Sean Duffy says The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is collecting financial information, monitoring financial information of millions of Americans without their knowledge and storing it for up to 10 years.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says "So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about 2 million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed. ... [And] the Recovery Act is on track to save or create another 1.5 million jobs in 2010."

Context: an address at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building


Dick Armey says At Texas AM University, only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members brought in enough money to pay for their salaries and overhead over the past five years.

Context: an oped column.


Facebook Posts says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.

Context: a meme on social media


Joe Atkins says Minnesota is kicking butt relative to Wisconsin on everything from employment and job creation to school test scores, educated work force and a host of other factors and rankings

Context: an interview


Bill Oreilly says he didnt tell viewers that the Obama campaign hid news about the motives behind the attack in Benghazi because Obama was running for re-election.

Context: a special broadcast on Fox


Bill Mitchell says Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants.

Context: a speech


Paul Broun says There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

Context: an interview


Charlie Crist says If Florida expanded Medicaid, some studies indicate it would create about 120,000 jobs.

Context: a debate at Broward College


Ertharin Cousin says One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent.

Context: a speech transcript on Medium


Rand Paul says The debt limit deal allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.


Bill Nelson says Oil money from federal leases can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling.

Context: a statement.


Hillary Clinton says Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor.

Context: comments at a campaign organizing event


Barry Garner says The Fulton County vote count will be finished by 11:30 p.m. on election night.

Context: a newspaper article


Jeff Fitzgerald says Obamacare is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.

Context: a tweet


Greg Abbott says Wendy Davis raised money for a U.S. House Democrat who is a member of a Democratic socialists group.

Context: a press release


John Barge says On support for Common Core education standards

Context: a website post


Eric Hovde says The failed economic policies of President Barack Obama, the Democrats and the Federal Reserve are making gas prices higher while Americas economy is running on fumes.

Context: a radio ad


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Mitch McConnell voted to raise Medicare costs for a current Kentucky senior by $6,000.

Context: a campaign ad


Matt Mackowiak says the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.

Context: an opinion colulmn.


Roy Blunt says Im 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldnt get it replaced.

Context: an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch


Mike Villarreal says Texas children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching.

Context: a press release


Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio made it clear: Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man, hewent on to say he doesnt trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate in Orlando


Barack Obama says The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is transparent.

Context: an interview with Charlie Rose


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Governor-elect Scott Walkers choice as transition team leader killed the release of a damaging report on Walkers record in the days leading up to the election.

Context: a news release


Mike Huckabee says Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.


Sheldon Whitehouse says The United States decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution.

Context: a TV interview


Dennis Kucinich says "Well, you know, the Teamsters wanted to drill in Alaska. I voted against drilling in Alaska. So it's not like I'm a slam dunk on every issue."

Context: Las Vegas


Ora Houston says HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin.

Context: an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget


Janice Hahn says Craig Huey called Planned Parenthood a murder mill.

Context: a TV ad


Kareem Abdul Jabbar says More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Rudy Giuliani says The conviction rate is almost exactly the same for whites and blacks who commit murder.

Context: an interview on 'Fox and Friends'


Jeb Bush says My plan actually gives the middle class the greatest break: $2,000 per family.


Lenny Curry says Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crists debt went up about $5 billion.

Context: an interview with Central Florida News 13


Loretta Weinberg says (New Jersey Network) is the only news station which covers New Jersey government.

Context: a column on bluejersey.com


Bill Gates says The highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent.

Context: an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS"


Scott Walker says Obamacare doesnt require members of Congress to abide by the same rules that all of the other Americans do.

Context: a television interview


David Cicilline says She [Hillary Clinton] has also said unequivocally that she didnt receive classified documents.

Context: TV interview


George Allen says Takes credit for reining in state spending when he was governor.

Context: a campaign biography.


Ann Mclane Kuster says she is entering in the most diverse class ever, of U.S. Representatives


Florida Conference Catholic Bishops says In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage.

Context: a committee hearing on domestic partnerships


Marco Rubio says Donald Trump hired illegal workers from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment.

Context: the GOP primary debate in Texas


Ben Bius says state Sen. Steve Ogden was the driving force behind business income tax hurting small business, crafted the Robin Hood school finance scheme making property taxes skyrocket, wrote a budget that will result in a $14 billion deficit and voted against gun freedoms.

Context: a radio advertisement.


Duncan Hunter says "And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."

Context: a Fox News interview


Roy Blunt says On three occasions, judges had to stop Jason Kander from manipulating elections.

Context: a campaign ad


Donald Trump says Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, theyve been deported.

Context: the third presidential debate


Xavier Becerra says We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

Context: a comment on 'Meet the Press'


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Renacci is under FBI investigation.

Context: a news release


Jobs Ohio says In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country.

Context: a television ad


Donald Mceachin says Gov. Bob McDonnellsbudget plantakesmoney out of our classrooms to pave roads.

Context: a speech.


National Republican Senatorial Committee says U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of Obamacare.

Context: a press release


Blog Posting says A YouGov.com poll shows 71 percent of Obama voters regret voting for him.

Context: conservative blogs


Barack Obama says The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in.

Context: a speech in Detroit


Donald Trump says Were the highest taxed nation in the world.

Context: an interview on 'Meet the Press'


Jim Durrett says According to crime statistics, riding MARTA has been becoming more and more safe over the years.

Context: a radio interview


Barack Obama says Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions.

Context: statement to reporters


American Energy Alliance says Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska.

Context: a video ad


Charley Wilkison says Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America.

Context: an interview with Laura Rice for the Texas Standard


Bill Mccollum says Rick Scott has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country."

Context: a press release


Paul Ryan says President Obamas proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon.

Context: a tweet


Chris Christie says the Obama administration invited Russia into Syria.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas


Paul Krugman says The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal.

Context: on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."


Club Growth says state Senate recall challenger Sandy Pasch voted to cut school aid by nearly $300 million.

Context: a radio ad


Mary Burke says her actions as Wisconsin commerce secretary brought the state 84,000 more Wisconsin jobs than we have today.

Context: a video


Frederica Wilson says she introduced a ban on "dirty dancing."

Context: her campaign Web site.


Hillary Clinton says Sen. Rubios (tax plan) would cut taxes for households making around $3 million a year by almost $240,000, which is way more than three times the earnings of a typical family.

Context: a speech


Don Lemon says More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock.

Context: a commentary on CNN


Nathan Deal says On bringing casino gambling and other gaming to Georgia

Context: a gubernatorial campaign forum


Jorge Elorza says The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state...

Context: a TV interview


Rudy Giuliani says Hillary Clinton has taken hundreds of millions from those countries where women are stoned, where women are killed for adulteryand women cant drive.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Marcy Kaptur says when she helped get $15 billion more for veterans care, Kucinich voted No.

Context: a campaign commercial


Chain Email says Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts.

Context: an email


Donald Trump says Russia and China are doing naval exercises together someplace.

Context: a rally in Columbus, Ohio


Ron Oakley says Ron Oakleys conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats as theWater Management Districts budget decreased by 58 percent in the four years he served on the board.

Context: a campaign mailer


Mark Pocan says Under the cromnibus law, taxpayers must guarantee incredibly risky derivatives deals made by the nations largest banks.

Context: an interview


Ohio Republican Party says Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And theyll cost less thanks to John Kasichs tax cut.

Context: a Tweet


Susan Collins says This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time.

Context: a response to the president's Saturday address


Baker Harrell says Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese.

Context: an interview with the Texas Tribune


Critics Water Fluoridation says Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

Context: a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments


Donald Trump says his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.

Context: the third GOP primary debate.


Harry Reid says The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldnt support repealing dont ask, dont tell because of the economy.

Context: the Senate floor


David Cicilline says We have the third-lowest minimum wage of developed countries.

Context: a TV debate


Solar Energy Fairness says Big rooftop solars plan forces Nevada families who dont have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.

Context: a television ad


Newt Gingrich says Hillary Clinton said, with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump

Context: in a Facebook post and video


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says An April 7, 2015 referendum would take the choice of chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court away from the people.

Context: a radio ad


Jeb Bush says For NATO exercises, we dont have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Britsare spotting us choppers.

Context: a speech at the Citadel


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Mitch McConnell voted three times for corporate tax breaks that send Kentucky jobs overseas.

Context: A campaign ad


John Boehner says As a candidate, President Obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president.

Context: a statement from the Minority Leader's office


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Sean Duffy backed plan to privatize Social Security.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Sherrod Brown says DonaldTrump proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his.

Context: a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention


John Mccain says Ann Kirkpatrick walked out on constituents when questioned on the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a political advertisement


Multnomah County Library Foundation says library district would come at no direct cost to the city budget.

Context: a newsletter.


Ed Gillespie says Mark Warner has supported Harry Reid down the line.

Context: a TV interview.


Marco Rubio says The Iran deal violates promises the president made to the American people. ...It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process.

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


Nancy Pelosi says Under a House Republican appropriations bill, 6 million seniors are deprived of meals.

Context: a public appearance


Jim Jordan says The national debt is larger than our entire annual economy.

Context: a congressional hearing


Facebook Posts says Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States.

Context: an internet message


Mitt Romney says Barack Obama put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments theyre going to receive.

Context: a debate


Kendrick Meek says Kendrick Meek claims hes the only candidate who saidSonia Sotomayor will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.

Context: his primary victory speech.


Patience Roggensack says she heard more than 2,400 cases as a Wisconsin appeals court judge

Context: a campaign TV ad


David Dewhurst says In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants more of Texans private data via health care.

Context: a tweet


Paul Sarlo says The states unemployment rate is fifth-highest in the country, a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states.

Context: a speech on the State Senate floor


Donald Trump says The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs.

Context: an economic address in Detroit


Barack Obama says "For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost."


Jeff Sessions says There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


Mary Burke says Six convictions are connected to an allegation by prosecutors that Gov. Scott Walker is at the center of a criminal scheme.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Scott Walker says Wisconsin is called the Badger State because our ancestors came here with the hopes of living the American dream by mining.

Context: a radio interview


Louise Slaughter says by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.

Context: a tweet


Tim Kaine says Florida retirees and families lost tens of thousands of dollars in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he pocketed their money and walked away.

Context: a speech at the Democratic convention


Bill Foster says Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate


Alan Grayson says "On the day that (the Republican) state leader resigned in disgrace, a Shred-It' truck rolled up to Republican headquarters."

Context: a press release


Brian Patrick Kennedy says Employers and schools have no right to conduct surveillance of a dorm room or a workers cubicle.

Context: a news release


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Jim Renaccis Republican majority.

Context: a news release


Amanda Fritz says my advocacy questioning contracting out in Parks delayed and altered the renewal of the Brooks contract, and reduced the number of contracted employees in Parks from over 100 to fewer than 40.

Context: a questionnaire


Sacramento Bee Editorial Board says Texas ranks first in executions among the states.

Context: an editorial.


Wendy Davis says Greg Abbott has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls.

Context: a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.


Bill Clinton says The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East.

Context: a campaign event


Hillary Clinton says Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."

Context: South Bend, Ind.


Jeff Fitzgerald says he posted a win in the Republican Party of Wisconsin endorsement contest in the U.S. Senate primary.

Context: Facebook and Twitter posts


Scott Walker says Wisconsin requires, by law, a photo ID to vote.

Context: a speech


George Holding says North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers was the only Republican to vote against an amendment to prioritize the deportation of sexual criminals who are illegal immigrants.

Context: a debate on WRAL


Allen West says Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years.

Context: comments on his blog


Chuck Donovan says U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson has never proposed, nor voted in favor of, a substantial cut in federal spending and has voted for many substantial increases in federal spending.

Context: a blog on his campaign website


Moveon says "John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

Context: an e-mail message


Hillary Clinton says Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism.

Context: a speech in Cincinnati


Bernie S says In 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income, which is more than the entire bottom 50 percent.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Jim Sensenbrenner says An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK.

Context: an interview


Progressive Change Campaign Committee says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson says hell do away with Medicare.

Context: a TV ad


Democratic National Committee says "More than 12,500 service men and women have been discharged on the basis of sexual orientation since the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was implemented, at a cost of over $360 million. Many of those forced out had special skills in high demand, such as translators, engineers, and pilots."

Context: its platform


Scott Walker says In Congress Tom Barrett voted to allow abortions through the ninth month, just moments before the baby is born.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Peter Schweizer says Of the 13 (Bill) Clinton speeches that fetched $500,000 or more, only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state.

Context: his book "Clinton Cash"


Facebook Posts says When (Barack Obama) took office, 2.3 million people were out of work. Five-plus years later, we have 5 million-plus out of work.

Context: a meme on social media


John Wisniewski says in January 1992, George H. W. Bush probably had a 90 percent or even higher approval rating after the first Gulf War.

Context: an interview on NJToday


John Shimkus says When LBJ started#WarOnPoverty, 14% of Americans lived in poverty. 50 yrs later, 14% still do. Theres a #BetterWay.

Context: a tweet


Stephanie Desilva says [Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Dohertys case, in a little over a week.

Context: a news release


Lee May says Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago.

Context: a press release


Daniel Rodriguez says no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts.

Context: an email to PolitiFact Texas.


Christopher Blazejewski says In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day.

Context: a news release


Sly James says Responding to a major snow event in Atlanta would be like Kansas City, Mo., responding to a major earthquake.

Context: a radio interview


Donald Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin calls me brilliant.

Context: NBC's Commander-in-Chief Forum


Michael T Owens says A $5-a-night hotel/motel tax thats part of the transportation bill will hurt Georgias convention business by adding extra costs for large groups coming to the state.

Context: a news report


Gina Hinojosa says Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran.

Context: a campaign  mailer


Facebook Posts says In April 1997, there was a gas out conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

Context: a post on Facebook


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was never sentenced to stoning.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Georgia Lottery says The Georgia Lottery paid out $2.3 billion in prizes during the last fiscal year.

Context: television advertisement


Michael Moore says During the Reagan administration, "Millions of people were thrown out of work."

Context: his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"


Our Principles Pac says Donald Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush.

Context: a web ad


Gene Green says student loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent July 1.

Context: a press release


Tony Capezza says In New England, Rhode Island has the second highest number of police officers being assaulted.

Context: testimony at General Assembly


Jim Renacci says My opponent, in 2008, had contributions investigated by the federal government.

Context: a town hall-style meeting


Reince Priebus says In recent polling in battleground states, a majority of the people said Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy.

Context: an interview


Gwen Moore says Weve had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare.

Context: a radio interview


Kim Guadagno says After not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade, New Jersey opened offices in Shanghai and London in the past six months, and has seen an 18 percent increase in exports.

Context: a radio interview on WNYC


Crossroads Gps says President Obama has added $4 billion in debt every day.

Context: an ad


Stephen Sweeney says that as a gubernatorial candidate, Chris Christie promised no school cuts.

Context: a press release


Jim Jordan says Eighty percent of all U.S. communities depend solely on trucks to deliver and supply the products sold in stores or ordered online.

Context: a congressional hearing


Maggie Hassan says With her solution, terrorists can still today and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America.

Context: a debate


Republican National Committee Republican says Despite President Barack Obamas promise to cut healthcare costs, the average cost of a family policy is up $1,300.

Context: a campaign ad


Hank Gilbert says the Texas Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase up to 300,000 promotional stress balls.

Context: a press release.


Bill Oreilly says he didnt call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what some prolifers branded him.

Context: an op-ed.


Viral Image says Quotes Mark Cuban as saying,I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything.

Context: in a post on Facebook


Matt Gaetz says A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol.

Context: an op-ed article


Jan Schakowsky says Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition that could affecttheir health care coverage.

Context: an interview with MSNBC


Steny Hoyer says In preparing a rules package for the 112th Congress, the GOP had no discussions with Democrats.

Context: a news release


Michelle Obama says Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire countrys GDP.

Context: an interview posted on Medium


Glenn Beck says The 2000 Census cost $4.5 billion. The 2010 Census is set to cost up to $14.5 billion.

Context: his Fox News program


Bob Beckel says The United States has the most number of deductions available to corporations for the corporate income tax.

Context: a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"


Ted Cruz says UPS left 15,000 employees spouses without health insurance and told them to, go on an exchange with no employer subsidy.

Context: a Senate floor speech


Marco Rubio says the goal of the Affordable Care Act was to get 30 million people insured, but it only got 7 million.

Context: an interview on Fox's 'Hannity'


Billboard Spaghetti Junction says GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY

Context: overhead sign on I-85 South


John Kasich says We didnt have a development director for over seven months.

Context: a campaign speech


Ben Carson says There is not one of the Muslim nations that doesnt have discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs.

Context: an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File"


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says GOP recall challenger Kim Simac was delinquent paying her property taxes eight of the last nine years.

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says Medicare spends "$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies."

Context: a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.


Our Oregon says while state leaders have cut funding for our schools and other basic priorities, the amount of money the state is projected to give away through tax breaks increased by a whopping $3.4 billion.

Context: a newsletter.


Jeb Bush says If youre born poor, youre more likely to stay poor than any time in American history.

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


Republican Party Florida says Alex Sink supported higher sales taxes.

Context: a campaign mailer


Rick Scott says I delivered to you a budget that ... cuts taxes by $2 billion.

Context: his State of the State speech.


Josh Mandel says Sherrod Browns campaign attacked Josh Mandels military service

Context: a campaign email


Frank Ortis says The city of Pembroke Pines doesnt have a vote in a plan to build a detention center in Southwest Ranches.

Context: a meeting


Tim Pawlenty says Theres no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic.

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


Joe Biden says "Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."

Context: a news release.


Kevin Mccarthy says The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.

Context: a statement published in the "Bakersfield Californian"


Bill Nelson says Gov. Rick Scott returned $1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law.

Context: an op-ed


Sherrod Brown says When Josh Mandel claims to have accepted three debates with Sen. Sherrod Brown, he is lying. He has accepted ZERO proposed debates.

Context: a news release


Gary Johnson says he and his running mate are the only candidates that do believe in free trade.

Context: a campaign appearance


Marco Rubio says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.

Context: a tweet


Yes 84 says The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness.

Context: campaign material


Chris Van Hollen says The Republicans have demanded deep cuts in education. Theyve demanded cuts in cancer research and other research to find cures and treatments to diseases.

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


Dan Patrick says As chair of the Senate Education Committee, I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session.

Context: a press release


George Will says Bernie Sanders chose to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988.

Context: a Washington Post column


Michael Mccaul says U.S. corporate tax rate is highest in the world at 35 percent.

Context: a League of Women Voters guide for Texas and Austin voters


Mike Pence says Hillary Clinton took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Context: a speech at a Trump rally


James Skeffington says Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks.

Context: a radio interview


Paul Ryan says Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years

Context: an election-night interview


Donald Trump says The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over.

Context: comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland


Hillary Clinton says "Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools."

Context: a forum hosted by Slate/Yahoo/Huffington Post.


Colorados Voice says Mike Coffman is with Trump.

Context: a news release


Bob Gibbs says If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance.

Context: a tweet


One Nation Pac says In two terms in the Missouri General Assembly, Jason Kander passed ZERO bills that were signed into law.

Context: a political mailer


Donald Trump says Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers are worse now than just about ever for African-Americans.

Context: an interview on ABC "This Week"


Greg Abbott says The growth rate of women-owned businesses in Texas has nearly doubled that of the nation since President Obama has taken office.

Context: an email blast


Ami Bera says Due to the sequester, people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn.

Context: a House floor speech


Alan Hays says I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit.

Context: a public hearing about redistricting


Rick Scott says We are the only state in the country that state employees dont contribute [to their pensions].

Context: a meeting with state legislators.


Kenneth Mckay says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist.

Context: a TV interview


Frank Pallone Jr says One year today since #GOP took control of the House and no new jobs.

Context: a tweet


Kasim Reed says the Georgia Dome would need up to $350 million in work over the next five to seven years.

Context: news story


Jamie Oliver says McDonalds in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.

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


Steve Doocy says White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.

Context: a statement on Fox and Friends


Physicians Committee Responsible Medicine says [A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging.

Context: a letter


Yvette Mcgee Brown says Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.

Context: a campaign speech


Kate Brown says she does the jobs of state auditor, secretary of state and lieutenant governor for less than the price of one of them in Washington state.

Context: a television interview.


Richard Durbin says Under current policies, were going to reduce the overall debt of the United States by $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Herb Kohl says I have always been focused on reining in the deficit.

Context: a news release


Rick Perry says We dont get a lot of calls from this White House I have, frankly, never had a call from them.

Context: an interview


Rick Perry says that in fiscal year 2010, nearly 80 percent of women served in the Texas Womens Health Program received services from a provider other than a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Context: a tweet


John Mccain says Earmarks requested in a federal spending bill included $277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin.

Context: a statement on the U.S. Senate floor


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Credit agency says Rep. Gibbs recklessly caused downgrade, higher interest rates.

Context: a news release


Sarah Palin says "We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."

Context: St. Louis, Mo.


Crossroads Gps says Stimulus money went to office upgrades for politicians.

Context: a TV ad


Hetty Rosenstein says The average state pension, including managers, is $23,000 a year; and just $14,000 for local government workers.

Context: a press release from the Communication Workers of America


Carly Fiorina says The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has no congressional oversight.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee


Rudy Giuliani says "He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."

Context: MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Annette Taddeo Goldstein says Jeb Bushs plan for Social Security is disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70.

Context: a fundraising email


Barack Obama says "I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point."

Context: a conversation with reporters aboard plane


Hillary Clinton says "About 40 percent of Hispanic homeowners have subprime mortgages."

Context: a debate in Miami, Fla.


Rob Portman says that Lee Fisher once said, I never met a gun control bill I didnt like.

Context: a campaign statement


Ann Coulter says in 2000, Fox News broke the story of George W. Bushs drunk driving arrest. Who broke it? Fox News.

Context: a broadcast of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live"


John Mccain says Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."

Context: in an interview on "This Week."


Blog Posting says George Soros and Bill Gates are funding a bioweapons lab in Sierra Leone that caused the Ebola outbreak.

Context: a blog post


Danny Tarkanian says Nevada Republicans didnt do one single thing to cut spending in 2015.

Context: an interview on Ralston Live


Glenn Beck says To comply with non-discrimination laws, the government is forcing people in business to make wedding cakes for anyone.

Context: comments on his radio program


Chris Malone says Democratic challenger for his N.C. House seat raised taxes on clothing, school supplies even baby diapers!


Lawrence Odonnell says Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population.

Context: a broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"


Jeb Bush says I released all my emails.

Context: a campaign video


Lamar Smith says I was the first member of Congress to contribute to Donald Trump.

Context: a web post and email blast


Dan Gelber says ''I have received more contributions than any other candidate in the race Republican or Democrat.''

Context: e-mail to supporters and media


National Republican Congressional Committee says "The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."

Context: a news release


Charlie Crist says Were the Sunshine State, and were hardly doing any solar energy production.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"


Michael Steele says In Hawaii, "they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office."

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


Senate Majority Pac says New Hampshire has lost more jobs to China than any other state.

Context: a campaign ad


Ted Strickland says Gov. John Kasich incorrectly claimed Ohios economy was 38th in the nation when he took office. We were sixth in the nation in terms of economic job growth.

Context: an interview on CNN


Al Roker says (Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement.

Context: a broadcast


Kathleen Vinehout says Because of Gov. Scott Walkers budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is going to pay off debt than ever before in our history.

Context: a column


Barack Obama says When I took office, the deficit was nearly 10 percent of our economy. Today, its approaching 3 percent.

Context: a speech at Northwestern University


Mary Burke says Were 49th in the United States in new businesses created.

Context: an interview


Sarah Palin says I was banned from talking about Bill Ayers during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Context: an interview with Fox News


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagans policies.

Context: a video ad


Gwen Moore says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker literally invented a $3.6 billion deficit.

Context: a speech at a state Democratic Party dinner


Kasim Reed says We also have, in a park thats not far from here, an ability to build a reservoir that can hold a 30-day water supply for the city of Atlanta.

Context: an interview


Bob Mcdonnell says Virginia is home to more veterans per capita than any state in America.

Context: a speech.


Keith Faber says Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers.

Context: a newspaper interview


Rick Scott says It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually. Keep in mind that Amtraks Acela train in Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 million riders in 2010.

Context: comments announcing Florida would reject federal dollars for a Tampa-Orlando high-speed rail line.


Barack Obama says Our businesses have created nearly twice as many jobs in this recovery as they had at the same point in the last recovery, when there was no Obamacare.

Context: a speech in Galesburg, Ill.


John Barge says We have about six school districts that are in school 140 to 150 days this year.

Context: a town hall meeting


Scott Walker says Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result the deer population has dwindled.

Context: a campaign news release and platform document


Mike Pence says Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana.

Context: a Donald Trump rally in Indiana


Jim Taricani says No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous.

Context: a comment made on "10 News Conference."


Rick Scott says Today, you cant rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), its not funded.

Context: a press conference


Jeb Bush says his average federal tax rate was 36 percent.

Context: a post on his campaign website about releasing his tax returns


Michael Mccaul says President Barack Obama said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority to act as he did on immigration.

Context: a committee hearing


Elliott Naishtat says Nearly 45 percent of the women who receive health screenings through (the Womens Health Program) do so at a Planned Parenthood health center.

Context: an op-ed column


Rob Portman says Last year, we produced 14 percent less oil on public lands than we did the year before.

Context: a radio interview


Patrick Murphy says Floridas regulations on the payday lending industry are stronger than almost any other state.

Context: a conference call with reporters


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Bill Young voted to cut taxes for millionaires and end your Medicare.

Context: a gas station advertisement


Jeb Bush says On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country.

Context: a speech at Politics and Eggs


Barack Obama says The Republican election platform was actually written with the help of a former lobbyist for AIG and a former lobbyist for Exxon-Mobil.

Context: a speech in Madison, Wisc.


Dan Sullivan says Alaska Sen. Mark Begich supported President Barack Obamas economic policies 97 percent of the time.

Context: a campaign email blast


Bing West says Seventy-five percent of the young adults in this country are not mentally or physically fit to serve.

Context: a radio interview


Ted Cruz says David Dewhurst accused Cruz of being a Red Chinese Communist.

Context: a widely distributed email memo.


Chain Email says Less than 10 percent of President Barack Obamas Cabinet members have private-sector experience.

Context: an email


Suzanne Bonamici says Federal law prohibits the growing of industrial hemp in the United States.

Context: a debate


Chris Christie says We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000.

Context: a news conference


Wendy Davis says Greg Abbott has benefitted from payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees.

Context: a debate


Chain Email says Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year.

Context: a chain e-mail


Ron Shipman says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.

Context: a meeting


Lori Haas says In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns 49 percent fewer women are shot and killed.

Context: a news conference


House Republicans says Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits.

Context: a "myth and fact" news release


Peter Palumbo says Every poll you see, the overwhelming majority of people want [E-Verify].

Context: a talk radio show.


Florida Conservation Alliance says Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules.

Context: a television commercial


Barbara Buono says I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care.

Context: a video advertisement


Bob Wirch says Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate the governors mansion.

Context: a news release


Club Growth says Donald Trump supports eminent domain and the Supreme Courts Kelodecision.

Context: a television ad


American Crossroads says Tom Steyer is aCalifornia billionaire who stands to profit by blocking Keystone and is spending big to help Bruce Braley.

Context: a campaign ad


We Are Wisconsin says Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered unqualified support for a plan to end Medicare

Context: a news release


Charlie Crist says On adoption by gay couples


Karen Harrington says In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes one of the worst records of any member of Congress.

Context: a website


Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee says Matt Patten kicked off his dirty campaign with thousands in dirty cash from guess who? (Frank) Russo and (Jimmy) Dimora.

Context: an election ad


Joaquin Castro says 43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance if the Texas House version of the state budget passes into law.

Context: House floor debate.


Wendy Davis says Women are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas.

Context: a tweet


Marco Rubio says $120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crists political photo-op special session.

Context: a press release


Florida First Initiative says Of hospitals in Rick Scotts Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic.

Context: a rally in North Carolina


Naha Daily says Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith.

Context: a website article


Carly Fiorina says Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women.

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


Johnny Isakson says On support for a military strike on Syria

Context: a statement


Wayne Lapierre says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!

Context: an article in the Daily Caller


Nan Rich says Were 48th in K-12 funding and 50th in higher education.

Context: a "Tampa Tribune" blog


Chris Christie says Heres something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America.

Context: a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5's "Ask the Governor"


Bernie S says When youre white ... you dont know what its like to be poor.

Context: a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.


Chris Dodd says "With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."


Sarah Eckhardt says Travis Countys unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.

Context: an email blast.


Georgia Department Economic Development says Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgias economy in the most recent fiscal year.

Context: a press release


John Morgan says Nobodys addicted to marijuana.

Context: Bay News 9 show, “Political Connections”


Reince Priebus says President-elect Trumps immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting.

Context: an MSNBC interview


We Are Wisconsin says Gov. Scott Walker took away $1.6 billion from schools and handed it off as over $2 billion in tax breaks to the rich.

Context: campaign mail


Rand Paul says The federal government can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget.

Context: an interview on Fox Business News


Ew Jackson says In Galveston, Texas, they have allowed people to privatize part of their Social Security. And people are building wealth.

Context: a debate.


Thomas Norment Jr says On bipartisan redistricting.

Context: a press release.


John Mccain says Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.

Context: an interview on CNN's <i> Larry King Live </i>


National Republican Congressional Committee says Reps. Rush Holt, Frank Pallone and Bill Pascrell are willing to jeopardize seniors access to coverage by gutting $741 billion from Medicare to pay for a big-government healthcare takeover.

Context: a news release


John Oliver says Keene, N.H., requested a military-grade armored personnel truck, citing their annual Pumpkin Festival as a possible target for terrorists.

Context: a segment on his show, Last Week Tonight


Joe Lieberman says President Barack Obama had the legal authority to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.

Context: a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire"


John Cornyn says On the importance of judicial experience for Supreme Court nominees.

Context: a news release


Jb Powell says Horse racing could boost Georgias economy by $1 billion a year and create 10,000 to 20,000 jobs.

Context: a news release


Ron Johnson says Russ Feingold voted against the law that protected our lakes and was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no.

Context: a campaign commercial


Newt Gingrich says the new Dodd-Frank financial law requires a 20 percent down payment to buy a house.

Context: at a meeting arranged by the Small Business Caucus at the Kimball Jenkins House in Concord, N.H.


John Mccain says "I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations."

Context: a town hall meeting in Denver


Republican Party Florida says Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals.

Context: a campaign mailer


Donald Trump says For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America.

Context: a speech in New York attacking Hillary Clinton


Harry Reid says In the history of the United States, 168 presidential nominees have been filibustered, 82 blocked under President Obama, 86 blocked under all the other presidents.

Context: a graphic


Chris Abele says Jeff Stone = Scott Walker.

Context: a television ad


Chain Email says Palin "inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million."

Context: a chain e-mail


National Federation Independent Business Florida says Florida is one of only three states that require licenses for commercial interior designers.

Context: testimony to Florida House Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee.


Allan Fung says After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials.

Context: a radio interview


Donald Trump says In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


Paul Ryan says Obamacare is not a popular law.

Context: a news conference


Alex Sink says "Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it."

Context: an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.


Rod Smith says Rick Scott has destroyed over 100,000 jobs.

Context: an e-mail to supporters


Casey Cagle says For every week that (state lawmakers are) able to cut off our timeline, it saves (Georgia taxpayers) approximately $100,000.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says "Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.

Context: in a television ad


Doug Ducey says 90 percent of fires in Arizona are human-caused.

Context: a press conference on fire season


Rod Smith says Today 46 percent of all Floridians owe more on their home than it is worth.

Context: speech at Florida Democratic Party 2011 Convention


Rick Perry says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history.

Context: a house party in New Hampshire


Rick Perry says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.

Context: a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.


Alan Grayson says Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American.

Context: an interview on the "Alan Colmes Show" on Fox News


Andrew Cuomo says Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today

Context: a speech in Buffalo


Richard Land says Rubio's "got more experience than Obama had."

Context: an interview with "Politico"


Tom Barrett says More than 125 jobs have been created at the Milwaukee Job Corps Center.

Context: a newsletter to Milwaukee residents


Mitt Romney says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.

Context: the second presidential debate


Chris Redfern says The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor.

Context: a radio interview


Hank Gilbert says a careless attitude and poor oversight by the Texas Department of Agriculture led to deaths and illnesses traced to a Texas peanut plant.

Context: in a press release


Eric Cantor says TheU.S. economyis three times asbig as Chinas.

Context: a news conference.


Angel Taveras says Providence graduation rates are up.

Context: a campaign video


Hillary Clinton says Alex Jones said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.

Context: x


Donald Trump says no, youre wrong, responding to the assertion that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York.

Context: the presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.


Enough Already Wisconsin Inc says The majority of revenue generated by a proposed Kenosha casino would be sent to the Seminole tribe in Florida.

Context: a tweet


Bill Richardson says "I've got the most international experience here."

Context: a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.


Florida Democratic Party says Gov. Rick Scott cut more government jobs than were created in the private sector in Florida in 2012.

Context: a memo 'pre-butting' the State of the State address


Hillary Clinton says Florida doesnt regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesnt require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesnt require any registration, whatsoever.

Context: an interview with CNN


Stephanie Schriock says Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress.

Context: as quoted by the Texas Tribune


Ken Hagan says Studies suggest the 2017 College Football Playoff Championship game will bring about 1,700 to 1,800 full-time jobs.

Context: an interview with the 'Tampa Bay Times'


Herman Cain says that he did not exactly say that communities have the right to ban mosques.

Context: the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa


Katrina Shankland says Faced with $1 million in campaign debt, Scott Walker is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers.

Context: a news release


Jamie Radtke says George Allen had 40,000 earmarks while he was a senator.

Context: a TV interview.


Elizabeth Dennigan says We are amassing most of our military strength in a country where fewer than 100 members of al Qaeda remain.

Context: a statement on her campaign website


Ralph Nader says "He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps."

Context: a radio interview with Democracy Now!


Barack Obama says Romney said we should ask Pakistan for permission to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.

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


Texas Democratic Party says More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap.

Context: a press release


Paul Krugman says There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office.

Context: a "New York Times" column


Hillary Clinton says The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing.

Context: in the Democratic debate in Florida


Donald Trump says Marco Rubio has the worst voting record there is today.

Context: the second GOP primary debate.


Sean Duffy says Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Context: a speech


Howard Dean says The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball.


John Fleming says Barack Obama is a hypocrite for criticizing President George W. Bushs drone attack program, then using it aggressively as president.

Context: an interview on Fox Business Network


Steve Doell says Measure 11 is one of the most significant reasons for decrease in violent crime.

Context: a press release.


Valerie Vainieri Huttle says 160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying.

Context: at a news conference


Rudy Giuliani says "We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."

Context: a debate in Johnston, Iowa


Jerome Buting says Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, the lowest in the country.

Context: an interview


Oregon Education Association says House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing

Context: a blog posting


Atlanta Journal Constitution says The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.

Context: news reports


John Boehner says Theres no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


Tammy Baldwin says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to do away with Medicare.

Context: a speech


Mary Burke says The nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker.

Context: a speech


Suzanne Bonamici says I differed with my party on business legislation, on consumer protection, and on free trade agreements.

Context: in a debate


Rick Scott says We will have the highest general revenue in state history next year. Conservative pro-growth policies work in our state.

Context: a speech at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation summit


Mallard Fillmore says Comic strip says government study shows Head Start has little or no impact on the children its supposed to help.

Context: a syndicated cartoon


Leticia Van De Putte says In 2013, Dan Patrick voted against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free.

Context: a video ad


Ted Cruz says A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty.

Context: in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland


Matthew Dowd says Pope Francis took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims.

Context: a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"


Barack Obama says The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple.

Context: a speech to a joint session of Congress


Richard Saslaw says One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people in Virginia

Context: an interview


James Capretta says Obamacare is a massive, massive income redistribution with $250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure thats basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases.

Context: a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"


Barack Obama says The federal tax code has loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas.

Context: the first presidential debate


Dale Earnhardt Jr says The Republican from Georgia [U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston], he hasnt even been to a NASCAR race.

Context: remarks to reporters


National Republican Congressional Committee says Kurt Schrader supports Obamas sequester but wont cut $1.6 million to fund new video games.

Context: an online ad


Scott Walker says In the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in Midwest job growth.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Mary Burke says The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota under Gov. Scott Walkers policies.

Context: a speech


John Oliver says FIFA pressured Brazil into passing a so-called Budweiser bill, allowing beer sales in soccer stadiums.

Context: a segment on "Last Week Tonight"


Dan Patrick says Leticia Van de Putte voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony.

Context: a TV ad, "Better Schools"


Chain Email says Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460.

Context: a message via the Internet


Joe Sanfelippo says a state bill checks the spending habits of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors by bringing it in line with other county boards around the state.

Context: legislative testimony


Lois Frankel says Recently Rick Scott closed 30 womens health care centers across the state.

Context: a fundraising email


Chris Christie says The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent.

Context: a campaign event in New Hampshire


Rick Perry says federal health care overhaul will cost Texas state government upwards of $30 billion over the next 10 years.

Context: an interview


Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama has put (up) a stop sign against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska.

Context: a Republican presidential debate


Craig Miller says Ive created over 40,000 jobs.

Context: a campaign launch message on his website


James Langevin says Passing a federal firearms background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds.

Context: a news release


Jim Demint says The debt-ceiling bill doesnt cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years.

Context: an interview with "The State" newspaper


Jeff Sessions says Hillary Clinton has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. ... Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page Obamatrade the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

Context: the GOP convention in Cleveland


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Jeb Bush flip-flop-flip(ped) on immigration.

Context: a tweet


Betty Sutton says Ganley said that if elected, he wants to cut the dickens out of Social Security, Medicare and Veterans benefits.

Context: a campaign fundraising e-mail


Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families.

Context: a TV ad


Leticia Van De Putte says Since 1980, over 145 incidents have been documented of suction entrapment in swimming pools and spas, including 36 deaths of children.

Context: a press release


Marco Rubio says The RESTORE Act started as an effort to dedicate as much BP fine money as possible towards Gulf Coast restoration but now could steer money to places like the Great Lakes and West Coast.

Context: a press release


Facebook Posts says Countries with a higher minimum wage than the United States $7.25 an hour include Denmark at $21, Australia at$15.81, Germany at$11and France at$12.35.

Context: a Facebook meme


Michelle Mosby says Joe Morrissey has been a delegate in the General Assembly for eight years with no laws passed to help our black community with education or workforce.

Context: a radio ad.


Casey Cagle says Georgia lawmakers balanced the budget without raising taxes on residents.

Context: a speech


Scott Desjarlais says Defends his vote to push retirement age to 70 by saying he is for a process that would not be fully implemented until around the turn of the century.

Context: an interview  with The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro


Rush Limbaugh says President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision.

Context: a radio broadcast


Mick Mulvaney says The president has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends for Obamacare.

Context: an interview with CBS News


Ted Piccolo says that three of these five Republicans -- Ben Westlund, Rob Patridge, Max Williams, Lane Shetterly, Lynn Lundquist -- later became Democrats.

Context: an online comment


Rudy Giuliani says "The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City."

Context: New York.


Barbara Lee says Proposed cuts in the House farm bill mean 2 million less people on food stamps, 210,000 children will not receive school lunches or breakfasts.

Context: an interview with MSNBC


Bill Maher says If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet.

Context: a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Jennifer Carroll says Rick Scott doesnt have any ties to a lobbyist.

Context: a speech


Rick Scott says At my first Lets Get to Work Day we sold out; more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.

Context: his State of the State address


Dan Gecker says Glen Sturtevant is against smaller class sizes.

Context: a campaign flier.


Chain Email says Congressional lawmakers earn their salaries FOR LIFE, which for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would add up to $803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE including FREE medical.

Context: an email and social media posts


Sarah Palin says President Obamas proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.

Context: an op-ed in the 'Washington Post'


John Mccain says "I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."

Context: Tampa, Fla.


Chain Email says Starting in 2011, "you will be required to pay taxes" on "the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company."

Context: a chain e-mail


Dan Patrick says Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a referral service. They dont do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies.

Context: an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News


Scott Walker says Democratic recall opponent Tom Barrett is campaigning on lifting property tax limits.

Context: a TV ad


League Women Voters Texas Education Fund says Photo ID is not required for those who vote by mail.

Context: a press release


Stacey Abrams says We have the lowest per-capita spending of any state in the nation except for South Dakota.

Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club


John Mccain says Barack Obama was "a trial attorney for ACORN."

Context: a memo on campaign Web site


Jimmy Carter says When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None.

Context: an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan


Karl Rove says President Obama has the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.

Context: a 'Wall Street Journal' column


Chris Abele says Milwaukee County has a parks capital budget thats bigger than its been in the last 10 years.

Context: a speech


Rick Scott says Charlie Crist wants felons who commit a heinous crime such as intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote.

Context: the CNN debate


National Republican Congressional Committee says 700 jobs (were) lost because Allen Boyd voted for the health care bill.

Context: a TV ad.


Bill Clinton says Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence.

Context: during a campaign stop in Philadelphia


Tim Pawlenty says In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years.

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


Steve Stockman says In every poll, John Cornyn always loses to any conservative the voters have heard about.

Context: Stockman's campaign website


Joe Negron says For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and I think that context is important.

Context: a Health and Human Services Appropriations committee meeting


Gwen Moore says In Wisconsin, deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!

Context: a Tweet


Mary Olson says there is a plan formulated by Chair (Lynn) Peterson and the cities in Clackamas County to further increase this fee in three years and split it up on projects between the county and cities.

Context: in Clackamas County Board of Commissioners hearing


Pam Stewart says For the state of Florida, there is not an additional cost with implementation of the Common Core standards.

Context: a public hearing in Tampa


Mitt Romney says Twenty-five or 24 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work.

Context: an Atlanta campaign stop


John Mccain says Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'

Context: in a television ad


Hillary Clinton says Trump ties are made in China, not Colorado. Trump suits in Mexico, not Michigan. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. Trump picture frames in India, not Wisconsin.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Greg Abbott says Weve had about 3,000 murders in connection with lax border security.

Context: an interview on Fox News.


Mitt Romney says Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."

Context: a TV ad airing in Iowa.


David Pennington says The proposed transportation bill could be the largest tax increase in Georgia history.

Context: a press conference


Tom Graves says The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a Star Trek training video.

Context: a Twitter post


Nathan Deal says While in Congress, Nathan Deal was a leader when it came to protecting our borders.

Context: a press releaase


Charlie Crist says "Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent."

Context: his State of the State address.


Eric Cantor says The 2009 stimulus bill failed to get people back to work.

Context: a news conference.


Barbara Boxer says Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Herman Cain says Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma

Context: the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH


Charlie Crist says "Actually, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican."

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


Darrell Issa says We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that dont exist for procedures that didnt happen.

Context: CBS's "Face the Nation"


Scott Walker says The University of Wisconsin System will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America because going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation.

Context: an interview


Gail Collins says Gov. Rick Perry used $3.2 billion in stimulus dollars for schools to plug other holes in his budget.

Context: a column


Ed Gillespie says On immigration reform

Context: interviews


Barack Obama says The actions Im taking are the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half-century.

Context: a speech announcing new immigration actions


Bill Clinton says It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Chris Christie says Jon Corzine gave away 14 percent raises over 4 years and he stood on the front steps of the Capitol at a public-sector union rally and said, I will fight to get you a great contract.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Rick Scott says Weve cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. Theyve grown.

Context: a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter


Chris Latvala says Many dont know that Bill Young was once the minority leader in the Florida Senate...because he was the only Republican senator.

Context: a tweet


Chain Email says Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.

Context: messages on the Internet


Stop Gillnetting Now says Oregon is one of only three states that allow the use of gillnets on inland waters.

Context: campaign press statement


Ted Cruz says Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in this country -- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work.

Context: comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate


Sherrod Brown says Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it.

Context: an interview on ABC "This Week"


Barack Obama says "I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."

Context: Cleveland, Ohio


Dale Peterson says he was a Marine during Vietnam.

Context: a campaign commercial


Barack Obama says AARP is endorsing the health care reform bill.

Context: a town hall on health care


Workers Voice says Mitt Romneys investments created zero jobs.

Context: a mailer


Larry Pressler says American Hustleshows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says "These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."

Context: Flint, Mich.


Craig James says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are negotiating with the United Nations about doing a treaty that will ban the use of firearms.

Context: a speech in Tyler, Texas.


John Boehner says The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs.

Context: an op-ed for "USA Today"


John Mccain says iPads and iPhones are built in the United States of America.

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


Ocean State Policy Research Institute says Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include $250,000 to provide digital television to the states inmate population.

Context: report


Gary Johnson says The Pentagon itself says that we could eliminate 20 percent of U.S. bases.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Joe Biden says I never called for a partition of Iraq.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Robert Koons says In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican.

Context: an opinion piece published in the Austin American-Statesman


National Review says Said Republicans made historic gains in state legislatures during last months election

Context: National Review Online


Donald Trump says We got the highest vote count in the history of the Republican Party.

Context: a speech in Raleigh, N.C.


Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network says Metro Atlantans spend over an hour every day or five hours a week commuting, for a total of 260 hours a year.

Context: in a TV ad


Charlie Crist says In Cover Florida "thousands already enrolled and climbing."

Context: a radio ad


Wilton Gregory says The Cathedral of Christ the King is one of the Archdiocese of Atlantas largest and fastest-growing parishes.

Context: in the Georgia Bulletin, the Catholic newspaper


Jennifer Beck says New Jerseys citizens are working at the highest rate in three years.

Context: a speech on the state Senate floor


Ron Paul says "The money supply has doubled in the last year."

Context: an article on his Web site RonPaul.com


Melvin Sickler says Oregons high minimum wage is the reason why by 2011, Oregons restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the states minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997.

Context: a U.S. Senate hearing


Miss California Usa says "The president of the United States ... agrees with me" that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Context: a news conference.


Barack Obama says The debt ceiling deal will result in the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president.

Context: remarks from the White House


James Inhofe says The Climatic Research Unit e-mails show that the science behind climate change has been pretty well debunked.

Context: CNN's 'The Situation Room'


Mitt Romney says President Obamas suggested reduction in spending for next year: $0.

Context: a graphic posted on his website


Progress Texas says Rick Perry ended full-day Pre-K for 100,000 Texas children.

Context: a statement for Twitter


Portland Public Schools says PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years.

Context: a letter to Portlanders


Tim Kaine says Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues.

Context: a news release.


Rick Scott says Alex Sinks plans for governor include $12.5 billion in new spending.

Context: a Leadership Florida/Florida Press Association debate.


Rick Santorum says Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed.

Context: a speech to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.


Terry Mcauliffe says Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.

Context: a speech.


American Crossroads says Recent data showed Nevada ranks 50th in the money received from the stimulus bill.

Context: a campaign commercial


Paul Krugman says If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes.

Context: ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'


Mitch Daniels says Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today.

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


Hillary Clinton says Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception five times.

Context: a post on her campaign website


Joe Biden says I dont own a single stock or bond I have no savings accounts.

Context: the White House Summit on Working Families


Luis Gutierrez says Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country entered the U.S. legally and overstayed their visa.

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


Mary Mannix says Just about half of rural hospitals operate in the red in Virginia. They operate at a loss.

Context: a news conference.


Dick Cheney says Obama keeps talking about getting rid of all nuclear weapons. Hes already significantly reduced our capabilities there.

Context: an appearance on "Hannity"


David Clarke Jr says Milwaukee has seen an uptick in violence since 2010, and the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in.

Context: a news release


Liz Cheney says The numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Marcy Kaptur says The region I represent, both currently and in the future, has more automotive plants than the entire state of California.

Context: an interview with C-SPAN


Chain Email says Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist."

Context: a chain e-mail


Beth Harwell says in U.S. Congress, members dont even have to be on the floor for debates or votes.

Context: an interview about WTVF-TV’s “ghost voting” story.


Pink Slip Rick says Gov. Rick Scott lost Florida 331,247 jobs.

Context: picket signs at a parade.


Patriot Majority Usa says North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it.

Context: a campaign ad


Jack Reed says In the 1950s and 1960s, the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty.

Context: a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate


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

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa


Afl Cio says Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of her state Senate district by a half a block.

Context: a blog posting


Barack Obama says When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."

Context: comments at the White House


Joni Ernst says A strong majority of Americans support the Keystone XL pipeline.

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


Ron Johnson says A majority of Wisconsinites opposed the government takeover of health care. But Russ Feingold voted for it anyway.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Megyn Kelly says The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash wasnt driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past.

Context: a broadcast of "The Kelly File"


Rick Perry says Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris.

Context: a statement


Arianna Huffington says Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black

Context: This Week with George Stephanopoulos


Barack Obama says "Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."

Context: a speech in Iowa


Amy Klobuchar says Were now the No. 1 producer of oil in the world. Weve surpassed Saudi Arabia.

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


John Ludlow says As Mayor of Wilsonville, I drove TriMet out of town and replaced their bloated transit system with our own local bus line that offers better service and has saved our businesses millions of dollars.

Context: campaign website


Lincoln Chafee says If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.''

Context: Lincoln Chafee, a posting on his website, Chafee for Governor


Marco Rubio says Did not vote for tax increases as a member of the West Miami City Commission.


Sarah Palin says Were going to be looking at $8 billion a day that were going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that were going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf.

Context: an interview on Fox


Ben Carson says Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger believed that people like me should be eliminated.

Context: a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H


Richard Franklin Iii says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.

Context: an address to the Central Texas Democratic Forum


Paul Ryan says Under the current procedure, if someone on a terror watch list tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.

Context: a TV interview


Ann Coulter says One of the first states in the union to pass a voter ID bill was Rhode Island, 85 percent Democratic legislature.

Context: a TV show appearance


Stephanie Cutter says In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than in the Reagan recovery.

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


Myra Signer says States with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates.

Context: a conference.


John Boehner says "I don't do earmarks. I've never done one. I'm not going to do one."

Context: a news conference


Mary Jordan says Likens Obamas predicament to 1982, saying, when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it.

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


National Rifle Association says Tom Barrett voted to ban 15 different kinds of guns, even a lot of common deer rifles.

Context: a radio ad


Sam Olens says The governor having a meeting ... isnt covered by the open meetings act.

Context: a talk at the Atlanta Press Club


Donald Trump says he won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

Context: a tweet


Rick Scott says his proposed education spending is the highest state funding level in Florida history.

Context: his State of the State address


Chain Email says E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China.

Context: a chain e-mail sent to many people.


Mark Kelly says 94 percent of (Marco Rubios) constituents support a universal background check.

Context: an interview on 'Fox News Sunday'


Tammy Baldwin says Tommy Thompsons tax plan amounts to an average tax cut of almost $87,000 for the top 1 percent.

Context: a memo to the media


Bill Nelson says Connie Mack takes two homestead exemptions, directly contrary to Floridas Constitution.

Context: in a debate in Davie, Fla.


Barack Obama says Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons.

Context: a speech.


Bill De Blasio says 220,000New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obamas executive action been affirmed.So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are hurting right now whose rights and opportunities were taken away by the Supreme Court.

Context: a press conference at New York City Hall.


Richard Shelby says "The bill reported out of committee sets up a $50 billion slush fund that, while intended for resolving failing firms, is available for virtually any purpose that the treasury secretary sees fit."

Context: a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner


Republican National Committee Republican says Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."

Context: a Web ad


Al Sharpton says The priorities of more than three-quarters of Americans are to increase the minimum wage, create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and require background checks for gun buyers.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's Politics Nation


Scott Walker says We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since Ive been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyles time as governor.

Context: a news conference


James Carville says One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Rudy Giuliani says "Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."

Context: a Republican debate in Boca Raton.


Scott Walker says We wiped out a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes.

Context: a television ad


Tom Perriello says Mr. Hurt would re-open that darn (Medicare) doughnut hole.

Context: a TV ad.


Robert Brown says Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans.

Context: press release


Louie Gohmert says that all those who do not answer directly to the president, theyve said (repealing Dont Ask, Dont Tell) is a terrible idea.

Context: a U.S. House floor speech.


Nia Gill says There has not been a Democratic woman in Congress from New Jersey in almost four decades.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Barack Obama says The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.

Context: a speech in El Paso


Mike Huckabee says Six of the 10 richest counties in the United States surround Washington, D.C.

Context: a radio show.


Donald Trump says The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails.

Context: a campaign rally


John Boehner says About halfway through fiscal year 2009, Washington has run out of money.

Context: an opinion piece.


Mindy Montford says shes tried over 100 jury cases in Travis County courts.

Context: a campaign mailer


Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says Kelly Ayotte voted to give big oil more than $20 billion in tax breaks.

Context: an ad


Weston Wamp says The average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57 years old.

Context: in a press release.


Kim Guadagno says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.

Context: a radio interview on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show


Bill Nelson says At the same time gas prices have increased, the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years.

Context: an op-ed in POLITICO


Scott Walker says Most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay.

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


Van Jones says African-Americans dont use drugs at a higher level than whites but wind up going to prison six times more.

Context: a panel discussion on CNN


Rick Scott says On offshore oil drilling.

Context: an interview on CNN.


Chain Email says When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen.

Context: a chain e-mail.


Sheldon Whitehouse says No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month.


Rand Paul says The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget.

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


Tom Price says President Barack Obamas proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.

Context: a tweet


Lauren Kane says The prosecution of state Sen. Don Balfour cost less than $100, excluding prosecutors salaries.

Context: in email exchange with reporter


Tommy Thompson says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a completely government-controlled health care system that goes far beyond Obamacare and is a Medicare system for all.

Context: an interview


Donald Trump says You have to be a citizen to vote, but with same-day voter registration, you have places where people just walk in and vote.

Context: an interview on 'Meet the Press'


Ian Lang says Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country.

Context: a state Senate committee hearing


Sid Miller says Texas AM University - Commerce offers counseling, safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump.

Context: a Facebook post


Cokie Roberts says Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.

Context: television interview


Meg Whitman says Jerry Brown gave California state employees collective bargaining powers and now, state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life.

Context: a TV ad


Tweets says Obama has jumped the shark and ordered the ocean closed!

Context: a tweet


Chris Abele says An image in a ChrisAbele TV ad depicts wealthy citizens who would benefit from a lake created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.

Context: a television ad


Bernie S says Donald Trumps plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would get a $53 billion tax break.

Context: a speech


Democratic Party Virginia says In 2007, Ed Gillespie was paid $300,000 to be the frontman for a coalition that made the individual mandate the centerpiece of its health reform plan.

Context: a news release.


Rob Wittman says Only nine coalition nations with the U.S. are truly actively involved in fighting the Islamic State.

Context: an interview.


Michael Cohen says Hillary Clinton presided over $6 billion lost at the State Department, sold uranium to the Russians through (her) faux charity, illegally deleted public records, and murdered an ambassador.

Context: a tweet


Stephen Fincher says Studies show that if we opened one reserve in Alaska now, in five years, gas prices could be at $2 a gallon.

Context: an interview with the Union City Daily Messenger


Center Western Priorities says Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac.

Context: a post on the organization's website


Barack Obama says "When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."

Context: Columbus, Ohio


Jon Husted says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America.

Context: remarks to the Ohio League of Women Voters


Carlos Beruff says The director of the FBI said that we cannot properly vet people coming from the Middle East.

Context: a Facebook post


Tim Kaine says his father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, integrated Virginia public schools.

Context: a speech


Rick Perry says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.

Context: a tweet.


Bernie S says Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Context: a speech at Georgetown University


Rudy Giuliani says Hillary Clinton is for open borders.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention”


Breitbart says the California flag was supposed to be apear, not a bear.

Context: an article on the Breitbart website


Democratic Governors Association says Texas Governor Rick Perrys voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters.

Context: an email blast


Mitt Romney says The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this presidents term.

Context: a campaign speech


Barack Obama says More than 3 million young adults ... have gained insurance under (the Affordable Care Act) by staying on their familys plan.

Context: a public address


Mitt Romney says As governor of Massachusetts, Romney reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent.

Context: a campaign ad


Loretta Weinberg says Rep. Paul Ryans budget proposal would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans.

Context: an op-ed published on NorthJersey.com


Barack Obama says On the president unilaterally authorizing a military attack that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

Context: an interview with the "Boston Globe"


Vladimir Putin says In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Eugene Mckenna says Theres at least 7,500 addicted gamblers in Rhode Island, at least, it could be as high as 22,000.

Context: a forum on casino gambling


Tennessee Democratic Party says U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher breaks earmark pledge.

Context: a blog post on the party’s web site on April 25, 2012


Reza Aslan says female genital mutilation is a central African problem, not an Islamic problem, as Bill Maher suggested.

Context: an interview on "CNN Tonight"


Barack Obama says Because of the new health care law, Americans no longer will see their coverage dropped or capped when illness strikes.

Context: an Obama campaign film


Chris Widener says tax revenue was lower than expected in May and thats basically a clear indication the governors counselors are probably right -- that we are still not out of the woods yet.

Context: remarks to reporters


Facebook Posts says Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but zero on job creation.

Context: an Internet post


Randy Forbes says 1.53 million jobs are at risk (from potential defense cuts).

Context: a web ad.


Hillary Clinton says The Clinton Foundation took steps that went above and beyond all legal requirements and, indeed, all standard requirements followed by every other charitable organization.

Context: an interview on CNN.


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton once wanted a wall on the Mexican border.

Context: a campaign speech


Chain Email says Obama "closed offshore tax safe havens."

Context: a widely circulated e-mail


Patients First says "Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who cant afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."

Context: a news release


Robert Gates says On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was a step forward for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagans defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.

Context: an interview with NPR


Ben Carson says his tax plan wouldnt leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.

Context: the third GOP primary debate.


Shelley Moore Capito says The presidents come out with rules that say, No new coal-fired power plants.

Context: a campaign ad