Rick Scott says The cost-saving measures we put into place at Columbia/HCA drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years.

Context: a speech


Teresa Tanzi says We have no idea what is contained in [electronic cigarette] vapor.

Context: a House debate


Frank Lobiondo says new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag for the health care law will exceed $2 trillion more than double what was initially reported.

Context: a letter to the editor


Lucy Flores says Ruben Kihuen only managed in the minority to get one bill passed out of the eight to 10 he introduced during the 2015 legislative session.

Context: a congressional candidate forum in Pahrump, Nev.


Bob Donovan says This is the true picture of Milwaukees Renaissance after 12 years of Mayor Tom Barretts leadership.

Context: a Facebook post


Rand Paul says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he now is against earmarks.

Context: a Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting


Frank Lautenberg says Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Context: an op-ed on NorthJersey.com


Barack Obama says There are polls showing right now that the American people for the most part think its a bad idea to provide tax cuts to the wealthy.

Context: a press conference


David Barton says Texas state Reps. Dan Branch and Jim Pitts, lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus, are helping Democrat Ellen Cohen against her Republican challenger, doing events with her in her district.

Context: an open letter


Joe Donnelly says he did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House.

Context: an interview with Indiana Public Media


Viral Image says Unions did not create the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. Henry Ford did.

Context: a Facebook post


Fred Thompson says "Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."

Context: debate in Johnston, Iowa


Randy Forbes says As a percentage of our gross domestic product, the defense budget remains just 3.6 percent. This figure is low by all historical standards.

Context: an opinion column.


Eric Holder says Last year, we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years.

Context: remarks at the National Press Club


Jd Alexander says It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life.

Context: a news article


Cory Booker says America spends over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12.

Context: a speech in New Hampshire


Diane Hurley says Connecticuts take on slot machines is 25 cents on the dollar. And the states take on table games: zero.

Context: an interview on "10 News Conference"


Anthony Gemma says Bill Lynch told three lies in ten seconds

Context: a news release following a candidate debate


John Chisholm says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work.

Context: a letter


Hillary Clinton says Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt.

Context: a speech in Portsmouth, N.H.


John Mccain says "Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once."

Context: a town hall meeting in Reno, Nev.


Federation American Immigration Reform says Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of immigration increases.

Context: a news release


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, Gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.

Context: a Presidential debate


Lindsey Graham says The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror.

Context: a TV interview


Newt Gingrich says The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state is clearly illegal. The Constitution says you cant take this stuff.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Chris Dodd says "Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act."

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


Marjorie Dannenfelser says Planned Parenthood raked in more than $300 million in profits over the past four years.

Context: a blog


Winning Our Future says Mitt Romney has 15 homes.

Context: the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town"


Barack Obama says Romney would add trillions to the deficit while Obama would cut the deficit by $4 trillion.

Context: a TV ad


Hillary Clinton says Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, living longer on average, and facing less income inequality.

Context: a speech at the New America Foundation


Jake Tapper says The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined.

Context: a broadcast of CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper"


John Oliver says In Sauk City, Wisconsin, the ID office that provides identification for voting is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month -- a total of four days in 2016.

Context: a TV show


Florida Chamber Commerce says Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in unemployment, foreclosures, violent crime, personal bankruptcy and divorce.

Context: a news article


Liberal Bloggers says Republican candidate for Georgia governor dabbled in birther conspiracy theories.

Context: liberal blogs


Chris Christie says New Jersey has gained 143,000 new private-sector jobs.

Context: interviews on four Sunday morning news shows


Robert Bennett says The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.

Context: a news release.


Charlie Justice says Links jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Rep. C.W. Bill Young.

Context: a web ad.


Sherrod Brown says Wall Street megabanks that received bailouts in 2009 now get taxpayer-funded advantages not available to community banks in Ohio.

Context: a news release


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott spent $800,000 of your tax dollars upgrading the Governors Mansion.

Context: in a campaign ad


Corey Stewart says Prince William County has cut violent crime in half since instituting a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Context: a TV interview.


Bill Batchelder says the Ohio Consumers Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication.

Context: an appearance on the Ohio News Network


Scott Walker says Americans will spend more on taxes in 2015 than on food, clothing and housing combined.

Context: a Twitter post


Mitt Romney says I dont think Ive ever hired an illegal in my life.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate


Americans Tax Reform says Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas.

Context: a mailer to voters


Dan Saltzman says the Portland Childrens Levy holds its administrative expenses to less than 5 percent.

Context: a television news interview


Tim Kaine says George Allen voted to end Pell Grants for 84,000 students.

Context: a news release.


Blog Posting says School children can earn higher grades by studying Islam under a new nationwide Muslim outreach program announced by President Barack Obama.

Context: viral posts on the Internet


Ted Cruz says Amajority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supportedamnesty.

Context: comments during the CNN debate


Occupy Democrats says Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus.

Context: a meme on social media


Louie Gohmert says We went from $160 billion deficit spending in (President George W.) Bushs last year to $1.6 trillion the following year.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Penny Bernard Schaber says A proposed mine in Wisconsin is about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago.

Context: a legislative hearing


Ron Johnson says President Barack Obama did not come into office with the economy in a free fall.

Context: a television interview


Rod Smith says Rick Scotts proposed budget would lay off 20,000 teachers.

Context: a statement responding to Gov. Rick Scott's State of the State speech.


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says A bill supported by Gov. Scott Walker makes it so that drunk drivers who kill have an easier time of it.

Context: a campaign news release


Eric Cantor says There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period.

Context: a message on Twitter


Jane Kidd says [State Rep. Doug McKillips] donors deserve a refund.

Context: press release


Paul Bedard says President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country ... with a ban on one of the most-used assault rifle bullets.

Context: an opinion piece in the "Washington Examiner"


Progress Texas says Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state.

Context: a web page post.


Mitch Mcconnell says On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees

Context: speeches


Michael Madigan says Gonzales losing campaign against me last spring was funded with more than $1 million from supporters and allies of Governor Bruce Rauner.

Context: a press release


Steven Brown says Over half of the foreign-born population in Rhode Island is white.

Context: story in the Providence Journal


Rick Scott says After hearing the frustrations parents and teachers have with the FCAT, next year we begin improving our testing system.

Context: a television ad


George Will says Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.

Context: a Washington Post op-ed


Clint Eastwood says We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China.

Context: in a TV ad


Virginia Foxx says There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there arent enough qualified applicants to fill them.

Context: a House floor speech


Doonesbury says Last election, the Koch brothers spent three times what the top 10 unions spent combined.

Context: the "Doonesbury" comic strip


Ted Cruz says Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury.

Context: a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum


Democratic National Committee says John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.

Context: a Web ad


Blog Posting says Say Bernie Sanders won Nevada after all.

Context: several blog and social media posts


Republican Party Wisconsin says Because of (U.S. Sen.-elect Ron) Johnsons leadership, Senate Republicans adopted a caucus ban on earmarks.

Context: a news release


Robert Flanders says Every dropout costs us $72,000 for the life of that person.

Context: an economic forum


Joe Biden says Donald Trump is going to go out and carpet bomb the Middle East.

Context: an appearance on MSNBC


Bill Johnson says Most Americans want traditional marriage, as defined by the Defense of Marriage Act.

Context: a news release


Robin Vos says In 2012, 1 in 4 Wisconsin schools had a subpar score on the Department of Public Instructions recent report cards and are failing the children they serve.

Context: a video briefing


Barack Obama says "We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."

Context: a debate in Cleveland, Ohio.


John Mccain says "We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country."

Context: a comment to a reporter.


Bill Clinton says "Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Bernie S says NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide.

Context: the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.


Cliff Stearns says "Cuba wants to let the Chinese drill in some of the very parts of the gulf that American producers are currently forbidden to touch, as close as 45 miles off the Florida coast."

Context: a statement on his campaign Web site.


Tim Kaine says On running for Senate if Jim Webb retires.

Context: a TV interview


National Republican Congressional Committee says Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz demanded that Congress vote to increase the nations debt limit without making any spending cuts.

Context: a robo-call


Jon Richards says Last year, I was involved with an effort to to help prosecutors get their first pay raise in more than 10 years.

Context: a video


David Clarke Jr says Ive either balanced every budget or we turned back a surplus.

Context: an interview


Alcee Hastings says One Texas city has a law that says that women can only have six dildos.

Context: an interview with CNN


Alan Hays says The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6.

Context: a public hearing about redistricting


Steve Acenbrak says When you look at the number of crashes before the cameras were installed compared to after, theyre virtually the same.

Context: an article


Jorge Elorza says Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi.

Context: a TV interview


Rick Perry says U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted to continue Roe v. Wade.

Context: a Republican gubernatorial debate


Rick Santorum says Paul Ryans Medicare plan provides pretty much the same coverage that members of Congress receive.


Richard Ferruccio says We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact, Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country.

Context: a legislative hearing


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Rep. Jim Renacci was trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut.

Context: a telephone campaign


Carlos Beruff says Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obamas amnesty plan for illegal immigrants.

Context: a statement to press


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton gave up 20 percent of Americas uranium supply to Russia.

Context: a speech


Martin Omalley says Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughters college tuition on just two weeks wages.

Context: a column posted on Medium.com


Ron Johnson says On average, college students are taking six years to get a four-year degree.

Context: an interview


Joseph Mcnamara says In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools.

Context: a House debate


Pat Boone says Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years.

Context: a television ad


Martin Omalley says When it comes to being effective at creating jobs (Chris Christie has not had) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... Last year, New Jersey created no net new jobs.

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


Bernie S says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama naive for saying he was would sit down and talk to the Iranians during the 2008 Democratic primary.

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


Barack Obama says If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.

Context: a Rose Garden press conference


Barack Obama says "I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."

Context: Clinton, Iowa


Rob Portman says the State Department spent $630,000 to get 2 million Facebook Likes.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says In Romneys first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education.

Context: a Web ad


Barack Obama says We now have our kids go to school about a month less than most other advanced countries.

Context: a TV interview


Richard Cordray says his office has already recovered over $2 billion from Wall Street for the workers, retirees, and investors who were harmed.

Context: a statement posted to his website


Richard Burr says I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States.

Context: a private meeting with supporters


Robin Vos says Gov. Scott Walkers proposed reduction in university spending is about the size of the one under Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, but Democrats didnt treat Doyles cut as so dire.

Context: an interview


Paul Krugman says The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks.

Context: a New York Times column


Chet Edwards says Republican challenger Bill Flores "has never once voted in a general election in our district."

Context: a campaign video


Dick Morris says Hillary Clintons international travels included no serious diplomacy.

Context: an opinion article in the "New York Post"


Allen Boyd says that when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, there were still folks who didnt have phone service. Soon Id helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone.

Context: a TV ad


Nathan Deal says This years state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.

Context: State of State


Rick Scott says the high-speed rail project provides short-term jobs.

Context: an interview with Fox News.


Glenn Beck says Polls showHillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump as her opponent.

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


Christopher Little says Peter Kilmartin has only three years experience in his own law practice.

Context: a TV commercial


Nathan Deal says During my administration, funding for education has increased by over $930 million.

Context: a speech


Donald Trump says As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bills lobbyist.

Context: a campaign ad


Alan Grayson says Daniel Webster thinks wives should submit to their husbands.

Context: a TV ad.


Don Gaetz says he fought for the repeal of a septic tank inspection program after Tallahassee pulled a fast one.

Context: a campaign commercial


Bill Clinton says One-hundred times as many people worked their way from poverty into the American middle class during his presidency compared to Ronald Reagans presidency.

Context: a speech


Kasim Reed says The new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal was on time and on budget.

Context: press conference


Wisconsin State Afl Cio says Scott Walker has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools.

Context: a direct-mail piece


Blog Posting says Sheldon Whitehouse and 18 other senators voted to censor the internet.

Context: blog postings


Tim Ryan says We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. Weve got work that needs to get done. Weve got people that want to go to work.

Context: a television interview


Scott Walker says Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce.

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started.

Context: a speech


Lee Holloway says The City of Milwaukee uses the building inspection area as a revenue base.

Context: a speech at his swearing-in ceremony


George Allen says The cost ofa gas tank fill-up has risen$30 sinceBarack Obama became president.

Context: an interview.


Mitt Romney says College tuition costs have risen by 25 percent under the Democrats.

Context: a Spanish-language television ad


Chain Email says Obama said troops "whine about bearing the costs" of going to war.

Context: chain e-mail


Elizabeth Warren says Donald Trumps position isto roll back all of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis.

Context: an interview on The View


Matt Miller says Rep. Paul Ryans budget roadmap doesnt balance the budget until the 2060s and adds an unthinkable $62 trillion to the national debt between now and then.

Context: a column in the Washington Post


Mitt Romney says Barack Obama said, If we keep talking about the economy, were going to lose.

Context: a television ad


David Dewhurst says Wendy Davis was just doing a fund-raiser in Chicago with the international socialists organization.

Context: a roundtable debate with state Sen. Dan Patrick


Rick Scott says We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state.

Context: a press conference


Donald Trump says Ted Cruzsaid I was in favor in Libya. I never discussed that subject.

Context: comments during the Houston GOP debate


Jennifer Granholm says With the auto rescue, President Barack Obama saved more than 1 million middle-class jobs all across America, including more than 28,000 in Wisconsin.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Reince Priebus says Barack Obama has the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt.

Context: a speech


Mitt Romney says In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says "We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."

Context: Springfield, Mo.


Paul Manafort says there was a NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists.

Context: an interview on "State of the Union"


Patty Murray says In the past three years, state legislatures have enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined.

Context: an online statement


Allen West says EPA wants to regulate the family BBQ.

Context: a post on his website


Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will force doctors to assist homosexuals in buying surrogate babies.

Context: a newspaper advertisement


Mitt Romney says "He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens."

Context: a 'Today Show' interview


Sarah Palin says "One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects."

Context: an address at the Tea Party convention


Tim Grendell says In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. Youre also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents.

Context: a forum on the state budget


Senate Republican Conference says that while President Barack Obama promised to work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year, his health care law raises premiums in the individual market by $2,100 per family.

Context: a web video


David Axelrod says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.

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


Californians Lower Drug Prices says Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined.

Context: a press release


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says As part of efforts to rein in protesters, Republicans in Wisconsin have bolted windows inside the Capitol shut.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Hardball."


Hillary Clinton says comprehensive immigration reform will add $700 billion to our economy.

Context: a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute


Mike Huckabee says "(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California."

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


Barack Obama says Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law.

Context: his State of the Union speech


Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders voted for regime change with respect to Libya.

Context: a Democratic debate in New Hampshire


Lawrence Lessig says If you ask how many times did Ronald Reagan attend a fundraiser when he ran for re-election in 1984, the answer is eight times. If you say how many times did Barack Obama attend a fundraiser in 2012, the answer is 228 times.

Context: an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor


Tammy Baldwin says Democrats failed to flip the Wisconsin state Senate because recall elections were in the deepest red districts in the state.

Context: an interview


Jon Kyl says The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes "millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines."

Context: in a Fox News interview.


Bob Goodlatte says TheHousebudget plan proposes the largest discretionary spending cut in history.

Context: a column.


Paul Sadler says Ted Cruz is unknown to the vast majority of Texans.

Context: a runoff night statement.


Frank Brogan says Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.

Context: a meeting with state legislators


Rush Limbaugh says When news broke that Ferguson 18-year-old Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery, MSNBC practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation.

Context: comments on his radio show


Rush Limbaugh says People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."

Context: his talk show


John Cornyn says Congressional Budget Office says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!

Context: a Twitter message.


Donald Trump says top Clinton advisers were pressing birther movement stories very hard.

Context: a presidential debate


University Oregon says Things like having Friday classes have been shown to be very effective on college campuses in reducing drinking.

Context: a radio interview.


Ed Schultz says Walmart employees receive roughly $5,800 in public assistance per year.

Context: a segment on "The Ed Show"


Celia Israel says When adjusted for inflation, (Texas) per-student spending has remained relatively flat over the past 16 years. Despite that trend, Texas schools in 2017 will receive $381 less per student than they did in 2003.

Context: a press release


Us Chamber Commerce says As Virginias governor, Allen cut spending and waste with bipartisan support.

Context: a TV ad.


Barack Obama says My position hasnt changed on using executive authority to address immigration issues.

Context: a press conference in Australia.


Scott Walker says Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle. When the car was extricated from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.

Context: a book


Ron Wyden says Oregon schools receive millions of dollars per year in federal school lunch assistance and yet they are required to spend that money almost anywhere but Oregon.

Context: in a news release


Hillary Clinton says Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.

Context: a post on Medium


Moveon says "The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' "

Context: an e-mail message


Tim Kaine says First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage.

Context: the 2016 Vice Presidential debate


Dave Aronberg says Dan Gelbers employment by BPs law firm could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General.

Context: an e-mail to supporters.


Rudy Moise says The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent.

Context: a campaign website


Leah Ward Sears says I was never against same-sex marriage.

Context: newspaper column


Dan Kapanke says protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car.

Context: interviews with various media outlets


Amy Schumer says You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show.

Context: an episode of "Inside Amy Schumer"


Florida Democratic Party says Bill Gunter would drain millions from local public schools, and give our tax dollars to private, for-profit schools run by out-of-state corporations.

Context: a campaign mailer


Michele Bachmann says Small businesses that have $250,000 in gross sales for the business. Theyre the ones that are looking at massive tax increases.

Context: an interview on "Good Morning America."


Rick Perry says Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster than Mitt Romney.

Context: a debate at the Reagan Library


Dan Flynn says Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution.

Context: a column


Scott Walker says Hillary Clintons rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans.

Context: a statement


Joe Walsh says Every time weve cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown.

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


Larry Gonzales says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.

Context: an e-mail to supporters


Marco Rubio says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria was going to be a pinprick.

Context: the CNN GOP presidential debate


Jim Renacci says Raising taxes on investment income has actually lowered the revenue received from the tax, while cutting capital gains tax rates has increased revenue.

Context: a commentary


Rhode Island Center Freedom And Prosperity says Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour.

Context: a tweet


We Are Ohio says Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need.

Context: a television commercial


Democratic National Committee says that Tim Pawlenty eliminated health insurance for 33,000 to 35,000 people when he was governor of Minnesota.

Context: a Web ad


Mitch Mcconnell says A public option for health care would end private insurance because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option.

Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday.


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump saidas recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Barack Obama says his deficit plan made some adjustments to (Simpson-Bowles), and were putting it forward before Congress right now, a $4 trillion plan.

Context: a debate


Ultraviolet says Jeb Bush appointed a guardian for the fetus of a rape survivor.

Context: a Facebook post


Marina Dimitrijevic says Thanks to actions by the Milwaukee County Board on the 2013 budget, the amount of county taxes on the average home in the city of Milwaukee would be a $19 decrease.

Context: a radio interview


Patrick Kennedy says Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinsons disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana.

Context: news story


Ann Kirkpatrick says Sen. John McCain told dreamers that hell support the Dream Act, then he voted against it.

Context: an interview with MSNBC's Al Sharpton


Nicholas Mattiello says The Pell bridge is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge.

Context: a television interview


Jerry Patterson says a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the states emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain.

Context: a letter.


Brian Kilmeade says Colorado food stamp recipients can use ATMs to get cash to buy marijuana.

Context: a broadcast of "Fox and Friends"


Jeff Wagner says The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to wash your hands at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

Context: a radio show


James Clyburn says When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, Republicans stood on the sidelines

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


Hillary Clinton says Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined.

Context: a speech posted on Medium


Barack Obama says Under Republican economic policies, the typical American family saw their incomes fall by about 6 percent.

Context: a speech in Elyria, Ohio


Chain Email says "Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."

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


National Rifle Association says Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it.

Context: a speech by Wayne LaPierre at the Conservative Political Action Conference


Tom Barrett says Using a surcharge on the cigarette tax to help pay for a new downtown sports arena is not feasible under state law.

Context: an interview


Tom Harkin says employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage.

Context: in a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Jeff Greene says Kendrick Meek was named one of the two most corrupt Democrats in Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Context: a campaign mail piece.


American Leadhership Pac says Under Mayor Angel Taveras Providences bond rating was downgraded from A to BBB, two steps above junk-bond status.

Context: a website


Jd Alexander says using E-Verify is a fair amount of cost, about $20 per person that does not match.

Context: comments to the 'St. Petersburg Times' and 'Miami Herald'


Ann Coulter says There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts you should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Context: Fox's "O'Reilly Factor"


Jimmy Carter says Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work.

Context: women's conference session


Scott Walker says Wisconsin has created just under 100,000 jobs since he took office.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting.

Context: a speech


Donald Trump says Were the most highly taxed nation in the world.

Context: an interview on "Fox & Friends"


Mike Collins says federal regulations adopted in 2011 increased the cost of each vehicle for his business by $10,000.

Context: an interview


National Republican Congressional Committee says Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldnt add up to enough needed to pay down our nations debt.

Context: a press release


Facebook Posts says A new law requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment.

Context: a Facebook post


Cnsnews says under Oregon law, girls from 15 years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not.

Context: a news article.


Allen West says In Afghanistan "the (military) leadership has proposed a new medal, an award for 'Courageous Restraint' ... for 'NOT FIRING BACK.' "

Context: a blog on his campaign website


Jane Harman says The Justice Departments Fast and Furious gun-walking program started in the Bush administration.

Context: a panel on "Fox News Sunday"


Kathie Tovo says one of Austin City Council Member Randi Shades biggest contributors is the lobbyist for the Formula 1 racetrack planned outside Austin.

Context: campaign mailers.


Sarah Palin says As unbelievable as it sounds, your tax dollars are funding the federal governments Zombie Apocalypse Plan. I kid you not.

Context: a Facebook post


Lee Fisher says Rob Portman is the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China.

Context: a campaign speech


One Wisconsin Now says Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending

Context: a news release


Martin Omalley says When it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in Massachusetts (when Mitt Romney was governor), it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector.

Context: an appearance on Meet the Press


Tim Kaine says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.

Context: a debate.


Sherrod Brown says Eighty-seven percent of private insurance plans currently include (abortion) coverage.

Context: a fundraising letter


Gina Raimondo says Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average.

Context: a television interview


Newt Gingrich says One estimate says there may be three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia.

Context: a televised address


Josh Hawley says he fought Obama at the Supreme Court and won.

Context: a campaign ad


Sid Miller says actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen.

Context: a Facebook post of photo and caption on Miller's fan page


Chuck Todd says There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally, it would create an economic recession for the state.

Context: an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect


Us Chamber Commerce says Tim Kaine supported higher energy costs for families.

Context: a TV ad.


Jim Moran says Ending federal funding for National Public Radio would jeopardize 9,000 jobs.

Context: a floor speech.


Ted Deutch says Florida refused to allow theinsurance commissioner to negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high under Obamacare.

Context: a letter with other Florida lawmakers to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius


Alex Sink says Rick Scott has said that he would do away with the Department of Community Affairs.

Context: a debate


Greg Steube says Oregons Umpqua Community College where the shooting occurred was a gun-free zone.

Context: House Judiciary Committee hearing on his bill allowing concealed carry on college campuses


Wayne Lapierre says As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years.

Context: testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee


Richard Woods says Georgias CRCT set some of the lowest expectations for student proficiency in the nation.

Context: press release


Barack Obama says He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."

Context: a debate in Austin, Texas.


Loretta Sanchez says The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority.

Context: an interview on "Morning Joe"


Barack Obama says Romney outsourced call center jobs to India.

Context: a campaign ad


Amy Hanauer says To give a sense of how families are struggling, a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch.

Context: at a rally at the Ohio Statehouse


Paul Ryan says Obama puts 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of Medicare, who are required to cut Medicare ... that will lead to denied care for current seniors.

Context: a speech in The Villages, Fla.


Newt Gingrich says President Barack Obama has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing.

Context: a press conference


Pat Robertson says Margaret Sanger wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman.

Context: a TV broadcast.


Bob Mcdonnell says Virginia state employees pay nothing toward their pensions.

Context: a TV interviews


Richard Burr says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran.

Context: a press release


Shirley Franklin says 95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all.

Context: a television interview


Maria Sachs says Florida is the largest dog-racing state in the country.

Context: a press conference


Rick Perry says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Nathan Deal And Roy Barnes says Vows to keep Georgias race for governor civil and focused on the positive.

Context: statements to the press


Barack Obama says We cut our deficits by more than half.

Context: a speech in Milwaukee


Tom Price says A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaids value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program.

Context: a Medium post


Marco Rubio says Sen. Ted Cruz used to be in favor of birthright citizenship but is now against it.

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


Gilberto Hinojosa says 40,000 veterans in Texas wont get health care because Perry rejected Obamacares Medicaid expansion.

Context: an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”


Matthew Rothschild says U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is 18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high.

Context: an interview


League Conservation Voters says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit unlimited carbon pollution into our air

Context: a TV ad


Brad Schimel says An overwhelming majority of Republican and Democrat law enforcement leaders have endorsed Brad Schimel.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Joseph Cryan says What do Rutgers University, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, Stockton College, Rowan University and William Paterson all have in common? They all graduate less than 50 percent of their students within four years.

Context: an Assembly session


Pam Bondi says Opponent Holly Benson said that Just because youre poor doesnt mean youre unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.

Context: a campaign mail piece.


Rich Lowry says Most of the people who have signed up through the Obamacare exchanges already had insurance.

Context: a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"


Paul Bettencourt says a change in law he carried stopped a $100 million tax increase in the Dallas school district.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says Weve recovered (from the recession) faster and come farther than almost any other advanced country on Earth.

Context: a speech in Delaware


Jeff Greene says Jeff Greene on why hewent Cuba.

Context: comments to the media.


Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton isunder investigation with the FBI right now.

Context: the Fox Business Network debate


Rand Paul says The average (public school) teacher in Wisconsins making $89,000 a year in salary and benefits.

Context: an appearance on a TV interview program


Loretta Weinberg says (Chris Christie) has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system, and then states that the system is broke.

Context: a column on bluejersey.com


Marcy Kaptur says States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century.

Context: a floor speech in the House of Representatives


One New Jersey says Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike.

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says Mitt Romneys companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.

Context: a campaign commercial


John Oliver says 28 percent of Kentuckians dont have any online access.

Context: a segment on "Last Week Tonight"


Ben Carson says We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation.

Context: a speech in Manchester N.H.


Paul Ryan says The Obama administration called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.

Context: the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.


Steve Rothman says Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece.

Context: a statement in the Congressional Record


Rush Limbaugh says On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasnt even written.

Context: his radio show


Glenn Beck says Hillary Clinton makes more per hour at a speaking gig than the average CEO does in a year.

Context: a segment on his radio show


Matt Wand says Every time the Legislature suspended the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the states revenues.

Context: guest column


Tom Harkin says Cuba has a lower child mortality rate than ours. Their life expectancy is now greater than ours.

Context: a press conference


Nation Islam Research Group says Baltimore police are trained by Mossad and Shin Bet.

Context: a Facebook post


Scott Walker says Wisconsin ranks No. 2 in economic growth, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Context: a news release


Mark Neumann says he never voted for a tax increase.

Context: campaign website statements


Saxby Chambliss says When we lower tax rates, we generate more in revenues. That happened in 86 with the Reagan plan, happened in 2001, following the Bush plan.

Context: an interview


Pat Stevens says The Atlanta areas water planning district is now the national leader in conservation.

Context: a news article


Marla Stephens says The state of Wisconsin pays plumbers, engineers and other attorneys much, much more than it pays attorneys to represent poor people.

Context: a statement at a candidate forum


Tweets says Peyton Manning struggles in cold weather games.

Context: comments from sports pundits and fans on Twitter


Kelly Ayotte says Under President Bush in eight years, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama, weve added $5.3 trillion to the debt in the 3.5 years hes been in office.

Context: a town hall meeting in Merrimack, N.H.


Jeff Fitzgerald says Minnesota has passed and Indiana has passed right to work laws making union membership and dues optional

Context: an interview


Jd Alexander says Gov. Rick Scotts sale of the state planes was not proper.

Context: comments at the Senate Budget Committee.


Eric Cantor says The health care law is job killing.

Context: a bill introduced on the House floor.


David Frum says Weve seen a remarkable reduction in the number of Americans being executed -- its down nearly two-thirds over the past generation.

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


Jacky Rosen says Onthe Iran nuclear deal

Context: in an interview.


Liberals Are Cool says Q: What do these Patriotic Americans have in common? A: They are all Draft Dodgers.

Context: an Internet meme


Bob Ryan says Outside of recall elections, theres never been a public official removed from office in Wisconsin for anything but malfeasance in office.

Context: a city council meeting


Bernie S says Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account.

Context: a talk in Austin


Allan Levene says theres no language in the U.S. Constitution that prevents someone from running for Congress simultaneously in multiple states.

Context: an article


Alan Grayson says The United States is 50th in life expectancy in the world.

Context: MSNBC's "The Ed Show."


Rand Paul says Ebola is incredibly contagious, very transmissible and easy to catch.

Context: an interview with a New Hampshire radio station


National Republican Congressional Committee says In 2010, Betty Sutton voted to destroy Medicare.

Context: a news release


Gary Cobb says Travis County residents trusted me to take on Tom DeLay and we won.

Context: a video ad on his campaign website


Randi Shade says The turnout on May 14th was just 7 percent -- the lowest turnout in decades.

Context: a press release.


Dave Brat says Eric Cantor voted to fully fund Obamacare in October.

Context: a radio ad.


Scott Walker says On support for ethanol mandates

Context: a speech


Paul Ryan says The fiscal cliff agreement was the largest tax increase in history.

Context: an interview


Nathan Deal says On the mosque near ground zero.

Context: a newspaper article


Mitt Romney says Latin Americas economy is almost as big as the economy of China.

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


John Mccain says Obama "has no experience or background at all in national security affairs."

Context: interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Austin Scott says Jim Marshall votes liberal in Washington ... and we arent fooled.

Context: an e-mail to supporters


Rush Limbaugh says its not accidental that the villain in the Batman movie is named Bane.

Context: his syndicated radio show


Worldnetdaily says White House spokesman Robert Gibbs lied when he said President Obamas birth certificate is posted on the Internet.

Context: an advertisement


Sarah Palin says A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not entirely voluntary.

Context: her Facebook page


Kurt Schrader says Scott Bruun still believes in the same old direction that George Bush had before, which is to privatize Social Security.

Context: a debate at the Salem City Club


Barack Obama says When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won't care about this.' "

Context: a speech in Tampa, Fla.


Ernest Almonte says I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago.

Context: an interview on WLNE's "On the Record"


Lamar Alexander says Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma.

Context: prepared remarks at a Congressional field hearing.


Lindsey Graham says The labor participation rate is at an all-time low.

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


Mitt Romney says Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."

Context: a TV ad


Jean Schmidt says For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion.

Context: a speech in the House of Representatives


Naral Pro Choice America says Virginia spends $400,000 on abstinence programs while losing $2.5 million in federal funds due to Gov. Bob McDonnells political agenda.

Context: a web video.


Barack Obama says Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americanscan get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill.

Context: a public address


Allan Fung says Cranstons 2014-2015 budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs.

Context: a letter to taxpayers


Dan Patrick says the 2014-15 state budget cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs.

Context: a campaign video


Stephen Martin says Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan.

Context: an interview.


Commonsense Ten says Roy Blunt secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris into a national security bill while Blunts girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000.

Context: a TV ad


Priorities Usa Action says Donald Trump mocked someone with a disability.

Context: a TV ad


Rob Portman says We rank below Ethiopia, Im told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea.

Context: a television interview


Jeff Brandes says Bill Heller raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids.

Context: a campaign video


Jeff Greene says The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies."

Context: a debate


Michael Doherty says the state auditor found that 37 percent of the 428,000 students receiving free and reduced-price lunches are ineligible.

Context: a speech before the East Jersey Tea Party


Ted Cruz says Barack Obama began his presidency going on a worldwide apology tour.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate hosted by Empower Texans and the Texas Public Policy Foundation


Jim Kenney says [My administration is] well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise.

Context: remarks at the Better Bike Share conference


Planned Parenthood says "President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan."

Context: an alert to members


Chris Devaney says President Obama campaign surrogate Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley acknowledged that we are not better off than we were four years ago.

Context: Tennessee Republican Party web site posting


Wisconsin Manufacturers And Commerce says Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.

Context: an opinion piece


Jim Marshall says Said he opposed every budget Republican and Democrat.

Context: campaign video


Nancy Pelosi says The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

Context: a fundraising letter


Jeannette Vaught says Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (states) cattle industry.

Context: an op-ed published in the Austin American-Statesman


Jeff Sessions says President Barack Obama has allowed, each year hes been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... Theyve declined every year since President Bush left office.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"


Allen Alley says Oregons budget has grown by 49 percent in just four years.

Context: a website


Barack Obama says "We've created or saved up to 1.6 million jobs, according to the CBO -- the Congressional Budget Office -- through the Recovery Act."

Context: a speech


Mitch Mcconnell says Matt Bevin has repeatedly failed to pay his taxes.

Context: a campaign ad


Steve Poizner says California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman "contributed to, and campaigned, for" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Context: a campaign commercial


Louie Gohmert says a Justice Department memo directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality.

Context: an interview.


Ted Strickland says Kasichs trade deals cost Ohio thousands of jobs - 49,000 jobs to Mexico, 91,000 to China.

Context: a campaign video


Pat Roberts says with Jon Corzine, its the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues.

Context: an interview on Fox Business News


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans.

Context: a TV ad


Viral Image says Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War.

Context: Facebook post by Liberals are Cool


Tim Lee says Candidate Bill Byrne used campaign funds for work on his personal car.

Context: an interview


Joe Sestak says Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldnt pay any taxes.

Context: a campaign commercial


Barack Obama says A construction worker whos making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldnt be paying higher tax rates than the guy whos making $50 million a year. And thats how its working right now.

Context: a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio


Janet Napolitano says We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our countrys history.

Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club


Rand Paul says Theres never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens.

Context: a presidential debate


Ron Johnson says Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people in this country illegally are working.

Context: an interview


Democratic National Committee says Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still wont.

Context: a Web video.


Tommy Thompson says he never supported federal health care individual mandate.

Context: tweets


Chris Christie says the United States is in the worst recovery from an economic recession since World War II.

Context: the fourth Republican presidential debate


Curt Schilling says In 1940, only 7 percentof Germans were Nazis.

Context: a tweet


Saxby Chambliss says The recidivism rate is nearly 29 percent and has been climbing steadily since detainees began being released from Guantanamo.

Context: a debate on the Senate floor


Mary Burke says Under Scott Walkers tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year.

Context: a TV ad


John Kasich says You cant raise taxes in Ohio. We are one of the highest taxed states in the country.

Context: a television campaign ad


Michael Moore says Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

Context: a speech to protesters in Madison, Wisconsin


Steve Stockman says president is spending $2.2 billion to give away ObamaPhones.

Context: a tweet


Mitt Romney says Obama has failed to pass a budget.

Context: a speech to newspaper editors


Steve Buckstein says Did you know Wisconsins AFSCME union has lost 50%+ of its members since no longer requiring membership?

Context: in a tweet, online post


Crossroads Gps says Joe Sestak voted to gut Medicare ... reducing benefits for 854,489 seniors and jeopardizing access to care for millions.

Context: a campaign commercial


Chris Christie says Democratic tax hikes led $70 billion of wealth to leave New Jersey between 2004 and 2008, and mainly relocate to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Context: a speech at Princeton University


Scott Walker says Wisconsins Government Accountability Board ignored their duties and did not regularly audit voters to remove felons for a span of 16 elections.

Context: a series of tweets


Donald Trump says Florida had five sanctuary cities while Jeb Bush was governor.

Context: a speech at a political rally in Phoenix


Charlie Crist says Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."

Context: the State of the State address


Maggie Hassan says New Hampshire had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country during Maggie Hassans time in the state Senate.

Context: an interview on the Daily Rundown on MSNBC.


Scott Walker says On timing of announcement for president.

Context: remarks to reporters


Rand Paul says When the presidents spokesman was asked about (Anwar) al-Awlakis son, he said he should have chosen a more responsible father.

Context: a Senate filibuster speech


Sheldon Whitehouse says In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.

Context: a Senate speech


Hillary Clinton says We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Carly Fiorina says Were destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Carl Paladino says In Buffalos SolarCity project, Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job.

Context: a conversation with The Buffalo News at the Republican National Convention.


Barack Obama says Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."

Context: a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla.


American Principles Action says Barack Obama has deported more people than any other president in this countrys history.

Context: an advertisement


Donald Trump says The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011.

Context: a policy plan on immigration.


Rick Perry says fewer than 30 percent of Texas college students graduate in four years and only 58 percent graduate within six years.

Context: a press conference.


Kelli Stargel says In states where beer is unregulated, the per capita production is significantly higher.

Context: a newspaper editorial


Bob Mcdonnell says The average kid comes out of Virginia colleges with about $25,000-plus in debt.

Context: a news conference.


Julian Castro says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should borrow money if you have to from your parents.

Context: keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.


Mike Pence says In the state of Indiana, Ive signed more than $3.5 billion in tax relief.

Context: a pre-debate appearance in Virginia


Mike Pence says Donald Trump never said that more nations should get nuclear weapons.

Context: in the 2016 vice presidential debate


Mitt Romney says "Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."

Context: a campaign event carried on CNN.


Joy Pullmann says Scott Walker couldnt get his own party to back more than a 500-student increase in Milwaukees school choice program, but in Indiana, Mitch Daniels voucher program is approaching 30,000 students two years after opening.

Context: an opinion piece


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott wants to take us back to the days of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Context: an online video


Claire Mccaskill says Hillary Clinton laid the groundwork for getting chemical weapons out of Syria.

Context: an appearance on "Fox News Sunday"


Restore Our Future says Newt Gingrich teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming.

Context: a video ad


Dan Stein says The Senate immigration bill unleashes a massive increase in overall immigration. Were talking about a population increase under the Senate bill of over 70 million people in 20 years.

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


Newt Gingrich says a federal judge in San Antonio issued a ruling that not only could the students not pray at their graduation, if they used the word benediction, the word invocation, the word God, asked the audience to stand or asked for a moment of silence, he would put the superintendent in jail.

Context: remarks after winning the South Carolina Republican presidential primary


Scott Walker says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from extortion from a union because the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions.

Context: a campaign proposal


Chain Email says Obama "shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service."

Context: a chain e-mail


National Republican Senatorial Committee says And while (Ted) Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governors mansion.

Context: "Flush," a campaign ad


Jack Reed says In Rhode Island, only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Charlie Baird says Weve had the same leadership in the Travis County DAs office for 30 years.

Context: a campaign handout.


Bill Maher says Do you know that we have pipes carrying natural gas in this country that are made of wood? Im not joking.

Context: an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live"


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney says class sizes dont matter.

Context: a campaign ad


Nathan Deal says Roy Barnes voted against a bill in the state Senate that would have made it easier to convict child abusers.

Context: a press release


New Day America says Many just call him Lyin Ted. ... HisTV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air.

Context: a television ad.


Joe Biden says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support massive cuts in Social Security for future generations.

Context: a speech


Jon Huntsman says We created a flat tax in the state of Utah.

Context: the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa


Rudy Giuliani says "We had no domestic attacks under Bush."

Context: an interview on 'Good Morning America'


George Lemieux says The White House has "refused" international help in dealing with the oil spill.

Context: an interview on CNN and a posting on Twitter


Sherry Sylvester says personal-injury trial lawyers have provided over 80 percent of the funding for the Texas Democratic Party for over a decade.

Context: an opinion column.


Donald Trump says Ted Cruz never denied his father was photographedwith Lee Harvey Oswald.

Context: a campaign rally in Cleveland


Christopher Plante says The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.

Context: an interview


Kevin Boyce says Our most important work has been creating and retaining almost 55,000 Ohio jobs.

Context: a campaign e-mail


Brian Robinson says Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and theyve done it without creating one job.

Context: a newspaper interview


John Cornyn says My office sends federal money back every year.

Context: an interview for "Inside Texas Politics" on WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas


Jeff Wentworth says We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have concealed handgun licenses.

Context: a TV interview


Donald Trump says President Barack Obamas recent New York fundraising trip cost between $25 million and $50 million.

Context: a broadcast of "Fox and Friends" on Fox News


Jim Moran says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.

Context: a letter.


Rick Perry says hes the first Aggie governor of Texas.

Context: his inaugural address.


Tom Barrett says On using Gov. Scott Walkers collective-bargaining limits to help balance the city of Milwaukee budget


Marco Rubio says A minor cannot get a tattoo without parental consent but can get an abortion without parental consent.

Context: an interview with Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention


Alan Grayson says Daniel Webster is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home.

Context: a campaign commercial


New Jersey Education Association says New Jerseys public school students have the best Advanced Placement scores in the nation.

Context: NJEA's website


Sam Adams says The citys 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district

Context: a City Council meeting


Julie Lassa says She created the Waste, Fraud and Mismanagement Hotline.... (that) has saved Wisconsin taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Context: a statement on campaign web site


Richard Saslaw says $65 million from ABC privatization will not pay for even an overpass in Tysons Corner.

Context: a statement to Alexandria City Council


Dan Becker says This is the first time since Roe was decided in 1973 that a court has granted personhood status to the preborn.

Context: a news release


Basic Rights Oregon says Republican candidates in Oregon are advocating violence against gays.

Context: an e-mail


Edward Markey says "We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis."

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


Paul Ryan says The debt will soon eclipse our entire economy.

Context: a response to the State of the Union address


Dan Gelber says Dave Aronbergs career legal experience is less than two years as Asst. AG/private attorney.

Context: a campaign flier.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says theres a 100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons.

Context: a CNN interview


Beverly Hall says Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to dramatic score increases on state tests.

Context: a commentary published in Education Week


Mitt Romney says On signing a no-tax pledge

Context: statements to the media


Rob Andrews says the number-one source of illegal immigration is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again.

Context: an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey


Marco Rubio says On opposing citizenship for illegal immigrants

Context: a Republican debate in Iowa on Fox News


Kiplinger Com says Georgia is one of the 10 most tax-friendly states for retirees.

Context: press release


Louie Gohmert says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.

Context: an interview on C-SPAN.


Winning Our Future says Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control in Massachusetts, hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets.

Context: a television ad


Seneca Jones says Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?

Context: newspaper ads


Chain Email says Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011.

Context: a chain e-mail


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Gov. Scott Walkers proposed budget would sell off Wisconsins state parks.

Context: a news release


Reclaim America Pac says Kelly Ayotte voted to fix background checks.

Context: a TV ad


Back Basics says the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nations as a whole.

Context: a newspaper ad


Corey Lewandowski says The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates.

Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday


Barack Obama says "She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."

Context: a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va.


Paul Broun says The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.

Context: in a radio debate


Mark Warner says If you look at our tax mix, the share of corporate revenues as a percentage of our overall revenue mix has declined by about half over the last 30 years.

Context: an interview with The Wall Street Journal.


Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus says On sharing power with Republicans

Context: a floor debate.


Barack Obama says Women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men.

Context: a campaign ad


Stacey Abrams says Georgia ranks near the bottom in per capita transportation spending.

Context: a press release


Scott Jones says allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances on a female sheriffs deputy were found by two separate judges to not have merit.

Context: a radio interview


Alan Grayson says The more than $800,000 raised by the Alan Grayson campaign last quarter was "#1 among all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives."

Context: an email


Gordon Quan says Some cardiologists estimate 70 percent of all males over 50 have some form of heart disease.

Context: an e-mail blast


Jeff Kottkamp says If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent.

Context: an interview on Newsmax TV


Harry Reid says The Koch brothers are the richest people in the world. Individually, theyre only fifth. Put them together theyre the richest in the world.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Florida Democratic Party says Shows in a television ad that police took evidence fromSolantic, Rick Scotts new health care company, after allegations emerged that the company was engaging in fraud.

Context: a TV ad.


Lamar Smith says Mexican government officials hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country.

Context: an interview with the Fox News Network


Boyd Richie says Gov. Rick Perry failed to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities.

Context: a press release


Glenn Beck says When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women.

Context: comments on his television show


Facebook Posts says Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama might be to blame for the Fort Hood shootings.

Context: a Facebook meme


Mark Pocan says Wisconsin was the first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Context: a press release


Stacey Evans says By fiscal year 2013, the state is expected to wipe through [HOPE scholarship] reserve funds.

Context: an op-ed


Chain Email says Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.

Context: a chain e-mail


Charlie Crist says Under Rick Scott, homeowners are paying higher (home insurance) premiums for less coverage.

Context: a campaign document


Nancy Pelosi says the number of Democrats who voted for the GOP measure allowing health plan renewals is close to the number who voted on GOP bills to delay mandates on employers and individuals.

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


Harry Reid says "Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security."

Context: a campaign commercial


Whoopi Goldberg says For the first time in history, (Thors) hammer is being held by a woman.

Context: a segment on "The View"


Marco Rubio says Three or four countries out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition are providing military force.

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


Harry Reid says (Koch Industries) is among the worst in toxic air pollution in the entire United States ... and churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero.

Context: remarks on the Senate floor


Pierre Thomas says From 2000 to 2008, we averaged about five mass shootings a year. Were now averaging 15. So thats a three-fold increase.

Context: a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"


Sylvia Romo says Lloyd Doggett made millions off companies like Bank of America while they took taxpayer bailout money.

Context: a campaign mailer.


Freedom And Responsibility Pac says Residents could have received nearly $48M for Local Schools, Fire District, Sheriffs Dept. and Social Services.

Context: a mailed flier


Red White And Blue Fund says Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates.

Context: a campaign ad


Sheldon Whitehouse says 61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is solid evidence the earth is warming, ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is no solid evidence the earth is warming.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Priorities Usa Action says Romney wants to take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires.

Context: a campaign ad


Bill Kristol says President Barack Obama came into office very concerned about wiretappings but then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings (and) he decided the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Donald Trump says You can be an NFL player with murder charges and not be suspended.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says "During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."

Context: the campaign's website.


Chain Email says This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of not wanting to offend anyone.BUT on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House.

Context: a chain email


Peter Palumbo says The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. Were the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. Were the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes.

Context: a speech


Harold Metts says Rhode Island has a [inmate] recidivism rate of over 60 percent.

Context: a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate


Mark Sanford says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill "won't actually stimulate the economy."

Context: an op-ed article in the Washington Post.


Ann Coulter says South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is an immigrant.

Context: comments on Fox Business Network


George Allen says Tim Kaine doubled down in his support of devastating defense cuts, saying the the deal was the right thing to do.

Context: a website post.


Hillary Clinton says "I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."

Context: an interview on CNN's <i> American Morning</i>


Dont Let Florida Go Pot says 25 percent of all drug-related fatal vehicle accidents in the U.S. involve marijuana.

Context: on their website


Charlie Crist says On support for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Context: an interview on CNN


Kendrick Meek says "Kendrick Meek is the only candidate who has consistently been against expanded drilling."

Context: his campaign website, asking supporters to sign a petition to oppose offshore oil drilling


Mitt Romney says The total unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers has increased from 10% to 10.3% between January 2009 and March 2012.

Context: a graphic released by his campaign


Barack Obama says Today, the United States is the most respected country on Earth.

Context: remarks at the White House


John Burzichelli says in the governors proposed budget the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget.

Context: an interview on NJTV


Hillary Clinton says "I don't answer hypotheticals."

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Chain Email says On Tim Kaine: In exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission.

Context: a chain email


Scott Walker says We are experiencing the worst economic recovery America has ever had.

Context: a new book


Frank Lautenberg says When we look at the number of murders in the United States (in) 2009, we had 9,500 people murdered. When we look around the world, we see ... large countries, the U.K., Germany, Japan had 200 or less killed in a year.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Jim Moran says The growth in health care costs has been reined in through the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a statement.


Donald Trump says We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years.

Context: the second presidential debate


Barack Obama says The minimum wage in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office.

Context: a speech at the Center for American Progress


Barack Obama says "There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."

Context: a debate in Oxford, Miss.


Bob Mcdonnell says hes proposed the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history.

Context: a speech.


Tweets says While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.

Context: tweets


Kendrick Meek says "A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race."

Context: a television interview


Chris Christie says New Jerseys job growth in May represents 25 percent of all the jobs created in the country.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Michele Bachmann says "President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."

Context: an interview on CNN's Larry King Live


Matthew Cooke says The United States has more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined.

Context: a Huffington Post column


Donald Trump says As usual, Hillary the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.

Context: a tweet


Gail Collins says Louie Gohmert of Texas blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.

Context: her opinion column


Hillary Clinton says A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.

Context: a foreign policy speech


Jerry Brown says Taxes went down under Jerry Brown.

Context: a campaign ad


Marco Rubio says China is practicing how to blow up our satellites.

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


Dana Perino says A lot of the problems with forest fires ...is because of bad policy (not to clear out the forests) that was put in place by environmentalists.

Context: a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News


Barry Hinckley says Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a $525-billion tax increase on the middle class.

Context: a television commercial


Nathan Deal says The Americans for Tax Reform pledge relates to new taxes that were going to be initiated by legislative action.

Context: a blog post


Viral Image says Bernie Sanders opposes the death penalty, and Hillary Clinton supports it.

Context: an Internet graphic


Defenders Wildlife Action Fund Defenders Wildlife says Palin supports "aerial hunting of wolves and other wildlife."

Context: a TV ad


Viral Buzzfeed says Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.

Context: video


Donald Trump says It has been 269 days since (Hillary) Clinton has held a press conference.

Context: an email


Ed Fitzgerald says he was the first local official to endorse Barack Obama

Context: a speech to Ohio College Democrats.


Ted Strickland says About $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the current state general revenue fund budget.

Context: a posting to the state's Office of Management and Budget website


Mitt Romney says that under President John F. Kennedy, government took up 27 percent of the economy, and today it consumes 37 percent.

Context: the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa


Tim Pawlenty says President Obama has stopped using the phrase war on terror.

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


Dianne Feinstein says We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball


Competitive Enterprise Institute says Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay the taxes in other years.

Context: a news release


George Allen says The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost, since the stimulus bill was signed.

Context: a press release.


Michele Bachmann says After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa


Bob Corker says A typical married couple will contribute $119,000 into Medicare but will receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes.

Context: a USA Today column.


Kasim Reed says We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone.

Context: the State of the City address


William Howell says Theres talk in Congress now about basically confiscating your private 401(k) or IRA plan and rolling it into Social Security to strengthen Social Security.

Context: in a radio interview.


Don Gaetz says More than half of last years U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed.

Context: an op-ed


Reed Gusciora says Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples.

Context: a news release


Rick Scott says 832,000 people lost their job while (Charlie Crist was)governor.

Context: a gubernatorial debate in Miramar


Chain Email says AIG insures the pension trust of the United States Congress!

Context: a chain e-mail


Florida Chamber Commerce says Medicaid is close to 30 percent of the state budget and the biggest expenditure at the state.

Context: a Senate health policy committee hearing


Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is responsible for pending defense cuts.

Context: a campaign ad


Tommy Thompson says opponent Tammy Baldwin has had not one positive ad in the campaign for U.S. Senate.

Context: a Milwaukee Press Club appearance


John Mccain says "Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings."

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says "I didn't campaign on a public option."

Context: an interview with the Washington Post


Numbers Usa says More than half of all drivers licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens.

Context: a Facebook meme


Bill Kennemer says We just dont want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops.

Context: a news story


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump and Marco Rubio opposed Cruzs efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

Context: a TV ad that ran mostly in Iowa


Bob Mcdonnell says Ninety percent of the job growth in Virginia has been in the private sector.

Context: a TV interview.


Barack Obama says "Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"

Context: a speech at the White House.


Michael Chippendale says Rhode Island has the worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska.

Context: speech on the RI House floor


Joe Morrissey says The city of Richmond built the second richest team in the NFL a $14 million stadium.

Context: a debate.


City Atlanta says A database police use to look up wanted suspects excludes certain warrants issued by Atlanta Municipal Court.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says On whether he would put a missile shield in Poland.

Context: a White House announcement


Mike Tate says Welcome to Wisconsin road signs have always been made in Wisconsin,but Scott Walker is outsourcing themto an out-of-state company and paying more money for them.

Context: an interview


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Russ Feingold cast the deciding vote for the largest tax increase in history

Context: a news release


Facebook Posts says Washington, D.C., now has greater population than Wyoming and Vermont, more active duty military than 29 states, more tax revenue than 29 states (and) a larger domestic product than 27 states.

Context: on the Internet


Media Trackers says signers of recall petitions against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are at risk because of newly discovered provisions in state law.

Context: an article


Herman Cain says in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. Thats why people have to wait.

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wanted the wall.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Marcy Kaptur says Lake Erie contains more native fish than all the other Great Lakes combined.

Context: a House of Representatives floor speech


Nicholas Mattiello says There havent been tax cuts for the rich in Rhode Island.

Context: an interview on "10 News Conference"


Barack Obama says On a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.

Context: flip-o-meter


Eric Holder says recent studies indicate that nationally, only 8 percent of white voting-age citizens but 25 percent of African-American voting-age citizens lack government-issued photo IDs.

Context: a speech to the NAACP convention in Houston.


Hillary Clinton says Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy.

Context: a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio


Republican Party Wisconsin says over 50 percent of U.S. job growth in June came from Wisconsin.

Context: a news release


Dont Let Florida Go Pot says Less than 5 percent of registered users in states allowing medical marijuana have cancer or AIDS.

Context: the group's website


Maggie Hassan says Kelly Ayotte has voted to defund Planned Parenthood six times.

Context: an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor


Deborah Kafoury says When Deborah took office, the (Sellwood Bridge) project had languished for years, with only $11 million in funds. With her leadership the remaining funding was secured that got the project moving forward.

Context: a campaign website statement


Jennifer Shilling says 71% of WIs roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WIs bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

Context: a tweet


Mike Pence says Hillary [Clinton] wants to raise taxes by over a trillion dollars.

Context: a speech at a campaign rally.


Rick Scott says We are seeing dramatic rate cuts to Medicare that will affect seniors ability to keep their doctor, hospital and prevention services.

Context: an online campaign ad


Rick Perry says "We had a press conference here that interestingly no one in the mainstream media covered."

Context: an interview.


Barack Obama says As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, there were days where folks couldnt go outside. because of all the pollution in the air.

Context: a speech on climate change


Tim Kaine says Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country.

Context: a speech in Phoenix


Barack Obama says By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance for the first time in 17 years.

Context: a speech about the Affordable Care Act.


Elizabeth Cohen says If someone is in a room that has measles and leaves and you walk in two hours later, you could get measles from that person.

Context: an interview with Anderson Cooper


Citizens Lower Taxes And Stronger Economy says St. Pete Beachs local version of Amendment 4 resulted in seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the citys legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate.

Context: an Internet ad.


Katrina Vanden Heuvel says Americans now support strikes (against ISIS) but the support for ground troops is not there. The support is very thin.

Context: a panel on ABC's "This Week"


Mike Gravel says "In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."

Context: a debate at Howard University.


Adam Hasner says While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party.

Context: an ad


Michael Sullivan says Texas lawmakers agreed to cut states rainy day fund in half, spending $4 billion from current $8 billion.

Context: a tweet.


Kay Bailey Hutchison says the Senate will have a record number of female senators in 2013.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor.


Newt Gingrich says We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.


Dennis Kucinich says About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district.

Context: an email to supporters


Arizona Citizens Defense League says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms.

Context: an email to supporters


Elizabeth Warren says The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago.

Context: a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages


Elizabeth Roberts says She led the fight to stop health insurance rate hikes and saved Rhode Island families over $150 million.

Context: a campaign commercial


George Lemieux says "Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt."

Context: a message on Twitter


Lou Dobbs says The Obama administration manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration.

Context: a segment on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'


Madison Action Fund says Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson is a liberal who voted with Nancy Pelosi to fund sex study programs of San Francisco prostitutes and to regulate the sale of firearms.

Context: a campaign ad in Idaho


Club Growth says Arizona congressional candidate Christine Jones called Hillary Clinton a capable and respected leader, and an effective secretary of state. ...Hillary Clinton effective? Christine Jones thinks so.

Context: a political advertisement


Jerry Brown says Virtually no Republican in Washington accepts climate change science.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Branko Radulovacki says I am the only U.S. Senate candidate who spoke out against bombing Syria, and who challenged Georgias governor and insurance commissioner over obstruction to the Affordable Care Act.

Context: an email


Revitalize Cobb says The economic impact of new Atlanta Braves stadium includes 9,241 new jobs and $295 million in wages.

Context: a mailer


Brad Avakian says In Oregon, women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar that men earn for doing the same job. Thats just wrong.

Context: a campaign website statement


Mike Keown says It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000.

Context: his campaign Web site


Mark Dayton says Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks.

Context: a campaign ad


Breitbart says Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, was a member of Bill Clintons defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.

Context: a story


Lincoln Chafee says Rhode Islands legislature is the strongest in the country.

Context: a newspaper interview


Bernie S says We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low.

Context: a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.


Donald Trump says Look, we are at war with these people and they dont wear uniforms. This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now.

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


Joe Biden says "In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month."

Context: an op-ed in 'USA Today'


Charles Schumer says In 2010, uninsured voters made up about 5 percent of the electorate.

Context: remarks at the National Press Club


Mitt Romney says "The mayor said 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.' "

Context: a debate in St. Petersburg, Fla.


Marco Rubio says Marriage decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent.

Context: a speech


Bernie S says Out of the total U.S. military budget, significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism.

Context: the Democratic debate in Iowa


Our Portland Our Schools says it will cost $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools.

Context: campaign material


Kathleen Passidomo says It is a greater crime to have an untagged alligator than to host an open house party (for kids).

Context: a newspaper article


George Will says We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns.

Context: a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"


Moveon says Senators who have accepted millions in campaign contributions from the financial industry voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages.

Context: a Web ad


Maggie Hassan says During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time.

Context: a speech


Hillary Clinton says When it comes to fighting terrorism, Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture.

Context: a speech at Stanford University.