Dubose Porter says he "fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003."

Context: for DuBose Porter's gubernatorial campaign


Bill Clinton says When we moved into the White House, we had the lowest net worth of any family since Harry Truman.

Context: an interview with NBC News


Georgia State Senators says Say easing restrictions on selling alcohol on Sundays will result in more traffic crashes and fatalities.

Context: a legislative debate


Committee Our Childrens Future says Chris Christie inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region.

Context: a television ad


Dick Armey says Right now the Tea Party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats.

Context: an interview with NBC


Coast Guard says Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast.

Context: news release


Scott Walker says that even if his budget is adopted, private schools in the choice program would be getting about half the per-pupil funds that public schools receive

Context: a news release


Scott Walker says Figures for September 2014s job growth in Wisconsin mark the largest private-sector job creation weve had in the month of September in more than a decade

Context: a speech


Phil Robertson says According to the CDC, 110 million Americans now have a sexually transmitted illness.

Context: a speech at the CPAC conference


Chain Email says the former president of the Czech Republic said the American people were a confederacy of fools for electing Barack Obama.

Context: a chain email


Don Gaetz says We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief.

Context: Florida Senate floor debate


Ew Jackson says President Obama is reducing our naval fleet to 1917 levels...

Context: a news release.


Barack Obama says "Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.

Context: an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopolous."


Maggie Hassan says Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.

Context: her budget address


Donald Trump says Its possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obamas 2008 victory in North Carolina.

Context: a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin


Geraldine Thompson says The facts show that approximately 40 persons on death row have had all of their appellate review completed and await only the governors signature on a death warrant to end the case.

Context: comments made on the House floor.


Barack Obama says For the first time in 13 years, our dependence on foreign oil is below 50 percent.

Context: a campaign commercial


Loretta Sanchez says If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (Californias Proposition 57) passes. If you do a drive-by shooting, you can get out of jail free, if Proposition 57 passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free.

Context: a U.S. Senate campaign debate.


Citizens Fairness says Amanda Murphy has two vacation homes around the world.

Context: in a campaign mailer


John Mccain says "I joined the Gang of 14, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, so that we wouldn't blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to."

Context: a virtual town hall meeting


Patriot Majority Usa says Gov. Nathan Deal has taken at least $15,600 from the (Koch brothers), their businesses, and their employees.

Context: a news release


Mike Dewine says A man using bath salts reported that raccoons had set fire inside his home and stolen his cell phone.

Context: a news conference


Rob Portman says A couple retiring today will pay about $119,000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes.

Context: a congressional hearing


Steve Ogden says Rick Perry advocated to liquidate the states rainy day fund in 2007.

Context: remarks on the Senate floor


Cw Bill Young says The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of our health programs."

Context: a speech to Pinellas County Republicans.


Tom Barrett says Scott Walker says he would ban stem cell research

Context: a campaign TV ad


Leah Vukmir says For the first time in history, Wisconsin has more government jobs than manufacturing jobs.

Context: a campaign brochure distributed door-to-door


Dennis Kucinich says The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American workers wage rose just 2 percent.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says A bill from U.S. Rep. Ted Yohoattempts to restrict the administrations ability to conduct national security and criminal background checks on undocumented immigrants.

Context: a statement of policy from the Executive Office of the President


Robert Barber says Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.

Context: a Providence Journal commentary


Gerry Connolly says America owns 3 percent of the worlds oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves.

Context: a House floor speech


Dannel Malloy says Air travelers cant get on a plane in the United States without someone doing a background check on them.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Bill Bennett says Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims.

Context: CNN's State of the Union with John King


Michele Bachmann says The federal government may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obamas health care bill.

Context: a rebuttal to the State of the Union address


Don Young says Suicide comes from federal government largesse saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing.

Context: a speech in Alaska


Bill Batchelder says We havent had control of the House for the last two years and its been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49.

Context: an interview


Pete Gallego says This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation.

Context: his farewell U.S. House speech


Rick Scott says According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in thefirst year and about 15,000 jobs afterfive years.

Context: his weekly radio address.


Alliance Americas Future says We just cant afford to pay 100 percent of government employee benefits.

Context: a campaign mailing


Texas Right Life says University of Texas students signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old.

Context: an email blast


Rick Scott says I have askedtheDivision of Emergency Management toreport directly to me.

Context: his State of the State speech.


Rahm Emanuel says Weve added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nations obligations.

Context: a news interview


Monica Wehby says The U.N. Arms Treatyinfringes upon our right to keep and bear arms.

Context: a campaign website statement


Paula Dockery says "Teachers will not be able to return to work after raising their children."

Context: an opinion column in the Lakeland Ledger


Make Us Great Again says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.

Context: a video ad


John Mccain says The Jewish holiday Purim is "their version of Halloween here."

Context: a news conference in Israel


Bill Mccollum says "The fact that Rick Scott is running for governor as a 'reformer' would be funny if it wasn't so outrageous. This is a man who barely escaped imprisonment."

Context: a press release.


Mary Burke says Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin unemployments up from 4.8% to 6.2%

Context: a TV ad


Steve Southerland says If you have a job in this country, (theres a) 97 percent chance that youre not going to be in poverty.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


John Cornyn says According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 71.2 percent of Hispanic registered voters in Texas and over 86 percent of African American registered voters participated in the 2012 elections.

Context: an opinion column.


Mario Loyola says Wisconsins state budget is almost twice as large per person as the state budget of Texas, and even after billions in tax cuts, Wisconsins working families and businesses remain subject to a heavy tax burden.

Context: an opinion piece


Facebook Posts says Target installed urinals in a womens bathroom to accommodate the ones who have giblets.

Context: a Facebook post


Chain Email says An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says CNNs Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans dont even pay any federal income tax.

Context: an interview before the CNN/Tea Party Express presidential debate


Juan Williams says The people who want President Barack Obama impeached are all white, theyre all older, and guess what, theyre in the far right wing of the Republican Party.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Mark Warner says PolitiFact has ruled that Ed Gillespies ads are false and misleading.

Context: a TV ad.


Sherrod Brown says "Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP."

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Ted Cruz says When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. Theres only one other four-year period where thats true. Thats true from 2008 to 2012.

Context: an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert


Barack Obama says For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world.

Context: a speech at North Carolina State University


Scott Walker says The largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees.

Context: an interview


Bill Maher says Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years.

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


Mary Landrieu says Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.

Context: an interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz


Barack Obama says "We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."

Context: a speech in Dayton, Ohio


Ron Johnson says For the first time in U.S. history, a personal inaction will be deemed unlawful -- not purchasing a health-insurance plan

Context: an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal


Paul Ryan says American colleges amount to a cartel.

Context: a tweet


Bobby Jindal says Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


David Alameel says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.

Context: his speech at the state convention of the Texas Democratic Party


Kamala Harris says Over the last 40 years, this countrys prison population has grown by 500 percent.

Context: a tweet.


Emergency Committee Israel says While President Obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear Iran, Hagel says military action is not a viable, feasible, responsible option.

Context: an ad


Chris Christie says Bernie Sanderss plan is to raise your taxes to 90 percent.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.


Ron Johnson says Russ Feingold broke his 1992 promise to always get the majority of funding from Wisconsin residents.

Context: in a campaign ad


Bruce Rauner says Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers comp system. Thats the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.

Context: a press conference


Donald Trump says We dont have bridges being built in the United States.

Context: a CNN interview


Michael Mccaul says More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than whats spent combating Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Scott Walker says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt there wasnt a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people.

Context: a speech


Don Zimmerman says Every time you buy an airline ticket, the federal government runs a background check on you.

Context: a press release.


John Thrasher says We will be the first party to elect a bald guy to governor.

Context: comments at the Republican Party of Florida's annual meeting.


Joseph Kyrillos says Robert Menendez is the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I havent raised any Wall Street money at all.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Allen West says In the first 24 to 36 hours of the operation in Libya, you saw $115 million go downrange because a Tomahawk cruise missile is a little over $1 million each.

Context: a Fox News interview


Lee May says In the past year, DeKalb has attracted and retained more than 2,300 jobs.

Context: the 2015 State of the County address


Barack Obama says "Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."

Context: a debate in Nashville, Tenn.


Austan Goolsbee says Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years.

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


Violence Policy Center says Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.

Context: an annual study


My City Bikes says Bicycle ownership drops by half while obesity in Rhode Island rises by 154 percent

Context: news release


Danny Tarkanian says "Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true."

Context: a Nevada U.S. Senate race campaign commercial


Clay Aiken says A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay.

Context: a posting on Twitter


Dave Aronberg says Gov. Charlie Crist has called him "a rock star."

Context: campaign Web site


George Lemieux says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack took seven and a half years to finish college.

Context: a web ad


Education Action Group says Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PBJ sandwiches racist.

Context: an online post


Chris Christie says these Jersey Shore folks, theyre from New York.

Context: a radio interview


Samir Chachoua says he cured Charlie Sheen and the island of Comoros of HIV with milk from goats, which had arthritis.

Context: comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Maggie Hassan says Kelly Ayotte voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks -- (buyers) can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks.

Context: a campaign statement


Building Better Ohio says Government employees make 43 percent more in wages and benefits than private-sector workers.

Context: a campaign commercial


Bob Mcdonnell says Has created 60,000 net new jobs since taking office.

Context: a TV interview


Ron Paul says "I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel."

Context: a debate in St. Petersburg


Pat Carlson says In Texas, schools do not even have to teach sex education.

Context: an e-mail


Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe cashed in, walking away with millions from the demise of Global Crossing.

Context: a TV ad.


David Cicilline says Historically, the Social Security tax has been assessed on about 90% of U.S. income. Now it captures 83% because theres been such a growth of income among the highest earners.

Context: an interview on WPRI's Newsmakers program


Helen Glover says Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of the Western Hemisphere.

Context: a comment on her talk show


Ellen Troxclair says Statistics show you are about nine times more likely to be assaulted by a taxi driver in Austin than a driver for a ride-hailing service.

Context: a voter forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Austin Area


Hillary Clinton says "A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."

Context: a speech at the University of Pennsylvania.


Michelle Obama says While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."

Context: Denver


Bryce Reeves says Gov. Terry McAuliffe has made several statements that he would love to be in a Cabinet secretary position with the Clinton administration.

Context: a radio interview.


Bernie S says Very little of (the defense) budget less than 10 percent actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism.

Context: comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate


Tom Kean Sr says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.

Context: a radio interview on WNYC


Caroline Casagrande says Every American now is $51,000 in debt. Thats money I owe, thats money my children owe before they even go to kindergarten, thats their check to the federal government right now.

Context: an interview with NJTV's Michael Aron for "On The Record"


David Cicilline says The Republican candidate [John Loughlin] has talked about privatizing Social Security ... so we know where he stands on the issue.

Context: in a senior center address


Julian Castro says cuts by Gov. Rick Perrys administration left 12,000 teachers without a job.

Context: his speech at the Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Houston


Jim Waldman says Gary Farmers claim that he received an A from the NRA is an absolute lie.

Context: a campaign email


Barack Obama says For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. Thats it. They dont have to worry about anything else.

Context: a White House news conference


David Axelrod says Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are front groups for foreign-controlled companies.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump supports an agenda out there to privatize the Veterans Affairshealth care system.

Context: the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum


Florida Democratic Party says Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices, and building a members-only lounge.

Context: a Facebook post


Donald Trump says There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously.

Context: an interview with the New York Times Magazine


Jodie Laubenberg says Texas state funds were spent on a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating.

Context: a Texas House floor debate.


Florida Democratic Party says "Congressman McCollum voted to dismantle Social Security."

Context: a press release


Nancy Pelosi says Bush's tax cuts for high earners have been the biggest contributor to the budget deficit.

Context: during a news conference


Mitt Romney says President Obamas lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the states early voting period.

Context: a press statement


Hillary Clinton says "All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."

Context: Philadelphia


No Casinos says Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures.

Context: a television ad


Jason Conger says the mandate is 71 times that a childs body will be injected with a disease for immunizations.

Context: a House floor speech


Alex Sink says "Floridas high school graduation rate falls well below the national average."

Context: a statement on her campaign website


Wisconsin Manufacturers And Commerce says four Democratic state senators voted to raise taxes on Wisconsin workers by another $510 a month so freeloaders can get free state-run health care.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Donald Trump says Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion.

Context: a speech


Mike Huckabee says "I'm the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions..."

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Internet Commenters says Annexation would lead to overcrowding at Decaturs city schools.

Context: comments on various local blogs


Armond Budish says Never once did they (House Republicans) actually cut spending or reduce the state budget. Even when they cut taxes in 2005, they increased spending. They never paid for their tax cuts.

Context: a news conference


Accountability Project says former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and current mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez both drove fancy European cars at taxpayer expense.

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says On fundraising for super PACs

Context: a campaign blog post


Hillary Clinton says I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or the Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class.

Context: a campaign rally in Cleveland


Bill Kristol says Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California.

Context: an interview on Fox News Sunday


Barack Obama says The Nordic countries are some of the few countries that meet development aid goals.

Context: a press conference


John Loughlin says Tells David Cicilline, 94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature.

Context: a WPRI/Providence Journal debate


Susan B Anthony List says Sen. Barbara Boxer voted against immigration reform to permit (Hispanic immigrants) people to come here legally to work.

Context: a TV ad


John Mccain says "Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate."

Context: Oxford, Miss.


Scott Walker says Mary Burkes Madison school district will be the only school district left in the state to ignore the (Act 10) law in the 2015-16 school year.

Context: a press release


Kay Bailey Hutchison says The only growth sector that weve had in the last two years in America is government growth.

Context: an interview with CNBC


Jay Carney says Who will raising the minimum wage actually help? More than half work full-time. The average worker is 35 years old.

Context: a meme on Twitter


Gary Johnson says Fifty percent of the graduating class of the year 2012 will have smoked marijuana or have done illegal drugs.

Context: a forum


Donald Trump says Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says "As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."

Context: Austin, Texas


Diana Degette says "The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums."

Context: the 'Rachel Maddow Show'


Mike Dudgeon says Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.

Context: newspaper article


Raymond Lahood says Its coming. Nobody can stop this train.

Context: a speech at a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee


Rob Wittman says On average, each U.S. military working dog saves the lives of between 150 and 200 servicemen and women over the span of his career.

Context: a Facebook post.


Jon Husted says Had the online change of address been in place in 2008 an estimated 130,000 voters who cast provisional ballots could have changed their address online and voted a regular ballot.

Context: a news release


Mike Dovilla says Tourism accounts for 439,000 jobs in the state of Ohio, and visitors spend $36 billion annually.

Context: a news release


Anne Goodman says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.

Context: an interview with The Plain Dealer


Hillary Clinton says After the shootings of Dallas policemen, nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Connie Mack says I have a very conservative voting record.

Context: an interview


National Partnership Women Families says Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Ive gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And Ive gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials Ive ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.

Context: the second presidential debate in St. Louis


Florida Hometown Democracy says For every dollar a county gets in taxes from new development, it costs us 40 to 50 percent more to provide services.

Context: a web ad supporting Amendment 4.


Will Wynn says More 25- to 34-year-olds are moving to Austin than any other city in America.

Context: a news story


Rick Kriseman says For anybody whos trying to cross the street and has seen those signs that say you have to stop when pedestrians are in the crosswalk, that was a bill that I passed.

Context: a mayoral forum


Mark Kelly says Polls show that 96 percent of New Jerseyans and 95 percent of gun households in the state support expanding background checks to keep guns away from those who shouldnt have them.

Context: an opinion column on NJ.com


Texas Future says One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years.

Context: a web video


Marco Rubio says No other country has a constitutional right like the Second Amendment.

Context: a speech to the NRA


Pat Mccrory says We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina with the passage of HB2.

Context: a speech in Clayton, N.C.


Blanche Lincoln says John Boozman is excited about putting a 23 percent national sales tax on everything you buy.

Context: a TV ad


Rick Perry says Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in Texas.

Context: a cameo interview.


Jim Huffman says Ron Wyden spent $2 million to study exotic ants.

Context: a television/web ad


Donald Trump says Its just been announced that the residents of Florida are going to experience a massive, double-digit premium hike.

Context: a campaign speech


Chris Christie says For a young man or woman who is entering the ninth grade in Newark this year, they have a 29 percent graduation rate.

Context: a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education


Glenn Beck says Van Jones signed a petition indicating he thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up.

Context: his television program


Jd Van Brink says The federal government owns 30 percent of the land in the 50 states, or about 650 million acres.

Context: in a tea party meeting


Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders was against the auto bailout and voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry.

Context: the Democratic debate in Flint


Chain Email says Because the EPA closed a lead smelter in Missouri, all lead for bullets will have to come from overseas!

Context: a chain email


Rob Teilhet says Ken Hodges badly botched this investigation and, as a result, justice wasnt done in this case.

Context: a telephone interview


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the identical position on health care, which is they want to put the government in charge of you and your doctor.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Barack Obama says The minimum wage is lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office.

Context: a speech in Galesburg, Ill.


Terry Mcauliffe says In our community college system (state) cuts have reduced funding per student by $1,908.

Context: a website post.


Atlanta Braves says The Atlanta Braves are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America.

Context: a history on team website


Barack Obama says After they bought GST Steel, Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy.

Context: a TV ad


Rhue Reis says You have 200,000 to 400,000 military veterans on the street in this country on any given day.

Context: a TV debate


Rudy Giuliani says The New York Times writes this long story about Donald Trumps tax returns but didnt point out there was no wrongdoing until paragraph 18.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Ted Strickland says In renewable and advanced energy manufacturing projects, Ohio now ranks first among the 50 states.

Context: a campaign speech


Arthenia Joyner says Jeb Bush significantly cut early voting prior to the 2008 presidential election.

Context: a letter to Jeb Bush


Donna Shalala says The academic achievements of our student-athletes are mentioned in the same breath and spirit as Notre Dame and Stanford.

Context: a video statement


Barack Obama says Because of Barack Obama 32 million new people will have healthcare.

Context: a campaign ad


Kasim Reed says Right now, we only keep 50 percent of Georgia Techs graduates.

Context: a speech


Marcus Low says Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health.

Context: an interview with a South African journalist


Chris Mccalla says An amazing 5,400 jobs were lost in the first 12 months of the (smoking) bans implementation in Ohios hospitality industry alone.

Context: Press Release


Donald Trump says Mexico doesnt have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the only ones to have it.

Context: a GOP presidential debate on CNN


Dave Marsden says After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law their mortality rate went down...it saved lives.

Context: a radio interview.


Jeb Bush says The Orange County, Florida, school board voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50.

Context: a speech


Dwight Jones says Richmond is the most vegan-friendly city.

Context: a speech.


Bill Nelson says In 2012, Connie Mack missed 178 votes, one of the worst voting records in Congress.

Context: in a debate in Davie, Fla.


Hillary Clinton says "Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.

Context: a news release


Joe Scarborough says President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

Context: a discussion on MSNBC


Texas Right Life says Wendy Davis opposes any limits on abortion.

Context: an audio recording described as a radio ad


Hillary Clinton says Thats legal: If you find out about somebody elses salary even if youre doing exactly the same job, you can be retaliated against, including being fired, in most places.

Context: a rally in Tampa


Diane Black says The United States has experienced 40 straight months of unemployment at 8 percent or higher.

Context: a press release.


Michele Bachmann says The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve.

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


Patrick Murphy says 91% of suspected terrorists who attempted to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted.

Context: a tweet


Christopher Monckton says If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."

Context: a speech in St. Paul, Minn.


Ted Cruz says If Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away control of the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations.

Context: Senate floor remarks


Glenn Beck says Labor union president Andy Stern is the most frequent visitor at the White House.

Context: his Fox News Channel show


Frank Wolf says The U.S. has over $62 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Context: a news release.


Hillary Clinton says We now do have evidence that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.

Context: an interview on CNN


Fred Thompson says "... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."

Context: an ABC radio commentary.


Joe Biden says Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years.

Context: a speech in Tallahassee


Liberty Institute says An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child.

Context: a Web site


Tim Pawlenty says On a cap-and-trade plan.

Context: a letter to the Minnesota delegation in Washington


Barack Obama says During Lyndon B. Johnsons first 20 years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights measure that came up for a vote.

Context: speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library


Louis Marinelli says Two years ago, the longest serving leader of the California republic, Jerry Brown, boldly declared in China that California is a separate nation.

Context: a speech in Moscow


Thom Tillis says By voting for Obamacare, Sen. Kay Hagan voted to kill the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs.

Context: a debate


Johnny Isakson says The Keystone oil pipeline would employ 20,000 people in the United States.

Context: a speech


Reader Email says How is a misogynist bigot of epic proportions (like U.S. Rep. Steven Smith) allowed to serve?

Context: a Tweet to PolitiFact Georgia


Ted Cruz says Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military.

Context: a Fox News debate


Defending Main Street says the Club for Growth tries to defeat Republicans, and that its president called Nancy Pelosi the person I respect the most in Washington.

Context: a campaign ad in Idaho


Barack Obama says "I argued for years that we need to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy.' "

Context: in a speech in Orlando, Fla.


Bikeportlandorg says if you are on your bike in a crosswalk, all you have to do is dip your wheel into the road and cars must legally stop.

Context: a tweet.


David Rivera says Joe Garcia raised utility rates on families.

Context: a television ad


Donna Brazile says The firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... dont have to worry about their collective bargaining rights.

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


Rick Scott says "Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals."

Context: a TV ad


Mitt Romney says "The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."

Context: the book 'No Apology'


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump says organized crime runs wild on reservations.

Context: a rally in Tempe, Ariz.


Bill Clinton says Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."

Context: Dartmouth, N.H.


Donald Trump says I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as the World Trade Center collapsed.

Context: comments during a speech


Us Department Housing And Urban Development says On a single night in January 2015, state and local planning agencies in Rhode Island reported the following estimates of homelessness 107 veterans were homeless.

Context: a news release


Get Equal Texas says Between Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas over 8,000 same-sex couples are raising children.

Context: a press release.


New Hampshire Republican Party says Shaheen votes with Obama 99 percent of the time.

Context: a web video


Renee Unterman says state Senate leaders have accepted $142,400 in campaign contributions from dentists and pharmacists during the past two years.

Context: a speech


Rick Perry says Bill White is refusing to debate.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."

Context: a town meeting in New Hampshire


Kevin Flynn says Theres nothing in the [RhodeMap RI] plan that takes away local government control and local zoning control.

Context: a website story


Mary Margaret Oliver says More than 80 percent of Georgians dont support legislation to ease gun restrictions in houses of worship, in bars and on campuses.

Context: a meeting


Virginia First Foundation says The Virginia population increased by just 8 percent from 2005 to 2015, but the per capita spending in the budget increased by a whopping 38 percent.

Context: a web video.


Trimet says Without Westside MAX, wed need to add 2.9 lanes to the Sunset Highway.

Context: a newspaper ad


Michael Savage says Elena Kagan is a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through.

Context: his website


Rick Santorum says Rick Perry provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.


Committee Restore Americas Greatness says there were over 600 reports of Texas votes for Donald Trump in the states 2016 Republican primary virtually all getting tallied for Marco Rubio.

Context: a web post


Republican Party Texas says Wendy Davis has already taken more $ from teacher unions than the past 3 Democrat gubernatorial candidates combined.

Context: a tweet and chart


Libertarian Party Georgia says A proposed immigration bill will bankrupt Georgia if passed.

Context: a press release


Gilberto Hinojosa says large majority of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim and not U.S.-born.

Context: the Central Texas Democratic Forum


Sally Bethea says In three years we could find close to 50 million gallons per day through a toilet replacement program.

Context: an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Mike Huckabee says The Washington D.C.-area never has a recession.

Context: radio interview


Donald Trump says that when Michelle Fields found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed.

Context: a CNN town hall


Kinky Friedman says Texas is 1st in business climate, 49th in education.


Planned Parenthood says McCain "voted to let governments charge rape victims" for forensic exams.

Context: a TV ad.


Chain Email says No Republicans voted for recent hikes in the income tax, payroll tax, capital gains tax, dividend tax and estate tax. These taxes were all passed under Obamacare.

Context: a chain email


Dccc Lgo says When Trump wanted to turn a taxpayer-owned building into an $800 anight hotel, (Congressman Jeff Denham, R-CA) helped broker the deal and bragged about it.

Context: in a campaign TV advertisement


Chris Larson says Chris Abele has had five years and hes done nothing about the Estabrook Dam.

Context: a speech


Newt Gingrich says Community banks are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank.

Context: remarks at Mandester, N.H. campaign headquarters


Newt Gingrich says In New York City, an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa


Stefani Carter says black women are fastest-growing demographic group in ... Texas seeking concealed handgun licenses.

Context: in an opinion column in USA Today


Gene Mcintyre says we will pay the new chancellor a basic salary of nearly $300,000 a year ... an amount that does not include the costs of this public employees benefits, perks and living expenses for a lavish house, an upscale car, a spending allowance, and fine dining almost every day on the taxpayer dollar.

Context: a guest column


Mike Huckabee says Youve got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare.

Context: comments on “The Mike Huckabee Show”


David Brooks says Theres no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Lloyd Doggett says The last time Republicans held hostage a resolution to ensure that our countrys bills were paid cost us more than $1 billion in added interest and slowed the economic recovery.

Context: a Facebook post.


Michael Bloomberg says Africa is spending the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world.

Context: comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"


Glenn Grothman says Recent studies have confirmed that any academic benefits of government funded preschool disappear by the fourth grade.

Context: a news release


Michael Doherty says The top 1 percent of income earners pay 40 percent of all state income taxes, and those at the bottom pay little or nothing.

Context: an opinion piece


Randy Forbes says The Federal Register - which houses all Washington regulations - is 34,000 pages in length and weighs in at more than 340 pounds.

Context: a statement.


Lone Star Project says that like Todd Akin, all Texas Republicans in U.S. House cosponsored a bill that attempts to distinguish between forcible rape and other sexual assaults.

Context: a political action committee report


Peter Beinart says If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, theyre overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states.

Context: comments on CNN


Jimmy Carter says The number of African-American men in prison has increased fivefold since he left office.

Context: a speech


Jefferson Smith says at the state level were spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety, health care and education combined.

Context: a candidates' forum.


Bill Batchelder says We have more hospitals that are childrens hospitals than any other state in the union.

Context: an interview with The Plain Dealer


John Kasich says In head-to-head polls for the general election, I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Detroit


New Hampshire Republican Party says former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter refused to host town hall meetings during her time in Congress.

Context: a written statement.


Bernie S says In Malaysia many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions.

Context: an interview with the New York Daily News


Newt Gingrich says On calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist.

Context: a statement on the Human Events Web site


Jeanne Shaheen says Ninety six percent of employers in the Granite State are considered small businesses.

Context: remarks from the Senate floor


Robert Gibbs says Amiddle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax.

Context: a White House briefing


Barack Obama says On the use of presidentially appointed commissions.

Context: a campaign speech in Grand Junction, Colo.


Charlie Crist says Marco Rubio is a "Miami lobbyist."

Context: a campaign press release


Ken Cuccinelli says Ive never supported legislation that invades peoples choices about contraception.

Context: a news conference.


Lee Holloway says Mitchell International Airport is the the third busiest airport in the world and the number one busiest in the country.

Context: a statement at a candidate forum


Eric Gray says Georgia is one of seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and has lost 8,200 jobs so far.

Context: a speech


Rick Perry says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Iowa.


Scott Walker says Wisconsin Democrats during the previous administration adopted double-digit tax increases.

Context: a TV ad


John Mccain says "I never considered myself a maverick."

Context: a comment on Newsweek magazine's Web site


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation.

Context: a speech in San Antonio.


Terry Russell says Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness.

Context: in an interview


Rick Santorum says Floridas economy became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.


Barack Obama says Stabilizing the recent financial crisis will cost less than 1 percent of GDP, which is less than the 2.5 percent to fix the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.

Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart"


Americans Tax Reform says Recommendations for a major tax overhaul for Georgia are an overall tax hike.

Context: in a news release.


James Buchal says The government -- not the armed forces -- is stockpiling hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition for domestic use.

Context: a campaign website statement


Jack Reed says Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy.

Context: a speech


Hugh Thompson says Six of Georgias counties have no lawyers at all.

Context: State of the Judiciary address


Ron Maag says Employees in workplace freedom states make more money

Context: news report


Ray Lewis says Do this research watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football].

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are back on the battlefield.

Context: Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press"


Barack Obama says (After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the worlds No. 1 automaker.

Context: the State of the Union address


Philip Van Cleave says Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

Context: a speech.


Rose Mary Grant says Rhode Island charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country.

Context: a Providence Journal commentary.


Jose Diaz Balart says Every single day in this country, 1,000 people are deported and the vast majority of those people that are deported arent criminals.

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


Roy Barnes says When Roy Barnes was governor, "Georgia created 235,000 jobs."

Context: a campaign commercial


Greg Abbott says Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois.

Context: his State of the State address


Rush Limbaugh says Alaskas Prince William Sound is pristine now.

Context: his radio program


Rudy Giuliani says "The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."

Context: "Innovators in Action" magazine


Viral Image says While Americans pray for Paris, the government has acted on mandatory national vaccinations.

Context: a viral meme on social media


Ken Cuccinelli says Every (personhood) bill Ive ever support has either had language that says were conforming to the constitutional rulings of the Supreme Court or something to that effect.

Context: a debate.


Senate Majority Pac says Scott Brown voted to give oil companies big tax breaks.

Context: a TV ad


Julie Lassa says The infant mortality rate is 15 percent higher in states with right-to-work laws.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Chip Rogers says The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates.

Context: Town hall meeting


Tim Ryan says Were only spending 2 percent of our GDP on our infrastructure, while China and India are spending 10 percent of their GDP reinvesting back into their country.

Context: a House of Representatives floor speech


Oregon Business Association says The middle class can be defined to include those with income between roughly $20,000 and $60,000.

Context: the OBA's 2014 Work Plan


Barack Obama says By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion.

Context: a speech


Adam Schefter says Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad.

Context: a tweet about the NFL Draft


Johnny Isakson says One industry in America has increased its employment base in the last four years by 176,000 people: the United States government.

Context: an article


Jack Hanna says In 1947, when I was born, there were about 450,000 lions. In the mid-70s, when my kids were born, there were about 100,000. Today, there are less than 30,000.

Context: an ABC "This Week" interview


Garnet Coleman says that in some Texas communities, our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent.

Context: a press conference.


Protect Your Vote Ohio Protect Your Vote Ohio says Thousands of politicians from across Ohio along with their relatives, employees and friends are still eligible to serve on the proposed redistricting commission.

Context: a news release


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Mitt Romney is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception.

Context: a conference call with reporters


Jerry Patterson says Sierra Club sued him to stop oil and gas activity on Texas coast, but we won and the turtles are fine.

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


Sierra Club says If the state turns down money for high-speed rail, it will kill nearly 10,000 permanent Wisconsin jobs.

Context: a news release issued by the group's John Muir chapter in Wisconsin


Joe Sestak says Pat Toomey visited Joe Sestak and other veterans in 2002 and then came home and voted against every veterans appropriations bill.

Context: a talk with the Pennsylvania Press Club


Kay Hagan says North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis called Obamacare a great idea.

Context: a radio ad


Ron Paul says "He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership."

Context: a statement on his campaign Web site.


New Approach Oregon says In Oregon, 12,808 people were arrested for marijuana-related crimes in 2012.

Context: a website statement


David Axelrod says Under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job creation.

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


Silvestre Reyes says The six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Context: a press release.


Mike Huckabee says "He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans."

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Rick Perry says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.

Context: answer to questions.


Austin Scott says Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China

Context: a TV campaign commercial


Barack Obama says The Arab Spring drove up gas prices.

Context: a press conference at the White House


Barack Obama says The Republican budget plan says that 10 years from now, if youre a 65-year-old whos eligible for Medicare, you should have to pay nearly $6,400 more than you would today.

Context: a speech at George Washington University


Rick Perry says New York has bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.

Context: a radio ad


Nicholas Kristof says The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa.

Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Chris Christie cut equal pay for women, calling it senseless bureaucracy.

Context: in a press release


Ted Cruz says According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance.

Context: a radio commentary.


Mike Pence says We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


George Allen says Tim Kaine proposed over $6 billion in tax increases from the time he entered the governors mansion until the time he left.

Context: an e-mail.


Joe Biden says Cervical cancer in Africa is fully preventable with basic education, screeningand vaccines.

Context: a post on Medium


Jon Husted says A member of the redistricting commission proposed in Issue 2 could accept a bribe from somebody and couldnt be removed from this commission.

Context: an interview with reporters


Bernie S says Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States.

Context: a Democratic debate in New Hampshire


Barack Obama says A wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation on gun background checks.

Context: remarks in the White House Rose Garden


Kirsten Gillibrand says Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Tom Mechler says The Democrats have over 20 field agents to our zero."

Context: a press release


John Loughlin says Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

Context: a meet-the-candidates forum


National Republican Congressional Committee says Nick Rahall voted with Obama 94 percent of the time.

Context: a campaign ad


Maria Sachs says In 2011, texting surpassed alcohol as the leading contributing factor in teen driving deaths.

Context: a press conference at AutoNation in Fort Lauderdale


Carly Fiorina says The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work.

Context: a campaign stop in Concord, N.H.


Barack Obama says The Republican leader of the Senate said his main goal after this election is simply to win the next one.

Context: his weekly address


Florida Democratic Party says Rick Scott increased tuition at our state colleges and universities by double digits.

Context: the realrickscott.com website


Leticia Van De Putte says Our men and women of the Guard have been forced to contact food banks to feed themselves.

Context: a press release


Tammy Baldwin says Scott Walkers views on abortion are more restrictive than any Republican president in recent times.

Context: an interview


William Benson Huber says The non-profit groupFeeding America is lying when it claimsthat one in five kids is fighting starvation daily in the United States.

Context: an op-ed in the "New York Post"


Jd Hayworth says "Up until two weeks ago, John McCain was a leading proponent of amnesty. Now with me challenging him, suddenly he has changed."

Context: an interview on the Fox Business Network


Facebook Posts says An image of nine white, blondwomen shows the amazing diversity of Fox News anchors.

Context: a Facebook post


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions.

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


Mark Obenshain says Of the four statewide races this century within a 300-vote margin, three have been overturned in a recount.

Context: a statement.


Chain Email says Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel.

Context: a chain e-mail


Mitt Romney says Newt Gingrich said Spanish is the language of the ghetto.

Context: a Spanish-language radio ad


Rick Perry says When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent.

Context: an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.


Wayne Christian says Central Health is the only hospital district in Texas that spends taxpayer dollars on abortions.

Context: a press release


David Furhman says The decision to remove Chick-fil-A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback.

Context: an interview


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Women who have miscarriages could be investigated by police under legislation supported by Republican state Senate candidate Rick Gudex.

Context: a television ad


Chris Stirewalt says Businesses will be required to certify to the IRS under penalty of perjury that Obamacare was not a motivating factor for cutting staff.

Context: a daily summary of news "Fox News First"


Ken Cuccinelli says On restoring voting rights to non-violent felons.

Context: news conference.


Dick Cheney says President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."

Context: a statement to Politico.


National Rifle Association says Barack Obamas regulatory adviser Cass Sunstein, wants to ban hunting and says animals should be represented in court.

Context: a mailer


Barack Obama says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.

Context: a press conference


James Stegmaier says Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009.

Context: a speech.


Sherrod Brown says The Koch network (is) spending more money (in a Senate race) in Ohio than anywhere else in the country.

Context: fundraising email


Vladimir Putin says In Russia all people are absolutely equal regardless of their religion, sex, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, while 70 countries of the world have criminal liability for homosexuality.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Burnt Orange Report says Texas Senate hopeful Donna Campbell doesnt live in the district shes hoping to win in 2012.

Context: a blog post.


Claire Suggs says The state covered a smaller percentage of the cost of K-12 education in 2013 than it did in 2002.

Context: at Media Symposium


Tom Graves says The government does not need a warrant to read your old emails.

Context: a news release


Jon Erpenbach says Gov. Scott Walker has led people to believe that if Wisconsin doesnt implement a (health-care) exchange, Obamacare doesnt happen here.

Context: a press release


Marcy Kaptur says The poorest in this country are women.

Context: an interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on MSNBC


Mitt Romney says Dow Chemical decided to build a plant in Saudi Arabia rather than Oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas.

Context: a speech to the Business Roundtable in Frankenmuth, Mich.


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

Context: a campaign mailer


John Fleming says The head of the IRS ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could review them, making sure the American people will never know the real truth.

Context: a radio ad


Ronald Rice says in Newark were paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes.

Context: a state senate budget committee hearing


Georgia Department Public Health says Georgia has the nations fifth largest Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition program, serving more than 270,000 mothers, babies and children every day.

Context: department blog post


Rosemary Lehmberg says she created the first felony deferred prosecution program for nonviolent first-offenders in Texas.

Context: campaign video


Hillary Clinton says when an interviewer asked Donald Trump if he treats women with respect, Trump replied, I cant say that.

Context: a video shown at the Democratic convention


Bernie S says We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO.

Context: the Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y.


National Womens Law Center says In every state, women are paid less than men.

Context: press release


Bobby Jindal says Theres only one of us whos actually cut government spending -- not two, theres one and youre looking at him.

Context: the fourth GOP undercard debate.


Barack Obama says The health care bill cuts the deficit by over $1 trillion dollars.

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


Michele Bachmann says Newt Gingrich has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal.

Context: an interview


Joe Biden says In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes climbed to 229.

Context: Flint, Mich.


Stephen Nodine says he can be on the ballot for Congress while serving time in jail.

Context: statements to the media


Paul Ryan says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second.

Context: a speech to the Republican Party of Texas convention in Fort Worth.


Hillary Clinton says Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."

Context: a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio.


David Perdue says The Fair Tax proposal encourages innovation and investment level the playing field for American companies to compete globally.

Context: his debut Senate floor speech


Kevin Mccarthy says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now than any other time.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Michelle Nunn says The United States was not one of 16 countries where David Perdue said in his Pillowtex deposition that he created jobs.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Maggie Hassan missed nearly every university system board meeting.

Context: an ad


Elizabeth Warren says Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap.

Context: a speech at the Democratic convention


Sherrod Brown says Josh Mandel opposed federal loans to the auto industry.

Context: an email campaign statement


Frank Lautenberg says in our gun laws were allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun, no questions asked.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Nathan Deal says A substantial number of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to finish the work.

Context: a radio interview


John Kerry says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue.

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


Corrine Brown says The high-speed rail project would create 60,000-plus jobs for Floridians.

Context: an interview with WESH-TV


Jeb Hensarling says Today almost half our debt is owned by foreigners.

Context: a speech


David Jolly says he was the only Republican to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.

Context: an Orlando debate


Gavin Newsom says So far in 2015, there have been more mass shootings than days.

Context: a campaign email


Roy Barnes says Republican candidate for governor Nathan Deal fought to weaken Georgias rape shield law.

Context: a TV commercial


Loretta Sanchez says Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we dont have that (gun ownership)database.

Context: a Capital Public Radio interview


Floridians Ethics And Truth Politics says Aaron Bean voted to give illegal immigrants in-state tuition.

Context: a campaign commercial


Rick Perry says he has a track record of not raising taxes.

Context: an interview


Jorge Ramos says Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented)immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas.

Context: an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News


Lamar Smith says Last year, Obama administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping and thousands of drug-related crimes.

Context: a letter to the editor of the San Antonio Express-News


Peter Pantuso says Commercial buses in the United States have a stellar safety record, a safety record that exceeds that of any other commercial mode or surface transportation mode.

Context: a speech at a press conference.


Carol Morgan says Were No. 1 in child hunger.

Context: a speech at the Texas Democratic convention


Ted Cruz says Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day.

Context: an interview with Hugh Hewitt


Gina Raimondo says The pension fund in the city of Providence is only 30 percent funded, about the same level as when he [Taveras] took office.

Context: a debate


Debbie Mayfield says Florida sends $135 billion and D.C. returns $150 billion.

Context: a tweet


Rick Perry says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.

Context: a speech at a house party in New Hampshire.


Mike Collier says Opponent Glenn Hegar expressed pride in legislated cuts to public school funding.

Context: a video ad


Michele Bachmann says One. Thats the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office.

Context: a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference


Scott Walker says We just had someone last week in Neenah near a school kill someone with a bow and arrow.

Context: a news conference


Republican National Committee Republican says The Obama administration offered $900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza.

Context: a GOP survey


Chris Bowers says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where low-income voters live.

Context: an interview


Kevin Reilly says University of Wisconsin Systems reserves are in the mid- to low-range of comparable university systems.

Context: a legislative meeting


John Edwards says "I won the South Carolina primary in 2004, and I was way behind in the polls at this stage in 2004."

Context: Nashua, N.H.


Senate Majority Pac says (Big banks) have invested over $300,000 in (Joe Heck), and Heck has sponsored $44 million dollars in tax breaks for banks.

Context: a television ad first airing on July 1


Scott Walker says The alternative to higher state worker pension and health care payments is to look at 1,500 layoffs of state employees or close to 200,000 children who would be bumped off Medicaid-related programs.

Context: a news conference


Gina Raimondo says Contrary to popular belief, we actually dont have that many public employeesWe are well below average in the number of public employees.

Context: a news conference


Colleen Kiernan says Right now, we have the lowest gas tax of anywhere in the country.

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas.

Context: a speech


Martin Omalley says When President Obama was running for re-election Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him.

Context: the First in the South Democratic Presidential forum.


Anthony Gemma says Providence has amongst the highest tax rate(s) in the entire country.

Context: a candidates debate


Marco Rubio says There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone thatthe attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on.

Context: an interview on CNN


Tom Barrett says To help balance the 2011-13 budget, Gov. Scott Walker used a credit card approach that pushed over $500 million in debt onto our children and our grandchildren costing state taxpayers more than $150 million in interest.

Context: a debate


Mike Pence says Barack Obama voted for the very same language ofIndianas Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation doesnt have anything to do with this law.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Barack Obama says "If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."

Context: an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press.


Joe Biden says Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."

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


Kim Simac says Democratic state Sen. Jim Holperin voted against a property tax freeze in 2009 and then voted for a $1.5 billion property tax hike.

Context: a letter and news release


Bernie S says Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.

Context: a message on Twitter


Priorities Usa Action says Mitt Romney was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare.

Context: a campaign ad


Tammy Baldwin says Middle-class Americans pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires.

Context: a news release


Mike Haridopolos says On high-speed rail.

Context: a press statement.


Bernie S says Winning enough pledged delegates is not impossible.

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


Kasim Reed says Atlanta now has as many visitors as Las Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles. Orlando, Fla., and New York City still have more visitors.

Context: a radio interview


Paul Krugman says The Bush administration pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, pulled the resources away, because they wanted to invade Iraq instead.

Context: on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Bill OBriens Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control.

Context: a Web advertisement titled “College vs. Smokes.”


Arizonans Responsible Drug Policy says Proposition 205 blocks market entry for new marijuana dispensaries.

Context: a political advertisement


John Boehner says This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences.

Context: a news conference


Dennis Kucinich says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans appeared on the GAOs list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse.

Context: a House committee hearing


Casey Cagle says We refused to balance the budget on the backs of our children.

Context: a television ad


George Allen says A majority of the American people opposed the health care law when it was signed and still oppose it today.

Context: a blog post.


Courageous Conservatives Pac says When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them.

Context: a radio ad


Chris Collins says Hillary Clinton has already said shes going to wipe out the Second Amendment. She doesnt believe in the First Amendment. And, she also believes in big government, which flies in the face of the 10th Amendment

Context: an interview on MSNBC.


Republican Governors Association says Ohio lost 400,000 jobs on his (Ted Stricklands) watch.

Context: a television campaign ad


Jim Moran says Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.

Context: House debate


Roger Stone says Hillary Clinton shows up in Broward County and had a private meeting with elections supervisor Brenda Snipes.

Context: an interview on Alex Jones' radio show


Robin Vos says Voter fraud provided a portion of the margin of victory of Democrat John Lehman over Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard in a state Senate recall election.

Context: a television interview


Mickie Williams says Clayton County has employed 1,300 people over the past seven months through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

Context: a presentation


Barack Obama says Health care reform plans being consided in Congress "will finally reduce the costs of health care."

Context: remarks at the White House


Republican Governors Association says Mayor Tom Barretts policies drove unemployment up 27 percent in Milwaukee, pushing it to one of Americas 10 worst cities for unemployment.

Context: a television ad


Marco Rubio says Two-thirds of our kids cant read at grade level.

Context: a column posted on Medium.com


Rob Portman says Our debt now is about $140,000 per household.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Rick Scott says Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.

Context: a news conference


Mitt Romney says The Massachusetts health care plan dealt with 8 percent of our population, far less than the 100 percent of American people affected by President Barack Obamas health care law.

Context: a Republican candidates' forum in South Carolina


Robert Brown says Georgias illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the Brown Codes because of their similarity to the Black Codes governing blacks after the Civil War.

Context: a press release


Terry Mcauliffe says Ken Cuccinelli tried to make it more difficult for mothers to obtain divorces.

Context: a TV ad


Progress Florida says "Incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon and incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos have said they plan to champion efforts next legislative session to allow oil rigs off Florida's coast."

Context: a press release.


Barack Obama says his comment about extremists being a JV team wasnt specifically referring to Islamic State.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


Christine Odonnell says One man (New Castle, Del., County Executive, Chris Coons) thought property taxes should be hiked almost 50 percent.

Context: a campaign video


Donald Trump says NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton, has been a disaster for Pennsylvania.

Context: an interview with TV station WJAC


Jeanne Shaheen says Social Security has not contributed to the debt and the deficits.

Context: an interview on MSNBC’s Jansing and Co.


Votevetsorg says The American Power Act would cut our dependence on oil in half.

Context: a TV ad


Wendy Davis says Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law.

Context: an interview with Texas Monthly


Msnbc says Charlie Crists campaign bashedSen. Bill Nelsons big-government solutions.

Context: a graphic during "The Daily Rundown"


Matt Caldwell says There is no incontrovertible proof that speed, in and of itself, is the contributing factor to increasing (vehicular) fatalities.

Context: a Florida House discussion of SB 392


Ohio Democratic Party says proposed anti-abortion legislation would force women facing the most personal of health decisions to endure a transvaginal ultrasound.

Context: an emailed statement


David Bowen says Two of the top three (rated) public high schools in Wisconsin Ronald Reagan College Prep and Rufus King International are MPS schools.

Context: a news release


Hillary Clinton says By 2009, dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield by drones.

Context: her book, "Hard Choices"


Eric Hovde says Tommy Thompson favors Obamas health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson says we cant repeal Obamacare.

Context: a radio ad


David Barton says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, "did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat" a Republican.

Context: an open letter


Harold Ford Jr says On abortion rights.

Context: comments on the subject over the past 10 years.


Mitch Mcconnell says The Department of Justice, under the Obama administration, disagrees with the decision Judge Sotomayor made in the Ricci vs. DeStefano case.

Context: a CNN interview


Trey Martinez Fischer says that since 1975, redistricting by Texas lawmakers has always been found in violation of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

Context: press conference in the Texas House Speaker’s Committee Room.


Donald Trump says There was serious voter fraud in New Hampshire.

Context: a tweet


John Buss says Tallahassee is the ninth-rainiest (city) in the nation.

Context: comments before a state House subcommittee


Tim Knopp says Knopp says he upheld a campaign promise not to join the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says The United States is the only advanced country on Earth that doesnt guarantee paid maternity leave to our workers.

Context: the State of the Union address


Kevin Reilly says Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average.

Context: public remarks


Donald Trump says ISIS is in 32 countries.

Context: a presidential debate


Scott Maddox says After the oil spill, Congressman Adam Putnam "doubled down saying all energy sources, including oil drilling in the Gulf, should be considered just days after the oil spill started."

Context: email to supporters


Steve Goreham says Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years.

Context: a commentary in The Providence Journal


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says the Democratic Party createda debate schedule to maximize the opportunity for voters to see our candidates.

Context: an interview on CNN Reliable Sources


Barack Obama says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas.

Context: a web video advertisement


Marco Rubio says The United States has an immigration system where only 6.5 percent of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill.

Context: an interview


Rand Paul says We now consume at the federal level 25 percent of the gross domestic product. Historically we were at 20 percent. So weve taken 5 percent away from the private sector.

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


Vicky Hartzler says The Export-Import Bank doesnt cost taxpayers anything.

Context: a "Roll Call" interview


Florida Voter says Gov. Rick Scott is spending a quarter of a million of our tax dollars to robocall people.

Context: a robocall from the Pink Slip Rick website, played on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show.


Barack Obama says Obama says hes put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan.

Context: the first presidential debate


Marco Rubio says On allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest, I have never said that or advocated that.

Context: comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says In South Florida, weve had nine inches of sea-level rise since the 1920s.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Ronnie Earle says "Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."

Context: a speech


Robert Gibbs says Mitt Romney has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.

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


Barack Obama says Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough makes a huge difference in reducing transmission of the flu.

Context: a press conference


Hillary Clinton says Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."

Context: a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.


Scott Walker says The president of the United States came in the Tuesday before the election in a ward that went 99% for him in the last election and they couldnt even (increase) the vote there.

Context: an interview


Ted Cruz says Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars because of Arizonas immigration laws that drove outundocumented immigrants.

Context: remarks during the GOP debate at the University of Houston


Eric Cantor says Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years.

Context: a speech.


Scott Walker says We gave every public employee in the state the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be in a union.

Context: a television interview


Mary Burke says Scott Walker raises nearly 70 percent of his money from out of state

Context: an interview


Bryan Hughes says David Simpson actually voted for drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.

Context: a campaign press release


Bob Mcdonnell says proposal to boostteacherpension fundputs no mandate on local government.

Context: a speech.


Donald Trump says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, shes seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped.

Context: the second 2016 presidential debate


Tom Barrett says Gov. Scott Walker said no to equal pay for equal work for women.

Context: a TV ad


Leticia Van De Putte says Bill Whites program to bring dropouts back to school was so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated it.

Context: a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention


Joe Biden says We werent told they wanted more security for diplomatic facilities in Libya.

Context: the vice presidential debate


Karl Rove says Hillary Clinton spent 30 days in the hospital in 2012 and appeared wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury.

Context: a panel discussion


Herman Cain says When I became president and CEO of Godfathers Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles.

Context: a YouTube video


Jeb Bush says In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans.

Context: remarks at a Florida campaign stop


Taxpayer Association Oregon says the City of Portland alone has 84 public relation representatives on payroll which cost taxpayers over $6.2 million (a year).

Context: a newsletter


New Jersey Tea Party says Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans Obamas strongest supporters have lost their jobs.

Context: a retweet


Steven Schale says Charlie Crists personal approval numbers are plummeting.

Context: a blog post.


Arianna Huffington says Most countries have no debt ceiling.

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


Leslie Geissler Munger says My opponent was on both the city of Chicago payroll and the state of Illinois payroll simultaneously, taking full salary, funding her full pension benefits both as a city worker and as a state worker for 10 years.

Context: a Chicago Sun-Times editorial board debate


John Mccain says he holds the record for most appearances on Meet the Press.

Context: comments on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown"


Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein had a 10-year relationship with al-Qaida.

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


Frederica Wilson says Congresswoman Frederica Wilson successfully postpones closure of the North Perry airport tower.

Context: a press release


James Bell says Every day, about 100 people will be arrested for possession of marijuana in Georgia.

Context: press release


Lois Kolkhorst says that according to many reports and even our own data, the state of Texas spent more through Medicaid on orthodontia than all other states combined.

Context: a breakfast at the Texas Tribune Festival.


Republican Party Wisconsin says Just like Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold had a run-in with corruption and scandal by using a personal slush fund -- a.k.a. the Feingold Foundation -- while plotting another run for U.S. Senate.

Context: a web ad


Rick Scott says We know that every 85 visitors create one Florida job.

Context: a press release touting a state tourism program


Penny Pritzker says Since 2009, after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent.

Context: a Medium post


Rob Portman says We understand that this heroin is primarily coming from Mexico, over the border.

Context: Department of Homeland Security hearing


Jim Moore says Ted Cruz has been to Iowa four times. Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- just once.

Context: a tweet


Rush Limbaugh says the media created the term polar vortex and the cold air proves the ice isnt melting.

Context: comments on his radio show


Chris Christie says New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think thats good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition.

Context: an appearance at the Brookings Institution


Michael Bloomberg says Over the past 10 years, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia combined.

Context: a speech in Lower Manhattan


Barack Obama says Before we even passed health care, 4 millions kids got health insurance that didnt have it before, through the Childrens Health Insurance Program.

Context: an interview on "The Daily Show."


Donald Trump says The top man at Yale Law School came out ... with just a raging report about former HP CEO Carly Fiorina,saying she isone of the worst executives in his memory in history running the company.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"


Jon Stewart says The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths or more.

Context: a broadcast of "The Daily Show"


Barack Obama says "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections."

Context: the State of the Union address


Eddie Rodriguez says Texas colleges and universities may opt to allow guns on campuses.

Context: an interview on CNN


Nfederation O Independent Business Virginia says The vast majority of minimum wage workers get a raise within a year.

Context: a website post.


Bobby Jindal says "I'm predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something that's never been done before."

Context: a radio interview


John Loughlin says We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country.

Context: an appearance on WPRO.


Marco Rubio says "Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs."

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


Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."

Context: Las Vegas, Nev.


Kelly Ayotte says of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted.

Context: an editorial board meeting


Joe Biden says The health care numbers are going up.

Context: an interview on ABC's This Week


David Cicilline says While I was mayor of the city of Providence we had the lowest crime rate in 30 years.

Context: a debate


Donald Trump says Weve spent $6 trillion on the wars in the Middle East.

Context: a rally in Charlotte, N.C.


League Women Voters Austin Area says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate among the Central Texas area school districts.

Context: a Voters Guide.


Jeff Merkley says 400,000 Oregonians have gained access to health care through the Affordable Care Act.

Context: an interview


Pat Roberts says 20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare).

Context: a Web video


Chain Email says Once the U.S. government signs a U.N. treaty on conventional arms, "all U.S. citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments."

Context: a chain e-mail circulated on the Internet


Sarah Palin says Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only "2,000 out of 20-million acres."

Context: an interview on CNBC


Blog Posting says Warren Buffett recently said Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over.

Context: posts on the Internet


Phil Gingrey says When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free.

Context: an online news story


Robert Sarvis says Over 40 of our 100 (House of) Delegates seats go uncontested every year, and over 40 percent of our state senate seats go uncontested every year.

Context: a speech


Scott Brown says Jeanne Shaheen voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax.

Context: a debate


Ken Cuccinelli says Since Obamacare became law, most of our new jobs have been part-time jobs.

Context: a speech.


Lorraine Fende says that in Ohio right now, you could be 8 months pregnant and have an abortion for no reason.

Context: an interview with The Columbus Dispatch


Farouk Shami says We have killed lots of innocent people in the state of Texas.

Context: a Democratic debate


Michelle Obama says "In some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence."

Context: a speech


Michele Bachmann says Of every three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor.

Context: a speech at the conservative CPAC conference


Newt Gingrich says Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obamas health care bill created what would, in effect, be death panels.

Context: a Republican presidential debate


Rick Scott says "Bill McCollum has accepted thousands from lobbyists for Planned Parenthood."

Context: a campaign mail piece.


Bob Gibbs says Cap and trade legislation that Zack Space supported would cost the average household approximately $1,761 per year in increased energy rates.

Context: an issue statement posted to his website


Kai Degner says The Declaration of Independence was written on paper made out of hemp.

Context: a debate.


Nathan Deal says Jason Carters plan: increase spending by $12.5 billion.

Context: television attack ad


Robert Dold says Dan Seals has been running for office since before there were, like, iPods.

Context: a campaign commercial


Seaworld says Whales live as long at SeaWorld as they do in the wild.

Context: an ad


David Cicilline says Women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same position.

Context: a news release


Carlos Gimenez says The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes.

Context: a county commission meeting


Myra Crownover says Texas legislators in 2011 increased state spending on education.

Context: her campaign website.


Citizens Progressive Wisconsin says While many of his colleagues turned down a $2,500 pay raise ... (Jeff) Plale pocketed the extra money.

Context: campaign literature distributed by an outside group


Rick Perry says U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling.

Context: a press release


Steve Israel says Things went wrong with the Medicare prescription D plan that George Bush rolled out.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Donna Howard says Child care costs in some states now exceed the average price tag for college tuition.

Context: a press conference by Austin Democrats


Washington Examiner says U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn has avoided taking a stand on Obamacare.

Context: opinion piece


David Ralston says There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003.

Context: a press conference


Ted Cruz says The head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those (Syrian) refugees.

Context: a GOP debate on CNN


Debbie Dooley says [Eighty-five percent] of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere -- not spent in the county in which it is collected.

Context: an op-ed


Donald Trump says Weve rebuilt China.

Context: an interview with the New York Times


Facebook Posts says Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.

Context: postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites


Ted Cruz says In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally.

Context: answering a reporter in Iowa


Tarina Keene says More than 100,000 women in Texas have attempted to self-induce abortion in the past year alone.

Context: a news conference


Todd Richardson says Missouri families earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century.

Context: comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics"


Gilberto Hinojosa says The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it.

Context: an interview with KERA News


Afscme People says MarcoRubio voted to slash school funding by billions of dollars and would eliminate the Department of Education.

Context: a TV ad


Donald Trump says 14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote.

Context: a rally in Cleveland, Ohio


Pete Hegseth says Redskins is used historically as a term of respect.

Context: a segment on "Outnumbered"


Rodney Ellis says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.

Context: an interview.


Steve Wise says Seven of the 10 school districts with the lowest graduation rate for African-American boys in the country are in Florida.

Context: comments on the state Senate floor.


Hillary Clinton says \u201CThirty-four percent of Hispanics don\u2019t have any health care at all, don\u2019t have any health insurance.\u201D


Donald Verrilli says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates doubled or tripled and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people.

Context: a Supreme Court hearing on health care law


Barack Obama says PolitiFact has said he kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules.

Context: a campaign ad


Marina Dimitrijevic says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is a billionaire.

Context: a press release


Rick Scott says Florida high schools are four out of the top 10 in the entire United States.

Context: the State of the State speech


Paul Ryan says On supporting the eventual Republican presidential nominee

Context: an interview


Chain Email says State employees will have to pay 100 percent of their pensions and health insurance after 2012.

Context: a chain email apparently focused on Wisconsin corrections workers


Richard Besser says It used to be that the only children at school who werent vaccinated were those who had true medical conditions. Now there are 19 states that allow personal belief exemptions.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Americans Job Security says The state bureaucracy Jane Norton managed grew by $43 million in just three years.

Context: a television ad


Thom Tillis says a pro-Democratic ad is false for saying that he allowed two disgraced staffers in 2012 to resign.

Context: a TV ad


John Boehner says Members of Congress did not have three days to read the bill when the stimulus was rushed into law.

Context: a Saturday address


Scott Keyes says U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is among seven Tea Party freshmen who spent an average of $15,000 on cars for themselves.

Context: a blog post


Susan Combs says On advancing state money for a Formula One race

Context: a statement


Deval Patrick says The 2006 Massachusetts health care law has added (only) about 1 percent to our state budget.

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


John Kasich says They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesnt make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then theyre on the plane back to Los Angeles.

Context: a campaign speech


Facebook Posts says In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down.

Context: a graphic on the Internet


Martin Omalley says Mitt Romney has put forward a plan that would cut taxes for millionaires while raising them for the middle class.

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


Rick Scott says I started with a $3.7 billion budget deficit. Now we are projecting a $1.2 billion surplus.

Context: an interview


Steve Loomis says the states new collective bargaining law effectively eliminates police unions ability to negotiate.

Context: a news conference


Harry Reid says On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees

Context: speeches


Mitt Romney says (Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states.

Context: comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.


Republican Governors Association says (Mary) Burke was a senior member of the Doyle administration that left Wisconsin with 130,000 fewer jobs.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Scott Walker says Our last budget committed the highest level of need-based financial aid in state history.

Context: an opinion piece


Bob Mcdonnell says Independent voters have a ten-point margin in favor of Mitt Romney right now.

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


Randy Forbes says China is going to have twice the number of submarines we have in just over a decade.

Context: a radio interview.


Eric Cantor says Senate immigration legislation is the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal immigrants amnesty.

Context: a campaign mailer


Marco Rubio says In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again through Obamacare.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate


Barack Obama says Romney tax plan could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition.

Context: a campaign ad


Herb Kohl says Ive been through four campaigns and have not done any negative campaigning.

Context: remarks to reporters


Senate Republican Conference says Up to 80 percent of small businesses will be forced to give up their current plans due to new Obamacare regulations.

Context: a Web video