: a handout.


Hillary Clinton says "She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."

Context: a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.


Hillary Clinton says Under Donald Trumps tax plan, 51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up.

Context: a campaign rally


Sheldon Whitehouse says In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated.

Context: a news conference


Rudy Giuliani says "We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."

Context: Boca Raton.


John Boehner says Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople.

Context: an ABC interview with Christiane Amanpour


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked the Senate over 400 times.

Context: a campaign ad


Kelly Ayotte says Mental health provisions related to mass shootings got over 90 votes in the Senate.

Context: an interview with CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper"


Genevieve Wood says Young women today in metropolitan areaswho are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.

Context: comments on CNN


Ken Cuccinelli says Virginia saved $300 million by rebidding a Metrorail construction project to exclude guaranteed union contracts.

Context: a radio interview.


Service Employees International Union Committee Po says You worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it. Now, (Indiana Republican congressional candidate) Todd Young wants to tax it again when you spend it.

Context: a campaign commercial


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says In terms of the wealthiest Americans, were at the lowest tax rate since the 1950s.

Context: an interview before the CNN/Tea Party Express GOP debate in Tampa


Mike Haridopolos says No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate.

Context: TV interview


Mitt Romney says Were inches away from no longer having a free economy.

Context: the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa


Alcee Hastings says Florida election officials requests to some residents to submit proof of citizenship is a backdoor poll tax.

Context: a press conference


Facebook Posts says Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not.

Context: a Facebook post


Hillary Clinton says Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one.

Context: an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.


Paul Ryan says Obamacare carries on even under a government shutdown.

Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"


Beverly Hall says Atlanta Public Schools 2011 CRCT tests were given under the strictest security possible.

Context: a mailer


Lenny Curry says Barack Obama promised gasoline at $2.50 a gallon.

Context: an interview on "Political Connections"


Marco Rubio says Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a reformer.

Context: an op-ed in Breitbart


Kathleen Peters says When I was Mayor of South Pasadena, we actually reduced the property taxes we collected.

Context: a campaign mailer


Bill Clinton says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.


Eddie Rodriguez says Were losing almost 6,000 state jobs.

Context: remarks to the Central Texas Democratic Forum


John Carter says About 40 percent of U.S. illegal immigrants came in on an airplane, with a legal visa, and just overstayed their visa and have never gone home.

Context: a news article


Marco Rubio says The Obama administration "spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program."

Context: a news account of a speech


Donald Trump says Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique.

Context: a rally in Florida


Rick Scott says Florida has more concealed weapons permits than any other state.

Context: a Fox News interview


Ben Carson says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video.

Context: the Fox Business Network debate


Daily Mail says Google search spike suggests many people dont know why they voted for Brexit.

Context: a headline


Charlie Crist says "I got a letter from 20 people who said they wanted their money back, 14 never gave me a penny."

Context: a meeting with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board.


Mary Burke says Scott Walkers income tax plan is a tax hike. It increases taxes for nearly 80% of the people in the state.

Context: an interview


Protect Oregon Driver Licenses says Gov. Kitzhaber oversaw creation of the Oregon driver card law behind closed doors without allowing any input from citizens who represent the public interest.

Context: a campaign website statement


Hillary Clinton says "So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."

Context: debate in Las Vegas


Steve Munisteri says There are 500 registered Republicans moving to Texas every day.

Context: an interview on Austin's YNN


Creative Advocacy Network says an arts tax would provide funding for certified arts and music teachers for every elementary school serving Portland residents.

Context: a radio interview


Sarah Silverman says Every year the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap, which amounts to a $500,000 vagina tax over her working career.

Context: a video for the National Women's Law Center


Donna Howard says abortions are decreasing.

Context: a Texas Tribune interview.


Mark Miller says Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum.

Context: remarks to reporters


Bob Marshall says Those who fail to buy health insurance under Obamacare face the threat of jail time.

Context: a news release.


Rick Scott says Since December 2010 Florida has created 540,000 new jobs.

Context: an online ad


Helio Melo says People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash.

Context: a House floor debate


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Dominos or Pizza Hut.

Context: an interview with a Las Vegas news network


Warren Chisum says On choosing a Texas House speaker

Context: a press release


Chain Email says "She flunked the D.C. bar exam."

Context: a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris


Barack Obama says Because of the new health care law, 2.5 million young adults now have coverage.

Context: the campaign film "The Road We've Traveled"


Donald Trump says Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001 and Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001.

Context: a campaign rally speech


J Xavier says Farouk is on fire.

Context: a song for Farouk Shami's gubernatorial campaign


American Future Fund says Patrick Murphy was named one of Americas least effective congressmen.

Context: a TV ad


Mitt Romney says Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt.

Context: a press conference


Donald Trump says Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesnt do very well with women.

Context: an interview on CNN's "New Day"


Americans Prosperity says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold voted over 250 times to raise taxes.

Context: a web ad


Hillary Clinton says The gun industry isthe only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability.

Context: a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa


Rick Scott says Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones.

Context: a CNN/St. Petersburg Times debate.


Concerned Taxpayers America says Peter DeFazio votes with Nancy Pelosi 86 percent of the time.

Context: a television ad


Marco Rubio says The only people in this town that have voted to cut Medicare spending are the people who voted in favor of Obamacare. Thats a fact.

Context: an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'


Rudy Giuliani says "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."

Context: a television interview.


Jerry Patterson says Barack Obama didnt keep his promise to have an immigration bill in his first year.

Context: a speech


Mitt Romney says In the early 1960s, all levels of government were consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy, a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, we cease at some point to be a free economy.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.


Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."

Context: Denver


Evan Goyke says The hole in the earth thats going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.

Context: a speech


Barack Obama says Health insurance companies are making record profits, right now.

Context: a press conference


Newt Gingrich says Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is waste, or fraud, they cant validate that the people should have gotten it, totaling about $8 billion a year.

Context: in an interview on the “The Neal Boortz Radio Show” on Atlanta’s AM 750 and 95.5 FM


Facebook Posts says Bill Clinton gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs and said we needed a regime change, even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.

Context: a social media post


David Rible says This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes.

Context: an interview on NJTV's 'On the Record' with Michael Aron program


Mitt Romney says President Obama was saying success is the result of government, not hard-working people, when he said, If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Context: an introduction to a web video


Kay Hagan says Thom Tillis refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS.

Context: a news release


Facebook Posts says Fox admits they lie and, under the First Amendment, have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.

Context: posts on Facebook


Russ Fulcher says Idaho was the only Republican-led state in the nation that chose to partner with President Obama by creating a state-based marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a gubernatorial debate


Emilys List says Federal investigators found a company that (David Perdue) ran discriminated against women -- paid them less than men for the same work.

Context: television attack ad


Chris Christie says weve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. Weve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. Weve made government smaller.

Context: a video


Donna Brazile says (The farm bill) has aprovision that would in many ways reduce the deficit.

Context: a discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"


Chris Carpenter says Nobodys invited us to the Obama events in Atlanta.

Context: radio news story


Thomas Garrett Jr says A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force.

Context: a radio interview.


Scott Hochberg says Only about a third of Texans who enroll in college graduate.

Context: a speech at a caucus at the Texas Democratic convention


Dan Gelber says For the last decade, Floridians salaries have shrunk substantially when adjusted for inflation.

Context: an op-ed


George Will says Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.

Context: a column published by the Washington Post and other news organizations.


American Crossroads says Bill Nelson cast the deciding vote for Obamacare cutting Medicare spending by $700 billion and letting an unelected board decide what gets covered here.

Context: a television ad


Jeff Merkley says Christmas trees are grown in all 50 States.

Context: in a press release


Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will .. force Christian organizations to pay for abortions.

Context: a newspaper ad


George Allen says Tim Kaine, as governor, proposed tax increases on people earning as little as $17,000.

Context: a debate.


Carly Fiorina says When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity.

Context: a column posted on Medium


Paul Ryan says the U.S. borrows 42 cents of every dollar Washington spends today and about half of that comes from countries like China.

Context: a radio interview


Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will ... force Christian schools to hire non-Christian teachers.

Context: a newspaper advertisement


John Mccain says Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."

Context: a television ad


Marco Rubio says On an early date for Floridas presidential primary

Context: a position on legislation


James Carville says Alex Sink was "the first official who said that BP should pay $25 million for an ad campaign to promote Florida tourism."

Context: a fundraising letter


Chris Sununu says drug dealers have overdosed on purpose to avoid prosecution.

Context: a No Labels forum


Texans Reliable Power says Texas is experiencing the fastest population growth in the country, adding more than 1,000 people a day.

Context: an advertisement