Chris Christie says We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate.

Context: a speech at a Cato Institute event


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Sen. Sherrod Browns vote helped pass Barack Obamas job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase.

Context: a news release


Bob Mcdonnell says President Obamas budget would call for about $25 trillion in debt by the end of his term, if he was re-elected.

Context: a symposium.


Michael Eric Dyson says We know that Sunday mornings have usually been given over to conservative white men.

Context: a broadcast of "The Ed Show"


Oregon Republican Party says Rob Cornilles has been endorsed by 20 local mayors, including Independent, Democratic and Republican.

Context: a campaign mailer


Bloomberg Bloombergcom says Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years

Context: a news report


Nathan Deal says Republican candidate for governor Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

Context: a press release


Bill Oreilly says Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation

Context: an online column


Rick Perry says the state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.

Context: his State of the State address.


Jack Berry says In Richmond, Va., theres more moving vans coming in than going out.

Context: a debate.


New Jersey Democratic State Committee says Gov. Chris Christie owes the state money for amenities like extra Gorgonzola cheese for his staff on these trips.

Context: a press release


Charles Rangel says "I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me."

Context: a press conference


Barack Obama says Paul Ryans Medicare plan could raise future retirees costs more than $6,000.

Context: a campaign commercial


Chris Matthews says On tax inversions, the Wall Street Journalsurprisingly attacked this tax scheme.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "Hardball"


Linda Koop says Stefani Carter repeatedly used her campaign contributors donations to rent margarita machines for our state house office.

Context: a campaign mail flier


Greg Walden says You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text.

Context: news television interview


Barack Obama says "I introduced a bill that wouldve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea."

Context: a speech in Dunedin, Fla.


Peter Palumbo says There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for.

Context: a news release


Mike Huckabee says The government made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard for religious reasons.

Context: the CNN Republican debate


Amy Handlin says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jerseys new (Medicaid) enrollees wont qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014.

Context: an opinion piece in the Times of Trenton


Paul Ryan says the Obama administration watered down sanctions against Iran, delayed them and tried to stop Congress from putting the tough sanctions in place.

Context: the vice presidential debate


Austin Water Utility says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years worth of Austins water use.

Context: as quoted in a StateImpact Texas news story


Terry Moulton says Wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that do not currently require a photographic identification to vote.

Context: letters to constituents


John Loud says These 60 acres (the Atlanta Braves want to build a stadium on) have produced zero SPLOST money for parks and recreation, have produced zero money for education.

Context: newspaper article


Donald Trump says You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.

Context: a Presidential debate at Hofstra University


Ed Fitzgerald says Cuyahoga County passed a program to guarantee a college savings account for every single child who enters kindergarten in this county -- the first county in the United States to do so.

Context: a campaign speech


Rand Paul says Over half of the young people in medical, dental and law schools are women.

Context: an interview with CNN


Allan Fung says Ken Block supports Obamacare.

Context: a TV commercial


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wants to have open borders.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Karen Handel says GOP candidate for governor Nathan Deal is a former Clinton Democrat.

Context: an interview on WSB-TV


John Mccain says "My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Maggie Hassan says Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act.

Context: a press release


John Edwards says "One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."

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


One Wisconsin Now says Its legal to sign a recall petition (against Gov. Scott Walker) even if you have already signed another recall petition, but only one signature counts

Context: a website alert


Rick Scott says Education funding of $7,176 per student is a historic level.

Context: the State of the State address


Jeff Merkley says I co-sponsored the Rebuild America Jobs Act for transportation and infrastructure.

Context: an economic issues statement


National Republican Congressional Committee says a new report proves the stimulus supported by N.J. Democrats cost $278,000 per job.

Context: a press release


Jerry Jones says its absurd to say theres enough data to establish a link between playing football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

Context: remarks to reporters at NFL annual meeting


Donald Trump says The wives of the 9/11 hijackers knew exactly what was happening and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

Context: a GOP debate hosted by Fox


Dick Black says Jill McCabe supports late term abortions. Larger baby parts are more profitable.

Context: a tweet


Turning Point Usa says U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi said, Employers cutting hours is a good thing. It then gives that person time to pursue their dreams and passions.

Context: a Facebook post


Jeb Bush says Florida has a law like (Indianas Religious Freedom Restoration Act).

Context: an interview with Hugh Hewitt


Scott Walker says The things I said (during the prank call by a blogger posing as GOP contributor David Koch) are the things Ive said publicly all along about the Wisconsin budget debate.

Context: a news conference


Blog Posting says Say photographs of Hillary Clinton at the debate show what could be an earpiece.

Context: Internet posts


Paul Ryan says Joe Biden went to China and said that he sympathized and wouldnt second-guess their one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations.

Context: the vice presidential debate


Harry Reid says On whether to seat Roland Burris as the new senator from Illinois.

Context: public statements.


Chain Email says 2014 Federal Tax Refunds To Be Delayed Until October 2015.

Context: a chain email


Marion Hammer says Forty-five states allow open carry of firearms.

Context: a column on the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action website


Chain Email says Obama "remains silent" and "is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan."


Tim Kaine says When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said no, were building a wall and were deporting everybody. He said, quote, they will all be gone. They will all be gone. This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said.

Context: a vice presidential debate in Virginia


John Edwards says "John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser

Context: a television interview.


John Kasich says When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine.

Context: the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.


Scott Walker says The University of Wisconsin System had a jobs-for-life tenure program for professors.

Context: a radio interview


Cascade Policy Institute says Unemployment among Oregon high school graduates aged 18 to 20 increased more than 200 percent from 2008 to 2011, while the U.S. average increased only 30 percent.

Context: a website


Mitt Romney says "Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''

Context: a Fox News Sunday interview


Ed Gillespie says Obamacare cuts seniors Medicare.

Context: a campaign email.


Newsmax says The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually.

Context: an e-mail solicitation


Alex Sink says Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade.

Context: figures cites on campaign website


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. advised citizens to point that barrel center mass and pull the trigger because 911 is not our best option.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Ronald Renuart says Almost 37 percent of the total income from Planned Parenthood is from abortions.

Context: comments during a committee hearing


Bernie S says The United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth.

Context: comments during the PBS Democratic debate


David Quiroa says Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented [people to] use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply [for] and receive a RI drivers license.

Context: a news release


Terry Gorman says Illegal aliens cost the state of Rhode Island $400 million a year.

Context: a radio interview


Wayne Powell says Eric Cantor voted to assure Congress would be paid if the government shut down and against guaranteeing troops would be paid.

Context: a debate.


Jamie Radtke says If Congress froze the current spending level and then cut it by 2 percent annually, we could balance the budget in five years.

Context: a statement


Jeff Fitzgerald says Every (Wisconsin) legislator that votes for this bill will have to give up the same amount of pay as other state employees.

Context: an interview on the Fox News Channel


Charlie Crist says Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."

Context: a debate on Fox News Sunday


Brianna Keilar says Hillary Clintons campaign hasnt been clear about when she wiped herserverof her work emails.

Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"


Shelley Adler says Rep. Jon Runyan voted to redefine rape.

Context: a campaign event


Donald Trump says Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race.

Context: a tweet


Stephen Colbert says John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"


Louise Slaughter says Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Wayne Powell says This year, Eric Cantor has received more money from oil companies than any other member of Congress.

Context: website posting.


Howard Fineman says Rep. Steve Stockman basically wants gun-filled zones in schools.

Context: comments on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes"


Alan Simpson says military expenditures for the United States are greater than the combined spending of the next 14 largest nations.

Context: a speech at the City Club of Cleveland


Marco Rubio says The Iran deal says that if any other country tries to undermine (Irans) nuclear program, we have to help them defend themselves against Israel, Egypt, Saudis, our own allies.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Florida All says Rick Scotts Administration spent over $100,000 of taxpayer money during their first voter purge attempt in 2012.


George Allen says We are number one in the world when it comes to energy resources. ... The Russians are second; Saudi Arabia is number three.

Context: a press conference.


Bob Goodlatte says The Agriculture Department estimates that roughly 42 percent of the corn crop will be used to make ethanol -- more than the amount of corn used to feed livestock and poultry in the United States.

Context: a statement.


Facebook Posts says In 1913, it was legal to mail children.

Context: a Facebook post


David Axelrod says Tonight in Ohio, more people came out to vote for Barack Obama in an unopposed race than voted for (Mitt) Romney and (Rick) Santorum combined.

Context: an interview on NBC


John Mica says Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, "but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" into roads and bridges.

Context: a comment quoted in the Washington Post.


Senate Majority Pac says Congressman (Tom) Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times.

Context: a television ad


John Mccain says "The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and we've never had an accident."

Context: a speech in Nashville, Tenn.


Georgia Voice says No openly gay man has ever been elected to the Georgia Legislature.

Context: a news story


Laura Ingraham says U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor and Luis Gutierrez were touring the country last year joined at the hip, working together in a bipartisan fashion indeed for the goal of immigration reform.

Context: a speech.


Donald Trump says The $5 billion website for Obamacare never worked. Still doesnt work.

Context: a speech in Phoenix


Jeb Bush says It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States.

Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"


Tim Ryan says Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116,838,763 to date (for the Mahoning Valley) and has an additional $27,095,000 pending in FY2010 spending bills.

Context: a website posting


John Boehner says "In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."

Context: a Web ad


Republican National Committee Republican says "If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."

Context: Web "Spend-O-Meter"


Glen Sturtevant says Dan Gecker voted to double vehicle registration fees, costing (Chesterfield) county residents over $6 million annually.

Context: a TV ad


John Mccain says "A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay."

Context: Dearborn, Mich.


Donald Trump says I dont know anything about David Duke.

Context: comments on CNN's State of the Union


John Lombardi says 80 to 85 percent of my campaign funds go to donations to various organizations throughout the City of Providence.

Context: a WPRI Channel 12 debate


Chris Murphy says Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 dont believe that climate change is really happening.

Context: remarks at a news conference


Bruce Braley says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support a national minimum wage.


Orly Taitz says Birthers have obtained a copy of Obamas Kenyan birth certificate.

Context: an attachment to a lawsuit


Chris Coons says Keystone means unlocking the Canadian tar sands.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Associated Industries Florida says The working tax cut created over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years.

Context: a TV ad


Safety All Initiative says There are at least twice as many licensed firearm dealers in California as there are McDonalds.

Context: an email.


Curtis Martin says I played in a game here against the Pittsburgh Steelers where there was 23 inches of snow. We played in at least 15 inches of that.

Context: comments on ESPN


Gus Bilirakis says It is the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts.

Context: a news release


Wisconsin Professional Police Association says Data on violent crime shows Wisconsin has become less safe than it was when Scott Walker took office.

Context: a news conference


Peter King says The Boston Marathon bombing is the fifth case in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders.

Context: an interview with MSNBC


Hillary Clinton says In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash.

Context: an advertisement


Robert Gibbs says The Republican leadership's budget proposal doesn't contain any numbers.

Context: a statement during a press briefing


Sarah Palin says 1 in 7 American families is on food stamps.

Context: her speech at a rally for Ted Cruz in The Woodlands


Menominee Indian Tribe Wisconsin says The Kenosha casino would be one of the states largest employers and pay more to the state than any other company or Tribe essentially, it would be Wisconsins biggest taxpayer.

Context: a web posting


Josh Mandel says Our race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 36 years -- when Howard Metzenbaum defeated Robert Taft in 1976.

Context: an email to supporters


John Mccain says "We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks."

Context: Greensdale, Wis.


Lee Leffingwell says Austins treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use.

Context: an Austin City Council meeting.


Nita Lowey says An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."

Context: a speech on the House floor


Mitt Romney says As president, Barack Obama has never visited Israel.

Context: a campaign ad


Catherine Hanaway says Were the worst state in the country at moving people from welfare to work.

Context: a Republican gubernatorial debate


Rick Perry says the private sector in Texas created 1 million jobs over the past decade.

Context: a television interview


Blog Posting says Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith.

Context: Web posts


Joellen Smith says Cobb is one of the largest school systems (in the nation) that is debt free.

Context: an editorial


Jim Demint says Weve got more revenue than we ever have.

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


Bill Clinton says Between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico.

Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"


Rob Portman says The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.

Context: remarks at Politico breakfastt


Donald Trump says A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day, especially our older veterans.

Context: a speech


Elizabeth Warren says Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail.

Context: an interview on "PBS Newshour"


Peter King says The House did vote against engagement in Kosovo, and Bill Clinton kept fighting anyway. And, then, ultimately, a vote did pass.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Randy Forbes says Did you know that the U.S. is one of the very few nations in the world without an official language?

Context: a blog.


Ben Cardin says Every time weve increased the minimum wage, weve seen a growth in jobs.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Charlie Justice says "The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion" in the 2009 session.

Context: a news release


Sheldon Whitehouse says We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country.

Context: a newspaper column


Rick Scott says Florida has 1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. Weve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf.

Context: TV interview


Blog Posting says Hillary Clinton had an undercover nurse with her at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in New York.

Context: posts


Vicki Martin says Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools go on to a two-or four-year college.

Context: a presentation at a panel discussion


Evan Bayh says The fastest-growing part of the Pentagons budget are health care expenses.

Context: an interview in Concord, N.H.


Marco Rubio says Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010, and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Jim Moran says According to ATF data, 70 percent of firearms recovered and traced in drug cartel crimes in Mexico originated from the United States.

Context: a floor speech.


Ron Saunders says The two worst counties for (Medicaid) fraud in the country -- not state -- are Dade and Broward county.

Context: a meeting with reporters


Bill Weimer says Fireworks have never been safer, and their use continues to increase each year.

Context: a newspaper column


Russ Feingold says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson oppose a womans right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

Context: a radio ad


Ron Davis says over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County, because he is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live.

Context: a campaign flier


Peter Defazio says Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support.

Context: a House floor speech


Fred Risser says Wisconsin state Senate President Michael Elllis (R-Neenah) broke Senate rules during debate on a photo ID bill for voters.

Context: a debate on the Senate floor.


Rick Perry says Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly.

Context: in a press release


Tweets says Its warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.

Context: posts on Twitter


Chain Email says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered enough rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to kill every man, woman and child in the United States, possibly to combat massive civil unrest or an invasion by a foreign power.

Context: a chain email forwarded by a reader.


Fred Karger says If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over family and country.

Context: an interview with The Guardian


Bob Mcdonnell says Under Gov. Rick Perrys leadership [Texas] has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined.

Context: an op-ed.


Kurt Schrader says Scott Bruun supports cutting the Department of Commerce and eliminating NOAA.

Context: a radio interview


Bill Hammond says only 25 percent of Texas high school students graduate prepared for college or careers.

Context: an Austin American-Statesman news story


Bill Lynch says Blue Cross new $90-million Providence headquarters "was outfitted with $25 million in decor."

Context: posting on his website


Scott Walker says Nationally, the unemployment rate for veterans is far greater than the national unemployment rate, and Wisconsin is one of those rare examples where unemployment is actually lower for veterans than it is for the population as a whole and certainly lower than it is nationally.

Context: a speech in New Hampshire


Roy Cooper says Under Pat McCrory, (North Carolina) has fallen to 41st in teacher pay.

Context: posts on social media


Barry Hinckley says More than 27,000 Rhode Island jobs depend on trade with Canada.

Context: a news release


Tom Marino says I have had to fill out FEC reports for the past six years now, and theyre much more detailed than a tax return...

Context: In an MSNBC interview


Scott Hassett says Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen knew about (the Ken Kratz sexting) case for nearly a year and did nothing about it.

Context: an email to supporters


Katie Mcginty says He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done absolutely nothing other than disavow any attempt to move on the legislation.

Context: in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer


Herman Cain says An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.

Context: in a Republican presidential debate


David Perdue says More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history.

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


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has not answered a single question about her immigration plan.

Context: an immigration policy speech in Phoenix


Roberta Lange says Donald Trump literally has no plans to make higher education more affordable.

Context: a press release


America says Houston National Cemetery is preventing Christian prayers from being said at military funerals.

Context: a Facebook post


Blog Posting says Was Martha Kanter dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money to save Craig Robinsons job?

Context: a chain email


Charles Rangel says Franklin Roosevelt (was) the last president to come to the Congress to ask for permission to engage into war.

Context: an interview on the Fox Business network


Chris Christie says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget is still below the level of state spending when I took office.

Context: his budget speech


Barbara Boxer says I asked (then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question.

Context: an editorial board interview


Kelly Odonnell says In Massachusetts, Scott Browns Republican affiliation is not a secret, but clearly not on display.

Context: a segment on NBC's Today show


Barack Obama says "John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government."

Context: a statement by Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan


Ron Paul says Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.

Context: remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.


Barack Obama says Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrichs tax plan goes to the top 1 percent.

Context: a conference call by a campaign spokesman with New Hampshire reporters.


Karen Bass says Donald Trump promised the mass deportation of Latino families.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


John Mccain says Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere."

Context: a TV ad


Rick Scott says the state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.

Context: State of the State address


Peter Barca says Two thirds of the people in Wisconsin strongly disagree with this idea of permanently taking away peoples rights to collective bargaining.

Context: a television interview


Laura Ingraham says Eric Cantor was the co-author of the House GOP principles on immigration reform. Both the New York Times and the Washington Postsaid that thatcaptured the essence of what was in the Senate immigration bill.

Context: a statement on "This Week"


Glenn Grothman says Wisconsins 6th congressional district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other in the nation.

Context: an interview


Reid Ribble says I lost my health insurance and my doctor because of Obamacare.

Context: a campaign news release


Cheryl Grossman says As far as standing committees, we have 10 fewer standing committees. So weve saved the state about a quarter-of-a-million dollars through the reduction of the standing committees.

Context: a news conference


John Mccain says (Obamas) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down.

Context: an interview on CNN


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Governor-elect Scott Walkers opposition to high-speed rail killed 13,000 Wisconsin jobs

Context: a news release


Alison Lundergan Grimes says The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says The Trans-Pacific Partnership knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods.

Context: a White House press conference


Rob Portman says $16 trillion (the national debt) in $1 bills would cover the entire state of Ohio nearly 1.5 times.

Context: a news release


Michael Mc Auliff says Tommy Thompson wanted to implant data chips in humans.

Context: website article


Chris Christie says New Jersey is 50th in return of our federal tax dollars.

Context: an interview on NBC Nightly News


Carol Shea Porter says Granite Staters who hold individual policies from Anthem...can indeed renew their policies and keep their current doctors and hospitals in 2014.

Context: a press release


Ron Johnson says The U.S. Senate has one manufacturer thatd be me.

Context: a TV ad


Michael Moore says Because of the health care law, by 2017, we will be funneling over $100 billion annually to private insurance companies.

Context: a "New York Times" op-ed


Alan Grayson says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.

Context: a Huffington Post column


John Kitzhaber says Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected.

Context: an email to supporters


Mark Udall says Cory Gardner championed an eight-year crusade to outlaw birth control here in Colorado.

Context: a campaign ad


Se Cupp says There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship.

Context: an interview on "State of the Union"


Joe Lieberman says In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Senate Majority Pac says the Koch brothers funded the fight to let flood insurance premiums soar ... Now theyre spending millions to buy a Senate seat for Bill Cassidy so he can fight for them.

Context: a campaign ad


Daily Caller says Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed watered-down HIV/AIDSdrugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa.

Context: an article in the Daily Caller


Robin Vos says A study of private bail bond systems showed that Wisconsin has a higher no-show rate than other states of defendants skipping court appearances.

Context: an interview


Rick Perry says We have billions in surplus.

Context: a TV advertisement


Donald Trump says Hillary Clintons plan would tax many small businesses by almost 50 percent.

Context: a speech


Barbara Buono says While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jerseys remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York.

Context: a response to the release of employment data by the state Labor Department


Barack Obama says In 31 states, decent child care costs more than college tuition.

Context: a speech at the White House Summit on Working Families


Harry Reid says "We have solved the problem. ... Scientists are now saying leave the nuclear waste where it is."

Context: a television interview with Las Vegas political analyst Jon Ralston


Herman Cain says someone earning $50,000 a year will fare better under his 9-9-9 plan than under the current tax system.

Context: an interview in St. Petersburg, Fla., aboard his campaign bus


Saxby Chambliss says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire 16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer to enforce the federal health care overhaul.

Context: a letter to a constituent


Tim Kaine says On drilling off the Atlantic coast


Tommy Thompson says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin ranks as the most liberal member of the House.

Context: a statement


Marco Rubio says Ted Cruz supports legalizing people who are in this country illegally.

Context: the CNN debate in Las Vegas


Chris Christie says our economy in New Jersey gets $38 billion from the businesses at the Shore.

Context: a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”


Marco Rubio says There are at least three sectors of the border, one in particular, that are just completely insecure.

Context: a speech at CPAC


Cornell William Brooks says We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year.

Context: comments on Face the Nation


Doug Whitsett says your Legislative Assembly was within one vote of enacting each of those bills into Oregon law.

Context: a guest column


Lawrence Odonnell says critics called the original GI Bill welfare.

Context: TV advertisement for MSNBC's "The Last Word."


Jim Renacci says The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes). ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent.

Context: a town hall-style meeting


Gwen Moore says Milwaukee has the second-highest number of children recovered from sex trafficking.

Context: remarks on the House floor


Rudy Giuliani says "What they will do is socialized medicine."

Context: a comment to reporters in Tampa.


Charlie Crist says "I didn't endorse" the federal stimulus bill.

Context: an interview on CNN


Kathleen Falk says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesnt make his calendar public -- hes on our dime and we dont know where he is.

Context: a candidates forum


Rick Scott says The stimulus has not created one private sector job.

Context: a meeting with reporters in Tallahassee


Vote No 8 says What is the maximum number of students allowed in your classroom? ... 30 or more!

Context: a campaign mailer


Mike Dewine says the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force is the first task force of its kind in Central Ohio

Context: a news release


Loren Collins says A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U.S. Constitution.

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


John Boehner says "PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress."

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."

Context: a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.


Paul Hirschbiel says Virginia papers called (Scott) Rigells campaign Mostly False.

Context: a TV ad.


Ann Mclane Kuster says she has opposed measures to weaken the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulatory bill and campaign-finance legislation when they were offered as stand-alone bills.

Context: an interview with the Concord Monitor at her Concord office


Gilberto Hinojosa says that if Texas, California and New York all voted for Democratic presidential nominees, it would be mathematically impossible for Republicans to elect a president.

Context: a comment while attending the Democratic National Convention.


Garnet Coleman says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says A bipartisan background check amendment outlawed any (gun) registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text.

Context: a speech from the White House Rose Garden


Gwen Moore says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated cancer screenings for uninsured women and offered no alternatives.

Context: tweets


Steve Rothman says in regard to providing more tax cuts for the rich, Bill Pascrell said, Republicans had great ideas. I liked some of their ideas.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Citizens United Political Victory Fund says John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times."

Context: in a TV ad


Russ Feingold says The average student debt coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is something like 28,000 dollars.

Context: a speech


Dennis Kucinich says Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government.

Context: a House committee hearing


Bernie S says Hillary Clinton voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs.

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


Colleen Deacon says Rep. John Katko promised he wouldnt vote to defund Planned Parenthood and since hes been in office hes done that four times

Context: remarks at a campaign office opening for Hillary Clinton


Drudge Report says Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a Democrat.

Context: a tweet


Ohio Democratic Party says FACT: the special assistant in @johnkasichs office makes over three times more than an average #OH firefighter

Context: a tweet on Twitter


Chain Email says Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost."

Context: a chain e-mail


Stephanie Cutter says Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester.

Context: an episode of "Meet the Press"


Jessica King says state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, unlike typical taxpayers, didnt pay taxes

Context: a TV ad


Will Weatherford says New school testing standards will consume approximately twenty days of testing for elementary, middle and high school students.

Context: a letter to Education Commissioner Tony Bennett


Hillary Clinton says Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.

Context: a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa.


Pat Toomey says Katie McGintyactually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything.

Context: Pennsylvania


Tim James says a Bureau of Labor Statistics report attributed a sharp increase in work-related fatalities to increasing numbers of employees and drivers could not read or understand warning signs in English.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Context: a speech at the Democratic national convention


Tommy Thompson says Wisconsin is not as obese as the national average is. The national average, 35.7 percent of the population is obese. In Wisconsin, its closer to 26 percent.

Context: an interview


Herman Cain says On auditing the Federal Reserve

Context: a debate


Mike Fasano says Seven more people will die each and every day until the Legislature ratifies these (pain clinic) rules that are being approved by the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health.

Context: an interview with the St. Petersburg Times


Rick Santorum says The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person its 30 percent today.

Context: a Republican presidental primary debate


Freedom Defense Advocates says The Mormon religion has "a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy."


Rick Scott says Florida ranks "45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business.

Context: a speech to young Republicans in Tampa


Ted Cruz says Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America said it would ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia.

Context: an interview on CNN


Tim Cook says Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas marriage ban later this year.

Context: an oped column


Phil King says families now pay out 40 percent of their income to taxes.

Context: a newspaper article.


Bill Clinton says Hillary Clinton negotiated the first agreement ever where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions.


Greg Walden says The incoming Republican freshman class well, its no ordinary group: nearly half of its roughly 80 members have never served in elective office before.

Context: a radio address


Rick Perry says More than 1,000 people ... move to Texas every day.

Context: press release


Dick Cheney says You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists.

Context: a speech at the American Enterprise Institute


Peter Kilmartin says In the past three years, we have prosecuted or brought more cases on access to public records than in the previous 12 years combined.

Context: an interview on Rhode Island Public Radio


Andy Brown says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perrys proposal to serve up $10,000 college degrees is possible.

Context: a web post.


Al Hunt says "Crime is down in Arizona."

Context: an appearance on ABC's "This Week."


David Dooley says We have to recognize that our salaries for faculty are the lowest in New England with the exception of the University of Maine.

Context: a TV news show.


Juan Williams says There was just about zero press coverage of the 2007 Bush White House email controversy.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Keep Conservatives United says Rick Perry is spending more money than the state takes in, covering his deficits with record borrowing.

Context: an online video ad.


Rick Perry says Wendy Davis, born into difficult circumstances, was the daughter of a single mother and a teenage mother herself.

Context: a speech at National Right to Life convention, Grapevine, Texas.


Barack Obama says under Mitt Romney, Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan.

Context: a graphical tool on the campaign website


David Brooks says Preventive care does not save the government money.

Context: an interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says The 2013-15 state budget backed by Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers left our technical colleges funded at 1989 levels.

Context: a column on the party's website


Alex Wan says The city of Atlanta has one of the highest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations per capita, ranking third among major American cities.

Context: a resolution


Jon Stewart says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slavesfreedom in border states, but the states all rejected it.

Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"


Barack Obama says You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you dont see any American cars in Korea.

Context: a press conference


Jon Kyl says "The ABA's own criteria for a judicial nominee call for, among other things, at least 12 years' experience in the practice of law, and they mean actual practice of law."

Context: a hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan


Mark Daniels says A 5-cent charge on paper bags is a tax.

Context: a legislative hearing


John Mccain says Obama "says he'll raise taxes on electricity."

Context: a television ad


Steve Stockman says U.N. arms treaty will mandate a new international gun registry.

Context: a letter forwarded to PolitiFact


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott didnt even come to his own education summit. But he did take time to go to the tea party convention the same week.

Context: a rally announcing his candidacy for governor


Nan Rich says Florida has the third most-regressive tax structure.

Context: a speech to the Florida Press Association


William Perry says Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms.

Context: an interview


Ron Johnson says that as a U.S. senator, Russ Feingold voted against authorizing our military 11 separate times.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


Scott Walker says With the tax controls we already put in place, property taxes on a typical home in December of 2014 will actually be lower than they were in December of 2010.

Context: a speech


Herman Cain says The 9-9-9 plan does not raise taxes on those that are making the least.

Context: a debate in Las Vegas


Marco Rubio says I did not support the sequester.


Republican National Committee Republican says U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz voted to cut off Floridas veterans and their benefits.

Context: a robocall


Angel Taveras says If you look at what weve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down.

Context: an interview with The Providence Journal


Donald Trump says There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after theyve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals.

Context: a campaign speech in Phoenix


Donna Campbell says Jeff Wentworth was the only Republican to vote against the Texas measure requiring women to have a sonogram before receiving an abortion.

Context: an email blast.


Stephen Zappala says Stephen Zappala is the only DA in our state to convict an on-duty police officer of criminal homicide.

Context: in a new ad.


Paul Broun says the federal government borrows almost $60 billion per week.

Context: a speech before Congress


Clayton County Government says Clayton County offers the lowest operating millage rate in Metro Atlanta.

Context: a web post


Republican Party Florida says As CFO, Alex Sink oversaw a $27 billion loss in the states pension fund.

Context: a YouTube attack ad


Republican Governors Association says "As bank president, Alex Sink eliminated thousands of Florida jobs while taking over $8 million in salary and bonuses."

Context: a television advertisement


Sheila Oliver says New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country.

Context: a speech at Rider University


Scott Walker says The Wisconsin law repealed by Republicans, which allowed discriminated workers to sue in state court, was kind of a gravy train for lawyers.

Context: an interview


Doug Whitsett says Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent.

Context: a guest column


John Mccain says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday.

Context: a Web ad.


Cory Booker says right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined.

Context: a panel discussion on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”


John Depetro says Remember that developers are forced to use the 195 land union contractors, so tap an extra $10 million into any construction project.

Context: blog


Cory Booker says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek took us into arbitration.

Context: a news conference


Tennessee Democratic Party says a federal judge sanctions Tennessee birther lawyer for bringing a frivolous lawsuit.

Context: in a press release.


Charlie Crist says "Due to ... tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes."

Context: his State of the State address.


Tom Cole says Food stamp spending doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama.

Context: an MSNBC interview


Scott Walker says On counting state budget shortfalls

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says Were losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China.

Context: a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.


Trent Franks says Today in America, between 40 and 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually 1-in-2, are killed before they are born.

Context: a legislative hearing


Mitt Romney says Women in Barack Obamas White House are earning less than men.

Context: a campaign mailer


John Boehner says that the new financial services law requires 358 regulatory filings.

Context: a news conference


Charlie Crist says Marco Rubio was "subpoenaed."

Context: in a TV ad.


Ron Wyden says Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of a college education increased 439 percent.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says As governor, in the face of partisan attacks, (Charlie Crist) had the courage to save jobs and lead his state into economic recovery.

Context: a statement


Christopher Blazejewski says Most tips left at Dunkin Donuts dont go to employees.

Context: a debate on the House floor


Brit Hume says It is senior citizens, not Hispanics, who are the fastest-growing demographic in this country.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Donald Trump says On banning assault weapons.

Context: as a candidate in 2016 and as a possible hopeful in 2000


Kyleen Wright says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.

Context: a Twitter message.


Tammy Baldwin says On a single-payer healthcare system

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says his administration has created 5 million jobs over the last 30 months in the private sector alone.

Context: the second presidential debate


Mark Warner says The U.S. loses more on tax breaks than it collects in personal income taxes.

Context: a TV interview.


Chris Christie says Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jerseys best teachers, and the most education funding ever.

Context: a TV ad


National Republican Congressional Committee says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this.

Context: a web ad posted on YouTube


Steve Poizner says "Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."

Context: a campaign commercial


Mike Pence says Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one.

Context: a press conference


Hillary Clinton says Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the Trump Effect. They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslimsand immigrants.

Context: remarks in Reno


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obamas term would leave the nations highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy.

Context: a press release


Daily Caller says Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obamas political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election

Context: an article


Boyd Richie says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.

Context: an email blast


George Allen says I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere.

Context: a debate


Charlie Crist says On whether to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.

Context: various comments over the past few months


Priorities Usa Action says Romney had the uniforms for the 2002 Winter Olympic games made in Burma.

Context: a video shown on cable news shows


Joe Biden says "With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program."


National Republican Congressional Committee says With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project.

Context: a press release


Donald Trump says Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Sherrod Brown says There is a Republican plan to end Medicare.

Context: a campaign fund-raising letter


Allen West says "Currently we have some 40-45% of Americans who are not paying any taxes."

Context: a statement on his campaign website


Nowthis says CNN deleted an online poll showing Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic presidential debate to help out Hillary Clinton.

Context: a video shared on social media


John Mccain says "Casualties and deaths are at (their) lowest point since literally the beginning" of the war.

Context: a town hall meeting in Nashville, Tenn.


Ed Garvey says Claims Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said: It is necessary to eliminate unions in order to balance future budgets.

Context: a newspaper column and blog post


Ginny Brown Waite says Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker.

Context: a mailing


Sergey Lavrov says Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States.

Context: an interview with the French television network France 24


Mike Martinez says he banned texting while driving in Austin.

Context: his campaign website.


Bill White says The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry.

Context: a TV interview.


Afscme says While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions.

Context: a television ad


National Rifle Association says Barack Obama supported Ted Kennedys ammo ban to outlaw all deer-hunting ammunition.

Context: a mailer


Ultraviolet says Paul Ryan would outlaw in vitro fertilization.

Context: a graphic on the Internet


Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio voted against every bill that would have helped keep our families safe. He even voted against a bipartisan measure, introduced by a Republican, to prevent people on the no-fly list from purchasing guns.

Context: a campaign statement


Chain Email says An account of attacks in Benghazi written by former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers shows that the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was dragged through the streets and abused.

Context: a chain email


Joe Pojman says The State of Texas is funding womens health services at historically high levels; they just increased their level another $50 million for the next two years.

Context: addressing a rally outside the Texas Capitol


Bill Haslam says Tennessees higher education funding model is 100 percent outcomes-based and we are already seeing this model changing the way our postsecondary institutions do business.

Context: an article for Time magazine.


John Kasich says Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing everybody a lot of money.

Context: a news conference


Bill Nelson says "The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop."

Context: during a U.S. Senate debate


Sandra Cunningham says a Senate resolution would restore $140 in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime.

Context: a speech on the State Senate floor


David Axelrod says When President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited a $236 billion budget surplus, with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When he ended his term, he left a $1.3 trillion deficit and a projected 10-year shortfall of $8 trillion.

Context: an op-ed in the Washington Post.


Robert Dimuccio says Rhode Islanders pay among the highest auto repair bills in the nation.

Context: a letter to policy holders


Barack Obama says John McCain has seven houses.

Context: interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod


John Mccain says Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."

Context: Hershey, Pa.


Karl Rove says Before President Obama acted in Libya in 2011, the American people were opposed to military action by 35 to 60. After he took action, they were in support of it 54 to 43.

Context: a segment of 'Fox News Sunday'


Marco Rubio says On running for re-election to U.S. Senate

Context: an announcement


Trimet says The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project has created 1,525 direct jobs as of June 11, 2012.

Context: a website


Chris Christie says The fact that one town has three lanes dedicated to it, that kind of gets me sauced.

Context: response to subpoenas being sent out over a bridge lane-closure controversy


Tim Kaine says Independent analysts found that Trumps tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia


Josh Shapiro says Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.

Context: a platform on his campaign website


Building Better Ohio says Toledo Mayor Mike Bell (once) lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money.

Context: a campaign commercial


Elizabeth Colbert Busch says In South Carolina, women earn 76 cents on the dollar to mens earnings.

Context: a news release


Rick Scott says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.

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


Trimet says MAX carries 30 percent of evening rush-hour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways.

Context: an advertisement


Joe Biden says On whether he wants to be vice president.


Bill Mccollum says Theres no negative advertising in my campaign at all.

Context: talking with reporters.


Alexi Giannoulias says Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployments not that big an issue.

Context: a TV ad


Viral Image says Hillary Clinton told the Des Moines Register on Aug. 8, 2015:I will get the NRA shut down for good if I become president. If we can ban handguns, we will do it.

Context: a blog post and subsequently reposted on Facebook.


Todd Staples says To deprive underprivileged children of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day.

Context: oped commentary


Glenn Beck says Allen West helped thwart a terrorist plot by shooting a gun in the direction of an Iraqi detainee, then reported the incident to his superior and said it was wrong.

Context: comments on his Fox News show.


Alcee Hastings says The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, threatens global public health.

Context: a House resolution


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Republican candidates in key Wisconsin Assembly races side with those who want to privatize Social Security -- and risk our retirements on Wall Street.

Context: radio ads and direct mail pieces


Charlotte Nash says Finance experts estimate that paying in cash for the $2.5 billion in projects funded by the sales tax saved Gwinnett County more than $1 billion in interest payments.

Context: an interview


Josh Mandel says During Sherrod Browns past decade as a D.C. politician, more than one out of every four jobs that has left America, left from Ohio. ... Sherrod Brown will own these horrendous Ohio job numbers next year.

Context: a news release


Milwaukeeans Self Governance says Milwaukee County district attorney candidate Verona Swanigan has worked as a prosecutor.

Context: a radio ad


Nathan Deal says Georgia has saved $20 million through changes in criminal sentencing.

Context: a speech


Joseph Testa says About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite when the sales tax was enacted in the 30s.

Context: a news conference


Robert Hagan says We never had an earthquake in Youngstown until John Kasich was elected Governor,

Context: a news release


Kasim Reed says My office is about a 300-step walk to the governors office.

Context: leadership forum


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president.

Context: an online campaign ad


Josh Mandel says Sherrod Brown has been running for public office since Richard Nixon was president.

Context: a radio show


Sheldon Whitehouse says The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

Context: a debate


Alfonso Lopez says On assault weapon violence: Ducks have more protection than people in Virginia.

Context: a floor speech.


Kenneth Block says The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200.

Context: a radio debate


Republican Party Wisconsin says As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance huge spending hikes.

Context: a press release


Rush Limbaugh says There are high administrative costs when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.

Context: a comment on his radio show.


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. Thats what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.

Context: a campaign rally in Albuquerque


Loranne Ausley says (Jeff) Atwaters busy helping his friends and wasting our tax dollars -- $48 million for a government building so lavish its dubbed the Taj Mahal, $100,000 for a golf musuem, and $110 million to build a private prison to help a big contributor.

Context: a TV ad.


Blake Farenthold says Despite claims that you can keep the health care plan you like, the Obama Administration has predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan.

Context: an op-ed


John Barge says On supporting the charter school amendment.

Context: an announcement


Joseph Kyrillos says In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase.

Context: a blog post on his campaign website


Alex Sink says The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didnt know about the problems.

Context: a CNN/St. Petersburg Times debate.


Barack Obama says Were spending millions for each individual held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"


Marc Katz says Texas is LAST (50th) in spending for mental health care.

Context: a message on Twitter


John Mccain says Barack Obama promises higher taxes on "the sale of your home."

Context: in a radio ad.


Hillary Clinton says FBI Director James Comeys letter about new developments in the investigation into her emails only went to Republican members of the House.

Context: a press conference


Sean Hannity says "Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'"

Context: his Fox News program


Greg Abbott says Wendy Davis is fighting to bring ... Bloomberg-style gun control to Texas.

Context: a donation web page


Sherrod Brown says Under federal law, Jared Loughner would not have been able to buy a gun had he been identified as mentally ill.

Context: an MSNBC interview


John Kasich says Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees.

Context: a radio interview


Pat Roberts says The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.

Context: remarks made in the Senate


Lloyd Doggett says he represents or has represented about half the San Antonio-rooted district in which he seeks election.

Context: a TV interview.


Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers says We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979.

Context: an interview with NPR


Tommy Thompson says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget.

Context: an interview


Mark Pocan says Twenty-five percent of people in the country have said they changed their email and phone habits because of the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act.

Context: a radio interview


Tom Colicchio says under President Barack Obama, the debt increased by 23 percent, which was less than under any president going back to Ronald Reagan.

Context: a tweet


Donald Trump says The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs were programs that worked but were recklessly gutted by the Obama administration.

Context: a speech in Arizona


Robert Healey says I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.

Context: interviews


Tom Cotton says that Susan Rice, the presidents national security adviser, has already conceded that Iran will have a robust uranium enrichment capability.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Vote No 2 says Because theres no local option to allow communities to ban, limit or restrict the location of pot shops, if Amendment 2 passes you can expect the seedy elements of the pot industry to move in right next door to your neighborhood, your church, your business and even your childs school.

Context: a pamphlet mailed to voters


Ed Schultz says With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration.

Context: a commentary on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"


Mitch Mcconnell says Hillary Clinton lied about why her parents named her Hillary.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland


American Commitment says The health care law imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class.

Context: a television ad


Dick Cheney says The number of terrorists out there has doubled.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Glenn Greenwald says Under the Espionage Act, (Edward Snowden would not be) allowed to come into court and say I was justified in disclosing this information. There is no whistleblower exception in the Espionage Act.

Context: a broadcast of CNN's "The Lead"


Mitt Romney says The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Tampa


C Wharton says We will not ask for a tax increase to run city government.

Context: an interview about his city budget proposal.


Allen Peake says Unlike marijuana, medical cannabis oil cannot get you high.

Context: a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol


Mike Schaufler says Jeff Reardon cut elementary school music classes, art instruction, teaching positions, basketball and volleyball programs, and he voted to raise school lunch prices.

Context: campaign mailer


Vern Buchanan says In Florida, illegal immigration costs taxpayers nearly $4 billion (a year). This amounts to $700 for every household in Florida.

Context: a web video.


Tom Cole says Theres no money for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.

Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday


John Boehner says The House passed cut, cap and balance with bipartisan support.

Context: a televised speech


Republican Party Virginia says Tim Kaine broke a campaign promise not to raise taxes.

Context: a website post.


Amy Klobuchar says Children who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to commit it themselves.

Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"


Rick Perry says On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.

Context: an oped column


George Barker says Gov. Bob McDonnells budget would cut pre-kindergarten programs.

Context: a speech.


Barack Obama says "Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."

Context: Springfield, Ill.


Florida Democratic Party says "Last year, (Bill McCollum) spent more than $2.2 million dollars to produce and air campaign-style TV ads where you were featured in almost every frame."

Context: an e-mail message


Rick Scott says We already have $23 billion worth of debt.

Context: ABC News 27 interview


Rosa Delauro says "When the salmonella source was finally identified, FDA officials had to wait for industry approval before they could go live with the [peanut] recall."

Context: a news conference


Steven King says Weve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector at Quonset Business Park.

Context: a TV interview


Jason Carter says Women are paid 77 cents for every $1 men get for the same work.

Context: social media posts


Barack Obama says As governor, Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times.

Context: a campaign ad


Gilberto Hinojosa says if Texas abortion measure passes, someone living in El Paso would have to drive 550 miles each way to San Antonio for something as simple as cervical cancer screening.

Context: an email blast


Ban Ki Moon says The Paris Agreement is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day.

Context: comments


Sherrod Brown says that Wall Street hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland.

Context: a television interview


Jon Brien says Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because residents are paying through the nose for electricity thats fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing.

Context: a news release


Blog Posting says By using a little-known loophole ... Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan.

Context: various Internet postings


Judson Hill says Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured.

Context: a speech


Chris Gregoire says Washington state has consistently ranked in the top five in the Forbes list of best states to do business ahead of Texas.

Context: a statement in a Seattle Times article


Gene Sperling says The Obama administration offered no magic number of people that needed to sign up for health care on the marketplaces.

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


Bill Cassidy says Only after news broke that our veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did Harry Reid and Senate Democrats take action.

Context: a statement on his website


Jay Carney says Rick Perry wanted to secede from the union.

Context: an interview.


Hillary Clinton says It is a fact that the economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House.

Context: a campaign speech


American Bridge 21st Century says As Governor: Romney did not keep public safety funding in line with inflation.

Context: a campaign ad


Fran Millar says We have reduced funding for education the least. Theyve suffered the least cuts.

Context: an article


Waco Tea Party says the federal government threatened to impose a no-fly zone in Texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing pat-downs.

Context: an e-mail blast


Gretchen Carlson says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks.

Context: an episode of Fox & Friends


Bill White says Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.

Context: a press conference


John Kerry says On U.S.-Israeli relations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set the record straight he said, our two countries have exactly the same policy (and) our security cooperation is unprecedented.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Actionaid K says Malawi has just 300 doctors for 16 million people.

Context: a tweet


Carly Fiorina says We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard).

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


Ben Nelson says A Medicaid provision added to the Senate health carereform bill "is not a special deal for Nebraska."

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Hillary Clinton says Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary should not be paying a higher tax rate than him.

Context: the second presidential debate


John Boehner says "A majority of Americans still oppose this health care bill."

Context: a live-blog post during the State of the Union address


Hillary Clinton says "My husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June."

Context: an interview with the <i> Philadelphia Daily News </i> editorial board


Steny Hoyer says We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown"


Joaquin Castro says With only 67 bills or so passed into law, 2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since weve been keeping record.

Context: an interview with the McAllen Monitor


Fidelis says Obama taps porn lawyer for #2 at Justice.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Jeb Bush said he would take his pants off and moon everybody ... Nobody reports that.

Context: a Republican debate in South Carolina


Donzella James says Georgia has the most lax gun laws in the nation.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says of Donald Trump, He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms.

Context: a rally in Cincinnati


Ed Gillespie says The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill 244,000 jobs a year and cost average families $1,200 a year.

Context: a TV interview.


Mitt Romney says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.

Context: an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.'


Mike Haridopolos says many states are floundering under crushing deficit spending.

Context: comments announcing a budget deal with the Florida House of Representatives


Bill Mccollum says Florida's legal challenge of the federal health care bill is "bipartisan."

Context: a press release.


Karen Handel says The truth is, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms. Planned Parenthood refers women to mammography providers, serving as the middlewoman, if you will.

Context: a book


Ben Carson says When ICE releases illegal immigrants, a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. Theyre from Iraq and Somalia and Russia.

Context: Values Voter Summit


Elliott Naishtat says More than half of the births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid.

Context: an oped column.


Dan Lungren says President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill will have government decide that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker should take a pain pill instead.

Context: a speech on the House floor


John Boehner says On immigration, the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldnt do what he eventually did.

Context: comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"


John Kasich says We have had some significant accomplishments on a bipartisan basis.

Context: a news conference


Barack Obama says Weve lifted high school graduation rates to new highs.

Context: a State of the Union speech


Kris Jordan says State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking.

Context: a speech in the Ohio Senate


Michael Thurmond says When SACS came back to the DeKalb County School District to give a midterm review, we got straight As.

Context: a community meeting


Lynn Jenkins says In the do-nothing Senate, there are 352 House bills sitting on Harry Reids desk awaiting action, including 55 introduced by Democrats.

Context: a press conference


Keith Stokes says One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry.

Context: an interview on WJAR-TV


Bill White says most of Perrys chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.

Context: a speech


Barack Obama says "I know that Hillary on occasion has said just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."

Context: a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.


Michael Sullivan says the Texas Forest Service planted 6,000 trees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before the Super Bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost.

Context: a Twitter post.


Let America Work says Russ Feingold was the only senator to vote against Homeland Security.

Context: a TV ad


Dan Sullivan says Sen.Mark Begich cast the deciding vote in favor of President Obamas authority to issue executive amnesty to illegal aliens.

Context: an email to supporters


Jeb Bush says ISIS didnt exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president.

Context: a roundtable in New Hampshire


Mitt Romney says There are 49 different federal job training programs that report to eight agencies.

Context: remarks in St. Petersburg, Fla.


Bob Mcdonnell says The U.S. economy is recovering slower than Europe

Context: a TV interview.


Art Acevedo says Texas leads the country in drunk driving fatalities.

Context: an interview.


Rick Perry says Romneycare has killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs.

Context: a campaign ad


Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst would privatize Social Security.

Context: a campaign ad


Blog Posting says Allen West violatedfederal law by scuba diving with U.S. flag.

Context: a blog


Alissa Keny Guyer says in Oregon only 41 percent of adults have ever been tested for HIV.

Context: a floor speech.


David Cicilline says When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now weve had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months.

Context: a debate on WPRI.com


Robert Brown says We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process.

Context: an interview


Naral Pro Choice says Scott Walker said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was just a cool thing.

Context: a TV ad


Republican Party Florida says Charlie Crist raised taxes on the middle class by $2.2 billion.

Context: a campaign commercial


Al Hunt says This is not a mosque. Its a cultural center that has a prayer area.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Bob Sears says Every year in the United States between 3,000 and 4,500 severe vaccine reactions are reported to the Centers for Disease Control. Not mild reactions. Severe reactions that land somebody in the hospital, the intensive care unit or cause a permanent disability or death.

Context: an interview on CNN


Georgia Lottery says Odds of winning the Monopoly Millionaire instant win game are 1 in 3.27.

Context: on a ticket


John Mccain says Obama "has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year."

Context: Oxford, Miss.


Greta Van Susteren says New Jersey has had seven credit downgrades since Chris Christie became governor.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


John Kerry says Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid.

Context: a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs


George Allen says Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas.

Context: a debate.


Alfonso Lopez says Ronald Reagan banned ownership of fully automatic rifles. He supported the assault weaspons ban.

Context: a floor speech.


Chain Email says Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

Context: a chain email


Cory Booker says The first (state) budget that came out of our Republican leadership slashed funding to Planned Parenthood...It resulted in the reduction of hours, the elimination of days, elimination of access to women in my city and all over my state.

Context: a rally at the Democratic National Convention


Ron Johnson says he started the Pacur plastics manufacturing company he owns.


John Boehner says The United States has seen a net loss of people with health insurance because of Obamacare.

Context: a press conference


David Jolly says I have never lobbied for offshore oil drilling.

Context: comments at a public form


Mike Collier says Glenn Hegar promised to eliminate the property tax.

Context: a campaign email blast


Jim Sullivan says When the Milwaukee County mental health facility is full, cops sit out there in their squad cars with a mentally ill patient and sometimes spend an entire shift out there doing that.

Context: a meeting with Journal Sentinel reporters and editors


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is proposing a tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country.

Context: a speech in Columbus, Ohio


Gayle Atteberry says Abortion clinics in Oregon, as in most states, have no state oversight and are not held to basic health or safety standards.

Context: in an online post


Elijah Cummings says The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees.

Context: a congressional subcommittee hearing


Newt Gingrich says that Rick Santorum voted for the unions over FedEx.

Context: in a campaign appearance in Nashville.


Chuck Baldwin says When President AbrahamLincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army.

Context: a blog post


Casey Cagle says Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood.

Context: press release


Paul Ryan says Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied by Hillary Clintons State Department.

Context: a tweet


Rick Perry says the 2012-13 state budget leaves $6 billion in a rainy day fund.

Context: a speech.


Bob Donovan says There has never been an alderman who has defeated an incumbent mayor in the history of this great city.

Context: a speech


Roy Barnes says On running a civil and polite campaign

Context: a television interview


Joshua Marquis says 25 percent of Oregonians oppose the death penalty.

Context: a blog comment


Frederica Wilson says We closed that plant down. It was a $27 million-dollar plant, operating full steam, and we closed it down.

Context: a Washington Post profile


Occupy Democrats says President Barack Obama has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation, while Congress has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history.

Context: a posting on Facebook


Sergio Marchionne says Less than two years ago, we made a commitment to repay the U.S. . . .taxpayers in full, and today we made good on that promise.

Context: a press release


Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says Cory Gardner is sponsoring a bill to ban all abortions right now.

Context: a campaign ad


John King says Sometime in the next decade, there will be more Latinos in the state of Texas than there are Anglos. That will happen sometime in the next five to eight to ten years.

Context: a question to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro


Mark Warner says Millennials will be 75 percent of the workforce in the next 10 years.

Context: an interview.


John Carlevale says Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters.

Context: an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program


Rand Paul says The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland


David Axelrod says The vast majority of people in this country are keeping their (health insurance) plan.

Context: comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The Democratic health care law added 12 years of solvency to Medicare.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Mike Villarreal says The only segment in the beer market that is growing is the craft beer segment.

Context: a press conference


Joe Roman says $15-an-hourproposal in Cleveland is the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.

Context: a Plain Dealer article


Hillary Clinton says We are seeing kids who are healthier.

Context: a get-out-the-vote rally in North Carolina


Snapchat says 90% of rural women and 55% of all women are illiterate in Morocco.

Context: a snapchat


David Jolly says Kathleen Peters refuses to take a stand to repeal Obamacare.

Context: David Jolly in a mailer to 13th Congressional District voters


John Mccain says McCain says the price of a gas tax "holiday" would be about the same as "a Bridge to Nowhere (or) another pork barrel project."

Context: an interview on the Fox News Channel.


Lois Kolkhorst says $500 billion in Medicare cuts are coming.

Context: House floor remarks.


Bill Richardson says "Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."

Context: an interview on CNN.


Dennis Jones says required state septic inspections would cost septic tank owners $100 to $150 every five years.

Context: a state Senate committee hearing.


Libraries Yes Committee says the Multnomah County Library system is the second busiest in the nation.

Context: a campaign mailer.


Tom Coburn says One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. Thats one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled.

Context: a meeting of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission


Bill Nelson says 55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida) in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count.

Context: a press conference


Barack Obama says "The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."

Context: a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.


Mitt Romney says The Obama administration has been outsourcing by sending money to solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the United States.

Context: a town hall in Grand Junction, Colo.


Bob Mcdonnell says On mandatory ultrasounds before abortions.

Context: a written statement.


Rand Paul says Hillary Clintons State Department sent three comedians to India on the Make Chai, Not War tour.

Context: a speech in Nashua, N.H.


Mark Udall says Currently, the intelligence community can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism.

Context: a Senate speech rebroadcast on ABC's "This Week"


Ron Johnson says Even though Chicago has the most stringent gun laws on the books, it still has the highest murder rate in the country.

Context: a public meeting


Kim Simac says people who signed recall petitions against Wisconsin state Sen. Jim Holperin received harassing phone calls from out-of-state telemarketers claiming to represent the Democratic Party and insinuating foul play by petition circulators.

Context: a news release


Ken Plum says Virginia has a responsibility to fund 55 percent of public education and is payingjust 41 percent.

Context: a newspaper column.


George Barker says Uncompensated care has gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.

Context: statement


Grover Norquist says Every time weve cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, its been damaged.

Context: an interview on CNN


Nathan Deal says Jason Carter has gotten David Axelrod to come down and be his campaign advisor.

Context: radio interview


Peter Kilmartin says Kilmartin has helped pass laws to create a witness protection program.

Context: a statement on his campaign website


Clay Aiken says Rep. Renee Ellmers voted for the government shutdown 21 times.

Context: a YouTube campaign announcement


Tim Kaine says I havent switched my position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Chain Email says Barack Obama is the first president to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

Context: a chain email


Barack Obama says John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas.

Context: a speech on Labor Day


Joe Brown says Nobody is leaving Memphis. Thats a myth.

Context: a City Council presentation on the Memphis budget.


George Pataki says Florida seniors are exempt from losing Medicare Advantage under the federal health care bill.

Context: a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.


Donald Trump says Theres a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us theres no tax.

Context: an interview with the New York Times


Lincoln Chafee says I am very proud that over my almost 30 years of public service I have had no scandals.

Context: presidential debate


Katie Mcginty says Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.

Context: a press release.


House Republicans says Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."

Context: a news release


Ana Navarro says A lot of what (Cubas) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up.

Context: an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper"


Travis Rowley says The RI Board of Elections has heard official testimony from Providence residents who claim to have witnessed known illegal aliens voting in local elections.

Context: a commentary


Mitch Mcconnell says Obama called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate.

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


Tom Harkin says "Today and every day, an estimated 14,000 Americans will lose their health insurance coverage."

Context: a Senate floor speech


Mark Butler says Darryl Hicks had seven ethics violations and didnt pay most of the fines.

Context: a debate


Donald Trump says Since President Obama came into office, another 2 million Hispanics have joined the ranks of those in poverty. The number of Hispanic children living in poverty increased by 15 percent in that short period of time.

Context: a speech in Tampa


Bernie S says The top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Steve Case says Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants.

Context: an interview on CNN


Molly White says The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates.

Context: an online statement


Thomas Perez says Go look at a Trump product. Theyre all made in China.

Context: an interview.


Bernie S says Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S.

Context: a tweet


Kitty Boitnott says Public education has been permanently cutby $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula.

Context: a news conference.


Mitt Romney says This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Context: a debate in Jacksonville, Fla.


Milele Coggs says In its current state, this bill is the most restrictive voter ID legislation in the nation.

Context: a news release


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says President Obama has the most border patrols and border security deployed at the border of any previous president.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Donald Trump says as GOP was picking a convention city, I recommended Ohio.

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


Rand Paul says Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts.

Context: an opinion column


Karen Handel says she was never a member of the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans.

Context: a newspaper article


Sheila Resseger says By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests.

Context: a newspaper commentary


Robert Hurt says Congressman Perriello voted in lock step with Nancy Pelosi 90 percent of the time.

Context: a statement on candidate's web site


Ed Schultz says In (Sen. Marco) Rubios state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty.

Context: MSNBC's the "Ed Show," Aug. 25, 2011


Tim Kaine says Donald Trump would engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security.

Context: the 2016 vice presidential debate


Mitt Romney says Massachusetts schools are ranked No. 1 of all 50 states.

Context: a presidential debate in Denver


Don Beyer says But for immigrants, we would have a contracting population...

Context: a radio interview.


Jan Brewer says The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules.

Context: a television interview


Peter Palumbo says Rhode Island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance, plus a cash card with $400 a month on it and $250 a month or $275 a month to spend on food.

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


Tom Cotton says Mark Pryor continues to insist that Obamacare is an amazing success.

Context: campaign email


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

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


Rush Limbaugh says The United States is the leading nation in the world with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change.

Context: comments on his radio show


Barack Obama says The U.S. Justice Department has taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says On average it takes 300 Americans working for a solid year to make as much money as one top CEO.

Context: a Hillary for America campaign ad


David Dewhurst says Barack Obama has played over 90 rounds of golf as president.

Context: an online video ad.


Frank Luntz says Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin.

Context: a tweet


Ron Ramsey says This years redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history.

Context: an email announcing redistricting maps.


Robert Reich says Under economic sanctions, now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment.

Context: a roundtable on ABC’s “This Week”


Tommy Thompson says that as Wisconsin governor, we ended welfare.

Context: a campaign announcement video


Bob Gibbs says In the 18th Congressional District, 100% of electric generation comes from coal.

Context: a statement posted to his website


Carlos Beruff says The folks in Washington are already forcing you to buy government health care.

Context: a campaign ad


Ted Cruz says President Barack Obama is the first president weve ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.

Context: a speech at the CPAC conference


Julian Castro says Up to 45 percent of illegal immigrants are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers.

Context: a debate over immigration issues with state Sen. Dan Patrick


Marco Rubio says Charlie Crist "worked with Acorn" to give felons voting rights.

Context: a U.S. Senate primary debate on FOX News Sunday


Barack Obama says On support for gay marriage.

Context: a TV interview


Nancy Pelosi says "This year, we have added an average of 200,000 jobs per month, a majority in the private sector, a stark contrast to the Bush Administration record of losing an average of nearly 750,000 jobs per month in its last three months."

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close.

Context: remarks to the Newspaper Association of America


Reince Priebus says Hillary Clintons Iran nuclear deal lined the pockets of the worlds number one state sponsor of terrorism with your money.

Context: a speech


Chain Email says Obama thinks the national anthem should be "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."

Context: in a chain email


Mark Warner says Right now, America has $1.1 trillion of student debt. Thats more than credit card debt.

Context: a speech.


Ruths List Florida says Twenty-six men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor.

Context: an email to voters


Tim Kaine says When Obama took office the economy of the United States was actually shrinking for the first time in about 70 years.

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Facebook Posts says Marco Rubio said that felons should not have their voting rights restored but that convicted felons should be allowed to own guns after they have done their time.

Context: a Facebook post


Jim Huffman says Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon.

Context: a press release


Mitt Romney says I didnt inherit money from my parents.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C.


Johnny Isakson says If you tried to pay out $1 trillion by handing it out at $1 per second, it would take more than 31,000 years.

Context: a speech


Newt Gingrich says You cant put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt.

Context: a campaign speech in Cobb County


Ron Desantis says The tax penalty that the government imposes if you dont buy health insurance is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Scott Walker says Israel has seen a 90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.

Context: a radio interview


Newt Gingrich says Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are government-sponsored enterprises like Freddie Mac.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate