Tim Kaine says Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate change, abortion rights, immigration reform, gay rights and college affordability. Donald Trump doesnt.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


Tammy Baldwin says Donald Trump has a long history of exporting jobs overseas.

Context: a speech


Tweets says Scott Walker to cut $300 million from universities, spend $500 million on a pro basketball stadium.

Context: Twitter posts


John Cornyn says A defense bill includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand.

Context: a statement


Mary Burke says Gov. Scott Walkers repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck.

Context: a campaign email


Cory Booker says New Jerseys prison system is 61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black.

Context: a speech at an American Federation for Children event


Bernie S says We are the only major country on Earth that doesnt guarantee health care to all people as a right.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Larry Valencia says Do you know that, statistically, when you take the SAT a second time, one third of the people that take the SAT, even if theyve been studying, will get a lower score than they did the first time around?

Context: radio interview


Kathleen Sebelius says On HealthCare.Gov, Texan Mark Sullivan found a good health insurance plan that includes dental, for less than $80 a month.

Context: an oped column in the Austin American-Statesman


John Mccain says "Sen. Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions."

Context: Chicago


Daniel Harrop says We see a quarter-billion dollars in a pension fund that needs to be funded at $1.2 billion.

Context: an appearance on WPRI-TV's Newsmakers


Fred Thompson says "I'm proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record."


Lisa Bloom says Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries.

Context: an interview with Piers Morgan


Bill Batchelder says a Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life.

Context: a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives


Barack Obama says There is more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world the first time thats happened in nearly 20 years.

Context: the State of the Union address


Sid Miller says To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram.

Context: a meme posted on his Facebook page


Kendrick Meek says Theres a mosque inside of the Pentagon.

Context: a televised debate in Miami.


Mike Huckabee says "I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."

Context: a debate in Durham, N.H.


Barack Obama says "If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."

Context: a forum with supporters


Gwen Moore says Domestic violence is seen as a pre-existing health condition and women had to pay 50 percent more for health care because of gender ratings, but under Obamacare, all of that is over.

Context: an interview


Pete Winstead says Austin is the largest city in the U.S. without nonstop flights to Europe.

Context: a KUT-FM news story


Scott Walker says On Common Core education standards

Context: a speech


Dianne Feinstein says We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care.

Context: a New York Times article


Bill Powell says (t)his 12 year council Seat-warmer has never chaired, vice chaired, or led a single Council committee meeting.

Context: a flier


Charlie Crist says On running for the U.S. Senate as an independent.

Context: comments to the press.


Mark Herring says Since 1900, six (U.S. Supreme Court) justices have been confirmed during election years, including Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was confirmed in the final year of the Reagan Administration.

Context: a letter


Republican Governors Association says Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been fighting hard to let illegal immigrants vote.

Context: a website


Donald Trump says Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.

Context: a speech in West Palm Beach, Fla.


Bill White says Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York.

Context: a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi


Jeb Bush says 90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States.

Context: an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor


Mary Burke says Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isnt even using the funds that are appropriated to it.

Context: an interview


Stefani Carter says the Beaumont school districts superintendent is the highest-paid in the state.


Barack Obama says A violent felon can buy (a gun) over the Internet with no background check, no questions asked.

Context: a speech proposing executive action on gun regulations


Donald Trump says Mexico can afford to build a wall because the countrys trade deficit with America is billions of dollars.

Context: a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa


Barney Frank says The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.

Context: MSNBC's Morning Joe


Barack Obama says Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs.

Context: an interview on Meet the Press


Karen Handel says Congress secured special Obamacare rules to prevent their healthcare costs from rising.

Context: an email


Democratic National Committee says Since Rick Perry became governor, poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% which is higher than the national average.

Context: an email blast


Mike Dewine says Since the time of the Civil War, weve made a distinction in this country between the availability and the ability to access for people who were in the military, versus the rest of us, to vote.

Context: a news conference


Bernie S says his campaign has released his past tax returns.

Context: an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper


Colin Van Ostern says As a result of Chris Sununus vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, nearly 3,000 fewer women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.

Context: a speech in Manchester, N.H.


Barack Obama says a majority of Americans -- and Republicans -- support his approach for deficit reduction.

Context: a press briefing at the White House


Brit Hume says The media widely overlooked comments made by former President Bill Clinton that Hillary Clinton had a terrible concussion that took six months to recover from.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Tammy Baldwin says she voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug program because it was unfunded.

Context: an interview


Mitt Romney says "I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

Context: "Meet the Press" interview


60 Plus Association says U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was the deciding vote for the health care law.

Context: a television ad


National Republican Congressional Committee says Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators.

Context: a TV ad


Lois Frankel says Adam Hasner said he will never accept a pay increase, but he voted to raise his pay four times.

Context: a campaign ad


Mike Huckabee says One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically.

Context: a Republican presidential debate


Chris Larson says For the votes that we got, I think we spent, on average, two bucks a pop. Compared to 42 bucks for incumbent Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele.

Context: a press release


Rick Scott says More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but the federal government has still only committed $7 million to help Florida.

Context: a press release


Laura Tyson says Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent.

Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour''


Scott Walker says In the latest jobs numbers Wisconsin ranked third in the Midwest.

Context: a campaign television ad


Yvette Mcgee Brown says The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city.

Context: speech on urban issues


Sam Brownback says "I'm for a three-state political solution in Iraq. (Romney) is not."


Jay Nixon says that unlike Texas, Missouri has a perfect AAA credit rating.

Context: a radio advertisement


Joe Lieberman says The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."

Context: a press conference


Michael Medved says More whites than blacks are victims of deadly police shootings.

Context: a Web post from the "Michael Medved Show"


Barack Obama says Some Republican leaders in Congress are pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.

Context: his weekly address


Tom Barrett says 40 percent of U.S. gun sales are occurring outside of licensed gun dealers.

Context: an interview


Monica Wehby says The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads.

Context: an economic issues statement


National Taxpayers Union says Proposed tax changes are a handout to BP.

Context: a television commercial


Facebook Posts says Medicare Part D was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike the act, was never budgeted.

Context: an image shared on Facebook


Mark Brodeur says Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.

Context: a Providence Journal story


Dennis Richardson says More than 400 car crashes occur each year on the current, congested Columbia River Bridge.

Context: a newsletter.


George Will says President Ronald Reagan had a month of job creation of 1 million.

Context: an appearance on Fox News Sunday


Ben Carson says Weve had examples like in Yuma County, where weve been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish.

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


Facebook Posts says For the cost of the Iraq War we couldve ended world hunger for 30 years.

Context: a post on Facebook


Kathleen Vinehout says If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes under the state income-tax cut, but it didnt show up in your paycheck.

Context: a speech


Mike Huckabee says its a statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, cant get a job, and if it werent for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death.

Context: a post on his PAC's website


Bill Richardson says "Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."

Context: a TV ad.


David Sweetser says Boston is just 60 minutes away and its offering subsidies to developers who can charge higher rent than you can get in Providence while construction costs are more or less equal. As a result, the Boston skyline is completely dominated by the cranes.

Context: an interview


John Kerry says In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews.

Context: a speech


Pat Toomey says We have the highest (corporate tax rates) in the world right now.

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


Shirley Turner says The judicial system is the most underfunded in this state, able to only pay 52 percent of its obligations. Meanwhile, judges get some of the richest pensions of all public employees.

Context: a speech on the State Senate floor


Rush Limbaugh says You cant read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty.

Context: a radio broadcast


Connservative Republicans Texas Pac says Jeff Wentworth, bending the rules, has used $211,743.96 in campaign contributions to lease luxury cars.

Context: a PAC website.


Bob Stacey says If Oregons Legislature simply authorizes $450 million for the CRC, it will leave Oregon holding the bag for a great deal more cost responsibility.

Context: in a memo


Charlie Crist says We cut property taxes for seniors and our middle class.

Context: campaign commercial


Karl King says There were $2 billion in earmarks in fiscal year 2012.

Context: a website statement


Restore Our Future says Eight million Americans have dropped out of the work force since (Barack) Obama became president. ... The real unemployment rate is 19 percent.

Context: a campaign ad


Dan Patrick says Under David Dewhursts leadership, the Texas Senate passed an expansion of in-state tuition and free health care to illegal immigrants.

Context: a TV ad


No Tax Tracks says Photos prove the Denver light rail system has low ridership.

Context: a debate about Greenlight Pinellas


Eugene Mckenna says Rhode Island already gets more revenue per capita from gambling than any other state in the country.

Context: a news story


Nancy Nathanson says a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year.

Context: a House floor speech.


Club Growth says U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has no problem with raising taxes.

Context: a television ad


Rick Santorum says Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas.

Context: comment to reporters.


Chain Email says Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.

Context: Internet attack


Donald Trump says We get practically nothing compared to the cost of keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.

Context: an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa


Farouk Shami says When we go to vote, they ask for drivers license and verify that you are a voter and a citizen in the state of Texas.

Context: a debate


Bill Posey says Before this law was passed, Americans were told they could keep their current health care plans. After it became law, the administration issued regulations stating nearly half of Americans would lose their current plan.

Context: a letter to the editor


Corn Commentary says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is the only working farmer currently serving in the House.

Context: blog post about farm bill.


Tom Kean Sr says I built the last nuclear plant not only in the state, but in the country.

Context: a question-and-answer column in The Star-Ledger


Nik Kovac says Milwaukee police and firefighters are routinely getting 4 percent raises annually while everybody else is either getting zero or one percent raises.

Context: a TV interview


Johnny Isakson says When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

Context: an Associated Press news story


Dennis Moss says When Disney was looking to build Disney World, they came to Miami and we told Disney to take a hike.

Context: in an interview with the "Miami Herald"


John Boccieri says I dont understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times.

Context: an interview


Blog Posting says Gov. Scott Walkers plan to freeze pay for state employees includes a 5.4 percent raise for himself.

Context: blog posts


Republican Party Wisconsin says As district attorney, Susan Happ took $180,000 in a shady land deal from a man charged with multiple felony counts of sexual assault before she offered him a deferred prosecution.

Context: a campaign news release


Tweets says In Wisconsin, 300,000 voters were turned away by the states strict voter ID law in the 2016 presidential election.

Context: tweets


Leticia Van De Putte says Dan Patrick was the only state senator who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses.

Context: her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention


Nan Rich says Tourism and retirees are the dominant economic engines in our state.

Context: a speech to the Florida Press Association


Bryan Long says Fewer Democrats were on the Georgia general election ballot in 2012 than in more than 100 years.

Context: a panel discussion


Lynn Westmoreland says There is not one single federal housing program yet that has not needed a bailout to survive.

Context: a congressional hearing


Urban Intellectuals says Sheriffs Call For Obamas Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators

Context: an article posted on Urban Intellectuals


Blog Posting says Proposed immigration legislation would give new immigrants a taxpayer-funded cellular phone.

Context: blog posts on the Internet


Carl Lewis says Youre paying for...(state Sen. Diane Allens) health care, and she took yours away.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Facebook Posts says Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol.

Context: a Facebook comment


Scott Walker says Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion in tax relief.

Context: a statement to reporters


Al Sharpton says Under Obama, the national debt has been reduced every year for the last five years.

Context: a segment on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"


Bill Clinton says Since 1961 our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So whats the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million).

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


Sheldon Whitehouse says The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor.


Texas Department Transportation says A DWI costs $17,000.

Context: a billboard message spotted in Austin.


Mitch Mcconnell says In 2010, Clinton said Iran could enrich uranium. In 2014 she said shes always argued against it.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


Boyd Richie says Rep. Ken Legler voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes.

Context: an e-mail


Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers says Last month, more Americans stopped looking for a job than found one.

Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union address


John Boehner says We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.

Context: a television interview


Rebecca Kleefisch says The Wisconsin Legislature raised taxes more than $5 billion in 2009.

Context: a statement on campaign web site


Mitt Romney says Fifty percent of kids coming out of school cant get a job.

Context: a private campaign fundraiser


Ron Dermer says In a few months, this deal would give Iran $150 billion for its $300 billion to $400 billion economy, which is like $8 trillion flowing into the United States treasury.

Context: a speech to a pro-Israel Christian group


Tom Price says Americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year complying with the tax code.

Context: Twitter posts


Jeb Bush says The tax policies of George W. Bush created a dynamic effect of high growth.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Tom Barrett says When each faced a pension funding crisis, Tom Barrett made tough choices and smart cuts while Scott Walker passed $400 million in pension debt to the next generation.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Michelle Obama says The unemployment rate for young people is down from a 10.6 percent high in 2009 to 2.6 percent today.

Context: a speech


Reince Priebus says Public-employee unions spent $30 million in Wisconsin unsuccessfully trying to flip the state Senate to Democratic control.

Context: a television interview


Sean Duffy says President Barack Obamas homeland security budget had $16 million to fight climate change but didnt have a line item to fight violent extremism.

Context: an interview


Blog Posting says There are over 2,000 crimes recorded per 100,000 population in the U.K., compared to 466 violent crimes per 100,000 in the United States.

Context: a meme on social media


Mitt Romney says This president ... could have gotten crippling sanctions against Iran. He did not.

Context: in a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.


Anne Hathaway says the majority of Americans support gay marriage.

Context: a letter to President Barack Obama


Rebecca Kleefisch says Most Americans are now getting their news from Facebook.

Context: a public forum


Rick Santorum says After prenatal diagnosis, 90 percent of Down syndrome children in America are aborted.

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


Secure America Now says Obama adviser David Plouffe took large piles of cash from a joint venture partner of a company owned by Irans Revolutionary Guard.

Context: a TV ad


Wallace Hall says Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said, I do not care if Wallace Hall swings from a tree.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says Not one of the 17 GOP candidates has discussed how theyd address the rising cost of college.

Context: a tweet


Sandy Pasch says State Sen. Alberta Darling voted to add more than $1 billion in additional spending while cutting programs such as education and health care

Context: a news release


Janet Murguia says Were at the point of reaching 2 million deportations ...this is a historic level, more than any other president of the United States.

Context: an interview on Univision's 'Al Punto'


Donald Trump says If it werent for me (illegal immigration) wouldnt even be a big subject.

Context: comments during the CNN debate


Tom Nelson says A $300 million stimulus allocation to Wisconsin has led to the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in every corner of this state.

Context: a radio interview


Mark Zaccaria says "Langevin has been the most reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi."

Context: a posting on his website


Barack Obama says Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney was clear that he would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy.

Context: the final debate


Gwen Graham says We rank 38th in wages. ... (Rick Scott) goes out around the country and advertises that to other states.

Context: a speech to Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention


Focus Family Action says Obama "supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality."

Context: an article written by Tom Minnery


Arlen Specter says The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the elimination of the secret ballot.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Scott Walker says Our ranking in terms of the best and worst states to do business in was 43 four years ago, and we just moved up to 17 two weeks ago.

Context: a television interview


Jeffrey Hernandez says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.

Context: a letter to the Providence School District.


John Mccain says Democrats' budget resolution would raise America's tax bill by "$500-billion."

Context: a poll on McCain's Web site


Lincoln Chafee says The commercial property tax [in Providence] is second highest in the country behind Detroit.

Context: a news show


Chain Email says Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed."

Context: a chain e-mail


Tom Fanning says Government subsidies for renewable energies such as wind and solar are 100 times greater than those given to gas and coal, and 50 times greater than what the nuclear industry enjoys.

Context: a hearing


Ben Carson says There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says A small majority of Americans dont think they like the Affordable Care Act, but a large majority of Americans dont want to do away with the protections that are in the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a keynote speech


No Tax Tracks says The Greenlight Pinellas transportation plan involves a 300% tax increase.

Context: on their website


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott signed laws requiring mandatory ultrasounds and restricting access to abortion even in cases of rape or incest.

Context: a TV ad


Saxby Chambliss says an average of $4 billion is added to the national debt every day.

Context: an op-ed


Marco Rubio says In America, radical speech is not a crime.

Context: an interview with Hugh Hewitt


Dan Patrick says 100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population.

Context: an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard


David Clarke Jr says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele eliminated sheriffs office funding for providing security for presidential and presidential campaign visits.

Context: a television interview


Bill Montford says The state has less employees this year than we did last year.

Context: comments to a newspaper.


Kay Bailey Hutchison says one in three Texas children drop out of high school.

Context: a television ad


Mike Rawlings says In 2016, Dallas, Texas, has fewer police officer-related shootings than any large city in America.

Context: a news conference


Rick Scott says PIP fraud is $1 billion in fraud.

Context: at a public event


Marco Rubio says Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before.

Context: comments to reporters.


Marco Rubio says Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012.

Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union Address


Steve Mcqueen says 21 million people still suffer slavery today.

Context: an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards


Marco Rubio says "Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas."

Context: an interview with Glenn Beck


Bob Marshall says Youre supposed to throw away your shoes ifmercury from a broken CFL light bulb gets on them.

Context: a legislative hearing.


Sierra Club says John McCain has "a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes."

Context: a letter from Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope to supporters


Joni Ernst says Iowa has the fourth fastest-growing personal income in the United States, while nationally, the real wage has decreased over the past eight years that Congressman (Bruce) Braley has been there by 2.7 percent.

Context: a debate


Rand Paul says In Tripoli, jihadists today swim in our embassy pool.

Context: an op-ed for Time magazine


Donald Trump says Ted Cruz distributed the ad showing a nude Melania Trump on a rug.

Context: an interview on CNN


Chris Redfern says Mitt Romney supports a plan to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of Social Security.

Context: a news release


Libre Initiative says Latinos in Nevada support Educational Savings Accounts, helping more than 450,000 students access better schools. But Catherine Cortez Masto is against it.

Context: a digital ad


Rob Portman says Sen. Rob Portman says Ted Strickland earned $400,000 a year as a lobbyist after leaving Ohio for Washington.

Context: at a debate in Columbus, Ohio


One Wisconsin Now says Scott Walker was elected governor on a promise not to take campaign contributions from the date of his inauguration until the signing of the state budget, but broke it by taking nearly $5.6 million.

Context: a news release


Rick Perry says Houston suffered $1.7 billion in operating losses under Mayor Bill White.

Context: a television ad


Robert Hagan says The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So youre not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it.

Context: an interview with Ohio Capital Blog’s Marc Kovac


National Republican Congressional Committee says U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in dirty campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)

Context: a recorded message


John Edwards says "If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."

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


Chris Koster says Closing the tobacco loophole would save Missouri taxpayers $50,000,000

Context: a tweet


John Bolton says Vladimir Putin once said, The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century.

Context: comments on Fox News Channel


Rick Perry says Washingtons reach extends to even telling us what kind of light bulb we can use.

Context: a book.


Americans Prosperity says Health care premiums up 90 percent in New Hampshire.

Context: an ad


Dean Cannon says House Speaker Dean Cannon says that freshmen lawmakers account for one-third of the 120-member House, and that two-thirds of the chamber have two years or less experience.

Context: a newspaper interview


John Boehner says The United States has the best health care delivery system in the world.

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


John Barrasso says There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."

Context: weekly Senate Republican radio address


Donald Trump says When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, that was the end of Romneys chances to win.

Context: a speech


Matt Bevin says Mitch McConnell pushed the Wall Street bailout through the U.S. Senate and called it the Senate at its finest.

Context: a campaign ad


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Scott DesJarlais is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January.

Context: a press release.


Republican Party Florida says The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy."

Context: a news release


Public Notice says 41 cents out of every dollar (the U.S. spends) is borrowed from places like China.

Context: a political ad


Christopher Peace says Tim Kaine wants to thwart right-to-work reform measures in Midwest battleground states.

Context: a post on his Facebook page.


Susan B Anthony List says New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices.

Context: a radio ad.


Michelle Nunn says On average, women make 77 cents for every dollar men make.

Context: statements


Progressive Choice says Charlie Crist signed the nations harshest marijuana laws.

Context: a radio ad


Colleen Conley says We are the most generous in New England and New England is known for its generosity toward its welfare recipients.

Context: a radio interview


Chris Christie says I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor.

Context: a speech at the Brookings Institution


Paul Ryan says Our debt is already bigger than our economy.

Context: a speech at CPAC


Barack Obama says Were the only advanced democracy in the world that makes it harder for people to vote.

Context: keynoting South by Southwest Interactive


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The shutdown is projected to result in $10 billion in costs to the economy per week.

Context: a tweet


Scott Walker says he paid one dollar for a sweater at Kohls.

Context: a speech


Wes Riddle says combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter.

Context: a speech.


Jason Riley says Black voter turnout in 2012 exceeded the rate of white voter turnout, even in the states with the strictest voter ID laws.

Context: comments on Fox News' "The Kelly File'


Arne Duncan says Texas schools have had massive increases in class sizes with Rick Perry as governor.

Context: an interview.


Valinda Bolton says Paul Workman wants to raise the sales tax.

Context: a mailer


Josh Mandel says Sen. Sherrod Brown cast the deciding vote on the government takeover of health care.

Context: a campaign commercial


Gabrielle Giffords says In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks.

Context: an op-ed in USA Today


Donald Trump says I wanted to keep it private, because I dont think its anybodys business if I want to send money to the vets.

Context: a press conference in New York


No 56 Campaign says Prop 56 cheats schools out of at least $600 million.

Context: radio and online advertisements


Daniel Llanes says 78702 is the second-most gentrified ZIP code in the entire country.

Context: an opinion column


John Mccain says Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.

Context: a television interview


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.

Context: a speech in Charlotte, N.C.


Margaret Gomez says she stopped Capital Metro from raising fares for senior and disabled citizens.

Context: a campaign flier.


Rachel Maddow says Marco Rubios economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit.

Context: comments on her MSNBC show.


Hillary Clinton says "If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7 years."

Context: Logan, W. Va.


Mitch Mcconnell says The stimulus includes "$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen."

Context: a press release


Hugh Hewitt says A million Democrats deserted (Howard Deans) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year.

Context: an MSNBC panel


Rick Perry says I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams.

Context: remarks at a campaign stop October 1, 2011, in New Hampshire


John Burton says While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a successful terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obamas 2008 election.

Context: in a press release


Facebook Posts says The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.

Context: a Facebook post


Moveon says "He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero yes, zero from the League of Conservation Voters last year."

Context: an e-mail message


Sharron Angle says Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada. Hes done more for unemployment. We were at 4.4 percent. Now were at 14 percent. Hes done more for the foreclosure rate. We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. Hes done more for bankruptcy. We have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation.

Context: a campaign ad


Naacp says Since 2000, only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud have been proven nationally.

Context: press release


Rush Holt says As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies.

Context: an e-mail newsletter


Dan Branch says Worked with Ronald Reagan and helped re-elect him.

Context: a video ad


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on supporting the presidents Recovery Act.

Context: a campaign ad


Tim Kaine says Philando Castile had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident.

Context: the vice presidential debate


John Kasich says On whether the state should privatize the Ohio Turnpike.

Context: a news conference


New Jersey Democratic State Committee says (The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

Context: a news release


Chain Email says Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities.

Context: email to MoveOn.org members


Rand Paul says It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open.

Context: a speech in Iowa


Michele Bachmann says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive.

Context: a prepared statement


Republican Party Florida says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water.

Context: a campaign commercial


Charlie Crist says "I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."

Context: speaking to a group of Michigan Republicans


Saxby Chambliss says Revenues are 15 percent of GDP its still in the range of the lowest its ever been.

Context: an interview


Fred Thompson says "So what sort of services does Romney's health care plan provide? Per the state Web site: $50 co-pay for abortions."

Context: a press release


Hillary Clinton says Sen. Bernie Sanders has called President Barack Obama weak. Hes called him a disappointment.

Context: comments during the PBS Democratic debate


Donald Trump says We (Trump University)have an A from the Better Business Bureau.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Donald Trump says In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one.

Context: a Republican debate


Laura Tyson says The United States is number 14, number 15 in college graduation rates, and were leading the world in high school dropout rates.

Context: an interview on ABC's ''This Week with Christiane Amanpour.''


Michele Bachmann says Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury.


John Mccain says Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.

Context: a Web ad


Scott Walker says Wisconsins pension system is the only one fully funded in the country.

Context: a tweet


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

Context: a TV ad.


John Eaves says This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years.

Context: a newspaper article


Bernie S says The Koch Brothers are spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties in the 2016 elections.

Context: a speech.


Democratic National Committee says Jeb Bush not only opposes marriage equality, hes said he personally believes gay couples should be banned from adopting children.

Context: a list of talking points


Matt Rinker says Natalyn Archibong skipped (Atlanta) City Council meetings or was late 90% of the time. Then she voted herself a pay raise.

Context: a flier


Peter Barca says Under Republican-backed state budget, the state education agency estimates expansion of Wisconsins school voucher program could cost nearly $2 billion annually

Context: a fund-raising email


Rick Scott says abill he vetoed to give driver licenses to certain immigrants known as Dreamers would havechanged nothing.

Context: a Telemundo debate


Anthony Gemma says U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China.

Context: an online debate


Dennis Kucinich says The Bush tax cuts helped to create a substantial part of the deficit.

Context: a radio interview


Rick Scott says We have invested record funding in protecting our environment.

Context: his State of the State speech


Rand Paul says $2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on origami condoms.

Context: a speech.


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep an extreme, job-killing Internal Revenue Service paperwork mandate.

Context: a news release


Ken Cuccinelli says Half of illegal immigrants come on legal visas and then overstay.

Context: a radio interview.


American Life League says Girl Scouts USAs curriculum promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate.

Context: an email blast


Facebook Posts says Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times to reflect rising costs. But raised the minimum wage only three times.

Context: a Facebook posting


Hillary Clinton says "The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes."

Context: Philadelphia


Stacey Campfield says AIDS was transmitted to humans because one guy had sex with a monkey and then started having sex with men.

Context: an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”


Bob Tiernan says 6 percent more Republicans across the state voted than Democrats.

Context: a radio show


Tim Murphy says Blocking travel from countries with Ebola should be possible because President Barack Obama has sealed off Israel in the past.

Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday


Johnny Isakson says The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance.

Context: a press release


Mary Taylor says Ohioans can expect to pay up to 41 percent more for their insurance premiums when Obamacare takes effect next year.

Context: an email


Charlie Bethel says Georgia has had the nations busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.

Context: Senate chamber


Joni Ernst says 94 percent of those that are employed by the Department of Education at the federal level were deemed by the department as nonessential employees.

Context: a debate


Harry Reid says With recent growth it is very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing fine.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Crossroads Gps says North Dakotas economy is reeling.

Context: a campaign commerical


Leticia Van De Putte says residents of Texas and San Antonio can be fired or denied jobs because they are gay.

Context: an opinion article


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is wrong to say he mocked a disabled reporter.

Context: the third presidential debate in Las Vegas


Jennifer Shilling says many local governments in Wisconsin already require employees to pay 20 percent, 30 percent or even 40 percent of their health insurance premiums.

Context: a news release


John Mccain says "The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."

Context: Oklahoma City.


Scott Walker says (Mary) Burkes company, Trek Bicycles, makes 99% of their bikes overseas.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Mike Pence says as Indiana governor, he has made record investments in education.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


American Crossroads says President Barack Obamas spending drove us $5 trillion deeper in debt.

Context: a campaign commercial


Ohio Republican Party says Casey Weinstein: No faith in our military ... When some of our cadets wanted to watch a religious film, Casey Weinstein sued the U.S. military. Sued our soldiers?

Context: a campaign mailer


Steve Lonegan says Today, the Social Security system is broke.

Context: an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show


Kay Bailey Hutchison says she has quadrupled agents to secure our border.

Context: a campaign video


Future Pac Oregon House Democrats says Julie Parrish wants to add a sales tax to everything we need to buy including food, clothing, medicine and school supplies.

Context: a campaign mailer


Robert Walsh says gubernatorial candidate Clay Pell hasnt spent a dime on advertising.

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


Rachel Maddow says Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged in recent years because of Social Security.

Context: on "The Rachel Maddow Show"


Paul Ryan says The Affordable Care Act is making families pay double-digit premium increases.

Context: comments on 'Meet the Press'


Mike Villarreal says that over the last decade, the states population grew three times faster than the Texas state tax system.

Context: an op-ed column.


Rand Paul says Many uninsured Americans are young.

Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"


Robert Singer says More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students.

Context: a speech on the New Jersey Senate floor


Pat Mccrory says If you survey, most (North Carolina) Democrats also agree with our (election) laws and voter ID.

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


Robert Hurt says Tom Perriello voted to give tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China.

Context: a TV ad


Facebook Posts says Ted Cruz is in negotiations to be Donald Trumps running mate.

Context: a post and story from Elect Leaders


Lamar Smith says During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."

Context: an interview on Fox News


Jeff Weems says Texas has one state inspector for every 4,500 oil and gas wells.

Context: a speech


Mike Pence says The Obama administration has been raising taxes.

Context: a rally


Donald Trump says Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!

Context: a tweet


Chain Email says Peter DeFazio will sneak in a 1 percent tax on all banking transactions.

Context: in a chain e-mail


Michele Bachmann says If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obamas policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

Context: an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.


Senate Leadership Fund says Catherine Cortez Masto failed Nevada rape victims. While attorney general, thousands of rape kits were never sent for DNA analysis.

Context: a television ad


Jeb Bush says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office.

Context: Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.


Paul Ryan says Obama was in New York City the same day as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but went on a TV show instead of meeting with him.

Context: in a debate


Chain Email says A Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance resulted in area tow lots mostly filling with the cars of illegal residents.

Context: a chain email.


Frederica Wilson says The U.S. House rule barring members from wearing hats while in session dates back to the 1800s and can be waived by the speaker.

Context: an interview for a Miami Herald blog


Charles Bass says America used to be the third easiest country to get established in a business. Its now number 17.

Context: a speech after he filed to run for reelection at the New Hampshire Statehouse


Donald Trump says Public support for abortion is actually going down a little bit, polls show.

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


Blog Posting says Students In Fla. High School Forced To Recite Islamic Prayer, Make Prayer Rugs.

Context: a headline on DownTrend.com


Mitch Mcconnell says Senate Republicans are following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year.

Context: "Fox News Sunday"


David Cicilline says When I took office in 2003, we had very little reserves.

Context: newspaper interview


Nathan Deal says The impact of the 2010 federal health care legislation will be huge on Georgia.

Context: a newspaper interview


Greg Abbott says The 2015 Legislature passed the fewest laws in 20 years.

Context: a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Dallas


Paul Ryan says The Congressional Budget Office has this economic model where they measure the economy going forward, and they are now telling us that the entire economy crashes in the year 2037 because their computer simulation cant conceive of any way in which the U.S. economy can continue.

Context: a private briefing to Members of Congress


David Silverman says There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled.

Context: a story on TV website


Barack Obama says We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.

Context: the State of the Union address


Donald Trump says When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Japan? It doesnt exist, folks.

Context: his presidential announcement speech


Scott Walker says Documents released from the Soviet Union show the Soviet Union started treating President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.

Context: an interview


Rachel Maddow says tanking Rick Perrys federal tax plan has huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else.

Context: a TV commentary.


David Barton says "Powerful Houston Democrats Sylvia Garcia (Democrat county commissioner in Harris County) and Elyse Lanie(r) (wife of the former liberal Democrat mayor Bob Lanier) sponsored a Democrat fundraiser for Speaker (Joe) Straus with numerous Democrat officials and high-ranking union officials."

Context: an open letter


Josh Mandel says he cut the budget.

Context: a campaign commercial


Johnny Isakson says Georgia has the countrys second highest number of fraudulent tax refund claims.

Context: press release


Jim Kenney says Big soda has a lot of money.They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that were trying to cure.

Context: Pennsylvania


Mitt Romney says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.

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


Stephen Hayes says Weve caught Iran cheating on the interim (nuclear) deal.

Context: a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"


Jeff Stone says Im the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.

Context: a campaign radio ad


Bill Maher says Were fifth in the world (in executions), behind China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Context: in comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Moveon says "McCain opposes a woman's right to choose."

Context: an e-mail message


Pam Bondi says By the year 2015 (Medicaid will) take up half our budget.

Context: a debate


Tom Smitty Smith says Texas has 600,000 registered voters who dont have the kind of photo ID needed to vote.

Context: a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman


Jeanne Shaheen says Scott Brown co-sponsored legislationto let employers deny women coverage formammograms.

Context: a news release


No Tax Tracks says Light rail does not reduce congestion.

Context: a website post


Allan Fung says Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor.

Context: a news release


David Brooks says Elena Kagan has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues.

Context: a column


Rick Scott says the Congressional Budget Office said if youre going to buy your own policy with these (health care) exchanges youll be paying 10 percent more ... about $2,100 more for a family.

Context: a Fox News interview


Karl Rove says Russian annexation of Crimea removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election.

Context: a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"


Facebook Posts says a man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.

Context: viral posts on the Internet


Roxanne Ross says Multnomah Countys food action plan clearly plans to disrupt the free market system in terms of food choices making it harder and more expensive for many residents to eat their food of choice.

Context: an online posting


Frank Lasee says that according to a study, under Obamas health care initiative, nearly 90 percent of people in Wisconsin with health insurance will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent.

Context: an opinion column


Rush Holt says Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years.

Context: a campaign ad


Donald Trump says Four times, I said, he (John McCain)is a hero, but you know ... people choose selective pieces.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Joanne Kloppenburg says PolitiFact Wisconsin concluded that the charge that Justice Prosser prejudges matters that come before the court is True.

Context: a statement at a candidate forum


Maurice Thompson says unemployment in Ohio is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and its always been that way.

Context: a news conference


Hillary Clinton says The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it.

Context: a roundtable at a community college


Eugene Sepulveda says Austin mayoral candidate Mike Martinez takes corporate money.

Context: a Facebook post


Johnny Isakson says Corporate tax holidays pushed by Presidents John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush brought billions of dollars back into the United States.

Context: an interview


Dennis Kucinich says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didnt go for health care.

Context: a CNN interview


Cory Mason says Wisconsin Assembly Republicans voted to repeal a law that ensures that women cannot get paid less than a man for doing the same job.

Context: a news release


Bill Pascrell says As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they dont have health insurance.

Context: a speech on the House floor


Jesse Jackson says Milwaukee is the most segregated city in America.

Context: a TV interview, as well as other venues


Chris Christie says On Common Core.

Context: an interview on CBS' Face the Nation


George Lemieux says The Christian Coalition gave (Adam) Hasner an F.

Context: a video on a website


Lisa Baldelli Hunt says Eighty-five percent . . . of Rhode Island tax returns that were filed for the year 2010 . . . were from individuals who earned $30,000 or less.

Context: a General Assembly debate on pension overhaul


Rodney Ellis says state lawmakers have voted to spend virtually all of the Rainy Day Fund four times since the funds creation.

Context: Texas Senate floor debate.


Bill Oreilly says The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Context: a broadcast of the "O'Reilly Factor"


Jd Alexander says the Southwest Florida Water Management District has $850 million in reserves, enough money in savings to run without levying taxes for more than two years.

Context: comments to reporters


Jd Hayworth says John McCain "began his career in Washington as a lobbyist when he was appointed in 1976 as the Navy's liaison to the United States Senate."

Context: a campaign commerical


Scott Walker says Eliminating the state tax on health savings accounts will make it easier for small business owners to provide health insurance to their employees.

Context: a statement on campaign web site


Chris Abele says Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, we have never raised bus fares and this year therell be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago.

Context: a TV interview


Robert Reich says The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression.

Context: an opinion column


Tim Pawlenty says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it.

Context: an interview WKXL-AM.


Republican Party Wisconsin says Russ Feingold formed his own political group to pay himself and his staff millions.

Context: a radio ad


Clearpath Action Fund says Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed.

Context: a campaign ad


Newt Gingrich says some [states] with the largest reductions in crime have also lowered their prison population.

Context: an op-ed


Chris Christie says Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years.

Context: a State of the State address


Kathy Castor says she was the the only Democrat who voted against the Wall Street bailout."

Context: an interview with the Tampa Tribune


Dianne Feinstein says California has the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people.

Context: a newspaper Q&A


Martin Omalley says 97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health.

Context: a New Hampshire interview


Megyn Kelly says Al Sharpton went to Ferguson, Mo., and is declaring as a matter of fact that ...Michael Brown didnt use any deadly force or posed no deadly threat to the officer.

Context: a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor"


Bill Maher says Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people.

Context: an essay in The Hollywood Reporter


Kirk Watson says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.

Context: a news article.


Robert Menendez says Joe Kyrillos voted to raid the states pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money.

Context: an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”


Joe Biden says John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."

Context: St. Louis


Barack Obama says John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.

Context: Oxford, Miss.


Wendy Davis says Under Greg Abbott, Texas four-year-olds would be forced to undergo standardized tests.

Context: an online post


Jeb Bush says I cut state spending more than anybody (in the 2016 GOP field).

Context: comments on Twitter.


Rick Kriseman says Since Mr. Fosters been mayor, we have less small businesses in the city of St. Petersburg.

Context: in a mayoral forum


Bernie S says In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Context: a PBS Democratic debate


Facebook Posts says Newly Elected Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015.

Context: social media postings


Tammy Duckworth says Mark Kirks claim of national security expertise is based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times.

Context: in a speech


Democratic National Committee says The Republican Party has 21 percent party ID and shrinking.

Context: a Web ad.


Donald Trump says I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East.

Context: a major foreign policy speech


Sanford Bishop says Claims that Rep. Sanford Bishop votes similar to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are inaccurate.

Context: a statement


Associated Industries Florida says Large parts of Florida have experienced years of below average rainfall.

Context: a press release


Mike Rogers says Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, when it was given to the Soviet Republic of the Ukraine.

Context: in comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday"


Michele Bachmann says President Barack Obama has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience.

Context: a campaign event


Franklin Sands says "Florida still averages more students in its classrooms than any other state in the Southeast."

Context: a press release


Jeb Bush says Florida was the only state during my eight years to go from AA to AAA in its bond rating.

Context: a meeting with business leaders in Portsmouth, N.H.


John Boehner says The stimulus includes "$7 million to build a bridge in Thedford, Nebraska, to help 168 residents avoid a 30-second wait at a local train crossing. Not one full-time job will be created."

Context: a press release


Carly Fiorina says Obamacare isnt helping anyone.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee


Mike Huckabee says "Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."

Context: a television interview.


Donald Trump says Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working.

Context: a rally in Atkinson, N.H.


Tim Kaine says Under former President George W. Bushs administration while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent.

Context: a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.


Rick Santorum says A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them.

Context: a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio


Martin Omalley says Hillary Clinton couldnt bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall.

Context: comments on the Daily Show


Public Citizen says A loophole still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit.

Context: an email to supporters


Glenn Beck says Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? Were the only country in the world that has it.

Context: his Fox News program


Brett Smiley says There are approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island.

Context: a campaign brochure


Donald Trump says The Hollywood celebrities endorsing Hillary Clinton are in many cases celebrities that arent very hot anymore.

Context: at a rally in Tampa, Fla.


Senate Majority Pac says Before Congress, (Tom) Cotton got paid handsomely working for insurance companies and corporate interests.

Context: a TV ad


Stuart Varney says It will cost $50,000 per enrollee in Obamacare over the next 10 years.

Context: an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom"


Mike Stenhouse says According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood.

Context: a radio interview


Tim Kaine says when he was governor,we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent.

Context: a policy paper.


Chain Email says Members of Congress can retire with the same pay after only one term in office

Context: a chain email message


Scott Walker says The next state budget will begin with a surplus of over half a billion dollars -- $535 million to be exact.

Context: a debate


Tavern League Wisconsin says A 0.05 standard for drunken driving means having a glass of wine at dinner could make a person drunk.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says that since he took office, there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States.

Context: a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.


Connie Mack says Twenty two years ago, when he was running for governor, Bill Nelson missed 56 percent of his votes in the U.S. House.

Context: a letter from the campaign to the Tampa Bay Times


Rob Moshein says the University of Texas can afford to build a medical school because it has a $7 billion endowment and its football program had a $50 million profit last year.

Context: a letter to the editor.


Rick Scott says Under Governor Crist, 3,000 teachers laid off.

Context: a TV ad


Sarah Palin says Texas prosecutor Rosemary Lehmberg purchased 72 bottles of vodka in just one store alone, in just over a year.

Context: a commentary


Paul Ryan says President Obama funneled $716 billion out of Medicare at the expense of the elderly.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


Barack Obama says George Bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.

Context: in a town hall debate


Facebook Posts says Michele Bachmann said on Fox News, This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

Context: posts on Facebook


Other Space says By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does.

Context: in a Change.org petition


John Kasich says The president came in and campaigned against me 12 times.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Chris Christie says I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001.

Context: comments in a GOP debate in Cleveland


Donald Trump says there are probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million criminal immigrants in the country illegally.

Context: a 60 Minutes interview


Cornel West says President Barack Obama released a statement on the death of brother Robin Williams before ... a statement on brother Michael Brown.

Context: an interview on Salon


Rick Perry says I became a Republican sooner in my life than Ronald Reagan did in his.

Context: a radio interview


Lone Star Project says (Pete) Sessions has held at least two fundraisers at adult-themed clubs and made no apologies.

Context: a press release


Jorge Ramos says The most popular name is no longer John or Steven. Its Jose, Camilo and Maria.

Context: a broadcast of the "Daily Show"


John Mckeon says the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent.

Context: an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”


Hillary Clinton says English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can't print ballots in any other language."

Context: New Hampshire.


Jennifer Granholm says When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, When they get to the question on, Would you vote for a socialist, it is even less popular than voting for atheists.

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


Rahm Emanuel says in Chicago, we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A.

Context: a CNN interview


Better Austin Today Political Action Committee says Under Randi Shade, Austin has had the highest cost of living of any large Texas city.

Context: a campaign mailer.


County Line says that under the new healthcare law, full- and part-time workers will be required to buy insurance costing $375 to $1,000 a month, starting in 2014.

Context: an open letter to employees.


David Brooks says Newt Gingrich has suggested building a mirror system in space could improve the Earths habitability.

Context: a column in the New York Times


Martin Smith says By allowing brewpubs to sell beer, Georgia could become like Mexico with only a couple of manufacturers controlling all aspects of market.

Context: subcommittee hearing


Portland Association Teachers says Did you know that if you accepted the Districts proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect.

Context: a newsletter


Juan Williams says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe ran through the students, hit one of them at the MU Homecoming Parade.

Context: episode of Fox News' "The Five"


Alberto Carvalho says Today we stand as the highest-performing urban school district in America.

Context: comments to the Miami-Dade legislative delegation


Charles Boustany says The CBO found that the House Republican health care plan would lower premiums by "up to about 10 percent" and, for purchasers in the individual market, "those cost savings could even be higher."

Context: a comment at the president's health care reform summit


Barack Obama says I just want to assure [you] were not talking about cutting Medicare benefits.

Context: a town hall meeting.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month.

Context: comments on "State of the Union"


Arne Duncan says After one year, Tennessees students made their biggest single-year jump in achievement ever recorded in the state.

Context: column in the Huffington Post


Lets Get Work says Bill McCollum diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources.

Context: in a TV ad.


Lamar Alexander says "No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power a record unmatched by other fuels."

Context: an op-ed article


Ted Cruz says Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary.

Context: an interview on CNN


Mitt Romney says The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin.

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


Chris Christie says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and we spend $100,000 on their education in those four years, more than is spent on any other set of students in the United States.

Context: an interview at Facebook headquarters


Chuck Grassley says President Barack Obama is trying to pack the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Context: a news release


Amy Schumer says Anyone who knows you can just look it up to see if you voted.

Context: a video


Doug Miller says less than half of 1 percent of all the Texas legislators who ever served draw a benefit from pensions tied to the salaries of state district judges.

Context: a Texas House floor debate.


Anna Little says Bob Menendez just voted to increase the governments debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt.

Context: a message on her campaign website


Rand Paul says I havent really proposed (phasing out aid to Israel) in the past.

Context: comments to reporters


Mark Kirk says Rep. Tammy Duckworth has been a staunch supporter of expanding the spending, size and reach of the IRS.

Context: a website press release


Sean Duffy says One of George Soros companies has provided some of the (voting) machines for some states.

Context: an interview on CNN


Vern Buchanan says the Obama administration will no longer enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Context: a mailer


Jim Moran says And the revenue generated by drilling off Virginias coast? $40 million over 10 years.

Context: s speech.


Reince Priebus says Mitt Romney gave away his fathers inheritance.

Context: a TV interview


Carly Fiorina says There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S.

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


John Mccain says "First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge."

Context: a speech in Las Vegas


John Morgan says Cathy Jordan was arrested and dragged out of her home by a SWAT team of hooligans for using medical marijuana.

Context: a medical marijuana debate at the University of Tampa


Rick Perry says Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called green mandates are not complied with quickly enough.

Context: remarks at the Cornerstone Action Dinner in Manchester, N.H.


Floridians Solar Choice says Currently, Florida is one of only five states in the nation that prohibit citizens from buying electricity from companies that will put solar panels on your home or business.

Context: a statement on a website


Rick Santorum says The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causingclimate change has been debunked by the head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That number was pulled out of thin air.

Context: an interview with Bill Maher


Mark Pryor says Tom Cotton voted to turn Medicare into a voucher system.

Context: a campaign ad


Rick Scott says The significant drop in Floridas unemployment rate is a good economic sign.

Context: an Enterprise Florida meeting


George Will says Federal spending is all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid.

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


Mark Herring says By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap.

Context: a Facebook post.


Chris Sununu says crime is rising in Manchester and has gone up 19 percent under Mayor Ted Gatsas.

Context: an ad


John Fetterman says I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, Ive got Bernies back.

Context: in a Reddit AMA


John Mccain says John McCain "took on the drug industry."

Context: a TV ad


Republican Party Texas says War for the soul of the TxDems: 57% of Dem incumbents for Tx House LOST their primary.

Context: a Twitter post


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.

Context: a campaign ad


Patience Roggensack says On recusing herself from cases after receiving a campaign contribution

Context: a radio interview


Jack Conners says Almost 88,000 United States service members are still missing and unaccounted for, dating back to World War II.

Context: an opinion column in the Times of Trenton


Leo Berman says judges are using Shariah law in Dearborn, Mich.

Context: a House committee hearing


Joe Biden says "John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."

Context: a campaign event in Ames, Iowa


Raphael Warnock says Georgia has the fifth-highest number of uninsured people of any state in the union.

Context: a speech


John Mccain says Mitt Romney previously believed "that abortion should be safe and legal in this country." Now he is "prolife."

Context: an ad on the Internet


Hank Johnson says Two weeks ago, a man entered the worlds busiest airport in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a loaded AR-15 automatic weapon with an extended-capacity, 100-round magazine.

Context: a House floor speech


Gary Sasse says Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island.

Context: an appearance on 10 News Conference


Scott Walker says Two years ago we had the largest structural deficit ever in Wisconsin.

Context: an appearance on national TV


Pete Snyder says A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaids tragically bad outcomes, including increased risk of adjusted mortality.

Context: a website post.


Allison Tant says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.

Context: a Florida Voices column


Donald Trump says the New York Times can write a story that they know is false yet they cant basically be sued.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Rick Perry says More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth.

Context: an ad


Mark Hass says Oregon recyclers cant recycle plastic bags

Context: a legislative hearing


National Rifle Association says Mark Warner has supported restrictions on veterans second amendment rights.

Context: a mailer.


Next Generation Climate Action Committee says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst signed a pledge that protects tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.

Context: a television ad


John Robitaille says His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation.

Context: a biography on Robitaille's campaign website


Barack Obama says he could be the first president in modern history to be outspent.

Context: a fundraising email


Randy Forbes says The IRS doesnt have to prove something against you ... youve got the burden of proof.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Florida Badass Teachers Association says Florida students take an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year.

Context: a statement to the Miami Herald


Bill Oreilly says From 2014 to 2015, Austins murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent.

Context: a commentary


Lynn Westmoreland says It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so.

Context: an article


Republican National Committee Republican says Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.

Context: a radio ad.


Progressohio says In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutors) office before he got there.

Context: a video posted online in a blog article


John Kasich says In this bill that Ive just signed, we dont cut anybodys salary. We dont take away their pension. And we dont destroy their health care.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Barack Obama says The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."

Context: Democratic debate in Philadephia


Rick Scott says My 7-step plan creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years.

Context: campaign materials.


Paul Broun says (U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston) voted to fund (Obamacare).

Context: a video


Barack Obama says The United States Senate Democrats and Republicans (voted) to keep our government open.

Context: remarks at the White House


Andrea Mitchell says In Ferguson, Mo.,youve got threeblack officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American.

Context: an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press"


Scott Walker says The $3.6 billion deficit we inherited has turned into more than a half-billion-dollar surplus.

Context: a book


Brad Schneider says Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold continues to side with his Republican leadership and the NRA in blocking consideration of a bill that would keep firearms out of the hands of people on the terrorist watch list.

Context: a campaign tweet


Maciver Institute says some Wisconsin state employee contracts gave some employees $4 for bringing in their own lunch.

Context: a video


Bill Oreilly says More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here.

Context: comments on Fox News


Mitt Romney says In the Obama economy ... the youth unemployment rate is double the unemployment rate for all Americans.

Context: a graphic posted on his website


Rick Santorum says Amniocentesis, does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortion.

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


House Republicans says The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with government-certified stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so.

Context: the House Republicans' Web site


Barney Frank says "Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest."

Context: TV interview


James Dobson says Ted Cruzswife Heidi will be the very first pro-life first lady.

Context: a TV ad


Jefferson Smith says we got a chance to pass what I think is Oregons first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline.

Context: an interview.


John Mccain says Iran "might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'" as Obama says.

Context: Chicago


Ed Whitacre says GM has "repaid our government loan, in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule."

Context: a TV ad


Mike Stenhouse says Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family.

Context: a news release


Michael Sullivan says From the Do As I Say Not As I Do department: federal employees owe $3.3 billion in back taxes.

Context: a tweet


Austan Goolsbee says John Boehner has called for repealing the rest of the stimulus, which would raise taxes on 110 million middle class people.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Ron Johnson says Two-thirds of the federal budget is permanent law ... its permanently appropriated.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.

Context: remarks following a school shooting in Oregon


Crossroads Gps says Obama broke his promise to help homeowners facing foreclosure.

Context: a television ad


Cecilia Munoz says Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception.

Context: a post to the White House Blog


Protect Families First says The average age of first marijuana use is 12.

Context: a news release


Hillary Clinton says The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay.

Context: a speech at the Women in the World conference


David Dewhurst says Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Context: a Republican US Senate debate at KERA-TV, Channel 13, in Dallas.


Joe Scarborough says Since Barack Obama became president of the United States, 95 percent of economic gains have been made by the richest 1 percent.

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


John Mccain says "Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."

Context: a television ad


Bob Mcdonnell says On serving out his gubernatorial term


Dennis Kucinich says "More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."

Context: a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.


18 Percent American Public says President Obama is a Muslim.

Context: a Pew Research Center poll


Scott Walker says potential Democratic opponent Mary Burke implemented the policies of Jim Doyle. Those are the policies that, in his last term, saw the state lose more than 133,000 jobs.

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says You (Hillary Clinton) get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails.

Context: the second 2016 presidential debate


Mitt Romney says The Supreme Court said the individual mandate is a tax. So its a tax.

Context: an interview with CBS News


Facebook Posts says More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals.

Context: on the Internet


Bobby Scott says The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries, after taxes and transfers.

Context: a written statement.


National Republican Congressional Committee says Zephyr Teachout says she is against Super PACs despite taking money from Super PAC donors

Context: a series of blog posts, ending on Sept. 21, 2016


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton said she was under attack (in Bosnia) but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.

Context: a speech in New York City


Ohio Democratic Party says Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel first claimed bank fraud in June 2010 but did nothing for more than a year while raising money for his (Republican) Senate campaign.

Context: a news release


Doreen Costa says The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money

Context: a radio interview


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans

Context: a Web ad


Joaquin Castro says @realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN.

Context: a tweet


Jim Bridenstine says This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning.

Context: a House floor speech


Jack Falanagan says New Hampshires second congressional district includes two counties where almost 5 percent if not more of residents are enrolled in the states expanded Medicaid program.

Context: a speech


Ron Paul says "Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution."

Context: a statement on his campaign Web site.


Saxby Chambliss says The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the largest debt ceiling increase in Americas history.

Context: a press release


Us Chamber Commerce says Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes.

Context: an ad against Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.


John Oxendine says Georgia has "a dropout rate thats higher" than Alabama's.

Context: a campaign video on his website


John Mccain says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping.

Context: a news release from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds


Rick Scott says A company with 20 employees could go out of business because of health care law requirements to buy insurance.

Context: a TV interview with Greta Van Susteren


James Parisi says A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference.

Context: a TV news show


Rick Scott says 3,000 teachers lost their jobs when (Crist) was governor.

Context: a debate at Broward College


Joe Biden says "Barack Obama hasn't passed any (bills)."

Context: a campaign event in Ames, Iowa


Bernie S says Bernie Sanders passed more roll call amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member.

Context: an a television ad


Barbara Lee says 60 percent of people on food assistance are working.

Context: an episode of CNN's "Crossfire"


Arlen Specter says On switching parties.

Context: interviews.


Roy Cooper says Gov. Pat McCrory tried to cut education funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years.

Context: a TV ad


Jon Huntsman says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on gun control.

Context: a web advertisement


Dan Patrick says Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world.

Context: a Texas Tribune article.


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, meaning thousands of teachers lost their jobs and class sizes went up.

Context: a TV ad


Joe Biden says "Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."

Context: a television ad.


Wisconsin Manufacturers And Commerce says Protesters attacked the groups headquarters with graffiti on the sidewalk and stenciled images smeared on the building and statue.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says Paul Ryan voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasnt paid for.

Context: remarks at a campaign fundraiser


Hillary Clinton says Women fill two-thirds of minimum wage jobs.

Context: a roundtable event on women's economic security


Citizens Lower Taxes And Stronger Economy says Amendment 4 will reduce Floridas economic output by $34 billion annually.

Context: the "No on 4!" website


Will Weatherford says Its the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasnt a court order.

Context: remarks to the press


George Will says We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined.

Context: a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"


Mike Stenhouse says Its just crazy that the government will ... make it illegal to use the old [incandescent] bulbs.

Context: an appearance on a talk show


Michael Murphy says Mequon and Milwaukee have the highest disparity of income in the country.

Context: comments made during adoption of Milwaukee's 2011 city budget


Mitt Romney says Barack Obama robbed Medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... Obamacare.

Context: an interview on "60 Minutes"


Bernie S says The largest low-wage employer is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government.

Context: a tweet


Pat Toomey says Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die.

Context: a television commercial


Rob Portman says Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would take us into a recession and kill jobs.

Context: a newspaper interview


Rick Scott says Florida ranks first in the nation for access to free prekindergarten.

Context: a tweet


Joe Biden says The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year.

Context: a speech in Miami Beach, Fla.


Joe Biden says "When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says You go down to Miami and when its flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets.

Context: a press conference


Tim Kaine says Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades.

Context: a TV interview.


Bill White says "In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.

Context: a speech


Karl Rove says In Florida, Sen. Bill Nelson ... got a $25 billion to $30 billion carve-out for Medicare Advantage patients in their state.

Context: an interview with Fox News


John Thrasher says taxpayer resources are being used to facilitate private political agendas through automatic payroll deduction of union dues.

Context: comments before a Senate committee.


Republican National Committee Republican says RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do."

Context: an RNC Web site feature where you can send a GOP valentine from your favorite Democrat


Lee Fisher says Rob Portman has taken more than $125,000 from Big Oil.

Context: a news release


Rahm Emanuel says Chicago Public Schools lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system, match the United States of America in kids graduating high school going on to a four-year college, and are producing eighth-grade leaders in the country in math gains, fourth-grade leaders in reading gains.

Context: a press event


Jamie Weinstein says The states that are doing better are the ones that have no state income tax.

Context: comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Janet Bewley says The Legislature passed Gov. Walkers so-called property tax relief bill, but the Republicans are still raising your property taxes.

Context: a speech


Rock Vote says 50 percent of millennials dont associate with any political party.

Context: a tweet


Russ Feingold says Ron Johnsons company got government loans and a grant to help expand his business

Context: a campaign TV ad


Ann Mclane Kuster says the Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 would not pause the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.

Context: an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio


Tom Delay says Travis County, home to Austin, is the most liberal county in the United States.

Context: an interview.


Barbara Comstock says Did you know under President Obama family health care premiums have increased $4,154 on the average?

Context: a tweet.


Rick Perry says the 2014-15 Texas budget increases spending by less than the rate of inflation and population growth.

Context: a bill-signing ceremony


Steve Crisafulli says Medicaid expansion isnt necessarily a very popular issue on the street.

Context: a radio interview


John Mccain says Obama "voted against funding our troops."

Context: a television ad


Alex Sink says "Florida Statutes require (Attorney General Bill) McCollum to consult with members of Florida's Congressional delegation" before filing a lawsuit against the health care reform law.

Context: a news release


Newt Gingrich says In the Paula Jones case, Bill Clinton paid an $850,000 penalty.

Context: an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly


Republican Party Florida says Alex Sink supported higher property taxes.

Context: in a campaign mailer


Jeb Bush says The top 1 percent pay 45 percent of all taxes in the country.

Context: in a town hall in Concord, New Hampshire


Chris Dudley says John Kitzhaber wants a sales tax so people without jobs pay taxes.

Context: a television ad


Chuck Grassley says If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, were going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent.

Context: interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos


Us Chamber Commerce says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year.

Context: an ad


George Flinn says his patents in ultrasound have revolutionized modern medicine.

Context: in a campaign TV commercial.


Rick Perry says Houston is home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world.

Context: remarks at a Washington, D.C. event.


Chris Matthews says Every dollar spent in the new Obamacare system ... goes to private-sector insurance companies.

Context: a broadcast of "Hardball"


Blog Posting says Three of five detainees swapped (for Bowe Bergdahl) are now ISIS leaders.

Context: Internet posts


Ovide Lamontagne says Under Maggie Hassans leadership, we increased state spending in the middle of the great recession by 24 percent leading up to and following it.

Context: a debate at Rivier University


Steve Adler says The first tweet was sent from Austin.

Context: a panel discussion in Austin


Jeff Judson says Texas has the sixth-highest property taxes in the nation.

Context: Conservatives in Action blog post


Francisco Quico Canseco says the largest tax increase in American history is set to occur on January 1st unless President Obama and Congress can come to an agreement.

Context: an email blast


Rick Perry says Bill White didnt pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy.

Context: a press release


George Allen says The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world.

Context: a speech.


Tom Rooney says For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Context: a press release


Barry Hinckley says Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages.

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


Steve Archambault says Blue Cross headquarters has "a $30,000 granite table."

Context: a speech at the state Democratic convention


Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is ending Medicare as we know it.

Context: a campaign memo


John Kasich says We jumped 11 places since beginning this year in terms of being job-friendly.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Media Matters says Fox News gave Republicansenators twice the air time as Democrats during a hearing about theIslamic State.

Context: a post on the Media Matters blog


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms using radical regulation, by raising business tax rates as high as nearly 50 percent and by taxing family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent.

Context: a speech


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Rigells car dealership made over $400,000 off the Cash for Clunkers bailout.

Context: a TV ad


Mr Conservative says the Obama administration is handing out a pamphlet titled, What To Do When The Veteran In Your Classroom Attempts A Mass Shooting

Context: a Web post


Republican National Committee Republican says Speakers at the Democratic National Convention made zero mentions of the global terrorist threat posed by ISIS.

Context: an email to reporters


Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will ... force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks.

Context: a newspaper ad


Greg Abbott says Ive been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS.

Context: a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.


Shaun Donovan says It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets.

Context: an interview on "The Daily Show"


Chris Kapanga says The amount of interest paid on the federal debt exceeds total tax revenue.

Context: a newsletter


Herman Cain says I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet.

Context: an interview on the Glenn Beck Program radio show


Mark Warner says The national debt grew an estimated$15 billion last weekend.

Context: a floor speech.


David Watts says The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1982 that non-citizen children must get free K-12 education.

Context: an email blast


Kathleen Sebelius says If I have affordable coverage in my workplace, Im not eligible to go into the marketplace. ... Its illegal.

Context: testimony before Congress


Erick Erickson says Donald Trump has supported a Canadian-style universal health care system.

Context: a column on Redstate.com


Bruce Hanna says , The Democrats proposed budget is also balanced by using more in new tax revenue than in total PERS reform or savings.

Context: a floor speech


Chain Email says a lip-reading instructor at the River School, a Washington, D.C., school for the deaf has determined that during 9/11 ceremonies, Michelle Obama said, All this for a damn flag.

Context: a message forwarded to many people


Lee Leffingwell says Austin voters can approve seven bond propositions without raising taxes.

Context: a UNITY PAC press release.


Ian Bremmer says US: Change in Income, 2009-13. Top 1%: +31.4%. Bottom 99%: +0.4%.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."

Context: Denver


Arizona Grassroots Action Pac says Ann Kirkpatrick votes with her party nearly 90 percent of the time.

Context: an online advertisement


Barack Obama says "I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."

Context: a speech in Las Cruces, N.M.


Donald Trump says Our companies are moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now.

Context: an interview on CNN.