Dwayne Bohac says the Annies List political group supports third-trimester abortions on demand.

Context: a mailer


Scott Surovell says When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off that started to begin in (President George W.) Bushs administration.

Context: a floor speech.


Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."

Context: Denver


Blog Posting says Health care reform legislation is likely to mandate free sex change surgeries.

Context: a news release


Charlie Crist says The economic turnaround started at the end of my term.

Context: an interview on CNN


Robin Vos says The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades.

Context: a an online opinion-piece


Republican Party Texas says Jim Dunnam has not lived in the district he represents for years now.

Context: a press release.


Barack Obama says "I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."

Context: a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.


Oregon Lottery says However, it took $19.5 million in Oregon Lottery funds for the Port of Newport to eventually land the new NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific.

Context: a website


Duey Stroebel says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a compromise vote that cost $788 million in higher electricity costs.

Context: an online video


Robert Menendez says For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin.

Context: a speech


Bernie S says Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty.

Context: a tweet


Mitt Romney says When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, we didnt just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it.

Context: an interview with CBN News


Doonesbury says The economy bled $24 billion due to the government shutdown.

Context: a Doonesbury strip in the Sunday comics


George Will says Most of the (Affordable Care Act) has already in some sense been waived or otherwise suspended.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Bernie S says In this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote.

Context: a town hall in Austin, Texas


Barack Obama says "McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' "

Context: a radio ad


National Republican Congressional Committee says U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., and his fellow Democrats went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out

Context: a news release


Gwen Moore says Water rates in Manila, Philippines, were raised up to 845 percent when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.

Context: a congressional hearing


Jack Lew says Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year.

Context: an interview with Bloomberg News


Dennis Richardson says Women and men both are making less when you adjust for inflation than when John Kitzhaber was first elected governor.

Context: a campaign debate


Eric Bolling says The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the free world.

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


Hillary Clinton says We just had the best year for the auto industry in America in history.

Context: remarks at a Kentucky rally


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Scott Walker favors cutting up to 350,000 families and children off health care.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Planned Parenthood Action Fund says Mitt Romney wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood.

Context: a radio ad


Nancy Pelosi says I dont know who (Jonathan Gruber) is.

Context: a news conference


Hillary Clinton says Hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino.

Context: a speech after a terrorist attack in Orlando


Ted Nugent says Rick Perry has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections.

Context: an oped column.


Pamela Geller says ISIS supporter tweeted at 10:34 a.m. Shooting began at 10:45 a.m. in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Context: a tweet


Peter Kinder says Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent.

Context: a gubernatorial debate


Hillary Clinton says Paul Ryan is still endorsing Trump.

Context: a tweet


Nicholas Kettle says If you look at states that are right to work, they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates.

Context: a radio talk show


Shelley Moore Capito says What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is youre not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants.

Context: a campaign ad


Rick Scott says We cut business taxes so today 70 percent of our businesses dont pay a business tax.

Context: a speech at an Americans for Prosperity Foundation conference


Tom Cotton says Mark Pryor votes with Obama 93 percent of the time.

Context: a debate


Ted Cruz says We have a federal government that thinks they have the authority to regulate our toilet seats.

Context: a speech at CPAC


Lee Leffingwell says Austin is a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded.

Context: his "State of the City" address


North Korea says The nuclear test conducted in our nation this time is the Earth's 2,054th nuclear test. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have conducted 99.99 percent of the total nuclear tests.

Context: a released statement


Walking Dead says In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct.

Context: the TV show's season finale


Kelly Ayotte says Under President George W. Bush, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama weve added $6.5 trillion to the debt.

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


Marco Rubio says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law.

Context: a speech at the CPAC conference


Keep Promise 1 Pac says Marco Rubio skipped 18 defense votes including one to arm the Kurds to fight ISIS.

Context: a TV ad


National Republican Congressional Committee says Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company

Context: a news release


Rachel Maddow says Ohio budget item later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich requires women seeking an abortion to undergo a mandatory vaginal probe.

Context: On “The Rachel Maddow Show,” broadcast on MSNBC


Jerry Patterson says "We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' "

Context: a speech at the Texas Republican Party Convention


Bernie S says African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent.

Context: a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas


Chain Email says Obamacare will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.

Context: a long-running chain email


John Boehner says President Barack Obama took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commissions ideas. Not one.

Context: an interview with ABC news


Katrina Pierson says It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Humayun Khans) life.

Context: an interview on CNN.


Blog Posting says Hillary Clinton in 2005 co-sponsored legislation that would jail flag burners.

Context: Townhall.com


Rick Perry says the paperback edition of Mitt Romneys book deleted line that Massachusetts individual mandate should be the model for the country

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Iowa


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Maggie Hassan raised tuition, making it the highest in America.

Context: an ad


Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe is the person who invented the scheme to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom.

Context: a speech.


Andrew Cuomo says We created 800,000 new jobs, we cut the unemployment rate almost in half and today New York State has more private sector jobs than it has ever had in its history

Context: a conversation with reporters in Victor, NY.


Sid Miller says We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water.

Context: a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune


Jim Barksdale says In Georgia, women earn 82 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Context: On his campaign website


David Raynor says A federal system that verifies employees are authorized to work in the U.S. is inaccurate anywhere from 50 percent all the way up to in excess of 80 percent of the time.

Context: a state legislative committee meeting


Donald Trump says They were going to build the wall a while ago, not so long ago, like in 06. And they couldnt get environmental impact statements.

Context: an interview on Fox News


John Mccain says "Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet."

Context: a rally in Bensalem, Pa.


Battleground Texas says In 2008, only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out.

Context: an adviser's interview on the "Colbert Report."


Michelle Obama says Only 2 percent of public high schools in the country offer PE classes.

Context: an interview with NPR


Rudy Giuliani says Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."

Context: a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.


John Barrasso says On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."

Context: an interview on Fox News


Empower Texans says There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools.

Context: a Web video


John Depetro says Under Mayor Cicilline, [Providence] was a sanctuary city.

Context: a statement on WPRO-AM


Garnet Coleman says Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered.

Context: a committee hearing


Mitt Romney says At Bain Capital, we helped start an early childhood learning company called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Context: remarks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa


Donald Trump says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS in his social media posts.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Michael Opitz says U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey gave the government the power to electronically spy on Americans without a warrant.

Context: a YouTube ad


Rick Scott says Alex Sink funneled three quarters of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to Bank of America.

Context: a TV ad.


Terry Mcauliffe says If you take the population growth here in Virginia, we are net zero on job creation since (Bob McDonnell) became governor.

Context: a speech.


Mitt Romney says Under Obama, home values in Florida collapsed, construction jobs were lost and the state had a high foreclosure rate.

Context: a campaign ad


Alfredo Gutierrez says The new Arizona immigration law "says that any police officer can stop anyone who appears to them to be reasonably suspicious of being an undocumented person."

Context: an interview on MSNBC's Hardball


David Cote says The only time in our history when the debt has been higher than this was the end of World War II.

Context: a speech during a “Fix the Debt” press event


Barack Obama says The cost of health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down the federal budget deficit.

Context: a speech at Northwestern University


George Will says During the recession, the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent.

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


Elena Kagan says On whether a U.S. Supreme Court nominee should be forthcoming at confirmation hearings.

Context: a law review article


Texas Veterans Commission says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.

Context: a newspaper article.


Republican Party Florida says Charlie Crist supports cuts to the Medicare Advantage program.

Context: a Facebook post


Maurice Ferre says I think it is unacceptable for the Chinese today to be larger in wind power and in solar panels and photovoltaic manufacturing than all of Europe put together -- forget the United States.

Context: an editorial board meeting


Jeanne Shaheen says Scott Brown co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control.

Context: a news release


Susan Happ says At some point in their lives, 99% of women use birth control.

Context: a press release


Sameh Shoukry says In the past 20 years, Egypt has made great strides in political and democratic reform.

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


Karl Rove says The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi ... pale in significance.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Gwen Graham says U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland voted to keep the shutdown going.

Context: a campaign commercial


Bill White says In Rick Perrys Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries.

Context: a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention


Bob Goodlatte says There is a federal criminal law that says its a crime to transport dentures across state lines.

Context: a radio interview.


Cory Booker says We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders.

Context: a post on Instagram


Joe Biden says Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."

Context: vice presidential debate in St. Louis


Jim Skaggs says Austin is burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation.

Context: as quoted in a news story


John Mccain says Phoenix, Arizona, is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world.

Context: comments on 'Meet the Press'


Rick Perry says I belong to the AFL-CIO.

Context: Texas Public Policy Foundation policy orientation


Ralph Hudgens says The insurance commissioner cant do squat about health care.

Context: a radio interview broadcast over the Internet


Mitt Romney says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points.

Context: a New Hampshire town hall.


Mitt Romney says President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon.

Context: an interview on 'Face the Nation.'


Florida Democratic Party says David Jolly supports privatizing Social Security.

Context: a robocall to 13th Congressional District voters


Robert Sarvis says Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression?

Context: a tweet.


Will Weatherford says The average student in Florida, what they actually pay out of pocket at our major universities for tuition is as much or less than what they spend on cellphones.

Context: a Board of Governors meeting


Mark Shields says Since 1968, more Americans have died from gunfire than died in all the wars of this countrys history.

Context: the PBS NewsHour


National Association Realtors says A foreclosure tax that would take effect in 2013 could mean a high tax bill for those facing foreclosure and millions of families who modified their mortgage or had a short sale through their lender.

Context: a web post


Brady Campaign Prevent Gun Violence says The Florida Department of Agricultures website FreshFromFlorida.com can be used to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house.

Context: a congressional briefing


Federal Transit Administration says The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.

Context: a press release


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty.

Context: a debate


Mitch Mcconnell says Secretary of State John Kerry, when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism.

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


Donald Trump says NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... Im sure Im not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO.

Context: a presidential debate at Hofstra University


Barack Obama says "Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."

Context: an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday.


Frank Caprio says Since Gina Raimondo took office, investment fees on the states pension portfolio have gone up from about $12 million annually to about $50 million.

Context: an appearance on "10 News Conference"


Rick Perry says The (federal) debt is growing by more than $4 billion a day.

Context: in "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington"


David Scott says Under President Barack Obamas jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.

Context: a WABE-FM (90.1) radio interview


Terry Mcauliffe says Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old.

Context: a speech.


Scott Walker says Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions.

Context: a speech


Ron Johnson says Under President Obamas health-care reforms, the premium for an average plan for a family didnt go down by $2,500 per year, its gone up about $2,500 per year.

Context: an interview


Donna Brazile says The IRS also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody.

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


Paul Ryan says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent.

Context: a vice presidential debate


Barack Obama says The economy is creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

Context: the State of the Union address


Adam Hasner says President Obama decided not to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.

Context: a press release from the Mitt Romney campaign


Mark Pocan says In a majority of states, you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love.

Context: a statement


Blog Posting says Say Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer are socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.

Context: web pages


Joe Biden says Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency."

Context: Philadelphia


Ted Cruz says About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators.

Context: remarks in New Hampshire


Hillary Clinton says After Britains vote to leave the European Union, within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s.

Context: remarks in Cincinnati, Ohio


Kathleen Sebelius says Medicaid spending declined by 1.9 percent in 2012, the second such decline in 47 years.

Context: a speech


Bruce Elfant says 88 Texas constables have died in the line of duty.

Context: a press statement.


Republican Party Florida says Gov. Rick Scott cut the cost of prepaid college tuition by nearly $20,000.

Context: a TV ad


Dave Yost says The city of Columbus would save $41 million a year if employees had to contribute to their own, guaranteed-check pensions.

Context: a newspaper column


Alex Sink says "As Florida's CFO, I shut down Krakow's scam and refunded more than $1.2 million to Josephine and other victims of this con man."

Context: a fundraising e-mail to supporters


Hillary Clinton says You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the 80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now.

Context: a conference in Silicon Valley


Blog Posting says The Air Force wants taxpayers to fund a fantasy football league.

Context: blog posts


Government Not God Pac says Barack Hussein Obama will ... force courts to accept Islamic Sharia law in domestic disputes.

Context: a newspaper ad


Joe Scarborough says About 3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns.

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


Texas House Democratic Caucus says Some neighborhood schools are closing.

Context: a press release


John Mccain says "He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."

Context: an automated call to voters


Marco Rubio says The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered.

Context: an ABC News U.S. Senate debate.


Rick Scott says We are already almost halfway to our 2010 goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years.

Context: 2013-14 veto message


David Jolly says the U.S. Supreme Court found that Social Security is not guaranteed.

Context: a Congressional campaign debate


Jon Keyser says Michael Bennet wants to close Guantanamo Bay prisonand bring terrorists right here to Colorado.

Context: a candidate forum


Oregon Right Life Pac says Oregonians have an amazing no-cost way to fight abortion with free political donations

Context: a newspaper ad


Sean Hannity says The president said hes going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country.

Context: a segment of Fox News' "Hannity"


Rush Limbaugh says Research shows that a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and thats what they support.

Context: a radio interview


Mitt Romney says Newt Gingrichs immigration plan offers a new doorway to amnesty.

Context: a press conference


John Robitaille says Mr. Caprio is a career politician who has never worked in the private sector.

Context: a campaign news release


Patricia Morgan says In Rhode Island, 9 percent of workers use the states temporary disability insurance program each year while in New Jersey, the rate is only 3 percent.

Context: a speech on the House floor.


Dave Brat says In just 17 years, spending for Social Security, federal health care and interest on the debt will exceed ALL tax revenue!

Context: a Facebook post


Hillary Clinton says President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had.

Context: a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.


Mark Warner says Donald Trump has said nuclear proliferation is OK.

Context: a TV interview.


Barack Obama says "Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."

Context: an online ad.


Rob Portman says Barack Obama has never even worked in business.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa


John Cornyn says the Arizona immigration law expressly bans racial profiling.

Context: on NBC's "Meet the Press"


Louie Gohmert says Gov. Rick Perry has been begging for the federal government to send the Coast Guard to patrol two lakes on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Context: a radio interview.


Donald Trump says On the VA: Over 300,000 veterans have died waiting for care.

Context: a speech.


Mitt Romney says Were now spending 42 percent of our economy on government.

Context: the first presidential debate in Denver


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Rob Cornilles supports privatizing Medicare.

Context: campaign material


Texas Right Life says In 2005, Dan Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas.

Context: an email blast


Armond Budish says We (Democrats) have made steady progress creating jobs and improving our schools.

Context: a news release


Jeff Kruse says Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there.

Context: on the Oregon Senate floor


Mike Haridopolos says Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education.

Context: comments to reporters.


Kendrick Meek says Im the only one whos fought against developers draining the Everglades!

Context: a television ad


Americans United Change says Ron Johnson calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme and wants to privatize the program.

Context: an ad


Paul Skip Stam says There are 31 other states and 10,000 other cities that have the same type of policies that we just passed, referring to North Carolinas House Bill 2.

Context: a newspaper interview


Bernie S says Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

Context: a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa.


Eric Cantor says The jobs bill includes President Obamas tax on soup kitchens

Context: a blog post


Paul Ryan says the Obama administration spent taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland (and) windmills in China.

Context: the vice-presidential debate


Chain Email says "While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed."

Context: a chain e-mail


Robert Puente says If Milwaukee approves reducing its maximum forfeiture for marijuana possession to $50, the city would have 23 different bicycle violations that have a higher forfeiture.

Context: remarks to the Milwaukee Common Council


Marco Rubio says We have more illegal immigrants here than we did five years ago.

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


Ron Paul says Rick Perry wrote a letter supporting Hillarycare.

Context: a presidential debate


Blog Posting says The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received zero complaints about the Washington Redskins name.

Context: blog posts


Nancy Pfotenhauer says The presidents health care proposals will cause most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage.

Context: an interview on CNN


Gary Johnson says (Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic.

Context: an interview on CNN


Stephen Sweeney says Chris Christie vetoed a jobs package of 30 bills.

Context: a radio interview


Sheldon Whitehouse says There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining.

Context: a newspaper commentary


Pat Quinn says Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Bradys first priority after winning the primary was to sponsor a bill that would mass-euthanize sheltered dogs and cats in gas chambers.

Context: a campaign commercial


Matthew Dowd says Barack Obama is in an economy thats only worsened since hes been president of the United States.

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


Rudy Giuliani says Romney failed to take action against "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts.

Context: St. Petersburg, Fla.


One New Jersey says New Jersey is down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak and with Gov. Chris Christie New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment for 12 consecutive months.

Context: an article posted on One New Jersey’s website


Darrell Issa says Thomas Eric Duncan came into the United States with an elevated temperature.

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


Robert Gibbs says We have been in Afghanistan longer now than we have been in any foreign land conducting a war in our nations history.

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


Michael Williams says Gas prices have gone up $2 since Obama took office.

Context: a tweet.


Alan Grayson says Webster sponsored a bill to create a form of marriage that would trap women in abusive relationships.

Context: a TV ad.


Chris Christie says judges get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state.

Context: a news conference


Robert Jacquard says There are a lot of casinos across the country that have gone bankrupt.

Context: a speech


Eric Cantor says Small businesses create 70 percent of the jobs in America.

Context: a news release.


Americas Health Insurance Plans says Seniors with coverage under Medicare Advantage will give up "more than their share" because of health care reform

Context: a televison advertisement


Dream Defenders says Over 12,000 school kids were arrested in Florida. It makes Florida the nations leader in that area.

Context: a meeting with Wansley Walters, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary


Greg Abbott says If Texas were a country our economy would rank # 10...in the WORLD.

Context: a tweet


David Cicilline says There are more oil rigs in operation in the United States than the rest of the world combined.

Context: a debate


Wendy Davis says Payday lenders profit from the poor by charging 1,000-plus percent interest.

Context: a press release


Marcy Kaptur says The Social Security trust fund is sound. Without anything being done, it would function well into 2038; and even after that time with no changes, we could pay 80 percent of the benefits that people have earned.

Context: House of Representatives floor speech


Americans Tax Reform says It is a commitment voters take very seriously: The only incumbent in Ohio to break his Pledge and vote for Ted Stricklands income tax hike was defeated soundly on Tuesday.

Context: a news release


Tweets says The Obama administration shut down the Amber Alert program because of the government shutdown.

Context: messages on Twitter


Tamara Holder says The Republicans have 2 percent of the Muslim vote.

Context: comments on the Hannity show.


Hank Johnson says [W]e see Americas prison population exploding, with America having a greater percentage of its people behind bars than any other nation in the world!

Context: a letter


Chain Email says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output.

Context: a chain e-mail


Facebook Posts says Every single one of the 41 Republican senators who just blocked a raise in the minimum wage will receive a $2,800 cost-of-living adjustment on January 1, 2015.

Context: a meme shared on social media


Mike Murphy says In Texas, the No. 1 name for new male babies many of whom will vote one day is Jose.

Context: a column in Time magazine.


Hillary Clinton says Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people.

Context: a posting on the Clinton website


Sean Hannity says Under the Cash for Clunkers program, all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500.

Context: a Fox News interview


Bernie S says Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real.

Context: a Democratic debate in New Hampshire


Bernie S says While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

Context: a political ad


Ted Cruz says David Dewhurst has a record of promoting an income tax.

Context: a handout.


Vincent Barrella says Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinsons

Context: a column published on NJ.com


Alan Grayson says "In the past year, more than 20 percent of Americans have changed their mind about the war in Afghanistan. They conclude we shouldn't be there."

Context: an interview on 'The Ed Show.'


Lamar Smith says In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Context: a news release


Bill Johnson says The state of Ohio has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and is leading the pack in terms of job creation.

Context: a telephone town hall meeting


Eric Hovde says Obama health reform law denies millions access to affordable insurance.

Context: a blog post


John Skvarla says HB2 hasnt moved the needle one iota on North Carolinas economy.

Context: a speech in Charlotte


Daniel Mielke says Close to 30% of our federal prison population consists of illegal immigrants.

Context: a statement on campaign web site


Florida Democratic Party says Rick Scott called education not a core function of the state.

Context: a press release


Ben Carson says The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group.

Context: an interview on CNN


Blue Oregon says Rep. Jim Weidner proposed a bill taking away health care for 80,000 of Oregons children.

Context: a website posting


Raymond Bateman says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history.

Context: a column


Mark Neumann says Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in American history.

Context: an interview


Sarah Palin says "You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief."

Context: St. Louis, Mo.


Rana Foroohar says The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically.

Context: a CNN interview


Barack Obama says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has held the line on property taxes.

Context: a speech at a campaign fund-raiser for Tom Barrett's gubernatorial campaign


Alan Grayson says Im the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds in the last election from small contributions of less than $200.

Context: an interview with Democracy Now


Tom Niehaus says Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support.

Context: an online video


Sherrod Brown says Josh Mandel is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohios investment fund has NOT improved.

Context: a campaign commercial


Nextgen Climate says Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling and now he is trying to hide from it.

Context: a TV ad


John Kasich says On how money from a possible lease of the Ohio Turnpike would be used

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says "At the beginning of the last decade ... America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion. By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade."

Context: his State of the Union speech


Mitch Mcconnell says The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only four defeated.

Context: an interview on 'Meet the Press'


Ileana Ros Lehtinen says U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund Feisal Abdul Raufs trip to the Middle East.

Context: a press release.


Chris Moews says Milwaukee County taxpayers paid $370,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to use untrained corrections officers rather than deputies to patrol the lakefront.

Context: an interview


Robby Mook says There are Justice Department policies against FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation so close to an election.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Carolyn Maloney says Democratic presidents "have been considerably more effective at creating private-sector jobs."

Context: a floor speech in the House


Lindsey Graham says Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq."

Context: an interview on ABC News' <i> This Week </i>


Mark Strama says Rush Limbaugh made it clear hed rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.

Context: remarks to Texas delegates to the Democratic National Convention.


Joe Biden says "One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasnt the way before George Bush became president."

Context: a TV interview


Patrick Leahy says Military "recruiting went on at Harvard every single day throughout the time (Kagan) was there."

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Fix Austin Schools says that under Rick Perrys plan, Texas has cut funding for public schools by 25%.

Context: a leaflet.


Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says David Perdue wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, which would cost Georgia schools $1 billion a year and eliminate millions in student loans.

Context: a television ad


Agenda Project says The Paul Ryan budget proposal would privatize Medicare.

Context: an advertisement


Steven Teske says High school students arrested on campus are twice as likely not to graduate and four times less likely to graduate if theyve appeared in court.

Context: an article


Hank Johnson says The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world.

Context: a speech


Rand Paul says Marco Rubio is the one for an open border.

Context: in the CNN debate in Las Vegas


Dave Brat says ...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat.

Context: a Facebook post.


National Republican Senatorial Committee says cuts to Medicare affect people who have already paid in. We paid for it.

Context: a campaign ad


Kesha Rogers says David Alameel is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates including John Cornyn and Greg Abbott.

Context: an interview


Sheldon Whitehouse says The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close.

Context: a speech


James Bennett says Providences port is 200 miles closer to Europe than any other Eastern port.

Context: a news conference


Rick Perry says you need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.

Context: a Fox News interview.


Tom Hughes says Twenty percent of housing in Portlands Pearl District is affordable.

Context: a guest column


Jeff Merkley says allowing the payroll tax holiday to expire would end up costing another estimated 900,000 jobs in 2012.

Context: letter to a constituent


Barack Obama says "Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."

Context: a mailer to Pennsylvania voters


Sheila Oliver says Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth.

Context: a press release from Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex)


Judd Gregg says Obama's budget plan would take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent.

Context: a Fox News interview


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton said the Veterans Affairs scandal is over-exaggerated. She said she was satisfied with what was going on.

Context: the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum


Hillary Clinton says We now have driven (health care) costs down to the lowest theyve been in 50 years.

Context: comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate


Dick Cheney says President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."

Context: an interview on ABC's This Week


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted that his $787 billion stimulus law failed and after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill didnt do enough to lower taxes.

Context: a news release


Michael Moore says In the 1950s, "A lot of people got rich and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."

Context: in his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"


Hillary Clinton says The Charleston, S.C., shootershould have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough.

Context: an interview with George Stephanopoulos


Bill Richardson says "Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."

Context: a debate in Las Vegas


Barack Obama says Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.

Context: an interview on Fox


Paul Sarlo says Gov. Chris Christies proposal to reduce state income taxes would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years.

Context: opening remarks at a Senate committee hearing


Barack Obama says Warren (Buffett) still does support me.

Context: a television interview


Connie Mack says George LeMieux was one of two Republicans who voted for President Barack Obamas jobs bill.

Context: a Web ad


Facebook Posts says A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has 7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!

Context: a post on Facebook


Rick Scott says About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now.

Context: radio interview


Rush Limbaugh says One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.

Context: his radio show


Allen West says Ron Klein repeatedly voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Context: a campaign website


Evan Feinberg says Local law enforcement . . . will have access to the [Obamacare] Data Hubs treasure trove of personal info.

Context: a Providence Journal commentary


Bill White says During his tenure as mayor, he saw Houstons crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years.

Context: the biography on his campaign Web site


Facebook Posts says Barack Obamas Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by Barry Soetoro.

Context: multiple posts


Moveon says John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."

Context: an e-mail


Ken Cuccinelli says Terry McAuliffe wants to raise your taxes $1,700 to pay for his infinite promises.

Context: a debate.


Donald Trump says Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014.

Context: an Instagram post


Gwen Moore says Since the federal Violence Against Women Act was adopted in 1994, cases of domestic violence have fallen by 67 percent.

Context: a letter to congressional leadership


Rudy Giuliani says federal law enforcement officers cut off questioning of the Christmas Day underwear bomber by giving him a Miranda warning after 30 minutes of questioning.

Context: an interview on ABC's This Week


Lou Dobbs says On legalizing illegal immigrants.

Context: an interview on Telemundo


Edith Ajello says Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.

Context: commentary piece


John Mccain says We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."

Context: Houston, Texas


Doug Thomas says there are homes for sale on and around (Oswego Lake) right now for under $150,000 that anyone is welcome to buy.

Context: an Oregonian article.


Steve Latourette says Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know whos done OK and whos not complaining today? The public sector. Weve gained 590,000 public sector jobs.

Context: a speech


Trent Franks says The top 1 percent pay over half of the entire revenue for this country.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show'


Scott Walker says The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money.

Context: remarks to reporters


Kim Guadagno says Chris Christie has not increased the taxes on anyone.

Context: a speech to supporters in Carlstadt


Marco Rubio says The United States does not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S.

Context: a blog post on RedState.com


Rick Scott says he never said he would keep education funding the same.

Context: talking about his budget proposal.


Scott Walker says Since 1978, college tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation.

Context: a radio interview


Ted Strickland says Sen. Rob Portman said, It would be irresponsible not to cut Medicare.

Context: in a Ohio senatorial candidate debate


Thomas Brown says Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget.

Context: an interview


Moveon says "(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."

Context: an e-mail.


Us Chamber Commerce says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes.

Context: a television commercial


Scott Brown says Jeanne Shaheen voted for a measure that would have amounted to a new national energy tax.

Context: a press release


Marco Rubio says Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Julian Castro says Seven presidents before (Barack Obama) -- Republicans and Democrats -- tried to expand health care to all Americans.

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


Christine Sinicki says While fighting a move to toughen penalties for workplace gender discrimination, state Sen. Glenn Grothman said he didnt believe women belonged in the workplace but belonged at home, cooking and cleaning and having babies.

Context: a legislative floor speech


Sheldon Whitehouse says If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs.

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


Chain Email says What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!

Context: a message via the Internet


Barack Obama says "I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."

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


Rick Perry says Starting in December 2007, 1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs.

Context: valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature


Rob Portman says The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire because its increased costs for employers.

Context: a press availability following a policy luncheon


Michele Bachmann says The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs.

Context: a debate in New Hampshire


Rudy Giuliani says Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."

Context: a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.


Dan Patrick says Texas this fiscal year will have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined.

Context: an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin


Barack Obama says On using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.


Jeb Bush says Immigrants are more fertile.

Context: a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference


Florida Chamber Commerce says The proposed education changes "will not cut one teacher's pay."

Context: a television advertisement.


Rick Perry says "The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."

Context: a column


Jerry Patterson says Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.

Context: an online campaign video


Rachel Campos Duffy says Upwards of 90 percent of women seeking an abortion decide not to have an abortion after seeing an ultrasound.

Context: an interview


Newt Gingrich says We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.

Context: a Twitter post


Ron Paul says "If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."

Context: a <i>Meet the Press</i> interview


Tom Barrett says Scott Walker wants to ban common forms of birth control, including the pill.

Context: a campaign TV ad


Roy Blunt says Jason Kander supports [Obamas] plan to bring the remaining suspected terrorists to U.S. soil.

Context: a petition against President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay


Chris Thomas says Shelby County donated Im sorry, gave 44 schools to the city of Memphis.

Context: a Shelby County Commission meeting.


Lindsey Graham says Top U.S. intelligence officials have toldevery member of Congress, including the president, were about to be attacked in a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Barney Simms says Have the suburbs been inundated with former residents of Atlanta housing projects? Absolutely not.

Context: a letter


Chain Email says In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.

Context: a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts


National Republican Congressional Committee says Blames Mike McIntyre and Nancy Pelosi for the second straight year of no cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries.

Context: a campaign commerical


Rush Limbaugh says The government is going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it.

Context: his radio program


Andrew Napolitano says "There are mechanisms in place to shut down the Internet privately."

Context: comments on the 'Glenn Beck' show


Marco Rubio says The American people support defunding Obamacare and oppose shutting down the government.

Context: a press release


Marco Rubio says Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama.

Context: in a tweet


Joyce Kaufman says Nobody has played clips over and over ...of President Obama (saying), If they bring a knife to the fight, well bring a gun.

Context: a radio show


Christopher Plante says The people of Rhode Island dont want same-sex marriage.

Context: a television interview


Gerry Connolly says Rep. Paul Ryans Medicare plan lines the pockets of the private insurance companies, increases costs for seniors and does not reduce the deficit.

Context: a press release.


Dave Weldon says This year in Congress (Connie Mack IV) has missed almost half of his votes.

Context: a robocall


Jeb Bush says 1/3 of our kids drop out (of high school), cannot go to college or start a career.

Context: a fundraising letter


Rachel Maddow says Not even old Gen. Eisenhower saluted military personnel as president.

Context: her book "Drift"


George Will says If Wisconsins governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do, it would still leave (workers) better off than their private sector counterparts.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


John Garamendi says You cant get on an airplane, but more than 2,000 people on that list have been able to buy a gun.

Context: a speech.


Donna Edwards says 74 percent of Republicans support the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a roundtable discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"


Peter Kilmartin says For every $1 spent on afterschool programs, we can save over $5, almost $6, in crime costs down the line.

Context: a speech at the state Democratic convention


Roger Williams says The federal government has $3 trillion in cash flow, so we can pay our bills and wont default.

Context: an interview as quoted in a news story


Republican Party Florida says Alex Sink failed Florida homeowners by using predatory lending practices.

Context: a YouTube video


Marco Rubio says Over 40 percent of small and mid-size banks that loan money to small businesses have been wiped out since Dodd-Frank has passed.

Context: the first GOP primary debate.


David Dewhurst says You cant check out a library book without a photo ID.

Context: an interview.


Joshua Feuerstein says that Starbucks took Christmas off of their brand new cups.

Context: a video


Bill Belichick says Atmospheric conditions could push a footballs pressure down approximately one-and-a-half pounds per square inch.

Context: a news conference


Ted Cruz says Hillary Clinton supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding.

Context: responding to an audience member's question at the Texas Tribune Festival.


Associated Press says Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are legal refugees could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.

Context: article


Joe Biden says We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration, adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.

Context: a news conference


Josh Mandel says The STAR Ohio fund just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive.

Context: an email to supporters


Nathan Deal says Taxpayers are on the hook ... for less than a third of the proposed new Atlanta Falcons stadium, and those funds are repaid from money that comes from outsiders.

Context: a television interview


Barack Obama says In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.

Context: the State of the Union address


Rick Perry says Every year, more than $40 million are leaving Missouri for the Lone Star State.

Context: a radio ad


Bill Clinton says A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down.

Context: a campaign speech


John Boehner says The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.

Context: a floor speech


Barack Obama says We are younger than our competitors, and this is entirely because of immigration.

Context: a speech to business leaders


Chip Rogers says Recent international reports show the United States near the bottom among industrialized nations for k-12 academic achievement.

Context: a town hall meeting


Alan Grayson says 24 million people in this country cant find a full-time job, 50 million cant see a doctor when theyre sick, 47 million people need government help to feed themselves and 15 million families owe more than the value of their home.

Context: appearance on Bill Maher show on Oct. 7, 2011


Julius Jones says The policy mistakes that ... the Clintons made got us, in large degree, to the situation that we are in today with mass incarceration.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Mike Huckabee says he raised average family income by 50 percent during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

Context: a video


John Kasich says They tried to give us $400 million to build a high-speed train that goes 39 miles an hour.

Context: a CNN interview


National Association Manufacturers says the CBO estimates that fully extending the Bush tax cuts would add 600,000-1.4 million jobs in 2011 and 900,000-2.7 million jobs in 2012.

Context: a statement


Barack Obama says President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times. George W. Bush did it seven times.

Context: a televised address


Chris Hayes says According to David Cay Johnston, the average American pays about 22 percent of their income to federal taxes. The richest 400 Americans pay about 16 percent of their income to federal taxes.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"


Barack Obama says Most young Americans right now, theyre not covered by health insurance.

Context: a Funnyordie.com "Between Two Ferns" interview with Zach Galifianakis


Bernie S says In 1952, the corporate income tax accounted for 33 percent of all federal tax revenue. Today, despite record-breaking profits, corporate taxes bring in less than 9 percent.

Context: a meme on social media


Rick Perry says Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide.

Context: an advertisement


Progress Texas says two-thirds of groups targeted for IRS scrutiny were not conservative.

Context: a tweet


Ben Carson says In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And thats where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin.

Context: an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer


Bill White says Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perrys appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. Thats right. Thomas Jefferson... was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change.

Context: an e-mail


Dinesh Dsouza says As a U.S. senator with salary and perks, #Bernie is in the top 1 percent, but still paid only 13 percent in taxes last year.

Context: a Facebook post


Joe Biden says "You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."

Context: CNN/YouTube debate in Charleston, S.C.


Bernie S says From 2013-2015, the richest 14 Americans increased their net wealth by more than $157 billion, yet the Republican budget would not require these Americans to contribute one penny to deficit reduction.

Context: a Tweet


Bill Foster says that while Foster was mayor, Rick Kriseman was ineffective in the Florida House of Representatives because there was no legislation that passed the House that had (Krisemans) name on it.

Context: a mayoral forum


Rachel Maddow says Texas routinely gets a lot more federal spending than it pays in taxes.

Context: an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.


Ken Legler says Cell phone numbers go public this month.

Context: Facebook and Twitter posts


Milwaukee Police Association says it has offered $12 million in savings through 2011 and $184 million in savings over the next 25 years in contract negotiations with the City of Milwaukee.

Context: a newspaper ad


Clackamas County Commission says Clackamas County Commissioners approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the countys contribution to TriMets Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million.

Context: a press release


Scott Henson says Texas has 11 different felonies you can commit with an oyster.

Context: an interview.


Bob Mcdonnell says The Obama administration is unwinding our nations welfare-to-work requirements.

Context: an op-ed.


Don Francis says Electric car sales in Georgia have dropped dramatically since a $5,000 tax credit was eliminated and a $200 annual registration fee was imposed July 1.

Context: an interview with Watchdog.org


Dwight Jones says The Redskins Training Camp deal generated $40 million in new private investment in the city.

Context: a speech


Organizing America says The GOP budget plan would cut nearly a million jobs.

Context: a Tweet.


Rick Santorum says There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country.

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


Chris Wallace says Hillary Clinton defended Syrias President Assad as a possible reformer at the start of that countrys civil war.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Save Americas Postal Service says The Postal Services financial losses result from a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.

Context: a television ad


Lloyd Doggett says As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

Context: remarks in San Antonio


Rob Cornilles says Shes voted for 60 tax increases, hurting the middle class and small businesses.


Frank Guinta says Now, in the House of Representatives, we have 40 different jobs bills that have passed and almost all of them have been bipartisan.

Context: a statement made after he filed for re-election at the N.H. Secretary of State’s office.


Facebook Posts says Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: Its time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.

Context: a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee


Cory Mason says Republican (small business tax cut) bill spends $80 million for better Google searches, not job creation

Context: a news release


Dan Kaufman says A 2013 state law would allow the operator of an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin to fill in pristine streams and ponds with mine waste.

Context: an opinion article


Donald Trump says America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.

Context: the 2016 Republican National Convention


Larry Elder says If black America were a country, itd be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world.

Context: comments on CNN


Dale Kooyenga says Since Republicans took over after the 2010 election, the graduation rate in Wisconsin has gone from 86 percent to 88 percent. The black graduation rate has gone from 60 percent to 65 percent. The Latino graduation rate has gone from 65 percent to 71 percent.


Terry Mcauliffe says It has been estimated that nearly 40 percent of all guns sold in America are sold by private, unlicensed sellers either online or through gun shows.

Context: an executive order.


Barack Obama says "2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."

Context: a speech at the White House.


Dan Gelber says Florida teachers are "already paid $5,000 below the national average."

Context: a letter posted on his campaign Web site.


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Since Rick Perry became governor, Texas has gone from 46th in the country to 50th in the population that graduates from high school.

Context: an interview with the 'Telegraph.'


Mary Nolan says Amanda Fritz manages less than 5 percent of city operations.

Context: a debate.


Jim Steineke says The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a 1900s style trolley.

Context: a tweet


Michelle Rhee says Americans, in the last 30 years, have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child (on education) and the results have gotten worse, not better.

Context: talking to Florida legislators.


Joe Gibbons says Polls show that Floridians dont want to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Context: comments on the House floor


Steve Rothman says Congressman Bill Pascrell voted to remove the public option from the Affordable Health Care Act.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Mary Margaret Oliver says Lawmakers were paid for their off-season efforts to, for the first time, take the lead in drawing borders for two would-be cities.

Context: a House floor debate


Wendy Davis says Greg Abbott and his surrogates have referred to women who have been the victims of rape or incest as though somehow what they are confronting is a minor issue.

Context: speaking to reporters


Mark Warner says On offshore drilling for energy


Drug Free America says Under a proposed medical marijuana amendment in Florida, you dont get refills -- you get it forever.

Context: a "Tampa Bay Times" editorial meeting


Chain Email says A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."

Context: a widely circulated e-mail


David Cicilline says Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.

Context: a fundraising letter


Chuck Grassley says "I haven't missed a vote since 1993."

Context: a conference call


Ted Wheeler says the treasurers office has saved $37 million in management costs for the oversight of public investments.

Context: campaign website


Herb Garrett says Georgia will send more state money per child to state charter schools and that budget cuts are not applied to those charter schools.

Context: a letter


Vincent Buddy Cianci says Jorge Elorza wants to impose a municipal income tax.

Context: a radio interview


Mike Huckabee says The Supreme Court cant overrule the other two branchesof government.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Direct Action Rights Equality says Roughly 25% of RI has a criminal record

Context: an online petition


Peter Shumlin says Nathan Deal cut the HOPE scholarship program so that literally 100,000 Georgians will not be able to go to college or get technical training that they so badly needed to raise -- you know, give them a chance at a good job.

Context: MSNBC


Mike Huckabee says "As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."

Context: a news release.


Chris Christie says I havent raised taxes in the time Ive been the governor of New Jersey.

Context: a news conference


National Organization Marriage says Massachusetts public schools teach kids as young as kindergartners about gay marriage.

Context: a mailing to Rhode Island voters


Rudy Giuliani says "I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world."

Context: a comment to reporters in London.


Rick Santorum says We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)

Context: a "Meet the Press" pundit panel


Jon Stewart says Congress is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus but in 2008 and 2012 explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure.

Context: in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"


Charlie Crist says Six people in Florida die as a result of (not expanding Medicaid) every day.

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


Americans Prosperity says Gov. Maggie Hassans budget proposal raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million.

Context: TV ad


Karen Handel says Only in Washington would politicians spend $27 million to teach Moroccans how to make pottery.

Context: a website posting


Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."

Context: a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.


Adam Kinzinger says Rand Paulhas put out budgets to cut the military in half.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Barack Obama says Groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections.

Context: a speech


Donna Howard says legislative cuts mean Texas is spending on average $500 less per student.

Context: remarks at a Texas Capitol rally


GaGOP says [A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!

Context: a web post


Bob Graham says We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida.

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


John Bradley says Williamson County Attorney Jana Duty has never prosecuted a single adult felony case.

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


Glenn Grothman says The fundraising numbers are in, and our grassroots support is unmatched!

Context: in a Facebook posting


We Are Ohio says Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job.

Context: a campaign commercial


Arianna Huffington says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- its caused by a shrinking of the actual labor force.

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


Chain Email says Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget.

Context: a chain email and -- briefly -- a union web site


Joe Lieberman says Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Jon Erpenbach says In general, it appears Wisconsins right to work bill would likely apply to the Green Bay Packers players and their union.

Context: a Facebook post


John Kerry says The so-called defense minister of the Peoples Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Rudy Giuliani says "Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they're going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent."

Context: a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire.


Lou Greenwald says Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. Weve added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs.

Context: a press conference in Trenton


Kathleen Vinehout says Gov. Scott Walker bought 80 new, brand-new vehicles for the state that we probably dont need.

Context: a meeting


David Dewhurst says he passed eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar sanctuary cities in Texas.

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


John Boehner says Its gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker.

Context: a news conference


Michele Bachmann says These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans.

Context: a debate in New Hampshire


Michael Burgess says stores will be barred from selling 100-watt light bulbs as of 2012.

Context: a statement.


Joe Scarborough says Before our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected.

Context: comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Republican Governors Association says Jason Carter supports using Georgia tax dollars to promote Obamacare

Context: In a television ad


Ralph Nader says "The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."

Context: an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program


Leticia Van De Putte says Dan Patrick said that if women get paid less than a man for the same job, that thats not a problem.

Context: a debate in Austin


David Scott says Weve got an average of 5,600 soldiers committing suicide. Thats about 20 a day.

Context: WABE


Craig Melvin says There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, If you give us more money we dont know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.

Context: an MSNBC segment


Barack Obama says Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Locks unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.

Context: the State of the Union speech


John Plumb says Tom Reed has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form.

Context: an interview on Capital Tonight.


Judicial Watch says ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm.

Context: a web item


Tom Price says New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed.

Context: a press release


Blog Posting says Say New Jersey Reps. Donald Payne and Frank Pallone are socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress.

Context: web pages


Donald Trump says The unemployment rate may be as high as 42 percent.

Context: a press conference


Sondy Pope says Common Core is not from the federal government, they do not have their fingerprints on this thing at all.

Context: a radio interview


Rick Perry says Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme.

Context: an interview.


Gwen Moore says Scott Walker brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didnt fund it.

Context: comments to reporters


George Will says What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is... a federal crime.

Context: a panel discussion on ABC This Week


Jon Stewart says When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: Yeah, were open.

Context: a segment of "The Daily Show"


Carlos Curbelo says In Miami-Dade County, we spend at our school system over $20 million every year educating recent immigrants.

Context: a Fox News interview


Democratic Congressional Leadership says The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.

Context: statements to reporters.


Jeb Bush says Trump proposed enacting the largest tax increase in American history.

Context: a fundraising email


Barack Obama says "Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."

Context: a debate in Nashville, Tenn.


Claudia Tenney says Kim Myers voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters.

Context: a press release.


No 60 Campaign Against Condom Requirement Adult Fi says Californias Prop 60, which would requirecondom usein adult films, would put workers in the adult film industry at riskfor lawsuits and harassment.

Context: in a campaign video advertisement


Loretta Weinberg says We pay among the highest tolls in the nation for the privilege of crossing that bridge.

Context: an interview on the John Gambling radio program


Americans United Change says Sens. Isaksons, Chambliss Votes Against Unemployment Insurance Were Votes to Kill Nearly 6,000 Georgia Jobs.

Context: a press release


Todd Hunter says real estate taxes were put in place to pay for Obamacare.

Context: a Texas Tribune interview.


Tim Knopp says today unemployment has been running near 12 percent or more for the last four years and the Legislature hasnt done much to lower it.

Context: campaign website


Rick Perry says Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for sanctuary cities.

Context: a debate.


Sandy Adams says John Mica voted to borrow $10 trillion.

Context: a campaign mailer


Brett Hulsey says opponent Mary Burke told reporters she would have required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker.

Context: a letter


Barack Obama says McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."

Context: Tampa, Fla.


James Clyburn says We do not want to raise anybodys tax rates. Thats never been on the table.

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


Hillary Clinton says When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, the Democrats didnt make that a partisan issue.

Context: a CNN town hall


Mike Haridopolos says This is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid 1980s, making this the largest majority of any party in more than 25 years.

Context: a post-election interview.


Barack Obama says "John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

Context: Chariton, Iowa


Alex Sink says House Republicans who complained they didnt have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling.

Context: remarks to reporters.


Reince Priebus says no one from the Bush family attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and there was no President Bush at the 2008 convention.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Donald Trump says Crime is rising.

Context: a speech after several primaries concluded


Bernie S says (Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water.

Context: a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.


John Boehner says Weve got a personal tax system thats so complicated it costs Americans about $500 billion a year to comply with the current tax code.

Context: a news conference


Victoria Taft says a Portland school gives Muslim students their own school provided prayer room, prayer rugs, and lets them out of class five times a day to pray to Allah.

Context: a website posting


Bernie S says (Texas Republicans) believe in abolishing Social Security, abolishing V.A. health care.

Context: an MSNBC interview


Joe Biden says The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon other than these drug gangs taking on one another end up being shot with their own weapon.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"


Rahm Emanuel says In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change.

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Frank Annunziato says Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions

Context: a newspaper interview


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Miami Congressman Carlos Curbelo supports drilling offshore and repeatedly voted against President Obamas ability to fight pollution and combat climate change.

Context: a TV ad


Michael Steele says When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it.

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


Dennis Richardson says Oregon is the only state out of the 50 states in the USA that continues to pay 100% of the medical benefits for its employees and their families.

Context: a newsletter


Claire Mccaskill says You wonder why you dont see Rand Paul as much; hes still shopping for his billionaire. Hes like the only one who hasnt found a billionaire to fund his super PAC.

Context: comments to HBO host Bill Maher


Joseph Crowley says Donald Trump cashed in on Sept. 11,collecting $150,000 in federal funds intended to help small businesses recover even though days after the attack Trump said his properties were not affected.

Context: a speech at the Democratic convention


Mitt Romney says Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent.

Context: a victory speech in Las Vegas on Feb. 4, 2012


60 Plus Association says An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs.

Context: a television commercial


Chris Abele says The Mitchell Park Domes lose about $1 million-plus every year and the number of people going to the Domes has been going down.

Context: an interview


Kenneth Block says Under a bill before the legislature, youd have to go to court to fire an employee.

Context: a TV interview


Michael Doherty says There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used.

Context: a news release


Chris Christie says In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready.

Context: his “State of the State” address


Ellen Rosenblum says nearly 29,000 Oregonians almost 5 percent of all homeowners are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage.

Context: an opinion article


John Kline says Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."

Context: a press release


American Crossroads says This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent.

Context: a TV ad


Tim Kaine says George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States.

Context: in a debate


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says President Obama has cracked down on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president.

Context: an interview


Michele Bachmann says Newt Gingrich made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate


Tom Daschle says U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce political instability and violence by 40 percent in recipient nations.

Context: an op-ed


Sarah Palin says "I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."

Context: a speech at the Republican Nationention in St. Paul, Minn.


Jeff Morales says The actual (construction) contracts that weve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates.

Context: a press conference


Virginia Education Association says State school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation.

Context: a web post.


Hank Johnson says Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the presidents first year in office to 8.5 percent today.

Context: a press statement


Causa Oregon says American voters remain steadfast in their support for immigration reform with a path to citizenship, with more than 70 percent who want to see reform passed this year.

Context: a website statement


Terry Jeffrey says There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.

Context: a column in TownHall.com


Glenn Grothman says Tammy Baldwin introduced a bill that would require doctors and other health care workers to ask patients, including young children, whether they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or if they know their gender identity.

Context: a news release


Republican Party Texas says State Rep. Kristi Thibaut was an ACORN lobbyist.

Context: a tweet


Jimmy Carter says Atlanta is the No. 1 trading point for sexual slavery in America. Between 100 and 200 girls are sold into slavery in Atlanta every month.

Context: interview while promoting book


Jeff Dickerson says According to a national survey, transit ridership among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009.

Context: an online debate


Oregon 2014 says In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan.

Context: online campaign materials


Thomas Tobin says Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this June.

Context: a news release


Bobby Jindal says Im the only (Republican)candidate that has actually reduced the size of government.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Chris Jacobs says After how hard you work and how much you pay in taxes, New York City ends up getting the money. Im Chris Jacobs. I think its time we have someone in Albany thats making sure our region gets our fair share

Context: a campaign ad


Phil Kerpen says Amazing fact: Senate has already voted on more amendments in 2015 than Reid allowed ALL YEAR last year.

Context: a tweet


Joanne Kloppenburg says state Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice supported incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.

Context: a TV ad


Paul Ryan says One out of every four students fails to earn a high school diploma. In our major cities across America, half of our kids dont graduate.

Context: a speech


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange.

Context: an interview with a Las Vegas news network


Donald Trump says a tweet he sent out wasnt saying, check out a sex tape. It was just take a look at the background of Alicia Machado.

Context: the second presidential debate


Dinesh Dsouza says Aphotograph of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton featured a Confederate battle flag in the background.

Context: a tweet


Paul Krugman says Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents without health insurance.

Context: an op-ed column


Mike Pence says This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control.

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


Scott Walker says A new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota makes college education more affordable for Wisconsin residents.

Context: a news release


Bookerfail says Cory Booker supports late-term and partial-birth abortion and opposes safety regulations.

Context: a U.S. Senate campaign video ad


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Rob Portman says In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering.

Context: a news conference


Kay Bailey Hutchison says Gov. Rick Perry spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month.

Context: a radio ad


American Crossroads says As Virginia lost over 65,000 jobs, (Tim) Kaine put partisan ambitions first by serving as DNC chairman during the last year of his governorship.

Context: a TV ad.


Democratic National Committee says The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.

Context: a Web video.


Mike Foley says Ohio law gives tax breaks to rich people who own private jets.

Context: a speech in the Ohio House


Americans Job Security says Zack Space voted for budgets and debt, energy taxes and the stimulus, and we still lost more than 2.5 million jobs.

Context: a campaign ad


Rob Zerban says Paul Ryans budget plan ends Medicare.

Context: a TV ad


Alan Grayson says In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, theres been an investigative subcommittee thats been established first.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times interview


Jackie Cilley says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.

Context: a statement during a candidates forum at Nashua City Hall


Barack Obama says Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."

Context: Elko, Nev.


National Republican Congressional Committee says Colorado Democraticcongressional candidate MorganCarroll racked up $11 billion in new spending in the state Legislature.

Context: a TV ad


Arsalan Iftikhar says 59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim.

Context: a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press"


Frank Guinta says Carol Shea-Porter wants to increase taxes on small business and job creators.

Context: an advertisement, “Veterans,”


Rudy Giuliani says "People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."

Context: Washington, D.C.


Marc Schare says A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts to shave 5 full weeks off the school year.

Context: an Ohio House committee hearing


Newt Gingrich says On whether the United States should intervene in Libya.

Context: televised interviews


Sandra Williams says 99.97 percent of the kids live in poverty that attend Cleveland public schools.

Context: a news conference


John Kitzhaber says John Kitzhaber created 128,000 new jobs while governor.

Context: a campaign mailer


Wendy Davis says Texas ranks 49th nationally in what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state.

Context: a Senate Education Committee meeting.


Hillary Clinton says Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, I did local press all along, the last three months.

Context: an interview with CNN


Barack Obama says What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasnt changed since the law passed.

Context: a speech to Organizing for Action


Hillary Clinton says In 2006, Bernie Sanders voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants.

Context: a Democratic presidential debate in Miami


Rick Scott says Florida didnt offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.

Context: a TV interview


Katie Mcginty says she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college.

Context: On the 'About' page of McGinty's campaign website


Rand Paul says There was a Gallup poll in Egypt last year, and 70 percent of Egyptians dont want our money.

Context: a Fox News interview


Mitt Romney says "The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."

Context: an interview


Adam Putnam says Scott Maddox has run "losing campaigns for 3 of Florida's 4 available cabinet positions."

Context: a campaign statement


Virginia Foxx says Americans spend 6.1 billion hours a year on tax preparation.

Context: in a comment on Twitter


Clay Pell says The budget I managed at the Department of Education was more than $60 million.

Context: an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers."


Hillary Clinton says We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent.

Context: the second presidential debate


Barack Obama says Last year, Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour.

Context: a speech in the Rose Garden


Ginny Brown Waite says AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."

Context: a letter to AARP


Chain Email says Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 re-election campaigns.

Context: a chain e-mail


Bill Proctor says Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level.

Context: a newspaper article


Kevin Dewine says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.

Context: a speech at a GOP dinner


Naral Pro Choice says Marco Rubio voted against funding health clinics that provide critical care during this public health emergency (Zika).

Context: a TV ad


John Pagliarini says Youre in more trouble if you leave your pet in the car than if you leave your child in the car.

Context: a speech


Erik Wallin says Peter Kilmartin voted in favor of expanding the good behavior statute to sex offenders.

Context: a news release


Kasim Reed says On letting Occupy Atlanta protesters stay in Woodruff Park.

Context: statements to the public


Hillary Clinton says What I have put forward does not add a penny to the debt.

Context: in the third presidential debate.


Diego Arene Morley says There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850.

Context: a community forum


Donald Trump says In first week as governor, Tim Kaine proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year.

Context: a speech.


Rob Portman says On Lee Fishers watch, almost nine out of 10 jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, not to other countries.

Context: an appearance at The Plain Dealer


Richard Codey says Every president has raised the debt ceiling.

Context: an interview on Hannity on Fox News


Alberta Darling says Limiting labor negotiations to only wages is how it is for the most part in the private sector.

Context: an appearance on a TV interview program


Cory Gardner says on contraception, his plan is cheaper and easier for you than Sen. Mark Udalls

Context: a campaign ad


Marco Rubio says The states have always defined marriage.

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


Delia Garza says Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store.

Context: as quoted in a news story


Barack Obama says John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."

Context: remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors


Priorities Usa Action says Mitt Romneys pledged to protect (oil companies) record profits and their billions in special tax breaks, too.

Context: a television ad


Ed Gillespie says Mark Warner voted for nearly $1 trillion in new taxes and $7 trillion in new debt.

Context: a web ad.


John Kasich says State government spending will be increase 10.7 percent this year.

Context: a debate


Tommy Thompson says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he had nothing to do with that provision in the law.

Context: a debate


Mike Lee says The FCCs net neutrality policy includes whatis essentially a massive tax increase.

Context: an email through Protect Internet Freedom


David Axelrod says The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973 and the average worker is making what they were making in 1996.

Context: a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics


Paul Broun says A United Nations arms treaty would almost certainly force the U.S. to create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

Context: a YouTube video


National Rifle Association says More people die from medical misadventures than firearm accidents nationally and in Florida.

Context: a fact-sheet.


Joe Biden says When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran.

Context: a speech


Mitch Mcconnell says The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

Context: an interview with "Fox News Sunday"


Paul Ryan says six studies verify that the math adds up for Mitt Romneys tax plan.

Context: the vice presidential debate


Martin Omalley says In the United States, weve had 12 years in a row of wages declining.

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


Marco Rubio says Charlie Crist has six different positions on ObamaCare.

Context: a campaign website


Barack Obama says "In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."

Context: a speech at the United States Military Academy.


Sarah Palin says "As governor, I've stood up to ... the big oil companies."

Context: Dayton, Ohio


Barack Obama says This year, were off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999.

Context: a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn.


Matthew Hill says abortion doctors are flying into this state, performing abortions and flying out.

Context: a debate on the state House floor.


Rick Santorum says Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate for health insurance.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.


American Leadhership Pac says There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor of Providence.

Context: a campaign mailing


Maurice Ferre says Maurice Ferre says Kendrick Meek has voted 98.6 percent of the time with the Democrat party.

Context: an editorial meeting.


Barack Obama says Weve created more jobs in the United States than every other advanced economy combined since I came into office.

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


Lisa Boothe says One in four inmates is an illegal immigrant.

Context: an interview on Fox


Blog Posting says Wisconsin is dead last in income growth among midwestern states during Gov. Scott Walkers term.

Context: various blogs and Internet comments


Daniel Grace says A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry.

Context: a statement


Charlie Crist says "I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months."

Context: Associated Press' annual legislative meeting


Jeff Greene says Kendrick Meek was #1 in Florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for childrens health care.

Context: a campaign flier


Jamie Radtke says Federal Reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.

Context: remarks to the Senate Tea Party caucus meeting.


Scott Walker says On repeal of Wisconsins smoking ban

Context: a news release


Sylvester Turner says Ninety percent of Texans say they do not want the nursing homes to close. It polls higher than anything else.

Context: remarks on the House floor


Rick Scott says For the first time ever, we completely funded the critical needs waiting list so persons with unique abilities can get the help they need.

Context: his 2016 State of the State address


Chris Redfern says Paul Ryan got his start in politics, as a young staffer just out of college, working for then-Congressman John Kasichs Budget Committee.

Context: a news release


David Jolly says Race to the Top grants require participating states to adopt the Common Core standards as a condition for receiving federal funding.

Context: a statement on his campaign website


Harris Faulkner says President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally.

Context: a broadcast of "Outnumbered" on Fox News


Moveon says McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'"

Context: an e-mail message