David Madland says The CBO just said if we cut this (unemployment benefits) extension, we will kill jobs, because those people who are looking for work wont have any money to spend.

Context: a broadcast of CNN's "Crossfire"


Mike Huckabee says Sarah Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


Kelly Ayotte says When total Sandy spending is added up, its more than the annual budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And its more than twice the annual budget of the U.S. Energy Department.

Context: a guest commentary


Jim Webb says In 1968 the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average workers pay. Today that multiple is about 350.

Context: a speech.


Steve Doell says About 7 in 10 of Oregons inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses.

Context: a press release


Sarah Palin says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said, quote, 'I can't stand John McCain.' "


Gavin Mcinnes says The Civil War wasnt about slavery.

Context: a tweet


Liz Carter says Hank Johnson voted against legislation to help first responders, teachers, vets and troops.

Context: a press release


Ed Garvey says he has exposed plans by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to push legislation that would allow the state to declare financial martial law and take over municipal governments.

Context: a blog posting


Mitt Romney says "No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."

Context: St. Petersburg, Fla.


Greg Abbott says In Texas, weve had three ISIS-related incidents already.

Context: Network TV interview


Mike Huckabee says "When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."


Barack Obama says John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."

Context: a TV ad.


Elizabeth Warren says Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules.

Context: remarks at the Institute for New Economic Thinking


Allan Fung says Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me.

Context: a Providence Journal-WPRI-12 debate


Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., opposes a vote on his own legislation that he proposed just a few months ago.

Context: a press release


Judson Phillips says Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly.

Context: a "Washington Post" opinion piece


Adam Hasner says Crist sent his "top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal," then vetoed the bill.

Context: a press release.


Bruce Braley says "Recent census data shows that the average American family spends over $13,000 a year for health care coverage."

Context: a speech on the House floor


Mike Huckabee says "I supported the surge when you didn't."

Context: a debate in Manchester, N.H.


Tom Tancredo says "I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."

Context: Fox News interview


Scott Walker says Since Scott Walker took office as governor in January 2011, there has been an increase of 33,200 jobs in Wisconsin.

Context: a television ad


Donald Trump says Forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.

Context: the 2016 Republican National Convention


Chris Christie says Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes.

Context: a gubernatorial campaign television ad


Bill Pascrell says We havent had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one.

Context: a speech on the House floor


Courtney Combs says Phoenix, Ariz., is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world.

Context: an appearance at the Cleveland City Club


Michael Bloomberg says Donald Trump games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages.

Context: a speech at the Democratic convention


Jack Reed says The Senate proposal to restore emergency unemployment benefits for five months was fully paid for.

Context: Senate floor speeches and during a news conference


Morgan Griffith says From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent.

Context: congressional testimony.


Barack Obama says We got back every dime used to rescue the banks.

Context: a campaign speech in Manchester, N.H.


Crossroads Gps says While Arkansas seniors depend on Social Security and Medicare, Sen. Mark Pryor supports an overhaul so they couldnt get Social Security until they turn 68 or 69.

Context: a campaign ad


Nancy Ann Deparle says A report by the health insurance industry "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill."

Context: an interview on "The NewsHour"


Eric Cantor says Wayne Powell has a stated position of having no objection to taking `In God We Trust off of U.S. currency.

Context: an email.


Tim Echols says There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia.

Context: a twitter post


Donald Trump says We dont know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, shes been in the public eye for years and years, and yet theres no theres nothing out there.

Context: a meeting with Christian leaders


Bill Mccollum says Police officers in this state have that right, to check the immigration status of people they arrest.

Context: televised candidates' debate


Peter Defazio says only seven percent of 2009s stimulus bill went toward transportation projects, yet they created over one-third of the bills total jobs.

Context: an online blog


Ron Johnson says Russ Feingold voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants

Context: an automated phone message, as well as a radio ad, news releases and debates


Vicky Hartzler says Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs.

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


Debbie Riddle says Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally.

Context: a television interview


Mitt Romney says Under President Obama: $4,000 tax hike on middle-class families.

Context: a campaign ad


Jim Renacci says Betty Sutton gutted Medicare by $500 billion with her vote for the presidents health care bill.

Context: a campaign website posting


Donald Trump says A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over our southern border.

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says In Chicago, school is never canceled because of winter weather.

Context: in a meeting with business leaders


Anthony Rendon says California cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). Weve only reinvested about $300 million.

Context: a news conference


Tommy Thompson says Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses of smallpox vaccine and I created enough to vaccinate every man, woman and child against smallpox in America.

Context: a speech


Rush Limbaugh says President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency into a Muslim outreach department.

Context: a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'


Lamar Alexander says This rule could prevent children under 18 from using such tools as a power screwdriver, a milking machine or something as simple as a wheelbarrow on the family farm . . .

Context: a press release.


Bernie S says Under the compromise tax agreement, 99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax.

Context: a Twitter message


Gina Raimondo says Its commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges.

Context: news conference


Newt Gingrich says he was exonerated in every single case in 1990s ethics violations charges.

Context: a radio interview


Leon Panetta says After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts.

Context: congressional testimony


Ralph Reed says Millennials are more pro-life than baby boomers and older Americans.

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


David Axelrod says Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush when he asked to extend unemployment insurance.

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Bill Nelson says The amount of the revenue required by the state (for the construction of high-speed rail) is around 10 percent.

Context: an Orlando rail conference.


Tim Pawlenty says Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s.

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


David Cicilline says The truth is David Cicilline voted for tougher laws against child abusers, domestic abusers and abusers of the elderly.

Context: a TV ad


Rudy Giuliani says "I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."


Friends Democracy says Your Congressman, Charlie Bass, took over $166,000 from Big Oil.

Context: an advertisement aired in and around New Hampshire


Bob Mcdonnell says Weve been able to create about 60,000 net new jobs in Virginia since February.

Context: a TV interview


John Mccain says "If you have an investment for your child's education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes."

Context: Denver, Co.


Hillary Clinton says "Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat."

Context: Washington, DC


Hillary Clinton says "I have 35 years' experience making change."

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


Bill Haslam says Personal income is growing faster in Tennessee on average than any other state in the country.

Context: a speech to Carter County Republican Party


Rick Perry says Barack Obama has played nearly 100 rounds of golf as president.

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


John Mccain says Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent.

Context: a radio ad called "Millions"


Cathie Adams says Bill White ... supports the ObamaCare socialized medicine plan, as well as Cap and Trade legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs.

Context: a fund-raising letter


Betty Mccollum says the Army is spending $7 million to sponsor a NASCAR team.

Context: press release, Rep. Betty McCollum


John Mccain says "Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years."

Context: a campaign e-mail


Hillary Clinton says F: The grade given to Florida for college affordability under Jeb Bushs leadership.

Context: a Twitter exchange


Mike Pence says The Democrats propose a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage.

Context: an e-mail


David Clarke Jr says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is responsible for the roughly $7,800 I pay in property taxes per year.

Context: an interview


Bill White says As Houstons mayor, I helped our area lead the nation in job growth.

Context: a questionnaire


Tax Foundation says Americans will spend more on taxes in 2014 than they will on food, clothing and housing combined.

Context: a Facebook post


Gordon Robertson says President Obama was raised Muslim.

Context: a TV interview.


Fred Clark says Gov. Scott Walker made more than $70 million in cuts to job training programs through (Wisconsins) technical colleges.

Context: a Democratic Party radio address


Chris Christie says Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it.

Context: the Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa


Russ Feingold says Ron Johnson is willing to hand over the Great Lakes to the oil companies.

Context: a campaign ad


Hillary Clinton says There really isnt any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders.

Context: comments on Meet the Press


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Ovide Lamontagne wants to eliminate kindergarten.

Context: a campaign mailer to New Hampshire residents


Brad Schimel says Heroin and prescription opioids are the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin.

Context: an interview


John Mccain says "You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."

Context: in debate in Oxford, Miss.


Rick Green says "When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience."

Context: a YouTube video


Austan Goolsbee says Over the last 15 months, weve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. Thats far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession.

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


Julian Bond says The incidents of threats against (President Barack Obama) are greater than for any other president in modern times.

Context: an interview


Zephyr Teachout says John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.

Context: her victory speech after winning the Democratic primary.


Haley Barbour says It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog, but he's cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time.

Context: an op-ed in the Washington Examiner


Mitt Romney says "Mayor Giuliani's lawsuit killed the line-item veto."


Bill Zedler says While (Barack) Obama preaches we are our brothers keeper, his brother and aunt live in real poverty in Kenya.

Context: a Twitter post.


Frank Caprio says 1 in 4 Rhode Islanders under the age of 65 does not have health insurance.

Context: his campaign website


Barack Obama says During my administration, for example, we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs.

Context: a press conference at the North American Leaders Summit


Barack Obama says Mitt Romneys comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.

Context: a Web ad


Joe Biden says If you shut down Amtraks Northeast Corridor, its estimated youd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic.

Context: a speech in Philadelphia


John Boehner says "President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent."

Context: a blog post


Impact America says As governor, Maggie Hassan first proposed a $1 billion spending increase.

Context: an ad


Ron Paul says Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day.

Context: a speech at Texas A&M University.


Kathleen Sebelius says One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive.

Context: a speech


Americans Prosperity North Carolina Chapter says There are 500 failing schools in North Carolina

Context: an official statement


Ken Paxton says At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugals.

Context: a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wantsillegal immigrants collectingSocial Security benefits.

Context: a campaign ad


Charlie Sykes says Says JoAnne Kloppenburgs side had a 3-to-1 money advantage in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.

Context: comments made during his radio show


Julian Castro says Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community.

Context: Hillary Clinton campaign news release


John Kitzhaber says Since the governor took office, Oregons unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in three years.

Context: a website statement


National Republican Congressional Committee says Rep. Carol Shea-Porter votes with Nancy Pelosis Democrats 95 percent of the time, but Frank Guinta will take on both parties and has independent New Hampshire values.

Context: an ad


John Kasich says Were within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. Were in a perfect location.

Context: a speech to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce


Tim Canova says Debbie Wasserman Schultz has voted for huge subsidies for the sugar industry ... as well as for delays in cleanups.

Context: a post on Medium


Wisconsin Education Association Council says State budget cuts for local schools resulted in nearly 4,000 educator layoffs

Context: a news release


Arizona Citizens Defense League says a gun bill before the Senate is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners.

Context: an email to supporters


George Lemieux says Charlie Crist was pro-life, pro-gun and vehemently anti-tax.

Context: an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times


John Kasich says We were the No. 1 job creator in America in February and we are now the No. 4 job creator in the last year.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Barack Obama says Up to half of all Americans have a pre-existing condition.

Context: a speech about the Affordable Care Act


Mike Tate says A Republican budget proposal would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country.

Context: a speech


Doctors Healthy Georgia says Defensive medicine costs Georgia up to $14 billion a year.

Context: its website


Jim Waldman says You are prohibited from walking into the Capitol with a gun, but you can go after the County Commission or the School Board.

Context: a news blog


John Mccain says Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona.

Context: a campaign ad


Ed Lindsey says Georgia has recovered more than $60 million that was lost to Medicaid fraud

Context: press release


My City Bikes says This is a test of the fact-checking widget.

Context: a test of the fact-checking widget


Jerry Patterson says unsuccessful Texas abortion legislation was supported by a majority of Texans.

Context: an email blast.


Greg Walden says Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?

Context: a Tweet


Joe Biden says "In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

Context: statement on Web site


National Republican Congressional Committee says that 93 percent of the time John Boccieri voted with Nancy Pelosi.

Context: a television election ad


Rhode Island Center Freedom And Prosperity says Rhode Island will become just the second state to mandate the vaccine and the only state to do so by regulatory fiat, without public debate, and without consideration from the elected representatives of the people.

Context: news release


Stephen Colbert says Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in.

Context: a comedy sketch


Ron Hayduk says The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship.

Context: a newspaper commentary


Mitt Romney says Only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country . . . Barack Obama.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate


Rainbowpush Coalition says In Georgia, hard-earned lottery dollars are doled out to the scion[s] of wealthy families.

Context: a press release


Moms Rising says Having a baby is aleading cause of poverty spells in the United States.

Context: a tweet


Charlie Crist says David Jolly has used money and power to try to drill off our beaches.

Context: a fundraising email


Rick Scott says You have to get a license to fish on our beaches.

Context: a conversation with workers


Arizona House Democrats says Gov. Doug Ducey wants to use taxpayer dollars to increase the salaries of private prison guards.

Context: a blog post


Rand Paul says The president won the youth vote 3 to1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth.

Context: a 'Fox News Sunday' interview


Scott Walker says Minnesotas advantage in economic growth has been having Republicans in charge of at least one part of government for all but two years, while Wisconsin Democrats for many years before 2011 controlled both legislative chambers and the governorship.

Context: an interview


Rebecca Kleefisch says Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care

Context: a campaign TV ad


Anthony Gemma says Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation

Context: a speech at the state Democratic convention


Barth Bracy says Gov. Lincoln Chafee has imposed a mandatory abortion fee on all Rhode Islanders who buy health insurance through the states Obamacare exchange.

Context: a news release


Fair Districts Florida says In the last 6 years, there have been 420 elections for State Senator and State Representative. Only three incumbents have been defeated!

Context: on the Fair Districts Florida website


Rick Santorum says Mitt Romney said we are going to have to live with high gas prices, its a good thing because it will reduce consumption, we dont want to produce any more gasoline.

Context: a campaign appearance in Wisconsin


Julian Castro says Were seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


Mitt Romney says President Obama has doubled the deficit.

Context: the first presidential debate in Denver


Barack Obama says McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.

Context: an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters


Rick Perry says The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all.

Context: in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando


Ej Finocchio says Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals.

Context: a television interview


Lincoln Chafee says One of the reasons I believe were in trouble in Yemen is we lost the population on drone strikes issues. Thats what stirred up the population. Thats what is happening in Yemen.

Context: Campaign speech


Mitt Romney says Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour.

Context: remarks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa


Antonio Sabato Jr says President Barack Obama is absolutely a Muslim.

Context: an interview with ABC News


American Unity Pac says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.

Context: a campaign ad


John Mica says On the question on the DREAM Act, no -- no to granting lower tuition to illegals.

Context: an interview with MSNBC.


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says David Jollys former firm lobbied for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan.

Context: a campaign commercial


Bill Batchelder says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today in the 70 to 80 percent range.

Context: an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM


Bill Flores says On possibly raising the Social Security retirement age.

Context: in a TV interview


Dave Hansen says The Republican-authored state budget includes a provision forcing people earning as little as $12,000 to buy private health insurance that could cost them as much as $4,000 per year.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions, millions of jobs.

Context: a speech in Monessen, Penn.


Holly Benson says Most AGs dont go to court..

Context: a debate.


Michael Doherty says State Comptroller Matthew Boxer pointed out that many towns are artificially lowering the real estate values that they report to Trenton in order to get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional school aid. This is the kind of fraud that needs to be addressed immediately.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Facebook Posts says Milwaukee incarcerates 1.2% of white men and has incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s.

Context: a meme circulated on Facebook


Brendan Doherty says We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud.

Context: a TV news show.


Mitch Mcconnell says On a bipartisan task force on ways to improve fiscal policy.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Barack Obama says In the past three years, weve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.

Context: a Rose Garden speech


John Mccain says Obama is the Senate's "most liberal."

Context: a TV ad


Bill Richardson says "Three out of the 18 benchmarks of the (GAO) have been fulfilled. Even among Republican math, that is a failing grade."

Context: Las Vegas, Nev.


Tom Price says The fiscal cliff deal ultimately raised taxes.

Context: a radio interview


Ben Rhodes says When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Americans Tax Reform says U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS.

Context: a blog post


Tom Barrett says Eleven years ago, the city of Detroit lifted the residency requirement for police officers and today, 53 percent of officers live outside of the city. If we want the tax base of Milwaukee to resemble the tax base of Detroit, this is the way to go.

Context: a newspaper interview


Rick Perry says Texas is the fastest growing state with the most Fortune 500 companies.

Context: a Web ad


Eric Turner says There was a 57-percent decrease in fireworks-related injuries in 2000 [after Connecticut legalized sparklers] compared to the 14 years prior.

Context: testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.


Peter Orszag says Look, the earmarks have come down significantly, 75 percent.

Context: a TV interview.


Dave Aronberg says Dave Aronberg was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation.

Context: a mailer


Michael Burgess says 2010 was the worst year ever for Americas doctors reimbursed by Medicare.

Context: an interview.


Florida First Project says Carlos Beruff supported (Charlie) Crist even after he switched parties.

Context: a campaign ad


Maxey Scherr says We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else.

Context: an interview


Ted Cruz says I have not insulted Donald personally.

Context: comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate


Mitt Romney says Regulations have quadrupled. The rate of regulations quadrupled under this president.

Context: town hall presidential debate


Marco Rubio says Under his tax plan, the greatest gains, percentage-wise, will be at the lower end of our plan.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.


Winning Our Future says Mitt Romney is worth at least a quarter billion dollars and the bulk of his wealth remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts.

Context: the online video "King of Bain"


Ending Spending Action Fund says U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn earned as much as $300,000 running a nonprofit that had laid off 90 workers.

Context: television attack ad


Republican Governors Association says Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms She taxed them all. Architect of Corzines budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards.

Context: a gubernatorial campaign TV ad


Pew Environment Group says In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent.

Context: a newspaper advertisement


Tennessee Republican Party says "You don't even have to go outside Obama's campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel."

Context: in a press release


Barack Obama says Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up.

Context: the State of the Union address


Majority Pac says Tim Kaine made Virginia the best state for business four years in a row.

Context: a TV ad.


Ron Johnson says During his 18-year Senate career, (Russ Feingold) supported judges who voted to deny your individual Second Amendment right. (He) promises to protect those rights, but thats not what his record shows.

Context: a TV ad


Mike Villarreal says Gov. Rick Perrys administration has proposed ending immunizations for 113,000 kids.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says "Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."

Context: a speech at the White House.


Rick Santorum says [R]emember, the president proposed eliminating charitable deductions for higher-income taxpayers.

Context: a speech


Frank Guinta says Granite State shipbuilders . . . built the first ship that sailed into battle under a new American flag.

Context: an email


Bernie S says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations.

Context: a campaign event in Keene, N.H.


Special Operations Opsec Education Fund says Days after the (Osama bin Laden) raid, Hollywood was invited into the White House so that they could receive a briefing that revealed intelligence sources and methods.

Context: a Web video


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney had millions in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven.

Context: a TV ad


Newt Gingrich says A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year.

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


Michael Bloomberg says There is already a mosque four blocks away.

Context: a speech


Lynn Derbyshire says If you are black or brown, you are nine times more likely to be stopped and frisked in New York City.

Context: The Providence Journal


American Bridge 21st Century says Rick Scott presided over cuts to the Bright Futures college scholarship program.

Context: an online video


Ted Cruz says Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Rudy Giuliani says "He reformed welfare before others tried."

Context: a TV ad


John Mccain says "1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay."

Context: Nashville, Tenn.


Republican Governors Association says Under Mary Burkes leadership, Commerce Department business-incentive programs had major shortcomings and 40 percent of jobs...didnt materialize.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Bob Mcdonnell says Northern Virginia is the most heavily trafficked place in the country.

Context: a news conference.


Bill Maher says Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.

Context: an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Claire Mccaskill says A fairly limited number of people, 25 million to 30 million, will be allowed to access a national health insurance exchange.

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


Dennis Richardson says Its been 17 years that weve had unemployment higher than the national average in Oregon.

Context: a campaign debate


Hillary Clinton says Scott Walkers defunding of Planned Parenthood left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.

Context: a video


Donald Trump says The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they dont know who he is.

Context: a speech at the CPAC conference


Chain Email says John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.

Context: a chain e-mail


Naral Pro Choice says In 2010, Mr. [Anthony] Gemma described himself as a pro-life candidate. Now, he claims to be pro-choice.

Context: a news release


Tom Cotton says In barely four years in office, five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama, compared to zero in over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush.

Context: a House floor speech


Rebecca Kleefisch says Wisconsins monthly job reports have a margin of error of 75 percent and were way off in eight of first 10 months of 2011.

Context: an interview


Ron Paul says he has nearly 200 delegates bound to support his candidacy at the Republican National Convention.

Context: an online message to supporters.


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott has teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist.

Context: a TV ad


David Perdue says The Castro regime violated international norms by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.

Context: press release


Joe Biden says Theres not one Democrat who endorses the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan.

Context: a debate in Danville, Ky.


Regina Benjamin says The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education.

Context: a radio interview


Billhislamcom says that Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has made it clear by his repeated actions that he will pursue a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology as long as he is governor.

Context: a Web posting


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump says hed deport 16 million people.

Context: a tweet from her campaign


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says "The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill."

Context: a roundtable segment on NBC's Meet the Press


Rick Perry says A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family.

Context: a letter to Nancy Pelosi


Eddie Lucio Jr says Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.

Context: remarks at Southern Obesity Summit


Robin Vos says Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa already have 70 mph speed limits on rural interstates, and we see that theyve been able to do it safely.

Context: an interview


Sid Miller says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevaras face on it.

Context: a Facebook post


Matt Miller says Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost.

Context: a Washington Post op-ed


David Plouffe says Donald Trump himself contributed $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Context: an interview on Meet the Press


Donald Trump says Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape theyve ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Context: a speech in Kenansville, N.C.


Al Gore says Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster.

Context: a speech


Bernie S says Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Phil Roe says Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting without consultation or input from the company to stop the sale of Buckyballs.

Context: in a letter co-signed with others in Congress.


Richard Licht says We arent the only state cutting back on public television.

Context: a television interview


Jim Mcdermott says During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted by the IRS, similar to recent targeting.

Context: a House Ways and Means hearing


Katty Kay says There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States.

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


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.

Context: a foreign policy speech


Sandy Pasch says Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly actually received 200,000 more votes statewide than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election

Context: a radio address


Sarah Palin says On support for the Bridge to Nowhere.


Vote No 2 says Amendment 2 will bring kid-friendly pot candy to Florida.

Context: a mailer


Scott Walker says For decades, the states gas tax has been among the highest in the nation.

Context: a letter to Department of Transportation officials


Barack Obama says More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States.

Context: a news conference.


James Aubin says Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year.

Context: a newspaper commentary


Ted Cruz says Small businesses (are) going out of business in record numbers.

Context: a speech at Liberty University


Barack Obama says "We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival."

Context: remarks on the budget


Sherrod Brown says Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies but want to cut food stamps.

Context: a conference call with reporters


Thomas Ratliff says Massachusetts has three state-mandated student tests and Finland just one.

Context: an opinion column.


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump wants to keep big government in charge of federally-owned land.

Context: a campaign ad


National Republican Congressional Committee says U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out.

Context: press releases


Bill Richardson says "Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.

Context: a debate in Miami, Fla.


Mitt Romney says "Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.

Context: West Palm Beach, Fla.


Mother Jones says Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the 30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds.

Context: a Facebook post


Chain Email says The health care law includes a 3.8% sales tax on all real estate transactions.

Context: a chain email


Ed Schultz says America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"


Tennessee Republican Party says "The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."

Context: a news release


Hillary Clinton says We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns.

Context: a speech in San Antonio


Moveon says McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."

Context: an e-mail


Silvestre Reyes says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of unprecedented fiscal challenges.

Context: a press release


Hillary Clinton says We bailed out Johnson Controls when we saved the auto industry and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

Context: a debate


Peter Schweizer says Amendments (Hillary Clinton) supported and voted for in 2006, she no longer supported in 2008, showing she changed positions on an India nuclear deal.

Context: an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell


Marcia Fudge says The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes.

Context: a news release


Ameripac says The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs.

Context: a fundraising letter


National Rifle Association says Barack Obama admits hes coming for our guns, telling Sarah Brady, We are working on (gun control), but under the radar.

Context: a mailer


Al Cardenas says Of $60 billion Congress approved in response to Hurricane Sandy, only 10 percent was for disaster relief.

Context: an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe


Bob Goodlatte says The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didnt have the constitutional power to take.

Context: a news release.


Paul Ryan says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners.

Context: a speech


Barack Obama says On public financing of his campaign.


Warren Buffett says The mega-rich pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.

Context: a "New York Times" op-ed


Mark Pocan says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is manufactured and a bogus figure.

Context: a blog posting


Ken Hodges says "Rob Teilhet, Just another career politician."

Context: a campaign flier


Citizens Republic says Children born today will carry a $30,000 share of the national debt.

Context: a campaign commercial


Hillary Clinton says "A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."

Context: a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa


Jeff Merkley says Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices

Context: a letter to President Barack Obama


Donald Trump says Among Syrian refugees, there arent that many women, there arent that many children.

Context: an interview on ABC "This Week"


Rob Portman says The Buffett Rule will bring in less than $5 billion per year. ... Enough to pay one weeks interest on the national debt.

Context: a column in Politico


Jennette Gayer says We have had over 40 days this summer where it was unsafe to breathe the air.

Context: a meeting


Promote Oregon Leadership Pac Oregon House Republi says Will Rasmussen supported a sales tax as recently as last spring.

Context: an e-mail


Rick Perry says On instances when abortions should be allowed.

Context: Iowa


Patrick Kennedy says "One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies."

Context: a speech on the House floor.


Christine Gilbert says The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.

Context: a letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman


Morgan Carroll says Mike Coffman said two different things: stop the deportationsin a Spanish-language debate and youre going to be deportedin an English-language TV interview.

Context: a news release


Ron Johnson says Both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work.

Context: a speech at a tea party rally in Oshkosh


Lee Leffingwell says Austin trains are full at rush hour and packed for special events.


Sarah Palin says Seniors and the disabled will have to stand in front of Obamas death panel so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society, whether they are worthy of health care.

Context: a message posted on Facebook


Rick Scott says Governor Scott Cut Taxes 40 Times For Florida Families

Context: a campaign tweet


Americans United Change says Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook.

Context: a TV commercial


Bud Chiles says "Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education."

Context: a statement on his campaign website


Doonesbury says Since Sept. 11, 2001, 270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.

Context: a comic strip


Charlie Crist says On returning Republican campaign contributions.

Context: statements to the press


Americans Prosperity says Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is the largest recipient of lobbyist money.

Context: a campaign ad


Heineken says A regulatory thing means you cant show someone drinking beer on camera.

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Context: a graphical tool on the campaign website


Jeff Fitzgerald says Wisconsins 2011-13 state budget contains no fee increases

Context: an interview


Ted Cruz says Existing law right now requires 700 miles of double-layered border fencing on the Mexico border.

Context: a radio interview.


Don Pridemore says Among Milwaukee Public Schools students, 86 percent are behind in reading and 80 percent are behind in math.

Context: a news conference


Jeff Clemens says Online voter registration is a more secure way of doing voter registration.

Context: a Senate Ethics and Elections committee hearing


National Republican Congressional Committee says Alex Sink even supported a tax on homeowners insurance policies.

Context: a campaign website


Jon Huntsman says Whats clear is (Romney) likes firing people.

Context: comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.


Dale Kooyenga says Today, it is more difficult to enlist in the U.S. military than it is to enroll in college.

Context: a constituent newsletter


Caleb Rowden says Democrat Stephen Webber voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches.

Context: a YouTube video


Mark Kirk says According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates of the health care bill.

Context: a floor speech in the House


Scott Lingamfelter says Tim Kaine reduced higher education funding by 25 percent when he was governor, driving up tuition...

Context: a news release.


Bernie S says Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

Context: an interview with MSNBC


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel and every other country to zero.

Context: a page on the Obama campaign website


Clay Dafoe says bus riders subsidize the expensive, romanticized Leander-to-Austin train.

Context: a mayoral candidate debate on KXAN-TV


Marco Rubio says Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college.

Context: a speech at Catholic University


Greg Abbott says Dallas African-American and Hispanic students pass AP exams at a higher rate than any other place in America.

Context: his State of the State address


Rick Scott says We ... sold the state airplanes as I had promised.

Context: his State of the State speech.


Edward Flynn says In Wisconsin, a second arrest for carrying pot is a felony, but a second or subsequent arrest for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor.

Context: a news conference


Barack Obama says Keystone XL allows Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else.

Context: a press conference in Burma


Rob Portman says Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

Context: an online column


Greg Abbott says A lawyer demanded several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons.

Context: a letter to David Feldman, Houston's city attorney


Marcia Fudge says More than half of the people on food stamps today are children.

Context: an MSNBC interview with Al Sharpton


Barack Obama says our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.

Context: a speech at Knox College in Illinois


Marco Rubio says Just days ago, Irans Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this agreement, was calling Israel a rabid dog and accusing the United States of war crimes.

Context: a press release


Anthony Weiner says We know this now. The banks no longer loan (Donald Trump) money because hes a terrible risk. So he goes to these (Russian) oligarchs and borrows money.

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


Hillary Clinton says Let me say that I dont think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Conservative Daily Post says FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network.

Context: a posting on the Internet


John Thrasher says Attorney General McCollum, Speaker-Designate Cannon, Senate President-Designate Haridopolos and I stood up to Governor Crist and worked to remove Jim Greer as Chairman because of his mismanagement of the party.

Context: a press release sent by the Republican Party of Florida


Paul Ryan says On his definition of takers and makers

Context: interviews


Barry Hinckley says Thirty percent of [Sheldon Whitehouse campaign] money is coming from special interests.

Context: a news conference


Kevin Rader says Lizbeth Benacquistos supporters would make (abortion) illegal in all cases, including rape, incest, even to save a womans life.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Ernest Moniz says We are about halfway to the presidents goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector.

Context: a question and answer session at Columbia University


Tim Kaine says The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."

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


Judith Zaffirini says 11 percent of the nations fatal car crashes in 2009 were attributed to distracted driving.

Context: remarks on the Senate floor


Barack Obama says Most folks wages havent gone up in over a decade.

Context: a speech


Bill Batchelder says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didnt dissuade black voters from participating in voting. It hasnt, it doesnt, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, its been helpful.

Context: a news conference


Steve Moore says The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960.

Context: a column in the "Wall Street Journal"


Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe opposes Virginias right-to-work law.

Context: a radio interview.


Dominic Chavez says since 2000, Austins tax burden rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent.

Context: a campaign video


Tweets says The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.

Context: various social media postings


Evan Longoria says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.

Context: comments to reporters.


Wayne Lapierre says Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world.

Context: an op-ed in the Daily Caller


Democratic National Committee says The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is the largest-ever investment in higher education.

Context: a press release.


Karen Handel says Seventy-two percent of Georgians did not have a chance to finish college.

Context: an email


Josh Mandel says The majority last quarter of Sherrod Browns campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio.

Context: a television interview


Gwen Moore says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans for recent economic improvements even though they took control of the Senate only days ago.

Context: a tweet


Dino Baccari says A Penn State University study found that electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes.

Context: testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.


Jim Mcdermott says On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you cant even make half the poverty level.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation"


Ron Paul says Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case.

Context: an opinion column


Paul Manafort says The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave.

Context: a press conference


Marcia Fudge says that voter identification laws keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting.

Context: a news conference on voting rights


Jeb Bush says Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status.

Context: in his book 'Immigration Wars'


We Are Ohio says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5.

Context: a campaign commercial


Ezekiel Emanuel says Its a good sign for Obamacare that in California, the proportion of kids who are signing up is the proportion of kids in the population.

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


Health First Wisconsin says Wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children regardless of whether that child is seven or 20 years old at bars and restaurants.

Context: a news release


Jeff Brandes says Company may close, all because government essentially says if they dont hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they cant stay open.

Context: a campaign video


Rick Perry says More than 3,000 homicides were committed by illegal aliens over the past six years.

Context: an interview with Glenn Beck


Sean Duffy says Explosive growth in Medicare is the reason federal deficit spending is predicted to top $1 trillion again after falling to $600 billion annually.

Context: an interview


Republican Party Florida says Two weeks after signing a taxpayer protection pledge, (Charlie Crist) breaks it.

Context: a Web ad


Mahlon Mitchell says As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney used a line-item veto to cut millions of dollars for firefighting equipment, including firefighters coats, pants, helmets and boots.

Context: a news release


Rick Scott says On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.

Context: an answer to reporters


Charlie Crist says Rick Scott pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud.

Context: a campaign commercial


Pete Sessions says Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been added.

Context: a speech in the U.S. House


Stop 57 Campaign says Brock Turners early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes.

Context: a campaign press release.


Barack Obama says Taxes are lower on families than theyve been probably in the last 50 years.

Context: an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes"


Americans Commonsense Solutions says As a state representative, David Cicilline argued against Megans Law and voted against mandatory registration of sex offenders.

Context: a radio ad


Rudy Giuliani says "This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."

Context: MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Nextgen Climate says Rick Scott is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions despite troubled power plants.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney paid only 14 percent in taxes probably less than you.

Context: a campaign ad


Levar Stoney says As executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia there were 300 people on my payroll in 2008.

Context: a debate.


Bill Janis says The New START treaty was passed despite significant concerns among some people in the State and Defense Departments.

Context: a floor speech in the House of Delegates.


Chain Email says U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told banks -- in writing -- it may inspect safe deposit boxes without warrant and seize any gold, silver, guns or other valuables it finds inside those boxes!

Context: an email


Drew Brees says Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Womens soccer And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading.

Context: as quoted in an interview with Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman


Mike Martinez says Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall.

Context: an interview for a news story


Duncan Hunter says We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Jim Moran says Graduation rates of players at major football colleges are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years.

Context: a Facebook post.


Tweets says The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson are feral and violent.

Context: posts on Twitter


Edward Flynn says In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court on holding suspects, a stolen car gets zero points.

Context: a forum


Chain Email says Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.


Chris Christie says To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then youre out of the union, but youve got to pay it every year, also required by statute. Thats called a representation fee.

Context: an appearance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University


Pam Bondi says Were the only system of federalism in the world.

Context: an interview with Fox News.


Bernie S says The top one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

Context: a speech


Chain Email says "Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent."

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


Dan Patrick says Texans pay the sixth-highest property tax in the nation.

Context: a press release


Tom Barrett says Figures cited by Gov. Scott Walker are not commonly used to measure job creation.

Context: a debate


Organizing America says Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.

Context: a fundraising e-mail


Michele Bachmann says The day President Obama took office, gasoline was $1.79 a gallon.

Context: a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Presidential Library


Thad Altman says students who receive free or reduced lunch are performing just as well as students who do not.

Context: comments while discussing merit pay for teachers


Donald Trump says I never once asked that (Megyn Kelly) be removed as a debate moderator.

Context: an interview on CNN


Barack Obama says The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"

Context: his weekly radio address


Julaine Appling says In Wisconsin, more than 300,000 people have some kind of addictive gambling problem, whether its pathological or what wed categorize as a problem gambler.

Context: a radio interview


Facebook Posts says Mitt Romneys top five donors are Wall Street firms, while Barack Obamas top five are technology companies and universities.

Context: a Facebook post


Don Zimmerman says You dont have to be as smart as a fifth-grader to know what causes the climate is the sun. The sun. I have people tell me, Carbon dioxide warms the Earth. No, it doesnt. The sun warms the Earth.

Context: an Austin City Council briefing


Tom Barrett says Every general City of Milwaukee employee pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not.

Context: a speech


Anna Little says We actually made history in 2010. We came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Mitch Mcconnell says a new report shows the devastating tax hikes (in the health care law) will have on middle-class Kentuckians.

Context: a press release


Donald Trump says While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican.

Context: his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland


Brett Hulsey says The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly approved only one out of 376 amendments offered by Assembly Democrats in 2011.

Context: an opinion column


Scott Walker says Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin.

Context: a tweet


Hillary Clinton says There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didnt get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged.

Context: the third 2016 presidential debate


Hillary Clinton says The top25 hedge fund managers (are) making more than all of Americas kindergarten teachers combined.

Context: a campaign rally speech


Scott Walker says Under Barack Obama, the average cost of family health care premiums has increased by $4,154.

Context: a tweet


Mark Kelly says We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check.

Context: an interview on "State of the Union"


Joe Biden says On ending the war in Iraq, Gov. Romney said that was a tragic mistake, we should have left 30,000 troops there.

Context: the vice presidential debate


Rob Portman says Weve got 7.2 percent unemployment (in Ohio), but when you include the folks who have stopped looking for work, its actually over 10 percent.

Context: a television interview


Hillary Clinton says Dontre Hamilton, who was killed during a confrontation with a Milwaukee police officer, was unarmed.

Context: a debate


Chain Email says "All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."

Context: a chain e-mail


Kip Kendrick says Requiring photo ID would keep about 200,000 Missourians from voting.

Context: a League of Women Voters Town Hall meeting


Ron Johnson says Kids coming from an affluent background are taking advantage of all these student loan programs and grants while many middle-class families with no connection to college are picking up the tab.

Context: statement at a town hall meeting


Rudy Giuliani says "I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."

Context: Dearborn, Mich.


Rick Perry says At this particular point in time, looking at the field, theres only one individual thats ever had the uniform of his country onand thats me.

Context: a web ad


Donald Trump says Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

Context: in a speech at the Republican convention


Barack Obama says John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.

Context: a television ad


GaGOP says Rather than prioritize and pass ethics reform measures to restore trust in state government, (Democrats) sat on their hands and did nothing when they were the majority.

Context: a press release


Sarah Palin says Vice President Joe Biden's meeting "with the transparency and accountability board . . . was closed to the public."

Context: a speech to members of the Tea Party


Susan Combs says she wiped out the state Agriculture Departments inspections of eggs at retail sites like grocery stores.

Context: an interview


Facebook Posts says Ted Cruz just flip-flopped about the president needing to be U.S.-born.

Context: an online meme


Jennie Lou Leeder says Texas spends more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student.

Context: an interview with the Austin American-Statesman


Michael Bloomberg says If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done.

Context: an appearance on 'Meet the Press'


Mary Burke says The Wisconsin school voucher program has no research that shows that its going to improve student learning.

Context: a forum


Saxby Chambliss says With Obamacare, were fixing to get hit with the biggest entitlement program the American taxpayers have ever seen.

Context: a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"


Brian Kemp says his GOP challenger, Doug MacGinnitie, "hadnt voted in a Republican primary for almost 20 years until 2008.

Context: a Cobb County Republican Party breakfast speech June 5


Mitt Romney says "I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Barack Obama says John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."

Context: a news release


Chris Redfern says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.

Context: a press statement


Mary Burke says Wisconsins dead last in Midwest job growth.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Gina Raimondo says The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.

Context: a radio interview


Chip Rogers says Rail doesnt do a great job in lessening traffic.

Context: a meeting


Terry Mcauliffe says A judge took the Star Scientific tax case away from Ken Cuccinelli

Context: debate


Amardeep Kaleka says Wisconsin sold fresh water to California, helping that states dairy industry, and lost a bunch of jobs (and) a bunch of farmland.

Context: an interview


Jalen Ross says Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white nameresume.

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


Rich Lowry says During the Bush administration, you actually had a prominent liberal write a book about how Bush was preparing for a fascist takeover of this country.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Rick Scott says Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes.

Context: a press release


Terry Mcauliffe says he faced a record budget deficit in Virginia in 2014.

Context: a radio interview.


Blog Posting says Bernie Sanders wins California landslide, But ⅔ of his votes arent counted.

Context: a headline in the Justice Gazette


Jim Marston says Texas leads the nation in fatal industrial accidents.

Context: a Texas Tribune interview


Hillary Clinton says Nearly half of Hispanic voters in Arizona's last election supported four measures that were "very tough on illegal immigration."


Maciver Institute says Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal.

Context: a web posting


Mitt Romney says Obamacare means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep.

Context: a speech in Washington, D.C.


Mike Dovilla says Mike Dovillas big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like The Avengers to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation.

Context: In a campaign mailer


Charlie Justice says U.S. Rep. Bill Young "has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks."

Context: a web ad.


Alan Krueger says Since the Affordable Care Act passed, 90 percent of job growth has been in full-time positions.

Context: an interview with Bloomberg television


Bill White says Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry.

Context: a speech


Will Weatherford says Lets say (Republicans) take away half of our delegates. Theyre worth more than Iowas, New Hampshires and almost South Carolinas combined.

Context: an interview with the "St. Petersburg Times" editorial board


Howard Dean says Theres a tremendous other number of public officials who have done the same thing as Hillary Clinton with a private email server.

Context: an interview on "Morning Joe"


Phil Gingrey says Under last years health care reform, a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy.

Context: a news conference


Ted Cruz says The Obama administration spent $205,075 in stimulus funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16.

Context: a report


Cato Institute says There has been no net global warming for over a decade now.

Context: a political advertisement.


Don Beyer says Thanks to the Obama administrations negotiations, Irans nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Context: an op-ed


Debra Lehrmann says This race will be the Democrats top target this November.

Context: a mailer


Pam Davidson says Georgia Public Service Commission member Stan Wise has received about 95 percent of his campaign money from the utilities he is supposed to be regulating.

Context: a statement


Barack Obama says he and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation.

Context: the State of the Union address


American Crossroads says As a result of Obamacare, California seniors face benefit cuts of over $1,700.

Context: a campaign ad


Dennis Ross says For the first time since the Korean War, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row.

Context: an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times


Jay Carney says Rick Perry turned down our invitation to meet President Barack Obama in El Paso.

Context: a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.


Charlie Crist says In 2012, the state put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10.

Context: a speech to Louisiana Democrats


Libertarian Party Texas says The Republican Party lost 1.1 million registered voters since 2008. The Democratic Party lost 1.2 million registered voters (while) voter registration in the Libertarian Party rose 8 percent.

Context: a press release


Christine Whitman says The proudest accomplishment (of my tenure) was leaving the state with a $1.2 billion surplus, which was the largest wed ever had, and getting spending under control and a balanced budget.

Context: an interview on NJTV


John Rafferty says Recently though, the media has reported on thousands of illegal voters here in the commonwealth.

Context: a debate.


Donald Trump says Stopped by Smiley Cookie to pick up some great cookies for the family, along with Rudy.

Context: a Facebook post.


Vincent Buddy Cianci says Mike Trainor...still owes $250,000 to the state.

Context: a talk show discussion


Ted Cruz says The Supreme Courts views are radically out of step with public opinion regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

Context: an interview on NPR


Alberta Darling says When it comes to the state deficit, Wisconsin is proportionally in as much trouble as the State of California.

Context: a television interview


David Frum says Eighty percent of the net new jobs created in the state of Texas since 2009 went to the foreign-born.

Context: a New York magazine article.


Richard Tomlins says Mayor Fung wants to punish our childrens education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year.

Context: a recorded telephone message to Cranston residents


David Axelrod says "Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."

Context: an interview on ABC's This Week


Aclu Florida says There are a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud.

Context: interview on "The Colbert Report"


Alan Powell says Democrats have now become the party of the [Atlanta] metro area and of blacks.

Context: an interview


Herman Cain says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will retire with a whole lot more money than under Social Security.

Context: a Republican presidential debate


Jeff Greene says On lifting the U.S. Cuban embargo and allowing travel to Cuba.

Context: a televised debate on Miami's WPLG-10 against Kendrick Meek.


Michael Steele says The Department of Veterans Affairs has a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide.

Context: a Fox News interview