Rick Perry says Building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will take literally years.

Context: Radio interview


Katrina Shankland says Wisconsin is on pace to double the number of layoffs this year.

Context: a news conference


Donald Trump says John McCain has done nothing to help the vets.

Context: comments on ABC's This Week.


Rob Cornilles says Suzanne Bonamici supports a plan that will cut choice for Medicare Advantage seniors.

Context: a radio show


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says When asked by a reporter whether hes at the center of a criminal scheme to violate campaign laws, Gov. Scott Walker nodded yes.

Context: a web video


Brendan Doherty says Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees.

Context: a campaign website


Stand Children Tennessee says that Tennessee law requires that schools receive half of proceeds -- $31 million per year -- from a half-cent increase in the Shelby County sales tax.

Context: in a post on Facebook.


John Boehner says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.

Context: a press release.


Sean Patrick Maloney says Donald Trump is against marriage equality. He wants to go back.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Mike Pence says We know that more than half of Hillary Clintons meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Mike Berlon says We know there are more Democrats in Georgia than Republicans. We know that for a fact.

Context: an article


Bill Flores says PolitiFact Texas says Congressman Edwards attacks on Bill Flores are false.

Context: a TV ad.


Viral Image says Denali is the Kenyan word for black power.

Context: an image shared on Facebook


Facebook Posts says 57 percent of federal spending goes to the military and just 1 percent goes to food and agriculture, including food stamps.

Context: a meme on social media


Chris Abele says On residency requirements for public workers

Context: a letter


Rick Santorum says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.

Context: a speech


Tom Niehaus says Unfortunately we have documented instances where people defecated in the (Statehouse) building.

Context: interviews with reporters


Marsha Blackburn says A recent Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Americans and 56 percent of Democrats say the biggest threat to our nations security is big government.

Context: a speech to the Freedom Summit in New Hampshire


Hillary Clinton says "Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."

Context: a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.


Sarah Palin says "Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.

Context: her book, Going Rogue


Chris Sgro says There have not been any public safety issues in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.

Context: a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact


Marco Rubio says Mitt Romney was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse Marco Rubio.

Context: a prepared statement


Donald Trump says The number of illegal immigrants could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.

Context: a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.


Marijuana Policy Project says Marijuana is less toxic than alcohol.

Context: a TV ad


Republican Party Florida says Charlie Crist is embroiled in a fraud case for steering taxpayer money to a de facto Ponzi scheme.

Context: a TV ad


Lindsey Graham says Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes.

Context: a Senate hearing


Hillary Clinton says I was gone when there was a red line against Syria.

Context: the second presidential debate


Republican National Committee Republican says Tim Kaine hiked tuition as governor, but now claims to champion affordability.

Context: a blog post.


Mike Pence says Contends that President Obama literally said (if) his cap-and-trade proposals were to pass, that utility rates, his words now, would, necessarily skyrocket.

Context: MSNBC interview.


Cliff Stearns says Active duty males in the military are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer than their civilian counterparts.

Context: a press release


Cory Gardner says Its been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

Context: a talk show


Sarah Palin says Under Rosemary Lehmberg, the Travis County D.A.s office convened the grand jury that indicted Rick Perry.

Context: a commentary


Barack Obama says On which team hes rooting for in the World Series.


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Tom Ganley has two Fs from the Better Business Bureau and over 160 complaints in just three years.

Context: an election ad


Mamie Locke says The United States has a low voter turnout rate.

Context: an interview.


Herman Cain says Thomas Jefferson said, You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course.

Context: a video on Cain TV


Rick Scott says Because of the federal health care law, 300,000 health plans canceled in Florida.

Context: a television ad from Let's Get to Work


Jeanne Shaheen says In Massachusetts, Scott Brown pushed for a law to force women considering abortion -- force them -- to look at color photographs of developing fetuses.

Context: an ad


Dennis Kucinich says The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations.

Context: a television interview


Kevin Brady says Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas sales tax deduction a decade ago.

Context: a press release


Mitt Romney says Pre-existing conditions are covered under my (health care) plan.

Context: a presidential debate in Denver


Doonesbury says Greg Abbott activated the state guard to monitor Jade Helm 15 in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores.

Context: the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise


Donald Trump says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton in a landslide in every poll.

Context: a tweet


Drew Springer says bag litter increased after San Francisco banned single-use shopping bags.

Context: a press release


Michele Bachmann says In 1993, Newt Gingrich first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating for it.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa


Robert Menendez says as a result of the national health care reform, the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care.

Context: an interview on Richard French Live


Hillary Clinton says "You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."

Context: a debate in Manchester, N.H.


Barack Obama says The federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan gave his first address to a joint session of Congress.

Context: the State of the Union address


Steve Brown says A proposed tax to fund transportation projects would spend $90,000 to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute.

Context: a forum hosted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Hillary Clinton says A salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception is not going to get that service through her employers health care plan because her employer doesnt think she should be using contraception.

Context: an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival


Republican Party Florida says Charlie Crist voted against raising the minimum wage.

Context: a campaign commercial


National Rifle Association says Hillary Clinton said gun confiscation would be worth considering.

Context: a flier.


Jeb Bush says Already, a prototype driverless car has traveled more than 300,000 miles in the crowded maze of California streets without a single accident.

Context: a speech at CPAC


David Dewhurst says Last year, out of the 500,000 (in) population growth we had in the state of Texas, about 250,000 of the 500,000 came to Texas... from the other 49 states.

Context: his inaugural address.


Jeff Flake says When undocumented children are picked up at the border and told to appear later in court ... 90 percent do not then show up.

Context: an interview on the PBS "News Hour"


Committee Our Childrens Future says Gov. Chris Christie cut spending (by) $1 billion and provided $850 million in new education funding.

Context: a television ad


Steven Costantino says Hes the only candidate whos balanced budgets and brought jobs to Providence.

Context: a TV commercial


Hank Johnson says Studies have shown that in the absence of federal reproductive health funds, we are going to see the level of abortion in Georgia increase by about 44 percent.

Context: an article published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Michele Bachmann says ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public.

Context: an interview with the Washington Times.


Russell Pearce says Sixty percent of the Hispanics support the Arizona immigration law

Context: a CNN interview


Barack Obama says If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to let criminals go.

Context: a speech in Washington, D.C.


Chris Matthews says Dick Cheney de-Baathisized the Iraqi government and created ISIS.

Context: a broadcast on MSNBC


Carlos Curbelo says Bill and Hillary Clinton attended Donald Trumps last wedding.

Context: a radio interview


Steven Costantino says I did not play any role in bringing the company to RI as did others in government. I was tasked with handling the legislation affecting the company by my superiors.

Context: a statement


Ezekiel Emanuel says Obamacare insurance cooperative failures should be expected because theyre like any business, and when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed.

Context: a discussion on MSNBC's "Up with Steve Kornacki"


Sherrod Brown says The tax cut deal is giving $700 billion to millionaires and billionaires.

Context: a CNN interview


Patrick Murphy says Marco Rubio said Social Security and Medicare haveweakened us as a people.

Context: a Florida Senate debate


Joe Biden says "Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."

Context: a news release.


Bill Richardson says As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."

Context: a debate in Manchester, N.H.


Lloyd Doggett says Twenty-five states have lower unemployment than Texas which is tied with Mississippi for more minimum-wage jobs than anywhere in the United States.

Context: an interview with ABC TV.


Ian Prior says Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage.

Context: a Providence Journal commentary


Priorities Usa Action says Donald Trump has said he loves war, including with nukes.

Context: an ad discussed on "Meet the Press"


David Pennington says Any state tax law has to start in the House and the renewal of the state hospital bed tax this year started in the Senate, which is unconstitutional.

Context: a public meeting


Tim Pawlenty says Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion.

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


Ted Cruz says A strong bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted to defund Obamacare.

Context: a news release


Friends India Point Park says Proximity to high-voltage power lines lowers property values by as much as 30 percent.

Context: a web site


Reince Priebus says What the facts say is ...the best scenario for kids is a loving mom and dad.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Scott Walker says Mark Neumann = Nancy Pelosi

Context: campaign TV and radio ads


Barbara Buono says To hear Gov. Christie tell it, everything in New Jersey is going just fine. Well I see another New Jersey with 400,000 unemployed. One of the worst jobless rates in the country. Working and middle class families have seen costs soar, from property taxes to college tuition.

Context: a gubernatorial campaign television ad


Donald Trump says delegates cant legally change the Republican National Convention rules to prevent Donald Trumps nomination.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Carole Smith says Rebuilding three high schools will benefit 40 percent of Portland Public School students.

Context: a press briefing


H204TEXAS PAC says Proposition 2 on Novembers Texas ballot does not cost state taxpayers any money.

Context: an email blast.


David Cicilline says Providence has the lowest crime rate in three decades.

Context: a debate


Bill Nelson says On banning earmarks.

Context: Senate floor votes


Gerald Daugherty says hes taken an 8% pay decrease in each of the nine years he has been in office.

Context: his campaign website


Facebook Posts says 1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires.

Context: Facebook


Paul Ryan says The decision for the United States to buy heavy water from Iran will directly subsidize Irans nuclear program.

Context: a news release


Debra Medina says The Texas Department of Transportation... misplaced a billion dollars.

Context: a debate.


Facebook Posts says A judges order means theres a Constitution exemption zone if you live within 100 miles of the United States border.

Context: a Facebook post


Dave Yost says Pepper ... kicked off a jock tax, imposing a levy on the sports and entertainment industry.

Context: a campaign video


Democratic National Committee says Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . . health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."

Context: a television ad


Bob Donovan says Under Mayor Tom Barrett, the number of Milwaukee police officers has not increased.

Context: an interview


Brett Bittner says Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip

Context: an interview


George Allen says President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi passed a $1.2 trillion stimulus bill.


Julian Castro says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nations top-performing local economy.

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


Mike Bennett says people in Africa literally walk two and three hundred miles in order to vote.

Context: comments made on the Senate floor.


James Carr says Before World War II, very few people actually had health insurance.

Context: an interview


Safe Routes Schools says Half of children struck by cars near schools are hit by parents driving children to school.

Context: a mailer


Rick Scott says Citizens Property Insurance has over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus.

Context: comments to the press


Conservative Renewal Pac says Tom Leppert pledged to make Dallas a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants.

Context: a TV ad.


Barack Obama says Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented.

Context: a news conference


Kasim Reed says When Atlanta Police Chief George Turner was interim head of the department, overall crime fell 14 percent and violent crime dropped 22.7 percent.

Context: a press release


Rachel Maddow says From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent while the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent.

Context: HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"


Charlie Crist says I am very proud, as governor of Florida, that we signed the first divestment act, as it relates to Iran, divesting any investments in companies that would invest in Iran.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate on CNN’s “State of the Union.”


Mark Pocan says As a result of climate change, ice fishermen in Wisconsin are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes.

Context: a speech


Bill Oreilly says Muslim nations did not call out the people who celebrated the 9/11 attacks.

Context: a broadcast of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"


Priorities Usa Action says Donald Trump said of women, And you can tell them to go f--- themselves.

Context: a television ad


Kendrick Meek says The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years.

Context: a debate


Bob Schieffer says Iran President Hassan Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities than members of Barack Obamas Cabinet.

Context: comments at a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies


Wolf Blitzer says The words subhuman mongrel, which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of the Jewish community.

Context: comments on CNN


Chris Christie says (Barack Obama) says hes going to reduce the long-term debt and deficit by $4 trillion, doesnt say how hes going to do it.

Context: an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press”


William Obrien says Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger wasan active participant in the Ku Klux Klan.

Context: a Facebook post


Nikki Haley says President Obama and his National Labor Relations Board sued Boeing over its decision to open a plant in South Carolina.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


League Conservation Voters says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters.

Context: a television ad


Cenk Uygur says Orrin Hatch co-sponsored a 1993 health care bill that had an individual mandate.

Context: MSNBC Live


Mark Emmert says More (student-athletes) graduate than the students who arent student-athletes.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Donna Campbell says U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is the most liberal man in the United States Congress.

Context: a speech


Pat Toomey says Its entirely possible that the Democratic nominee, [Hillary Clinton], earned more money giving a single speech on Wall Street than I made the six years that I was there back in the 1980s In fact, its quite likely.

Context: an interview with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on an assault weapons ban.

Context: a campaign advertisement


Americans Prosperity New Jersey says state Senate President Stephen Sweeney gave us the nations highest income tax rates, driving out jobs.

Context: a television ad posted on YouTube


Christine Odonnell says Delaware Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons thought that a 911 call should be taxed.

Context: a campaign commercial


Crossroads Gps says When Tim Kaine was governor, spending soared, blowing holes in the budget every year.

Context: a TV ad.


Michele Bachmann says President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Orlando


Ted Cruz says Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Lets appease them. Why? Because it cant be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

Context: speech advocating repeal of Obamacare law


Jason Carter says On an income cap for recipients of the popular HOPE scholarship

Context: forum


Mark Pocan says Wisconsin is dead last in the Midwest for job creation.

Context: an interview


Roy Barnes says On running a civil and polite campaign.

Context: a television interview


Al Sharpton says President Barack Obama has taken 92 days of vacation since he was sworn in, compared to 367 for President George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency.

Context: a segment of his MSNBC show, "Politics Nation"


Scott Walker says The federal government reviewed and verified his administrations numbers showing Wisconsin added 23,608 jobs in 2011.

Context: a debate


National Republican Congressional Committee says Tom Suozzi raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars as Nassau County executive.

Context: a blog post on the NRCC website


Glenn Beck says John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.

Context: his TV program


Gail Collins says Mitt Romney drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car.

Context: a column


Matt Bevin says Many of the founding fathers were very actively involved in cockfighting.

Context: a radio interview


Shelly Moore says state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf wants to eliminate Medicare as we know it.

Context: a campaign flier


Frank Fahrenkopf says The majority of people travelling to these destination resorts are not going for the primary purpose of gambling.

Context: an opinion piece in the "Miami Herald"


Connie Mack says Bill Nelson voted 98 percent of the time with Barack Obama.

Context: a U.S. Senate debate


Donald Trump says I did not I did not I do not say that. I do not say that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.

Context: a presidential debate


Nan Rich says In Florida we have 75,000 on (a) waiting list for child care and 23,000 on waiting lists for community care for the elderly.

Context: a "Tampa Tribune" blog


Mike Wise says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell interviewed domestic abuse victim Janay Rice with Ray Rice present and for every domestic violence agency, every law enforcement agency, thats a no-no.

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


Todd Wilcox says I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration specifically waterboarding work.

Context: a newspaper interview


Democratic Party Virginia says Virginia has made no progress on jobs since Bob McDonnell took office.

Context: a web video


Fred Thompson says "The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."

Context: a debate in Dearborn, Mich.


Ohio Public Defenders Office says The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research thats out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety.

Context: a newspaper interview


Jim Webb says Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times.

Context: a TV interview.


Sarah Palin says On whether global warming is man-made.

Context: Fairbanks, Alaska


Dean Cannon says The number of inmates since 2000 on death row dying of natural causes has now surpassed the number of inmates executed.

Context: comments to reporters.


Steve Latourette says Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess.

Context: an interview on “Fox News Sunday”


Ron Johnson says Republicans have proposed dozens of (health care) solutions designed to help control costs and improve quality.

Context: the weekly Republican address


Chris Christie says When the union says I want to eliminate tenure, thats not true.

Context: a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education


Occupy Democrats says Hillary Clinton has donated every cent shes ever earned from speaking fees to charity.

Context: a post on Facebook


Dan Forest says Charlottes anti-discrimination ordinance would have opened all bathrooms to all sexes at all times if it hadnt been overturned.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts.

Context: a press conference


Hank Johnson says Social Security has nothing to do with the federal deficit.

Context: a twitter post


Hillary Clinton says About 1 percent of all the gun sellers are responsible for more than half of the guns that are used in crimes.

Context: a forum


Alberta Darling says On pay for fired Milwaukee police officers

Context: an interview


Joaquin Castro says Texas is the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide.

Context: a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival.


Ted Cruz says CNN reported Ben Carson was taking a break from campaigning and the Cruz campaign forwarded that news to our volunteers.

Context: the New Hampshire GOP debate


Paul Ryan says Today, if you were raised poor, youre just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.

Context: a column posted on Medium.com


Chain Email says President Barack Obama told a room of students, Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence, and then a child told him he could solve the problem by not clapping any more.

Context: a chain email


Jon Huntsman says The United States has the longest surviving constitution.

Context: a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H.


Carolyn Tomei says , In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended.

Context: a House floor speech


Gina Hinojosa says Austin school district teachers are the lowest paid of any urban Texas district and the lowest paid of any surrounding school district.

Context: an interview with Kiah Collier, Austin American-Statesman reporter


John Lee says Clackamas County has more urban renewal debt than all the other Oregon counties combined.

Context: in a press release


Steve Doocy says NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming.

Context: a broadcast of "Fox and Friends."


Dale Kooyenga says The University of Wisconsin System is larger than any business in the state of Wisconsin.

Context: a radio interview


Jim Renacci says There is no record of congresswoman Betty Sutton ... ever holding a single in-person town hall meeting open to the general public.

Context: a news release


Mark Obenshain says Mark Herring voted to allow sex offenders, including rapists, to serve shorter sentences.

Context: a campaign brochure.


Donald Trump says Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia.

Context: an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News


George Lavender says states mandated tests come from an English company.

Context: in Texas House of Representatives debate


Lee Holloway says he got twice as much money from the sale of County Grounds land than Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker was willing to accept.

Context: an interview with a weekly newspaper


Jeanne Shaheen says We spend in tax loopholes annually $1.1 trillion. Thats more than we spend on our defense budget in a year, on Medicare or Medicaid in a year.

Context: an interview with the editorial board of 'The Telegraph.'


John Mccain says On the Bush tax cuts.

Context: flip-o-meter


Bernie S says Over half of the black workers in this country earn less than $15 an hour.

Context: a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.


Florida Chamber Commerce says Insured Floridians pay about $2,000 for every hospital stay to cover the cost of the uninsured.

Context: a report on health care costs


Newt Gingrich says Sixteen million jobs were created under Ronald Reagans presidency.

Context: a speech


Its Still Bad Idea says This would be the largest casino in the United States.

Context: a campaign press event


Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."

Context: in a television ad


Sarah Palin says "Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line."

Context: St. Louis


Eric Hovde says President Obama and Nancy Pelosi said Obamacare would save money because they factored in 10 years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses.

Context: a television interview


Barack Obama says John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate."

Context: a statement by campaign spokesman Bill Burton


Donald Trump says American polling shows Russian President Vladimir Putin has an 80 percent approval rating.

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


Heather Fiorentino says Pasco County schools have graduation rates substantially higher than the state average and dropout rates below the state average.

Context: a press release


Scott Surovell says Eighty-five percent of the states in the United States that had electrocution have now abolished it.

Context: a floor debate.


Wendy Davis says that each year, about 25,000 American women become pregnant through rape or incest.

Context: an opinion article


American Crossroads says Bill Nelson leased land that he owned for six cows, taking advantage of an agricultural tax loophole to dodge $43,000 in taxes just last year.

Context: a TV commercial


David Hallock says In rural Virginia, Sen. Warner ran 8-10 points ahead of a traditional Democrat -- ahead of Senator Kaine, ahead of Governor McAuliffe.

Context: a forum


Marco Rubio says I can tell you with certainty (capandtrade)would have a devastating impact on our economy.

Context: an interview on CBS' Face the Nation


Charlie Crist says Today many Florida teachers are at risk of having their pay impacted by the performance of children who are not even in their classrooms or subject areas.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times op-ed


Red White And Blue Fund says Mitt Romney left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt.

Context: a campaign ad


Lenny Curry says Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half but didnt.

Context: an interview on "Political Connections"


Job Itkzkowitz says Old City in Philadelphiaused to have more than a dozen clubs and thats what we were known for and now were down to two.

Context: In the Philadelphia Business Journal


Viral Image says Denmarks suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States over the past five decades.

Context: a shareable graphic on the Web


Donald Trump says China has total control, just about, of North Korea.

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


Reince Priebus says The fact is the Clinton Foundation has got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should.

Context: comments on "The Mike Gallagher Show"


Facebook Posts says The U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes.

Context: a meme


Rick Perry says Since the first of the year, 153 businesses at last count had moved out of California to Texas.

Context: on an episode of Fox & Friends


Rick Perry says Barack Obama has provided guns to Mexican drug cartels.

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


Eric Greitens says Chris Koster fell silentas attorney general in pursuing a case against a free classified service accused of promoting prostitution after accepting over $12,000 in campaign contributions from people affiliated with the service.

Context: a press release


Jay Rockefeller says Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001.

Context: a column in the newspaper Roll Call


Jeff Merkley says , Less than half of all states have legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, despite the fact that LGBT Americans report employment discrimination and unemployment at much higher rates than the U.S. average.

Context: a press release


Jay Carney says Gov. Romney himself, with 28 other Republican governors, supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever.

Context: a press White House press briefing


Rob Portman says Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining.

Context: a debate


Robert Watson says Im well aware that medical marijuana is a recognized, medical, viable treatment for this sort of [pancreas] pain condition.

Context: a speech on the House floor


Kathie Glass says Rick Perry recently said he wanted another (Texas) business tax.

Context: a debate.


Linda Finn says By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent.

Context: a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house


Barack Obama says "Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."

Context: Las Vegas


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Wisconsin dropped from second in the country to 41st among states where more than half the students took the ACT exam.

Context: a news release


Dan Patrick says 315,000 mostly minority Texas students are enrolled in failing schools.

Context: a state Senate committee hearing April 9, 2013


Chain Email says At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment under Affordable Care Act.

Context: a chain email


Rick Santorum says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.

Context: a debate in South Carolina


Independent Voice Illinois Pac says ...Secret documents reveal that Iran could obtain a nuclear weapon far sooner than we were told. And Tammy Duckworth voted yes (on the Iran nuclear deal).

Context: an attack video advertisement of Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth


Carly Fiorina says If you look at the results of Obamacare, what you see is emergency room visits are up over 50 percent.

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


Republican Party Florida says Loranne Ausley voted six times to tax your savings.

Context: statements on the party's website.


Scott Suder says Four state Assembly Democrats scored a death blow to northeast Wisconsins economy by killing hundreds of jobs at a potential Bass Pro Shops near Green Bay.

Context: a news release


John Boehner says "The president campaigned against this type of legislation."

Context: a speech on the House floor.


Wendy Davis says One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime.

Context: a legal brief


John Mccain says Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."

Context: an interview with the <i>Kansas City Star</i>


Mitt Romney says What president has the worst record on female labor force participation? Barack Obama.

Context: a graphic posted on his website


Donald Trump says Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obamatook his oath of office less than eight years ago.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland


John Boehner says The Social Security trust fund is already facing imminent bankruptcy.

Context: a news conference


Enterprise Florida says Seven hundred thousand. Thats how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage.Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them.

Context: Enterprise Florida radio ads in California


Barack Obama says America is No. 1 in wind power.

Context: the State of the Union address


Facebook Posts says The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnsons Great Society.

Context: a meme on the Internet


Lloyd Doggett says I said no to these big bank bailouts.

Context: a TV ad


Paul Ryan says People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.

Context: an interview


Rick Scott says This budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1,000 residents in Florida in this century.

Context: a press release


Motion Picture Association America says The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.

Context: a press release


Milly Silva says Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie.

Context: a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry


Robin Vos says When it comes to income taxes, Wisconsin is one of the best places in the country to be poor but top 4 or 5 worst for middle-income earners.

Context: an interview


Michele Bachmann says ACORN could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states.

Context: a press release


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Congressman Jon Runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class, but only for millionaires.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Jeff Scrima says On his half pay pledge.

Context: a series of public statements and actions


George Will says Over 10 years, (extending tax cuts for the wealthy) would add less to the deficit than Obama added with the stimulus in one year.

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


Nina Turner says The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.

Context: an opinion column


Florida Democratic Party says Gov. Rick Scott backed the federal shutdown.

Context: an online video


Jason Carter says The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.

Context: a speech


Barack Obama says As weve seen that federal support for states diminish, youve seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs.

Context: a press conference


Hillary Clinton says New START, passed while Clinton was secretary of state, is a treaty cutting Russias nuclear arms.

Context: a television ad


Bernie S says his free public university tuition program is paid for by a tax on Wall Streets speculation.

Context: a CNN interview


John Kasich says Ohio ranks 46th in the country in putting dollars in the classroom.

Context: a news conference


John Birch Society says Under a Wisconsin bill, minor offenses such as violating pet leash laws, seat belt laws, parking infractions, etc., would now be arrestable offenses.

Context: an article on the group's website


Rick Perry says in 2003 Texas cut $10 billion out of the entire budget, yet we put $1.8 billion more into public education. We put $800 million more into health and human services.

Context: an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek


Donald Trump says Under Hillary Clintons plan illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay.

Context: a TV ad


Special Operations Opsec Education Fund says The Obama administration leaked information, deliberately or otherwise, that led to the identification of the Pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin Laden.

Context: a web video


Barack Obama says Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of the Benghazi incident.

Context: a press availability


Jon Bramnick says , when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar - I call it mismanagement deficit.

Context: a panel discussion for "On The Record with Michael Aron"


Michael Bloomberg says Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime.

Context: an interview


Rand Paul says President Barack Obama spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs.

Context: a response to the State of the Union address


Bill Richardson says Among Hispanics, support for immigration reform is close to universal.

Context: a web interview with ABC News


Donald Trump says a Ted Cruz ad has got me bull-dozing down a house.I never bulldozed it down. Its false advertising.

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


Hillary Clinton says Wages adjusted for inflation havent risen since the turn of the last century.

Context: a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa


Ted Cruz says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey we are coming because weve been promised amnesty.

Context: a press conference


Anna Kooiman says There would be tens of thousands of jobs created if President Barack Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline.

Context: a segment on "Fox & Friends"


Barack Obama says Weve brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration.

Context: a speech at Port of Tampa


George Will says When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it.

Context: a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week


Virginia Center Public Safety says Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars.

Context: a rally flier


John Mccain says "Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."

Context: Hempstead, N.Y.


Tweets says In the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and todays verdict, 11,106 African-Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans.

Context: tweets


Clean Water Portland says If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDCs statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S.

Context: a campaign flier


Tom Tancredo says He received "A" ratings from "every conservative organization that gives ratings."

Context: a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.


John Kitzhaber says It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison.

Context: in State of the State speech


Dave Brat says Republican Rep. Charlie Dent wants to kick the Freedom Caucus out of the Republican conference for voting our conscience.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Fred Thompson says "He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.' "

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


One Wisconsin Now says Two-thirds of Wisconsin corporations dont pay state income taxes.

Context: a news release and report


Arne Duncan says There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips because of sequestration.

Context: an appearance on "Face the Nation."


Us Chamber Commerce says Obamacare ... will kill jobs across America.

Context: a television ad


George Will says Last weeks three most-viewed television programs wereSunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football.

Context: a panel on "Fox News Sunday"


Scott Walker says On federal stimulus money for expanding rail service.

Context: an announcement of an application for federal stimulus money for rail


Gen Peter Chiarelli says About 106,000 soldiers had a prescription of three weeks or more for pain, depression or anxiety medication.

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Jeff Mullis says Georgia loses millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks.

Context: a meeting


Association Mature American Citizens says If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for violations.

Context: a direct mail letter


Votevetsorg says "John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq."

Context: a television ad.


Sean Hannity says that in 2015, illegal immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

Context: a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump


Hilary Rosen says The Clinton Foundation is a charity where President and Secretary Clinton and their daughter, they take no salary, they get no money from it, they take no personal benefit from it.

Context: "The Diane Rehm Show"


Matt Gaetz says his bill, HB 97, would prevent the use of taxpayer dollars on abortions.

Context: comments before a House subcommittee


Citizens Transportation Mobility says The average Atlanta resident spends an extra $924 each year in additional gasoline and wasted time.

Context: a flier


Tommy Thompson says Federal health care reforms amounted to the government takeover of health care.

Context: a television ad


Chris Dodd says "Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have changed their positions (on the Iraq war withdrawal) to follow Chris Dodd."

Context: a TV ad.


Ted Cruz says Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician.

Context: a Senate floor speech


John Albers says When he worked for ATT, he "was responsible for large parts in a $5 billion organization."


Mitt Romney says 6,400 Ohioans ... lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September.

Context: a news release


Matt Bevin says Mitch McConnell voted with Harry Reid to infringe on our gun rights.

Context: a television ad


Russ Feingold says Ron Johnson gave himself a $10 million sweetheart corporate payout

Context: in a campaign ad


Rand Paul says Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who dont have health insurance, half of them made more than $50,000 a year.

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


Eric Hovde says The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia.

Context: a news release


Tennessee Republican Party says House Democrats voted to use your tax dollars for abortions by voting against bill defunding Planned Parenthood.

Context: a mailer sent for a state legislative campaign.


Josh Mandel says We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes.

Context: a campaign commercial


Jeb Bush says It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"


Dick Cheney says At the mere request from Putin, President Obama withdrew the plans for a missile defense program based in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Hillary Clinton says "I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."

Context: a news conference in Greensburg, Pa.


Barack Obama says Health care reform "would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades."

Context: a State of the Union speech


Barack Obama says McCain "has opposed stem cell research."

Context: a radio ad


Dave Claunch says Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas.

Context: a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council


Allen West says The EPA wants to hire 230,000 new government regulators that will cost the taxpayer $21 billion.

Context: a TV interview


Chain Email says If the Trans-Pacific Partnership is fast-tracked through the Senate, it wont receive a committee assignment and the consideration will include no debate.

Context: a chain email


John Mccain says On whether the government should bail out insurance giant AIG.


Mike Cernovich says The Cleveland police has issued a stand down order to officers.

Context: his blog


Van Jones says The Keystone pipeline creates 35 permanent jobs after construction, according to a government report.

Context: a segment on CNN's "Crossfire"


Richard Paglia says We already pay the highest electricity prices in the country here in New England.

Context: a TV interview


John Murtha says "We're going to have more troops (in Afghanistan) . . . than the Russians had."

Context: the show 'Hardball With Chris Matthews'


Mark Neumann says Victory! Republicans by 2 to 1 vote to endorse Mark Neumann on first ballot at GOP convention.

Context: a website alert


Rick Scott says Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times interview


Joe Biden says "There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."

Context: Springfield, Ill.


Larry Pressler says All four on Mount Rushmore, they were all independents at one critical point in their career.

Context: a campaign forum


Jennifer Carroll says We didnt go out asking people to join the stand your ground task force.

Context: Capitol news conference


Lisa Tomasso says Rhode Islands exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years.

Context: a news release.


Stephen Laffey says Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law

Context: a radio interview


Mitt Romney says Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."

Context: a radio ad.


Lenny Curry says More than 250 (voter registration) groups, ranging across the entire political spectrum, have filed with the state and are registering voters right now.

Context: an "Orlando Sentinel" opinion piece


John Mccain says Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."

Context: Green Bay, Wis.


Rudy Giuliani says "I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -

Context: a debate in Orlando, Fla.


Sid Covington says A planning group said that to meet anticipated traffic demands by 2035, Interstate 35 between Austin and Round Rock will need a dozen additional lanes going north and 14 additional southbound lanes.

Context: an opinion column by Sid Covington, the district's chairman of the board


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Sean Duffys Republican Majority.

Context: a news release


Barack Obama says The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave.

Context: an op-ed for Huffington Post


Jennifer Shilling says A voucher school that closed after 9 days this year collected $5.4 million in taxpayer subsidies since first opening.

Context: a tweet


Kenneth Block says Rhode Islands unemployment insurance system is the most expensive such system in the country.

Context: an interview on Rhode Island Public Radio


Donald Trump says a YouTube video shows Thomas DiMassimo, the man who rushed Trump at an Ohio rally, dragging the American flag on the ground like it was a piece of garbage.

Context: Donald Trump on Sunday, March 13th, 2016, in an interview on "Meet the Press"


Barack Obama says Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."

Context: a television ad


Sean Duffy says The United States spends $2.2 billion on free cell phones, $27 million on Moroccan pottery classes and pays for the travel expenses for the watermelon queen in Alabama.

Context: an interview


Rick Perry says The United States is at historic record highs of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria.

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


Jamie Radtke says The transportation package passed by the General Assembly would impose the largest tax increase in Virginias history.

Context: a website post.


Rick Perry says My home state since June of 2009 created 40 percent of the new jobs in America.

Context: a speech


City Austin says Onion Creeks highest flow rate on a recent night of flooding was 120,000 cubic feet per second, which is nearly double the average flow rate of Niagara Falls.

Context: a press release


Jeb Bush says As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent.

Context: a column posted on Medium


Barack Obama says last year 13 million (health insurance) rebates went out, in all 50 states. Another 8.5 (million) rebates are being sent out this summer, averaging around 100 bucks each.

Context: a speech at the White House


John Kitzhaber says his state budget will provide an increase in state funding for the 2011-12 school year.

Context: an e-mail


Robert Hurt says the estate tax, in many cases, forces family farmers and small businesses owners to sell their holdings.

Context: a statement.


Blog Posting says Sayvideo shows massive alligator strolling across Florida golf course.

Context: Internet posts


Kurt Schrader says On whether people can keep their insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Context: a TV interview.


Chris Dodd says "We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"

Context: a debate in Miami, Fla.


Jeb Bush says If you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country, it is net zero. Its been that way now for almost two years.

Context: an interview on 'Meet the Press.'


John Boehner says Weve introduced a bill that includes $12 billion in cuts over the next week.

Context: a public statement


National Federation Independent Business Wiscons says Wisconsins lawsuit rules are so anti-business that the states system is one of the most promiscuous in America.

Context: a news release


Ben Carson says Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality.

Context: a GOP debate on CBS


Marco Rubio says From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station

Context: an interview with CBS


Scott Walker says The gender gap in his support is not unique to me and theres not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections in recent years.

Context: an interview


Edd Houck says Bryce Reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a New York billionaire who fired hundreds of Virginia workers and sent their jobs to China.

Context: a TV ad.


Anastasia Williams says In 2011, Alabama and Massachusetts passed legislation allowing non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections.

Context: a House Judiciary Committee hearing


Thomas Melsheimer says "Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."

Context: an op-ed article


Mitt Romney says The Red Sox waited 87 long years to win the World Series.

Context: a debate in St. Petersburg


Rhode_Island_Catholic says Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.

Context: a newspaper editorial


Kay Bailey Hutchison says The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor.

Context: in a Republican gubernatorial debate


Childrens Healthcare Atlanta says Georgia has the second-highest rate of childhood obesity in the United States.

Context: a press release


Betty Sutton says Tom Ganley has been sued over 400 times, for fraud, discrimination and more, and a judge called Tom Ganleys business practices deceptive and unconscionable.

Context: a television campaign ad


Rebecca Kleefisch says A recall election for Wisconsin governor would cost $7.7 million -- $7.7 million that may already be allocated to merit raises for teachers or health care for the poor or school books for your kids.

Context: a video


Stephen Sweeney says my plan is a property tax cut.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Dennis Kucinich says We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Not one American flag on the massive stage at the Democratic National Convention until people started complaining- then a small one. Pathetic.

Context: a tweet


Delia Lopez says A bill by Earl Blumenauer would mandate GPS tracking devices on all our vehicles.

Context: a statement on campaign website


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says As a prosecutor, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser did not investigate or file charges in a case involving 30-year pedophile priest, then participated in cover-up.

Context: a TV ad


Paul Ryan says There is a precedent for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election.

Context: an interview


Ed Schultz says Health insurance and medical costs are going down because of Obamacare.

Context: a broadcast of "The Ed Show"


Cory Booker says The war on drugs led to a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Gail Collins says Texas GOP platform calls for end to teaching critical thinking in public schools.

Context: in her New York Times column


Sam Adams says Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.

Context: a city council meeting


Political Insider says A picture shows former President Bill Clinton naked with another woman.

Context: a post on their website


Barack Obama says "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."

Context: a news conference


Charles Krauthammer says If you want out of the individual mandate... all you have to do now is tick off the box that says hardshipand youre out.

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


Freedom Partners Action Fund says Many Nevadans relied on Uber for work, but after accepting $70,000 from taxi companies, Catherine Cortez Masto went after Uber ... (driving) them out of town.

Context: a television ad


Troy Fraser says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors.

Context: a Texas Senate committee hearing.


Scott Walker says Last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate.

Context: a speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa


James Oneil says Wind power is the most undependable form of renewable energy.

Context: an appearance on "10 News Conference."


Rick Scott says Charlie Crist allowed college tuition to increase up to 15 percent every year.

Context: a campaign commercial


John Boehner says "The House has never failed to pass a budget in the modern era."

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


John Boccieri says Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government.

Context: a debate


Tommy Thompson says "Tommy Thompson created the first school choice program in the nation, giving thousands of Milwaukee students the choice of where they go to school no matter where they live or how much money their parents make."

Context: his campaign Web site.


Lloyd Doggett says the main Central Texas food bank is delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago.

Context: a speech delivered to U.S. House of Representatives.


Hillary Clinton says McCain "still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention.


National Right Life Committee says The Baucus bill "contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion."

Context: a press release


Adrian Garcia says Gene Green is the NRAs favorite Democrat in Congress. ... Its no wonder the congressman has a lifetime A rating from the NRA.

Context: a campaign news release


Barack Obama says Obama "won health care for 150,000 people."


Rick Santorum says The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, half a million people would lose their jobs.

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


Tyrone Brooks says State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.

Context: a statement


David Wyss says State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.

Context: a newspaper article


Hillary Clinton says "He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."

Context: a debate in Cleveland


Ron Paul says the U.S. federal income tax rate was 0 percent until 1913.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina


Rudy Giuliani says Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Linda Chavez Thompson says Texas has, now, the highest share of minimum-wage workers in the nation.

Context: a speech to the Central Texas Democratic Forum


Jeb Bush says Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight.

Context: a GOP debate on CNN


Kay Bailey Hutchison says that on average, Democratic congressional districts received 81 percent more stimulus funds than Republican districts.

Context: an op-ed piece.


Sarah Palin says "You had supported John McCain's military strategies pretty adamantly until this race."

Context: St. Louis


Scott Walker says critics who say he cut Medicaid are wrong; his budget added $1.2 billion to the program

Context: a television interview


Hillary Clinton says she will work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level its ever been $12 an hour in todays dollars.

Context: a column posted on Medium.com


Gwyneth Paltrow says $29 is what families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have to live on for a week.

Context: a tweet


Doug Whitsett says The Medford Water Commission was fined $279,000 for dumping plain drinking water into a stream.

Context: a legislative hearing


Mark Pocan says Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote.

Context: a speech


Ohio Republican Party says Sherrod Brown and his special interest allies in Washington are plotting to spend over $13 million to defeat Josh Mandel.

Context: an emailed statement


Chain Email says On the new dollar coins, "'In God We Trust' is gone!"

Context: a message circulated to many people.


Chris Taylor says Gov. Scott Walkers proposed state budget contained 110 pages of errors -- an unusually high number -- and millions of dollars worth of mistakes that were corrected with a follow-up document.

Context: a press release


George Allen says Takes credit for substantially reducing the size of the state workforce.

Context: campaign literature.


Chris Christie says If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president.

Context: an interview on CNBC


Jason Carter says In the last 10 years, Georgias middle class income has dropped $6,500.

Context: television ad


Sherrod Brown says Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

Context: an appearance on MSNBC


Texas Democratic Party says Rick Perrys Pay to Play politics led him to send $899 million to an offshore call center in Bermuda, driving down enrollment in childrens health insurance

Context: news release


Johnny Isakson says On allowing a vote on universal gun background checks in the U.S. Senate.


Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perrys decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

Context: a campaign video.


John Mccain says "Obama has more czars than the Romanovs."

Context: a Twitter message


Donald Mceachin says Gov. McDonnells proposed budget is cutting public education.

Context: a speech.


Stephen Ucci says A [bank] surveillance camera capturing a criminals face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers.

Context: a news release


Peter Orszag says Medicare costs have slowed down dramatically. In fact, the first two months of this fiscal year, Medicare costs were down even in nominal terms relative to the previous year.

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


Harry Reid says Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market.

Context: a speech at the DNC


George Lemieux says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack voted to raise his own pay several times.

Context: a press release


Dianne Feinstein says No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Charlie Crist says "I have spent virtually every weekend since Memorial Day in the Panhandle."

Context: a speech at the Florida Association of Counties conference


Viral Image says In the 2012 election, there were more votes cast than registered voters in St. Lucie County, and Palm Beach County had 141 percent turnout.

Context: a viral image


Peter Lavelle says Im not a conspiracy theorist and I never allow conspiracy theorists on my program.

Context: a segment on RT's "CrossTalk"


Barack Obama says Romney called Russia our No. 1 enemy.

Context: a convention speech


Reince Priebus says Theres been no conclusive or specific report to say Russia was trying to muddy the election.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Edwin Pacheco says Christopher Little has a history of working against environmental protection by defending the worst types of corporate polluters

Context: a press release from the Rhode Island Democratic Party


John Kasich says John Kasich says he won, despite 12 visits by a president, somewhere between $45 (million) and $50 million (spent against him,) 500 paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book, former presidents, first ladies and God-knows-who-else.

Context: a speech to lobbyists


John Lewis says Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review.

Context: newspaper column


Matt Wand says Nick Kahl made it harder for many families to cover basic health care expenses.

Context: a campaign mailer


Donald Trump says In California, the windmills are killing hundreds and hundreds of eagles.

Context: a speech on energy policy


Matt Lundy says There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential.

Context: a news release


Jim Webb says We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913.

Context: a web post.


Hillary Clinton says "The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."

Context: a speech in Charleston, W.Va.


Dan Sebring says opponent U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is Wisconsins most absent member of Congress, missing nearly 17 percent of the House votes in the second quarter of 2012.

Context: a radio ad


State Democratic Party Wisconsin says Gov. Scott Walker dropped out or was kicked out of college short of a degree not long after he was kicked out of student elections at Marquette University.

Context: a web posting


Jeb Bush says Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than before.

Context: a CPAC appearance


Tom Graves says When it comes to transportation funds, Georgians spend more in taxes and on red tape than they get back from the federal government.

Context: a speech


John Mccain says Federal stimulus money went to a Georgia Tech project that will apparently involve the professor jamming with world-renowned musicians to hopefully also create satisfying works of art.

Context: a report


Donald Trump says The U.S. doesnt make television sets anymore.

Context: a campaign speech


Barack Obama says When these same Republicans - including Mr. Boehner - were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down.

Context: a speech in Cleveland, Ohio.


Jim Doyle says Wisconsins projected state budget shortfall is now as low as $1.5 billion

Context: a statutorially required report on the state budget deficit


Donald Trump says Heroin .. pours across our southern borders.

Context: the third presidential debate


Jonathan Karl says Before the Republican wave in 2010, Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage.

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


Republican Governors Association says Roy Barnes made Georgia dead last in education and Georgia led the nation in job losses.

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says "Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."

Context: Orlando, Fla.


Afscme says In labor negotiations with city employees, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett demanded concessions that went beyond those mandated by Gov. Scott Walkers collective bargaining law

Context: a letter to members


Greg Abbott says hes arrested more criminals, including thousands of child predators and sex offenders, than any previous Texas attorney general.

Context: a campaign television ad


John Oliver says Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that is only going to be used for four World Cup games, and theres no team that can fill it afterwards.

Context: a segment on "Last Week Tonight"


George Lemieux says Sources show (Connie) Mack as a resident of California, living with his wife in Palm Springs.

Context: a Web ad


Marco Rubio says We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots.

Context: a speech at the Iowa State Fair


Unicef says In South Sudan, more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school.

Context: an article on Medium


Campaign Primary Accountability says Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur actually lives in a fancy condo in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.

Context: a campaign commercial


Michael J Gardiner says U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin didn't want a border fence to block illegal immigration "because he is afraid that someone will get hurt trying to go around the fence."

Context: a posting on his website


George Will says Despite attention on global warming, fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980 and SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country.

Context: a TV talk show


Jeb Bush says in 2002, he won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state.

Context: a Telemundo News interview


Barack Obama says "A lot of the ideas in terms of the (health insurance) exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."

Context: an interview on NBC's Today show


Rick Santorum says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.

Context: a video ad airing in Michigan


John Kasich says Since the beginning of the year weve created a net increase of 45,000 jobs.

Context: a television interview


Bill White says Texas has a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states.

Context: an e-mail


Brian Kemp says The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws.


Mark Neumann says My supporters arent special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.

Context: a campaign radio ad


Dennis Richardson says While 9,000 state employees were added to the states payroll, Oregons revenue forecasts dropped by more than $4 billion.

Context: a newsletter


John Mccain says "John McCain fought to rein in Fannie and Freddie...but Democrats blocked the reforms."

Context: an advertisement


Tammy Baldwin says Dark money spending in the 2016 election cycle is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle, when it topped $308 million.

Context: a campaign email


Chain Email says there is an upcoming vote to preserve benefits of Texas homestead exemption for seniors and the disabled.

Context: a chain email forwarded by an Austin American-Statesman reader.


Glenn Beck says The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.

Context: comments on his radio program


Donald Trump says You know what (Saddam Hussein) did well? He killed terrorists.

Context: a rally in Raleigh, N.C.


Erin Lynch says The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old.

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


Joe Biden says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."

Context: a rally in Springfield, Ill.


Nicholas Kristof says More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.

Context: his column in the New York Times


Sherrod Brown says There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.

Context: a debate


Yes On 79 says One of the states largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year.

Context: a state voters' pamphlet argument


Jeff Sessions says The immigration bill has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to.

Context: an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation”


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans (emails).

Context: a Presidential debate


James Langevin says The Congressional Budget Office estimates that for every $1 we spend on unemployment benefits, $1.90 is put into our economy.

Context: an online forum on ProJo.com


John Kerry says In Syria, we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.

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


Richard Saslaw says On redistricting.

Context: an interview.


Marco Rubio says We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy.

Context: an interview on "This Week."


Adam Hasner says Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression.

Context: a tweet


Todd Staples says Democrat Hank Gilbert has a criminal conviction for theft, has multiple years of unpaid taxes, has multiple tax liens and fines, unsafe driving convictions (and) has recently been accused of taking a bribe and is on record lying to the press this year about his criminal record.

Context: a consultant's e-mail to PolitiFact Texas.


Donald Trump says The Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone.

Context: the fourth GOP primary debate.


Mitch Mcconnell says More women are graduating from college now than men.

Context: remarks to voters in Kentucky


Mary Burke says We have 41,000 people right now on the waitlist for financial-based assistance for our tech colleges and universities, most of them for tech schools.

Context: an interview


Paul Ryan says Were taxing our small businesses now at rates higher than corporations.

Context: an interview


Americans Prosperity says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland.

Context: a TV ad


Americas Health Insurance Plans says "Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."

Context: an advertisement


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump once suggested that he would try to negotiate down the national debt.

Context: a Presidential debate


John Kasich says DonaldTrump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of free media. I got, like, none.

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


Hillary Clinton says When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they werent going to support Sen. Obama.

Context: a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America'


Conservative Voters Texas Pac says Larry Taylor gave in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

Context: whylarrywhy.com


Laura Ingraham says After the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi,Libya,the ambassadors body was dragged through the street.

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


Libertarian Party Georgia says The increase in the current state budget was greater than the inflation rate and the rate of population growth in Georgia.

Context: a press release


Maggie Hassan says Six thousand people have sought addiction treatment through expanded Medicaid.

Context: her State of the State speech in Nashua


Deborah Gist says When students leave our high schools and they go to the community college, 70-75 percent of them have to pay to take remedial math.

Context: an appearance on "A Lively Experiment."


Bill White says Of those 850,000 (new Texas) jobs, most were public-sector jobs and minimum-wage jobs.

Context: an interview


Kathleen Angelucci says It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August.

Context: a newspaper article


John Boehner says The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners.

Context: a news conference


Glenn Beck says Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent.

Context: a commentary on Fox News Channel's 'Glenn Beck Program'


Marco Rubio says Fifty-seven of Rubios 100 ideas ultimately became law.

Context: his campaign Web site


Nathan Deal says Ninety-six percent of failing schools are spending above $8,400, the average annual per student expenditure, and 26 percent spend considerably more than that.

Context: an interview


Allen West says About 78 to 81 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party. ... Its called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Context: a town hall meeting in Jensen Beach, Fla.


Marco Rubio says Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obamas idea.

Context: the Republican response to the State of the Union


John Mccain says "George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."

Context: a comment by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"


Barack Obama says "Clinton aides admit it (a gas tax holiday) won't do much for you but would help her politically."

Context: in a television ad


Rick Scott says Bill McCollum backed Jim Greers effort to hide financial irregularities.

Context: a TV ad.


Joe Biden says "First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."


Juda Engelmayer says Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.

Context: interviews


Chris Matthews says Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.

Context: an interview with Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show


Rick Scott says All Aboard Florida is a 100 percent private venture. There is no state money involved.

Context: a TV interview


Facebook Posts says Fox News is banned in Canada because it violatesa law thatprevents news channels from lying to their viewers.

Context: posts on Facebook


Jim Kenney says On ending stop and frisk

Context: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney clarified his stance on stop and frisk to the Al Día editorial board.


Cory Booker says under President Barack Obama theres been the lowest discretionary spending weve had in decades in the United States.

Context: a roundtable discussion on NBC’s “Meet The Press”


Mitt Romney says In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1.

Context: the first presidential debate in Denver


Mario Gallegos says that 98,184 Texans are now driving with temporary drivers licenses lacking their photos.

Context: a Texas Senate committee meeting.


Bob says Youve been tremendously deceived by people who say the Earth is not flat.

Context: in a Jan. 25 tweet


Rick Scott says Jennifer Carrolls an outsider.

Context: a press conference.


Hillary Clinton says Hedge fund managers pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers.

Context: an appearance in Mason City, Iowa


Dan Pfeiffer says President Barack Obamas approval rating gained 3 points in the last couple months.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Robin Vos says In the city of Milwaukee, weve still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city.

Context: a radio interview


Paul Krugman says A proposal to reduce the deficit involved large tax cuts for the top bracket.

Context: "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Mitch McConnell voted two times against the Violence Against Women Act.

Context: a campaign ad


Barack Obama says His new running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1 percent in taxes each year.

Context: a speech at Windham High School in New Hampshire


Kurt Schuller says Wisconsin law says all recall petition signers must sign in the presence of another person.

Context: a tweet


Miguel Diaz De La Portilla says In early voting in Miami-Dade County, there is a trickle of two or three people a day at a very high cost to keep those public libraries and polls open.

Context: a Senate Rules Committee meeting


Newt Gingrich says I never lobbied under any circumstance for Freddie Mac.

Context: a debate in Iowa


Democratic National Committee says Mitt Romneys housing policy is, Dont try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.

Context: a campaign ad


John Mccain says "In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."

Context: a speech in New Orleans


Pam Bondi says Whether the Amendment passes or not, the medical use of marijuana is a federal criminal offense.

Context: an initial brief to the Florida Supreme Court


Brian Wilson says Jules Bailey was instrumental in creating the Business Energy Tax Credit that let companies like Wal-Mart profit by $11 million while costing the Oregon general fund $33 million.

Context: a campaign email


Emma Watson says Based on current trends, 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children.

Context: a speech at the UN


Bill Richardson says "New Mexico was 46th in teacher pay (when he was elected), now we're 29th."

Context: a TV ad.


Jim Demint says The big Wall Street banks, the big corporations give many times more political donations to Democrats than Republicans.

Context: an interview


Jack Kingston says David Perdue has never voted in a Republican primary until his name was on the ballot.

Context: Friends of Jack Kingston flyer


Orrin Hatch says If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, it leaves about 15 million people who are uninsured.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Dennis Kucinich says The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war Americans have ever been asked to endure.

Context: a statement posted to his website


Betty Sutton says JimRenacci has consistently voted for loopholes that encourage outsourcing of our jobs.

Context: a debate


Robert Reich says in Texas its legal to shoot someone whos committing a public nuisance under the cover of dark.

Context: a blog post


Ed Rendell says A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."

Context: the 'Rachel Maddow Show'


Americans United Change says Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent.

Context: a recorded phone message


Mitt Romney says Barack Obamas comments indicate he believes in redistribution of wealth.

Context: a speech


Sam Adams says of the 2,000 Portland households in the year-long (composting) pilot, 87 percent of participants reported being satisfied with the overall system.

Context: an article on his website


Dennis Richardson says Oregon state employees received a catch-up pay raise in 1981 -- just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit.

Context: a press briefing


Katie Mcginty says Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition.


Sean Hannity says All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin.

Context: while interviewing Donald Trump in Austin


Lou Greenwald says Under this tax cut, middle-class families dont save enough for a weeks worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation.

Context: a press release


George Allen says The poverty rate amongst women is the worst its been in 17 years and the extreme poverty rate is the worst its ever been.

Context: a debate.


Chain Email says the word Dhimmitude is on page 107 of the health care law and means Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance.

Context: a chain email


Scott Walker says Scientists have shown us (that) the greater possibilities, the real science movement, has been with adult stem cell research. It has not been with embryonic.

Context: a news conference with reporters


Todd Staples says On the National Animal Identification System.

Context: a Tea Party rally in El Paso


Local 799 International Assoc Fire Fighters says Elorza wants to teach our public school children about the non-existence of God.

Context: in a mailer


Tim Kaine says Donald Trump says that NATO is obsolete and that we need to get rid of NATO...

Context: a debate.


Doug Ainge says On implementing a sales tax.

Context: a television ad


Dave Brat says A few weeks ago, (the) education committee in Congress is deciding whats going to be in your local salad bar.

Context: a podcast.


Donna Brazile says Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton.

Context: a statement on ABC News' 'This Week.'


Kirsten Gillibrand says The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military is not just a womans issue. More than half of the victims are men.

Context: an interview on Face the Nation


Glenn Grothman says a study shows that children who live with a biological parent and the parents boyfriend or girlfriend have a 20 times greater chance of being sexually abused.

Context: an interview


Anonymous Flier says A proposed regional transportation tax will last a minimum of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.


Chris Christie says our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation.

Context: a speech before the state Legislature


Kendrick Meek says Warren Buffett called (Jeff) Greenes scheme financial weapons of mass destruction.

Context: a television ad


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Its not true that since hes been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


John Ludlow says I am happy to decline PERS so that the County can save over $68,000 over a four year term that would have been paid on my behalf.

Context: a Facebook post


John Kitzhaber says Chris Dudley thinks Oregons minimum wage is too high.

Context: a television ad


Rand Paul says Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts.

Context: a speech in New Hampshire


John Mccain says "The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change."

Context: Nashville, Tenn.


Julian Castro says Today California is kicking our butt, creating more jobs and more economic growth than Texas.

Context: comments at Texas Democratic Party convention


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Gov. Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Coffman take the same positions on a number of things... Coffman and Pence oppose equal rights for LGBT Americans.

Context: a news release


Rick Scott says All of Floridas four-year state colleges now offer bachelors degrees for only $10,000.

Context: his State of the State speech


Scott Fitzgerald says One of every two Wisconsin residents are on some kind of government handout.

Context: a speech at the state GOP convention


Morgan Griffith says A new ruling by the EPA would force dairy farmers to comply with the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Program when dealing with spilt milk -- the same regulations oil and natural gas producers must follow.

Context: a newsletter.


Glen Sturtevant says Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi.

Context: a candidates' forum.


Herman Cain says In the U.S. Constitution, theres a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Context: in a speech announcing his presidential run


Bernie S says In 1990, the U.S. led the world in the percentage of 25-34 year olds with college degrees. Today we are in 12th place.

Context: a meme on social media


Hillary Clinton says "I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."

Context: an ABC/Politico interview


Alan Hays says Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people.

Context: a public hearing about redistricting


Jim Jordan says Federal, state and local governments have subsidized the production of the Volt to the tune of estimates between $50,000 and $250,000 per vehicle sold.

Context: a congressional hearing


Sam Olens says In Cobb County, every meeting opened with a prayer. The ACLU objected. Sued ... [Sam] Olens took on the ACLU and won!

Context: a campaign ad


Kasim Reed says Felony crimes in the city of Atlanta are the lowest they have been since 1969.

Context: a speech


Jimmy Carter says Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are quite unpopular.

Context: interview with an AP reporter in Memphis


Georgia Democrats says Republicans are attempting to remove Barack Obama from Georgias Presidential Ballot in 2012.

Context: an online fundraising bid


Kellyanne Conway says Hillary Clinton takes tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press"


Rick Perry says he came to the Republican Party sooner in age than Ronald Reagan.

Context: Republican presidential primary debate


Warren Kampf says Voter turnout for some groups in the 2008 presidential general election in Georgia was far greater than it should have been demographically.

Context: a town hall meeting


Jesse Ventura says Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!

Context: an interview with Salon.com


John Mccain says "He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."

Context: Interview on Fox News


Michael Chippendale says If an individual is determined to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor because they will find a way.

Context: a debate on WPRI's "Newsmakers program"


Chain Email says Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower collectively ordered the deportation of at least 15 million illegal aliens.

Context: a chain e-mail


John Kasich says The total number of dollars that passes through the Department of Development is like $900 million and like $650 (million) of it has nothing to do with development, which is breathtaking when you think about it.

Context: a statement to reporters


Tim Pawlenty says Medicare only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Bernie S says In the 2014 election, 80 percentofpoor people did not vote.

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


John Kitzhaber says the Nike bill is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future.

Context: legislative testimony.


Barack Obama says Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time.

Context: a press conference at the White House


Mark Kirk says As state treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias lost $73 million in our kids college savings.

Context: a TV ad


Jack Latvala says District 22 includes about 80% of the district I have represented since 2010. District 20 includes about 20% of the area I have represented since 2010.

Context: a newsletter


Bernie S says We now work the longest hours of any people around the world.

Context: a C-SPAN interview


Thaddeus Mccotter says When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home.

Context: an op-ed in the "National Review"


Robert Gates says "The policy of the Bush administration was also not to add new nuclear capabilities."

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Rudy Giuliani says "We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."

Context: a debate in Manchester, N.H.


Jason Kander says In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Context: a campaign ad


Rob Portman says the health care reform bill was paid for, in part, by taking money from students and the student loan system.

Context: a conference call with reporters


Reince Priebus says The Republican National Convention is a Super Bowl times four.

Context: comments made to reporters while in Tampa


Barack Obama says John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."

Context: Oxford, Miss.


Kurt Schrader says more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Wall Street bailouts.

Context: a radio show


Debra Medina says a prank phone call caused 400 children to be taken from their parents... without warrant.

Context: an e-mail.


Andrew Napolitano says A bill that could restrict free speech when the president is nearby was signed by President Barack Obama in secret.

Context: an interview on Fox News


Yes 55 says Californias Prop 55 prevents $4 billion in new cuts to our schools.

Context: a television advertisement


Jamie Radtke says George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16,400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.

Context: a news release


Glenn Beck says This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasnt taken any money from the government. They dont want any money from the government.

Context: his radio broadcast


Nancy Pelosi says We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.

Context: a news conference.


Facebook Posts says 22 Countries Invaded by the U.S. in 20 Years.

Context: viral posts on the Internet


Jack Kingston says Sixteen [federal] programs exist to fight homelessness and some of them are duplicative.

Context: a presentation


Bob Goodlatte says The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in use today among nations.

Context: a video.


Tammy Baldwin says U.S. Senate opponent Tommy Thompson favors raising taxes on small businesses.

Context: debate comments


Chris Larson says Republicans offered Wisconsin bar patrons free shots (of alcohol) to sign recall petitions against Democrats.

Context: a tweet


Barack Obama says Donald Trumpsfoundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself.

Context: a speech in Philadelphia


Rob Portman says The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities.

Context: a news release


Bobby Jindal says On Common Core.

Context: an op-ed in "USA Today."


Russ Feingold says Ron Johnson helped companies ship jobs overseas.

Context: a TV ad


Blog Posting says Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women.

Context: in various social media posts


Silvestre Reyes says opponent Beto ORourke wants to legalize drugs.

Context: a video advertisement.


American Crossroads says Bill Clinton opposes President Barack Obamas plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.

Context: a television ad airing in Orlando


Austin Scott says Ninety-seven percent of Americans do not receive subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act.

Context: press conference


Rick Scott says Our economy is not growing.

Context: a speech at the Republican convention


Mitt Romney says "It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."

Context: Florida.


Bobby Jindal says Scott Walkers plan to replace Obamacare is a new entitlement program for every single American human being from the time they are born right up until they grow old and become eligible for Medicare.

Context: a statement


American Federation Children says state Senate candidate Monk Elmer voted to exceed the (school district property tax) spending caps.

Context: a direct mail campaign piece


Barack Obama says "For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."

Context: Afghanistan


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton wants to go to a single-payer plan for health care

Context: a presidential debate


Marco Rubio says Foreign aid is less than 1 percent of our federal budget.

Context: a GOP debate at the University of Miami


Barack Obama says Pay-as-you-go is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s.

Context: a speech at the White House.


Chain Email says Obama has "visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office."

Context: a widely circulated e-mail