Hank Gilbert says Texas has so few gas-pump inspectors in the field, the HEBs of this state, the Brookshires of this state, theyre calibrating their own gas pumps. The (Texas Department of Agriculture) just sends them the stickers and they calibrate them.

Context: a speech.


Barack Obama says We have empowered state insurance commissioners to review the rate hikes that are taking place in states. And in some states like North Carolina, they have already used it and rolled back premium increases by 25 percent.

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


Rick Perry says a rather extraordinary amount of non-classroom employees were added by Texas school districts over the last decade.

Context: a comment to reporters.


John Mccain says A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."

Context: Nashville, Tenn.


Julian Assange says "The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."

Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"


John Mccain says "Senator Obama has voted 94 times to either increase your taxes or against tax cuts."

Context: comment from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on Fox News


Dan Ramos says Lorain is the poorest urban school district in the state of Ohio.

Context: a speech in the Ohio House


Mitch Mcconnell says The Senate health care bill does not contain limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.

Context: a floor speech


Sheldon Whitehouse says Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

Context: a Senate speech published on YouTube


Ron Johnson says Barack Obama has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country.

Context: a public forum


Brett Smiley says Of all cities in the United States with more than 100,000 people, Providence is the 183rd safest.

Context: a campaign speech


Chuck Grassley says In Japan, executives of failing companies say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.

Context: a radio interview


Rudy Giuliani says President Barack Obama said that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country.

Context: an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal'


Kinky Friedman says Barack Obamas favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent.

Context: an opinion column.


Tim Kaine says Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship.

Context: the 2016 vice presidential debate


Ed Macdougall says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo opposes the repeal of Obamacare.

Context: a radio ad


Peter Courtney says , Statistics indicate that one in eight children, and one in 18 adults in Oregon suffers from mental illness.

Context: a press release


Mike Pence says One in five American households have nobody under the same roof thats got a job.

Context: remarks in Cocoa Beach, Fla.


Hillary Clinton says "George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "

Context: debate in Johnston, Iowa


Tim Kaine says Obamas mid-term approval ratings are similar to other presidents who went on to re-election.

Context: a TV interview.


John Mccain says "I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."

Context: St. Petersburg, Fla.


Mike Ford says the fluoride Austin is putting in its drinking water is toxic waste.

Context: a letter.


Ameripac says The new light bulbs will cost roughly six times the cost of the light bulbs we now use.

Context: a fundraising letter


Ron Meyer says Only three in 10 young Americans under 30 -- 30 percent under 30 -- have full-time work.

Context: a TV interview.


Viral Media Reports says Emory University students were provided counseling after someone wrote Trump 2016 in chalk on campus.

Context: Newspaper, television and social media


America Rising Now says Through the Clinton Foundation, the Clintons are now worth in excess of $100 million.

Context: an ad played on "Meet the Press"


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Wisconsins photo ID election law

Context: a news release


Ward Armstrong says A telephone company will no longer have to provide landline service to customers if there is an alternative provider, including wireless.

Context: a House floor speech.


John Taylor 2 says The people of Tiverton have historically supported [gambling measures] at a rate higher than the rest of the state.

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


Bryan Fischer says We know how to stop AIDS: persuade men not to have sex with men.

Context: his "Focal Point" radio show


Newt Gingrich says Democrats in Congress had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law.

Context: a television interview


Rush Limbaugh says Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk.

Context: "The Rush Limbaugh Show"


Bob Terry says And weve constantly been the lowest unemployed county in the state.

Context: an Oregon Public Broadcasting interview


Phil Gingrey says The federal government can tell General Motors what to charge for its automobiles.

Context: a CNN interview


Glenn Beck says A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list.

Context: a Facebook post


Rebecca Quigley says Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years.

Context: a comment on a "State of the State" TV program.


Kamala Harris says Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has passed one bill in her 20 years in Congress, and that was to rename a post office.

Context: a U.S. Senate campaign debate.


Barack Obama says Under the House Republican budget, if these cuts were to be spread out evenly the year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each.

Context: remarks to a meeting of the Newspaper Association of America


Lamar Smith says The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administrations Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year.

Context: Op-ed column in the San Antonio Express-News


Blanche Lincoln says John Boozman supports privatizing Social Security

Context: a TV ad


No Casinos says Slot machines in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have generated 20 percent of the promised $500 million per year for schools.

Context: a statement on their website


Donald Trump says Jebs policies in Florida helped lead to its almost total collapse.

Context: a tweet


Tim Mcginty says We are almost halfway to our goal of 1,000 rapes prosecuted!

Context: his campaign website


Richard Codey says One in every five families in the state of New Jersey has a loved one with a mental illness, a serious mental illness, and today, we dont care.

Context: a speech on the Senate floor


Chris Christie says kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years.

Context: a radio interview


Ann Marie Buerkle says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011

Context: a news release


Debbie Wasserman Schultz says The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

Context: debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives


Florida Democratic Party says When Rick Scott was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times.

Context: a TV ad


Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Vern Buchanan. His old business was caught illegally funneling over $60,000 in campaign donations to Buchanan to influence his election.

Context: in a radio ad


Vietnam Veterans Against John Mccain says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.

Context: a flyer sent to news organizations in South Carolina


Chris Christie says Were spending less money today, in upcoming fiscal year 2014 than the Corzine-Buono budget spent in fiscal year 2008.

Context: an interview on NJ101.5 FM's "Ask the Governor" program


Susana Martinez says In New Mexico, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish spent federal stimulus funds on campaign Christmas cards.

Context: a campaign commercial


Democratic National Committee says House Republicans are ramming through legislation ... to classify pizza as a vegetable for the purpose of school lunches.

Context: an e-mail message


Greg Abbott says Wendy Davis legal work is currently under FBI investigation.

Context: a billboard message


Donald Trump says On whether hes had a relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Context: various interviews and speeches


Piers Morgan says Gov. Chris Christies poll ratings have been going up.

Context: an interview with Gov. Chris Christie on "Piers Morgan Tonight"


Herman Cain says The United States is the only developed country in the world that has not cut its corporate tax rate.

Context: an interview


John Mccain says "I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing."

Context: a news conference in Columbus, Ohio


Reid Ribble says Donald Trump wants to replace Obamacare with a single-payer system.

Context: an interview


Mark Warner says The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."

Context: Denver


Chain Email says All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

Context: a chain e-mail


Rick Perry says On debating.

Context: a press release


Focus Family Action says Obama supports "teaching schoolchildren in 2nd grade, no less about homosexual relationships."

Context: a Web article


Keisha Lance Bottoms says Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed became a city resident in the last annexation, opening the door to his candidacy.

Context: an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story


Republican National Committee Republican says In Pennsylvania, President Barack Obamas policies have increased unemployment 19 percent, led to the loss of 37,900 manufacturing jobs, and left 189,000 more people in poverty.

Context: a Web video


Ted Cruz says Virtually every person across this country has seen premiums going up and up and up due to Obamacare.

Context: a conversation with reporters


Peter Kilmartin says Secure Communities has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security.

Context: a news release


Mark Herring says Every (U.S. Supreme Court) nominee since 1875 has received a nomination hearing.

Context: a letter


Bill Clinton says "The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."


Josh Mandel says The Affordable Care Act will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history.

Context: a news release


Bob Buckhorn says The unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa than almost anywhere else.

Context: a speech at the RNC


Susan Cole says New Jersey loses net, that is minus those who come into the state, 30,000 students a year.

Context: an interview on NJTV


Michael Moore says All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.

Context: the movie Capitalism: A Love Story


Jim Sensenbrenner says Ive done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

Context: a House Judiciary Committee hearing


Facebook Posts says Marco Rubio believes the earth is 9,000 years old and that humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction; says Rand Paul believes the earth is 10,000 years old and God removed dinosaurs to make space for humans.

Context: a post from Being Liberal


John Boehner says The Affordable Care Act basically puts a penalty or a tax on employers for every new job they create.

Context: an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes"


Rick Perry says In Texas, we created over 1 million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over 2 million.

Context: a television ad


Caroline Casagrande says Women have come through the recession worse off than men the numbers bear that out. We went from a 7 percent unemployment rate for women when he (President Barack Obama) was elected to an 8.1 percent now.

Context: an interview on My9TV.com's "New Jersey Now" program


Chris Dodd says "The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."

Context: a debate in Philadelphia


Victoria Taft says A $250 fine if youre caught with a plastic bag coming out of a store. Plastic bag police anyone?

Context: a tweet


Eric Bolling says In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence.

Context: a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News


Mike Collins says he never wanted to raise the debt ceiling.

Context: a flier


Hillary Clinton says Thanks to (North Carolinas) governor and the legislature, the average teachersalary can barely support a family.

Context: a speech in Raleigh, NC


Dennis Hastert says There never really was a Hastert Rule.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Cycle"


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump wants to undo marriage equality.

Context: a campaign speech


Marco Rubio says It has been over 80 years since a lame-duck president appointed a Supreme Court justice.

Context: a debate in Greenville, S.C.


Ron Paul says Rick Santorum opposes right-to-work

Context: a campaign commercial


Rick Perry says In 1981, Matagorda, Brazoria, and Galveston Counties all opted out of the Social Security program for their employees. Today, their program is very, very well-funded and there is no question about whether its going to be funded in years to come.

Context: an interview.


Tim Kaine says Virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation 50 years ago in per capita income but is in the top 10 today. It had a very low rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average.

Context: a TV interview.


Chris Christie says (Clinton) called President Assad a reformer. She called Assad a different kind of leader.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention


Rick Green says "As a state rep, I was considered the fourth-most conservative in the Legislature.

Context: a speech


Jack Conway says Rand Paul wants us to pay $2,000 just to get Medicare.

Context: a campaign commercial


Bobby Jindal says Hillary Clinton opposed an individual mandate and favored an employer mandate back in 1993.

Context: an op-ed for Politico Magazine


Kirk Cox says There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years.

Context: a speech.


Chris Christie says Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, weve created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state.

Context: a news conference in Belmar


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Scott Walker cut school funding more per student than any governor in America.

Context: a TV ad


Raul Torres says he would be first CPA to serve as Texas comptroller.

Context: a campaign video


Bill De Blasio says On Donald Trumps plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no presidents in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand.

Context: a WNYC interview


Jody Hice says Thomas Jefferson said, That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Context: a Facebook post


Ed Doyle says Proposed gun control legislation will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database and make it nearly impossible to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Context: a news release and Facebook post


Ted Cruz says Donald Trump thinks a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the womens restroom.

Context: an attack ad


Democratic National Committee says "McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators."

Context: a news release.


Barack Obama says The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004.

Context: a speech in El Paso


Rick Kriseman says The fact is that red light cameras change driver behavior and cut down on the most dangerous types of accidents.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times questionnaire


Democratic National Committee says Under (Rick Perrys) watch as governor, over six million Texans have no health care coverage, including one million children, homeowners suffer from the highest insurance rates in the country, and college tuition has skyrocketed 136 percent.

Context: a press release


Michael Adams says Georgias HOPE scholarship is still the richest scholarship program in America.

Context: a newspaper article


Thomas Tobin says Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood.

Context: a newspaper column


Rick Scott says While (Charlie Crist) was governor, utility costs went up 30 percent and went from below the national average to above the national average. Since I got elected, utility rates have come down 11 percent and now we are below the average.

Context: a debate


Viral Image says Bernie Sanders opposesthe Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Hillary Clinton supportsit.

Context: a viral Internet chart


Scott Walker says On supporting right to work legislation in 2015

Context: a statement


Scott Walker says the success of his economic agenda is supported by the fact we went from unemployment at 9.2 percent when I decided to run for governor four years ago to two points lower.

Context: a television interview


Allen West says In the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was the Democrats who cut $500 billion from Medicare. And they also put in place the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 unelected bureaucrats, which will be making decisions about health care for our seniors and for all Americans.

Context: a Fox News interview


Mary Burke says Were trailing every other state in the Midwest in terms of job creation since January of 2011.

Context: an interview


John Boehner says POTUS economists: Stimulus Has Cost $278,000 per job.

Context: a tweet on Twitter


Kriner Cash says The education tax burden for Shelby County -- and Tennessee -- is one of the lowest in the country.

Context: a presentation to Shelby County's schools merger Transition Planning Commission


Sarah Palin says Donald Trumps conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Biebers, who said in the past that abortion was no big deal to him.

Context: an interview on CNN


Hillary Clinton says By the time I left the State Department, economic growth was up and opium production was down in Afghanistan, while infant mortality declined and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.

Context: her book, "Hard Choices"


Joe Biden says We have the most productive workers in the world.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Gina Raimondo says Before I was state treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs.

Context: a campaign ad


Rick Perry says Bill White profiteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.

Context: a Perry website


Espn says Alabamas Crimson Tide will be the underdog in Saturdays game against the Georgia Bulldogs, the first time in 72 consecutive games that Alabama has not been favored by oddsmakers to win.

Context: in an article


Nextgen Climate says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that profited off pollution.

Context: TV ad


Adam Hasner says In a lawsuit between private citizens, a Florida judge announced the decision was going to be based on Islamic Law.

Context: a speech before conservative activists


Tom Kean Jr says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states.

Context: a news release


Metro says Metro on whether it could use bond money for restoration.

Context: voters pamphlet


Republican Governors Association says Roy Barnes is like Barack Obama because theyre both doing a lot of apologizing.

Context: a TV commercial


Republican National Committee Republican says "Barack Obama thinks terrorists just need a good talking to."

Context: a direct mail piece


Paul Wolfowitz says The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction.

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


Tammy Baldwin says The pope and Donald Trump and Tammy Baldwin all agree on eliminating the carried-interest tax break.

Context: an interview


Marco Rubio says Agriculture has always required a significant workforce from abroad.

Context: a blog post on RedState.com


New Hampshire Democratic Party says Jon Huntsman supports changes in Medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to 980,000 New Hampshire residents.

Context: a statement on the state Democratic website.


Armond Budish says Across the United States, 25 percent of voting age African Americans do not have the photo ID that this bill would require.


Rick Scotts Starbucks Heckler says Rick Scott stripped women of access to public health care.

Context: a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks


Barack Obama says A majority of Americans agree with a ban on assault weapons. And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan.

Context: in a speech


Hank Huckaby says Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.

Context: civic club speech


Rick Perry says Texas has the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968 because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.

Context: valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature


Oregon Catalyst says HJM 20 was the only bill not assigned to a House committee.

Context: a blog post.


Larry Yarborough says if you try to hide marijuana in a hemp field, it becomes worthless. The THC goes away.

Context: a meeting in the legislature about hemp regulations


Al Sharpton says The Texas Senate approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare that includes the letter S for subsidy.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"


Chris Christie says Said the year before he took office, the state lost 119,000 private-sector jobs, labeling them Corzine jobs losses of 2009.

Context: a keynote speech to a commercial real estate group


John Kitzhaber says the state is required pick up 70 percent of the cost of K-12 education.

Context: a speech.


Michael Bloomberg says Theres a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check 40 percent of guns are sold that way at gun shows and over the Internet.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"


Richard Durbin says Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity.

Context: a press release


Leonidas Raptakis says The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. Thats 31 percent.

Context: testimony before the House Committee on Labor


Colorado Health Institute says ColoradoCare would have higher revenues than McDonalds.

Context: an analysis report


Dan Patrick says Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. Theres a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent.

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


Brian Deese says Weve seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy.

Context: a telephone news conference


National Rifle Association says Bill Nelson voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, who signed a Supreme Court opinion saying Americans do not have an individual right to own firearms.

Context: an anti-Nelson mailer


Rachel Maddow says The Stupak Amendment doesnt just say you cant use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if youre getting a federal subsidy of any kind, youre not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money.

Context: her show on MSNBC


Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama already passed all these Obamacare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers.

Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"


Dbanj says The music industry is the biggest export from Africa after oil and gas.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Scott Garrett says The presidents health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats to slow the growth of Medicare spending.

Context: an op-ed on NorthJersey.com


Harry Reid says Congress used earmarks for more than 200 years.

Context: a news conference


Barack Obama says Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States.

Context: a news conference.


John Mccain says "Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power."


Rob Portman says The average family (is) now bringing home $4,000 less than they did just five years ago.

Context: a Republican weekly address


Mitt Romney says On the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Context: statements to the media


Dan Patrick says Leticia Van de Putte opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

Context: a TV ad


Paul Sadler says there are four super PACs on the Republican side of the Texas U.S. Senate race.

Context: a Travis County Democratic Party candidate forum


Rick Kriseman says Unfortunately, since Mr. Fosters been mayor ... there are less people employed in the city of St. Petersburg than there were prior to his taking office.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times/mayoral debate


National Republican Congressional Committee says U.S. Rep. Ron Kinds stimulus cost taxpayers $278,000 per job.

Context: a news release


Sean Hannity says When you read the Koran, it talks about dont take Christians and Jews as your friends.

Context: a segment on "Hannity"


David Dewhurst says Dan Patrick called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax.


Sharron Angle says Congressman Joe Heck has (voted) 62% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on a variety of important issues.

Context: in a television ad


Glenn Beck says Chile ranks third internationally in economic freedom, while the U.S. ranks 17th.

Context: a video blog post


Barack Obama says Under the White Houses budget proposal, we will not be adding more to the national debt by the middle of the decade.

Context: a press conference


Alex Sink says "Bill McCollum said tax cuts don't work."

Context: a comment on her Facebook page.


Tim Kaine says The tax burden on Virginia families was lower under Tim Kaine than under George Allen.

Context: a news release.


Republican Party Florida says CharlieCrist made it easier for Duke to take your money.

Context: a campaign commercial


Chain Email says a Barack Obama black imposter joke got a standing ovation at San Angelo rodeo.

Context: a chain email.


Mary Burke says Already in Wisconsin we have seen fewer people pursuing education as a career due to the Act 10 collective bargaining law.

Context: an interview


Kelly Ayotte says Maggie Hassan was out of state on 30 days over the last three months.

Context: a press release


Dan Ramos says Gov. Kasich and the Republican-dominated legislature have foregone the popular option of closing tax loopholes that amount to $7 billion annually in this state.

Context: a newspaper column


Greg Abbott says his Texas election fraud investigations have resulted in 50 convictions.

Context: a press release


Rene Garcia says Miami-Dade County is the No. 1 donor county in the state.

Context: a Florida Cabinet meeting


Christine Whitman says We havent had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator.

Context: an interview on The John Gambling radio show


Americans Safe Access says Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz thinks its okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison.

Context: a TV ad


Bob Goodlatte says Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are down 40 percent under President Barack Obama.

Context: a TV appearance.


Christine Odonnell says We havent yet taken out a negative ad.

Context: a debate


Americans Job Security says Jane Norton supported the largest tax hike in Colorado history.

Context: an issue advocacy ad


Charlie Crist says "Here in Florida, Ive slashed government by 10 percent. That's $7 billion."

Context: radio advertisement for U.S. Senate campaign


Steve Southerland says Over the past year ... our 16 counties have hemorrhaged more than 6,000 jobs with no apparent end in sight.

Context: a press release.


Eric Hovde says Since President Barack Obama took office, you have 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation earning over $170,000.

Context: an interview


New Jersey State Afl Cio says New Jerseys governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade.

Context: a Facebook page post


Spencer Bachus says "Even with recent changes, the average hourly wage at General Motors is still $75 an hour."


Rob Zerban says U.S. House opponent Paul Ryan supports cutting funding for veterans by 24 percent.

Context: an interview


Hank Johnson says Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has reduced toxic and health-threatening air pollution by 60 percent while our economy has grown more than 200 percent.

Context: a web post


Jay Nixon says Missouri is #1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities.

Context: a post on Twitter


Talgo Inc says The Milwaukee business community did not speak about the facts -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed.

Context: a statement from the company


Representus says The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry than the representatives who voted to stop it.

Context: a meme on social media


Patrick Murphy says We have never done business with Donald Trump.

Context: a TV interview on WFLA


Mitt Romney says "Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."

Context: a press release


Michael Moore says During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."

Context: his movie "Capitalism: A Love Story"


Rand Paul says When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. Were looking at $20 billion to $30 billion.

Context: a forum at the Freedom Partners 2015 California retreat


Barack Obama says Unemployment insurance kept more than 620,000 children out of poverty in 2012.

Context: a Facebook post


Ron Paul says 170,000 of the jobs created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry were government jobs.

Context: a Republican presidential debate in Tampa


Pete Gallego says 97 percent of food stamp benefits are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible.

Context: a U.S. House committee meeting.


Paul Ryan says To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives.

Context: a news conference


Leonard Lance says The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget.

Context: an interview on NJToday


Facebook Posts says Congress includes 36 people accused of spousal abuse, 84 arrested for drunk driving in the past year, 71 with terrible creditand more.

Context: a Facebook meme


Sam Adams says the initial Portland plastic bag ban represented only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use.

Context: a proposed ordinance.


Blog Posting says The Bundy Ranch deal is all about Nevada Sen. Harry Reid using federal violence to take peoples land in his state so he can package it to re-sell it to the Chinese.

Context: multiple blog and video posts


Barney Bishop says "There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed."

Context: a press release


Kathleen Falk says Wisconsin women facing pay discrimination cant do something about it under bill passed by Republicans.

Context: a speech


John Boehner says Under the new health care law, if a landscaper wants to buy a new lawnmower, or a restaurant needs a new ice-maker, they have to report that to the feds.

Context: a speech at the City Club of Cleveland


George Will says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher.

Context: ABC's "This Week"


Progressive Choice says Charlie Crist implemented Jeb Bushs A+ Plan.

Context: a campaign mailer


Glenn Hegar says We have 650 people who move to Texas every day.

Context: a speech in Georgetown, Texas


Jeb Bush says By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home.

Context: an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal"


Sam Adams says city of Portland has a one-time $22 million surplus

Context: his blog


Wendy Davis says I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children.

Context: a speech


Michele Bachmann says "The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."

Context: on CBS's "Face the Nation"


Greg Morris says You can buy lobster with food stamps.

Context: an article


Jennifer Granholm says I cut more as a percentage out of government than any state in the country this past decade. And where is Michigan in terms of its economic growth? Cutting did not result in economic growth.

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


Donald Trump says The Obama administration gave Iran $400 million in ransom payment cash.

Context: remarks in Michigan


Lincoln Chafee says I remember one of [Curt Schillings] teammates said he painted his sock, the bloody sock.

Context: in a comment on the John DePetro Show


Mark Pocan says Not one dime gets added to the deficit because of Social Security.

Context: an interview


Barack Obama says The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world.

Context: the State of the Union address


Michael Bloomberg says Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside 6 percent.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press."


Rick Scott says The federal health care law is probably the biggest tax increase ever in the history of our country.

Context: comments during a tour of a manufacturing plant.


Ovide Lamontagne says There are 60,000 fewer jobs today in this state than we had in 2008.

Context: a Republican gubernatorial debate at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.


Scott Walker says On toll roads.

Context: an interview on toll roads as an option for state highways


Teresa Fedor says Republicans supported legislation on early voting and in-person voting in 2005.

Context: a news conference


David Brooks says Chained CPI would save $1 trillion in the second decade off the federal budget debt, a report shows.

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


Elliott Naishtat says Austin is the largest city in America without a congressional district anchored in it.

Context: a Texas House floor debate.


Ginny Brown Waite says A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."

Context: a letter to President Obama


Michael Mccaul says When people enter the service, theres not a mental health evaluation.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Greg Abbott says Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, its even more -- almost $1,500 a year.

Context: op-ed in Austin American-Statesman


Bill Jackson says Theres more murders with hammers last year than...shotguns and pistols and AK-47s.

Context: a meeting


Kay Bailey Hutchison says Uses headlines to portray Gov. Rick Perry as beholden to special interests.

Context: A TV advertisement


John Cornyn says Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway.

Context: a press release


Reince Priebus says Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement.

Context: an interview on NBC's Meet the Press


Reince Priebus says Because of voter fraud, Republican candidates need to do a point or two better to win statewide elections in Wisconsin.

Context: an interview


Hillary Clinton says Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband.

Context: an interview on CNN


Lawrence Odonnell says Chris Christie helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage.

Context: a segment on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"


Eric Fehrnstrom says Massachusetts under Gov. Mitt Romney initially ranked last among states in job growth, but by the end of his governorship, we were in the middle of the pack.

Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"


Michael Needham says The federal budget bill reauthorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which provides taxpayer dollars so that the Four Seasons hotel can build a resort in Turkey.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Texas Federation Republican Women says that 9 million to 50 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States.

Context: an approved resolution.


Ed Fitzgerald says Ohioans want an end to pay-to-play politics.

Context: an email announcing his gubernatorial campaign kickoff


Kirsten Gillibrand says We are the only industrialized nation that doesnt guarantee workers paid family leave.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention


Chris Koster says A single mother of two cant qualify for basic healthcare through Medicaid if she makes more than $3,504 dollars a year.

Context: a tweet


Joe Biden says General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again.

Context: a “Face the Nation” interview


Barack Obama says A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."

Context: Cleveland, Ohio


Ohio Democratic Party says Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel supports allowing the United States to default on its obligations.

Context: a news release


Florida Democratic Party says Mitt Romney belittled middle-class tax cuts as nothing more than little Band-Aids.

Context: a news release


Leah Vukmir says A referendum gives the people the chance to decide on cutting the Milwaukee County Board budget by two-thirds

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Even among second and third generation Muslims in the United States, theres no real assimilation.

Context: an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity


Rick Scott says Hackers broke into Virginias prescription-drug database (and) ... obtained more than 8.2 million patient records and a total of nearly 36 million prescriptions.

Context: testimony before Congress.


Occupy Democrats says Ted Cruz was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies Americas national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging.

Context: a Facebook photo post


John Kerry says The (Russian) ruble is already going down.

Context: comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"


George Allen says On subsidies for ethanol production.

Context: a blog post.


Rick Perry says One out of five of our children live in a family thats on food stamps.

Context: a speech in Iowa


Eileen Brady says she brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care.

Context: in a campaign ad


Russ Feingold says According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals.

Context: campaign TV and radio ads


Lisa Hamler Fugitt says Ohio currently ranks 50th out of all states in income growth.

Context: testimony before a House subcommittee


John Oliver says We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed the amendment that blocked Puerto Ricos use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

Context: a broadcast of HBO's "Last Week Tonight"


Rick Scott says In the four years before I became governor, we increased state debt $5.2 billion. Weve paid it down $2 billion.

Context: a TV interview


Chris Christie says they said it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit and we did it.

Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa


Chuck Riley says Bruce Starr broke the law by letting lobbyists wine and dine him in Maui.

Context: a television ad


Blog Posting says Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.

Context: social media posts, blogs


Mitt Romney says "John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."

Context: an interview on CNBC.


Mayors Against Illegal Guns says In 2009, the FBI referred more than 71,000 cases of people failing background checks when trying to buy a gun to another federal agency, but U.S. attorneys ultimately prosecuted only 77 of them.

Context: a website post


Donald Trump says Barack Obama is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth.

Context: a campaign speech


Meals Wheels Rhode Island says Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better.

Context: a fundraising letter


American Action Network says Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent nearly $800 billion.

Context: a newspaper ad


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Patrick Murphy never worked as a CPA and was never a small business owner.

Context: a TV ad


Jeanne Shaheen says In 2012, Wall Street gave Scott Brown more campaign contributions than any other candidate -- $5.3 million.

Context: a radio ad


Mark Warner says $65 billion would be added to the deficit if we keep the cuts for people on the highest incomes.

Context: n Op/Ed in The Financial Times


Chris Christie says What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor.

Context: a news conference


Restore Our Future says Newt Gingrich co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting Chinas brutal one-child policy.

Context: a television ad


John Edwards says Poor people go to a "payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest."

Context: a speech in Americus, Ga.


Bruce Starr says Other states have considered or have sunset advisory commissions; the federal government has the ability, too.

Context: a floor speech


Scott Walker says Under Wisconsin law, anyone who knows anything about a John Doe secret criminal investigation cant talk about it.

Context: a TV interview


John Mccain says " ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."

Context: a campaign event in St. Petersburg


Barack Obama says On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."

Context: Nashville, Tenn.


Rick Perry says Texas high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013.

Context: a speech at the National Press Club


Scott Walker says the secret John Doe criminal investigation of his campaign has been resolved and two judges have said it is over.

Context: a TV interview


Barack Obama says Obama came into office "with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. ... We came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade."

Context: a Republican retreat in Baltimore


Alan Grayson says Daniel Webster wants to make divorce illegal, even for abused wives.

Context: a TV ad.


Mary Nolan says Amanda Fritz publicly claimed to be endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, both on her website and in the voters guide.

Context: a campaign press release


Mike Huckabee says "I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices."

Context: Manchester, N.H.


Viral Media Reports says Drinking champagne could help prevent Alzheimers and other forms of dementia.

Context: social media and in print


Eric Cantor says Because of the health care act, The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have.

Context: a TV interview.


Donald Trump says Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico.

Context: a rally in Delaware, Ohio


Nathan Deal says Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years.

Context: a speech


Americans Prosperity says Kay Hagan supports waivers for friends of Obama and special treatment for Congress and their staffs.

Context: a YouTube ad


Karen Huber says shes never said dont build Texas 45 Southwest.

Context: an Austin American-Statesman news stor


Lloyd Doggett says The Department of Homeland Security is the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year by Congress.

Context: oped commentary


Thomas Perez says If you are a member of union, your median weekly income is roughly $200 more than if you are a nonunion member, and that doesnt include benefits.

Context: an interview.


Eric Cantor says "For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."

Context: an interview on the Fox News Channel.


Grover Fugate says If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change, Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped

Context: a TV interview


Barack Obama says Chinese tire imports threatened 1,000 American jobs, so President Obama stood up to China and protected American workers. Mitt Romney attacked Obamas decision.

Context: a television ad


Dan Patrick says the state of Texas rates as unacceptable almost 500 of the states 8,000 public schools.

Context: a Texas Tribune interview.


John Nygren says The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is a proven job creator.

Context: a press conference


Julian Castro says Dan Patrick proposed Arizona-style show-me-your-papers legislation.

Context: Univision debate on immigration


Bill White says Our (Texas) graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states.

Context: in a TV ad


John Kasich says that his transportation budget and Ohio Turnpike plan would make sure we have lower tolls than weve had through the history of the turnpike.

Context: an interview televised March 22 on “State of Ohio”


Lynn Westmoreland says The war spending bill actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war.

Context: a press release on the House GOP's blog.


Pat Mccrory says North Carolina has one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country.

Context: an official announcement


Stephanie Cutter says Paul Ryans budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"


Blog Posting says Hillary Clintons State Department blocked investigation into Orlando killers mosque.

Context: an article


Scott Walker says The Madison-Milwaukee (high-speed) train line is dead.

Context: a statement issued by a transition team leader


Rachel Maddow says In February, John McCain suggested the Bergdahl-Taliban swap that he now calls outrageous and dangerous.

Context: a broadcast of the "Rachel Maddow Show"


John Kitzhaber says that in 2011, Oregon had the second fastest growing economy in the nation.

Context: a speech.


Sierra Club says Robert Hurt supported a bill that helped the uranium industry after taking contributions from the industry and because his father had a stake in it.

Context: a TV ad


Crossroads Gps says Sherrod Brown supported President Obamas $453 billion tax increase.

Context: a television ad


Newt Gingrich says I never favored cap and trade.

Context: a Republican presidential candidate forum


Facebook Posts says The runnerup to Caitlyn Jenner for ESPNs Arthur Ashe Courage Award was Army veteran Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Context: in posts on Facebook


New Jersey Sierra Club says Every year the state loses 8,000-10,000 acres of land in bear country.

Context: a press release


Centers Disease Control says Caution: Kissing and cuddling chickens can be hazardous to your health.

Context: radio interview


Bill Nelson says Connie Mack is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests.

Context: a TV attack ad


Steve Rothman says Theyre paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years.

Context: a campaign video posted on YouTube


Robin Wright says The coalition of Arab states against Libyas Moammar Gadhafi is the biggest coalition against a fellow Arab leader since the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.

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


Rick Scott says The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs.

Context: a gubernatorial debate


Julie Pace says The Obama administration is using as its legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of.

Context: a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest


Charlie Crist says Florida is enjoying its lowest crime rate in 39 years.

Context: a campaign website


Ron Bergeron says There has never been a panther attack in the history of Florida.

Context: a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting


Eve Schatelowitz Alcantar says In this judicial race, special interest groups have demanded money from me, in exchange for endorsement and support.

Context: a response to League of Women Voters of Texas.


Ron Kind says Before Medicare, only 51 percent of Americans 65 and older had health care coverage and nearly 30 percent lived below the poverty line. Today, thanks to Medicare ... nearly all seniors have coverage and 75 percent fewer struggle in poverty.

Context: a news release


Bill Oreilly says the federal government hosted a conference and ordered 250 muffins at 16 bucks a piece.

Context: an interview on "The Daily Show"


Jon Huntsman says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obamas desk to the garbage can.

Context: an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.


Rudy Giuliani says "Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.

Context: New York, N.Y.


Sheila Oliver says In 1958, there were 16 states in this country that prohibited -- prohibited -- an African-American and a Caucasian from being married.

Context: a news conference


Carly Fiorina says Donald Trump has changed his mind on abortion.

Context: the first Republican presidential debate


Lc Buster Evans says It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults.

Context: in a press release


Ted Ankrum says U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul is the sixth-richest person in Congress.

Context: a speech


Democratic National Committee says McCain is "raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed."


Sherrod Brown says More than 10 years of free trade has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit.

Context: a news release


Scott Bruun says Kurt Schrader voted to cut $500 billion from Medicare, threatening thousands of Oregon seniors and their access to their current coverage.

Context: a television ad


John Kasich says Believe it or not, consumer spending is up over the last eight months.

Context: an appearance on "Meet the Press"


Greg Abbott says Under Common Core standards, it takes more than a minute to teach a student how to add nine plus six.

Context: interview on Fox News Sunday


Rick Scott says Rick Scott says he supported in-state tuition for Dreamers while Charlie Crist was against it.

Context: a CNN debate


John Lewis says Black children constitute 18 percent of the nations public school population but 40 percent of the children who are suspended or expelled.

Context: an op-ed


Ted Cruz says I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP.

Context: the Republican debate in Miami


National Republican Senatorial Committee says President Obama and liberal former DNC Chairman Tim Kaines $787 billion stimulus failed to create jobs.

Context: a press release.


Jeb Bush says that during his eight years as Florida governor, we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas.

Context: a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando


Charlie Crist says Marco Rubio's "income skyrocketed while his power increased."

Context: a TV advertisement


Salmon All says This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River.

Context: a guest column


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says Republican recall challenger Jonathan Steitz failed to pay his taxes.

Context: campaign mailer


Ending Spending Action Fund says In six years, (U.S. Rep. Gary) Peters introduced zero bills that became law.

Context: a campaign ad


Donald Carcieri says Measures taken by my administration have saved taxpayers $1 billion.

Context: a commentary in The Providence Journal


Barack Obama says his proposed payroll tax cut will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing.

Context: a speech.


Robby Mook says In last weeks debate, Bernie questioned Hillarys commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent.

Context: a Medium post


Barack Obama says A few months ago when you were asked whats the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.

Context: a presidential debate


Bernie S says his views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obamas and Hillary Clintons.

Context: comments on "Meet the Press."


Mitt Romney says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it cant build a factory in a non-union state.

Context: a Republican presidential primary debate


Michelle Nunn says by rejecting an expansion of Medicaid under the new law, Georgia was depriving 25,000 veterans of health care coverage.

Context: an interview


Viral Image says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.

Context: a Facebook post


Rick Scott says Obamacare will drive 2.5 million Americans out of the workforce.

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


Anonymous Cyber Squatter says After laying off 30,000 people,Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, I would have done them all faster.

Context: a website


Dawson Hodgson says Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to twist [legislators] arms to vote for deals like this.

Context: a radio commercial


Mitt Romney says On Donald Trumps track record in business

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


Kenneth Block says Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially.

Context: a newspaper commentary


John Oliver says With the exception of baby formula, the federal government does not require any food to carry an expiration date, and state laws vary widely.

Context: a segment on "Last Week Tonight"


Rick Scott says On my first day in office, I ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding $1 million.

Context: his State of the State speech.


Dawson Hodgson says The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island.

Context: a radio interview


Julie Lassa says Sean Duffy was a no-show as Ashland County District Attorney while he was on the campaign trail

Context: a campaign TV ad


City Beaverton says Beaverton enjoys the most diverse population (by percentage of population) among Oregon cities.

Context: a press release


Blog Posting says Evidence shows Zika virus turns fetus brains to liquid.

Context: a informal news website


Viral Image says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen.

Context: a post shared on Facebook


Georgia Politicians says Georgia is the Saudi Arabia of pine trees.

Context: political campaign


David Perdue says U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston voted for the Cash for Clunkers program.

Context: television ad


Eric Cantor says Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs.

Context: a press release.


Angel Taveras says I turned a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city.

Context: a fundraising letter


Rick Santorum says Seventy percent of Americans dont have a college degree.

Context: an interview on "Face the Nation."


Anthony Weiner says Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan.

Context: an interview on "Fox and Friends"


Bill Johnson says the oil industry subsidies that President Barack Obama is attacking dont exist

Context: a news conference


Tom Graves says President Barack Obamas veto of the Keystone XL pipeline killed 42,000 jobs.

Context: a press release


Barack Obama says "John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Steve Rothman says Bill Pascrell voted to eliminate all estate taxes for billionaires, and I voted no.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Paul Manafort says In Hillary Clintons tax returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.

Context: an interview on "State of the Union"


Barry Bone says that when the Rolling Stones performed in an Austin park, they paid $25,000 to the nearby city of Rollingwood for one night of inconvenience.

Context: an opinion column in the Westlake Picayune.


Voters First Ohio says the NAACPs Ohio chapter has endorsed Issue 2.

Context: a news story


Jeb Bush says Florida led the nation in job creation while Bush was governor.

Context: a campaign video


Ted Cruz says Marco Rubio knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion.

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


Catherine Cortez Masto says Joe Heck voted to shut down the government.

Context: a Nevada U.S. Senate debate.


Mitt Romney says Oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land.

Context: the second presidential debate


Pam Bondi says Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, today, there are none.

Context: a campaign commercial


Alicia Menendez says A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Joe Biden says John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.

Context: a television interview


John Kasich says State employees are actually going to get a pay raise.

Context: a news conference


Paul Saldana says A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote.

Context: a civic summit hosted by Austin's KLRU-TV


Josh Mandel says Federal spending on entitlements is projected to consume all revenue by 2045.

Context: a letter to Ohio lawmakers


Ted Strickland says Congressman Kasich wants to use our tax dollars to give secret bonuses to his corporate friends.

Context: a campaign video


Johnny Isakson says The Democrat majority in the Senate has failed to submit [a] budget in the past 1,000 days.

Context: a press release


Michele Bachmann says Rick Perry increased spending in Texas by more than 50 percent.

Context: the Blooomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate.


Rush Holt says as a share of the US economy, the governments support for research and development (RD) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s.

Context: an opinion article


Boyd Richie says Texas Republican leaders have proposed laying off thousands of teachers.

Context: a press release.


Charles Boustany says The Democratic health care bill in the House would create 53 new government bureaucracies.

Context: response to President Obama's health care address to Congress


Marco Rubio says that Donald Trump supported Charlie Crist.

Context: comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland


David Perdue says Dollar General added 2,500 stores and 20,000 jobs during his four-year tenure as CEO.

Context: a video


Chris Abele says Property tax exemptions can be granted to small businesses that move into Milwaukee County.

Context: a campaign news release


Rachel Maddow says Gov. Sarah Palin got precisely zero support for her call for Alaskas Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens corruption conviction was overturned.

Context: an episode of her MSNBC show


Barack Obama says overwhelming majorities of Americans support gun legislation like background checks.

Context: the State of the Union Address


Ted Poe says Under the DREAM Act, after two years of higher education or military service you are eligible for citizenship. Once a citizen, this paves the way to bring the rest of (your) extended family to the United States.

Context: an opinion piece


Phil Gingrey says Since President Barack Obama took office, 2 million more Americans are out of work.

Context: a press statement


Tom Leppert says opponent David Dewhurst is a career politician.

Context: a campaign statement.


Terry Mcauliffe says Virginia economic development officials decided they didnt want to bid on his companys electric automobile plant.

Context: a news conference.


Russ Girling says The State Department says the 42,000 jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline are ongoing, enduring jobs.

Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"


Mike Mccabe says Wisconsins new state budget includes a 15 percent increase for road construction and yet weve got local towns tearing up paved roads and replacing them with gravel.

Context: a speech


Ted Cruz says The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds.

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


Americans Tax Reform says The Obama administrations green stimulus program funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms, creating thousands of jobs in China.

Context: a mailer to voters


Oxfam America says The worlds 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest.

Context: a tweet


Charles Ramsey says There are approximately 18,000 (police) departments in the United States.

Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"


Rick Santorum says The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation.

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


Scott Walker says Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree.

Context: a speech


Marco Rubio says Of the more than 1.3 million temporary mortgage modifications, over half have defaulted.

Context: a debate


Tim Kaine says Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.

Context: a segment of CBS' ''Face The Nation.''


Scott Walker says The state is able to sharply curtail contract bargaining rights for state employee unions.

Context: a luncheon speech at the Milwaukee Press Club


Jeff Stone says On his support for sharply limiting collective bargaining by public employees.

Context: various votes and public statements


Nathan Deal says Georgia is one of only about seven states in the country that has a AAA bond rating.

Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club


Bill White says Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him.

Context: an e-mail


Joee Lindbeck says Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department about residents in the states sex offender registry.

Context: a House Finance Committee hearing


Donald Trump says In many instances, (peoples) health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or their rent, which, by the way, is a first in American history.

Context: a speech


Mitt Romney says Since the passage of Obamas stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking.

Context: a campaign mailer


Sherrod Brown says Three in four low-income workers dont have any paid sick days available.

Context: a news release


New Jersey Democratic State Committee says Vince Polistina is collecting nearly $70,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries -- plus a government pension.

Context: a political mailer


John Boehner says The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $160 million to the state of Pennsylvania to set up a new high-risk insurance pool program that would cover any abortion legal in the state.

Context: a news release


John Oxendine says "We have SAT scores lower than that of Alabama."

Context: in a video on his Web site.


John Depetro says Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried not far from President Kennedys grave.

Context: a comment on WPRO radio.


Barack Obama says Gov. Romneys plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top.

Context: an advertisement


Greater Wisconsin Political Fund says David Prosser = Scott Walker.

Context: a television ad


Steve Kagen says Politician Reid Ribble wants to phase out Social Security, forcing Wisconsin seniors to fend for themselves.

Context: a campaign TV ad


John Faulk says Houstons 18th congressional district has been gentrified and is home to more Anglos than African Americans.

Context: a speech


Karl Rove says The Hyde Amendmentlanguage was in the (human trafficking) bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it.

Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"


Catherine Cortez Masto says Joe Heck voted 10 times to defund Planned Parenthood ... and Heck opposes a womans right to choose, even when her health is at risk.

Context: a television ad


Barack Obama says Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."

Context: a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.


Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the gold standard. You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said its the finest deal youve ever seen.

Context: a Presidential debate


Generation Forward Pac says Bernie Sanders voted against the Brady Bill -- background checks and waiting periods.

Context: an attack ad.


Lenny Curry says Charlie Crist and Missouri Rep. Todd Akin hold same abortion views. No exception except the life of the mother.

Context: a tweet


Donald Trump says Barack Obama has doubled our national debt. Doubled it. Its going to be close to $20 trillion when he leaves.

Context: a rally.


Future Pac Oregon House Democrats says Say Matt Wand cut Troutdale police, created a slush fund for himself.

Context: a campaign mailer


Chris Abele says Were second only to Boston in college students per capita.

Context: a speech


Morgan Griffith says Not even expensive bottled water, like Perrier and Evian, are of good enough quality to pump out of mines in Southwest Virginia, according to the EPA regulation.

Context: an e-mail newsletter and House floor speech.


Blog Posting says Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month.

Context: blog posts


National Republican Senatorial Committee says Catherine Cortez Masto was happy to line her own pockets with taxpayer dollars when state employees were slammed with frozen salaries.

Context: a blog post


Eric Cantor says Under Obamacare, The IRS will have access to the American peoples protected health care information.

Context: a floor speech.


Steve Adler says Mike Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors.

Context: a TV ad


Kathleen Clyde says Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election.

Context: a news conference


Jack Conway says Rand Paul wants to end all federal faith-based initiatives, and even end the deduction for religious charities.

Context: a campaign commercial


Donald Trump says Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in Americas 50 largest cities. Thats the largest increase in 25 years.

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


Paul Ryan says The Canadians they (dropped) their tax rates to 15 percent. The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent.

Context: the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.


Sally Kohn says White men account for 69 percent of those arrested for violent crimes.

Context: an opinion piece on CNN.com


Rachel Maddow says We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending.

Context: the "Rachel Maddow Show"


Mitch Mcconnell says The climate-change agreement between the United States and China requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years.

Context: a media availability


Chris Christie says in fiscal year 2011, the state had a projected $11 billion deficit.

Context: a State of the State address


Maciver Institute says Wisconsin election officials to accept Mickey Mouse, Hitler signatures on recall petitions.

Context: a video


Barack Obama says "I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."

Context: a debate in Nashville, Tenn.


Donald Trump says The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago, is 13,000 miles (long).

Context: remarks after the Super Tuesday balloting


Rachel Maddow says When the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport needed to stop its earthquake spike a few years ago, they temporarily shut down the wells that were injecting fracking fluid into the ground ... (and) those earthquakes stopped.

Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"


David Prosser says Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburgs record as a state Justice Department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks.

Context: statement during a candidate forum


Rob Woodall says One half of federal spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while the other half goes to other programs funded with money borrowed from a foreign land.

Context: a town hall meeting


Tom Price says "Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."

Context: a fundraising letter


Alison Lundergan Grimes says Sen. Mitch McConnell is the No. 1 recipient of contributions from lobbyists this cycle.

Context: a campaign email to supporters


Barack Obama says "98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.

Context: Hempstead, N.Y.


Rudy Giuliani says ''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''

Context: Dearborn, Mich.


Kay Bailey Hutchison says the American public overwhelmingly opposed Democratic-steered health care plan.

Context: a radio address


David Dewhurst says Dan Patrick supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car.

Context: a TV ad


Linda Finn says Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, they really dont legally have the right to take it away from them.

Context: a TV interview


Don Beyer says We have trade agreements with 20 countries, and we have trade surpluses with each one of those 20.

Context: an interview.


Sheldon Whitehouse says This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years.

Context: U.S. Senate


Chris Christie says Jon Corzine, elected governor. Teams up with Barbara Buono. $1.2 billion sales tax increase? Passed. Most spending in state history? Passed. After Buono named budget chair, taxes and fees increase 23 times in just two years. State debt? Up $13.4 billion. Unemployment? Doubled.

Context: A gubernatorial campaign television ad


Jonathan Turley says The Obama administration supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard.

Context: a "Washington Post" op-ed


Bill Richardson says "Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."

Context: Las Vegas


Barack Obama says "Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."

Context: a debate in Nashville, Tenn.


Hillary Clinton says Donald Trumps proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers makes the current loophole even worse.

Context: a speech


Joe Manchin says John Raeses wife is registered to vote in Florida so she cant even vote for him.

Context: a campaign ad


Michele Bachmann says Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimers were it not for overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators.

Context: a speech at CPAC


Priorities Usa Action says Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down (a Marion, Ind. paper) plant.

Context: in a TV ad


Mark Pocan says More people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud by impersonation.

Context: a blog post


Mike Pence says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to expand (Obamacare) into a single-payer program.

Context: the 2016 Vice Presidential debate


Greg Abbott says the last non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America concluded that #VoterID was necessary.

Context: a Twitter post.


Oregon Department Agriculture says Oregon school districts are directing 24 percent of their food budgets to purchase local foods. Thats the highest percentage in the country.

Context: a news release


Donald Trump says Germany is crime-riddled right now because of migration to Europe.

Context: an interview with NBC News


Frank Wolf says theCongressional Budget Officehas estimatedevery penny of the federal budget will go to interest on the debt and entitlement spending by 2025.

Context: a floor speech.


Barack Obama says Mitt Romney said it was tragic to end the war in Iraq.

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


Facebook Posts says During Obamas first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagans presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent.

Context: a meme on social media


Jason Haas says Milwaukee lost the headquarters for MillerCoors because the area lacks good transit.

Context: a newspaper interview


Americans Prosperity says President Obama said of the national debt, If I dont have this done in three years, then theres going to be a one-term proposition.

Context: an Americans for Prosperity attack ad


Sean Duffy says Black Lives Matter, who are attacking law enforcement officers -- Barack Obama had them to the White House.

Context: an interview


Edward Flynn says In 2012, there were nearly 12.2 million arrests and only 410 uses of deadly force by police in the United States.

Context: an interview


Phil Burress says Every major religion is opposed to same-sex marriage.

Context: news story


Jonathan Stickland says Texas has more than 80,000 abortions each year.

Context: a tweet


Scott Walker says Thomas Jefferson said that government is best which governs least.

Context: a tweet


Rick Scott says The $18.8 billion in funding for K-12 education funding is the highest in Florida history and includes a record $10.6 billion in state funds.

Context: a press release about his education budget proposal


Bill Nelson says In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons. Many of those who were dropped showed up to vote and were told they could not.

Context: letter to Gov. Rick Scott


John Mccain says "My grandfather came home from ... (World War II) exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day."

Context: St. Paul, Minn.


Bernie S says The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens.

Context: a tweet


Occupy Democrats says If Trump had just put his fathers money in a mutual fund ... hed have $8 billion.

Context: a Facebook post


Barack Obama says Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men.

Context: an event at the White House


Lois Frankel says Adam Hasner gives the wealthy tax breaks worth $250,000 a year but hikes middle class taxes $2,000.

Context: a television ad


Georgia House Democratic Caucus Behalf Elena Paren says State House incumbent Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, personally profits from taxpayer money.

Context: a campaign mailer


David Plouffe says The group that supported the presidents health care bill the most? Latinos.

Context: an interview


Barbara Boxer says Women take birth control, more than half of them, as a medication for other conditions.

Context: an interview on MSNBC's "Jansing & Co."


Mark Belling says the Feingold garage ad is a fake: Hes not standing in front of his house.

Context: a website posting and statement during his radio show


Wesley Clark says McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."

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


Campaign Money Watch says "McCain got more money from Airbus' U.S. executives than any other politician."

Context: a TV ad


Glenn Beck says Forty-five percent of doctors say theyll quit if health care reform passes.

Context: a statement on his Fox News Channel program


Mark Harris says Glenn Grothman pushed through state tax credits that when phased in, someone that owns a factory that produces millions in income will pay less tax than their nephew would if he worked full time at Taco Bell for minimum wage.

Context: an interview


Karen Sage says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent."

Context: a mailer


Campaign Money Watch says "John McCain intervened, which helped Airbus get that Pentagon contract."

Context: a TV ad


Barack Obama says "I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins."

Context: Philadelphia


Blog Posting says Say71 percent of doctors say Hillarys health concerns are serious and could be disqualifying.

Context: internet postings


Your Choice Colorado says Expanding the sale of full-strength beer and wine to grocery stores isgood for everybody.

Context: a TV ad


Hugh Hewitt says history suggests sports will quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country in the presidential primary.

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


Matt Wuerker says The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe.

Context: a political cartoon on Politico


Jim Renacci says The federal debt is more than $14 trillion, almost equal to the size of our entire economy, and every child born today inherits a $45,000 share of the national debt before they take their first breath.

Context: a video posted to YouTube


Michelle Obama says I wake up every morning in a house (the White House) that was built by slaves.

Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia


Wisconsin Working Families Party says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele spent $100,000 of taxpayer money on a new luxury SUV.

Context: a direct mail flier


Donald Trump says The media never show crowds.

Context: a rally in Pensacola, Fla.


Brian Moran says The governor has made a commitment to billions of dollars in debt and new spending without any explanation of how he plans to pay that money back.

Context: a news release.


Jim Doyle says he had to impose tougher cost controls on state employees than any previous Wisconsin governor.

Context: a television interview


Tom Price says the Congressional Budget Office is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies.

Context: a post on Medium


Mike Pence says It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harms way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell said, What difference at this point does it make?

Context: the Republican national convention


Americans United Change says "Congresswoman Bachmann actually said we should be 'weaned' off our Social Security and Medicare. She wants to privatize Social Security and replace Medicare with some kind of voucher system."

Context: a radio ad


Ted Cruz says children are coming into the U.S. in staggering numbers because President Barack Obama has been promising amnesty.

Context: a press conference at Lackland Air Force Base


Jan Schakowsky says The United States has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Tim Pawlenty says Michele Bachmanns legislative record is offering failed amendments.

Context: a statement from the campaign


James Quintero says that when San Francisco banned plastic grocery bags, you saw the number of instances of people going to the ER with things like salmonella and other related illnesses spike.

Context: a panel discussion at SXSW Eco


Facebook Posts says Scott Walker had a 2.3 GPA when he was asked to leave Marquette University for cheating.

Context: a meme


Ted Cruz says a company that got tax breaks from the state later laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasichs super PAC.

Context: ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz


John Kasich says Ohio Director of Job Creation Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didnt keep them.

Context: his State of the State speech


Service Employees International Union Committee Po says There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients.

Context: a lawsuit


Rick Perry says On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.

Context: an interview with the Texas Tribune


Barack Obama says I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... Weve got about 60 percent done in three years.

Context: a speech at a fundraiser


Newt Gingrich says On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagans staff quit.

Context: a speech before the Atlanta Press Club


Rush Limbaugh says Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now.

Context: comments on his radio show


William Obrien says Theres 400 more people working in health care today in New Hampshire than when we passed the budget.

Context: an interview with the Telegraph editorial board


Sean Duffy says President Barack Obamas health care reform slashed $500 billion from Medicare.

Context: a news release


Paul Hipp says The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.

Context: a YouTube video


Don Lemon says A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year.

Context: a commentary on CNN


Bill White says Theres almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and thats an all-time record number in our state.

Context: a speech


Todd Young says Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in fiscal year 2014.

Context: a letter to a constituent


Joyce Beatty says In Ohio, each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk.

Context: in a press conference


Cw Bill Young says Claims that Obama said, "For those who oppose our policies, you should just shut up and go away."

Context: a meeting of Florida Republicans


Shawn Lindsay says , Yet in Salem they have traditionally waited until the money is almost gone to pay for the most important things in our states budget.

Context: a campaign press release


Alberta Darling says 18 percent of our land in our state right now is either federally, state or county owned for conservation purposes.

Context: a legislative meeting


Barack Obama says "The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."

Context: a TV interview


Suzanne Somers says Even after Obamacare is fully implemented, there still will be tens of millions of people not covered.

Context: a column in the "Wall Street Journal"


Roy Blunt says The [Obama] administrations regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work

Context: a news release


Dan Patrick says We have 80,000 abortions in Texas every year.

Context: remarks on the Senate floor


Rick Scott says Tri-Rail shows the potential problems with investing in high-speed rail.

Context: an interview with CNN.


Eric Hovde says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson is a big corporate lobbyist and has been lobbying during the middle of the campaign.

Context: a radio appearance


Ron Paul says "Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress."

Context: a statement on his campaign Web site.


John Carlevale says Four members of the Rhode Island General Assembly went to vote in 2010 and were told they had already voted.

Context: a TV debate


John Boehner says The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."

Context: an op-ed for National Review


Ken Cuccinelli says Mark Warner cast the tiebreaking vote to pass Obamacare.

Context: an interview.


Joe Biden says In Iraq, violence is down to an all-time low since the start of the war.

Context: an interview on NBC's "Today Show"


John Mccain says North Koreas missiles are not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon.

Context: remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered


Marco Rubio says Im running for office with much more experience and qualifications than Barack Obama had when he ran.

Context: a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board


Ann Lininger says Measure 3-386 will cost a fortune for elections while Measure 3-388 will cost less.

Context: in campaign literature


George Lemieux says In 2008, Charlie Crist applauded the pick of Sarah Palin and said she would do a great job.

Context: a Tampa Bay Times guest column


Bill Posey says The president promised to close the space gap, but he now seems intent on repeating the events that created the space gap in the first place -- putting in place a new rocket design and then trying to underfund the effort...

Context: a press release responding to Obama's budget proposal.


Barack Obama says Republicans dont think its a good idea to make the child care tax credit stronger.

Context: a response to a question during an appearance in Columbus, Ohio.


Don Beyer says More than half of women under 30 who give birth do so outside of marriage...

Context: a website post


Marilinda Garcia says I cut spending while serving in the state Legislature

Context: a tweet


Marco Rubio says If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending.

Context: a campaign video


Patricia Morgan says Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget.

Context: a campaign flier


John Kasich says Agriculture is the strongest industry in Ohio.

Context: a speech to the Ohio Farm Bureau


Allen West says This is the first time in the history that weve had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts.

Context: an interview on CNN


Sarah Palin says Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.

Context: Fairbanks, Alaska


Maggie Hassan says Kelly Ayotte voted for a budget that had $90 billion of cuts to Pell Grants.

Context: a debate


American Bridge 21st Century says U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV passed only one bill in seven years.

Context: a TV ad


Blog Posting says Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.

Context: a graphic circulating on the Internet


Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."

Context: Cleveland, Ohio


Rick Perry says President Barack Obama is a socialist.

Context: a Republican debate in New Hampshire.


Jim Steineke says Wisconsin was literally broke when Republicans took office in January 2011.

Context: a tweet


Sherrod Brown says About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the programs cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost.

Context: an interview on MSNBC


Mark Pryor says Tom Cottons vote in Congress to change Medicare will increase out-of-pocket expenses for every senior in Arkansas.

Context: a campaign ad


Todd Staples says the Obama administration approved a major disaster declaration for Oklahoma in 2009, when nine of the states 77 counties burned for about three days, while Texas wildfires have been burning for longer without such a declaration.

Context: a Texas Tribune interview


Hillary Clinton says Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support.

Context: a victory speech after the March 15 primaries


Tom Grady says Crist campaign website "has eliminated all references to our Republican Party."

Context: an e-mail to Crist.


Sarah Palin says On a cap-and-trade plan.

Context: a Washington Post op-ed


Gerry Connolly says There hasnt really been a lot of net growth in the federal workforce when you compare it to say, 1990.

Context: an interview.


Marish Agana says The American Conservative Union gives [Rep. Tim] Ryan a dismal 0.0 percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt.

Context: a news release announcing her candidacy


Jeb Hensarling says The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.

Context: a hearing of the congressional "Supercommittee"


Charlie Crist says he hasnt changed his view on abortion restrictions.

Context: a TV interview


Joaquin Castro says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide womens health services believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system.

Context: a tweet about Carol Everett of the Heidi Group


Martin Omalley says Rick Perry of Texas was the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his states budget deficit in 2010.

Context: a press release


Bruce Rauner says Democrats are cutting our school funding. Four times in the last 10 years before we came into office.

Context: a speech at the Illinois State Fair


Greg Abbott says President Barack Obama himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists.

Context: a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz


Kevin Russell says In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea.

Context: an opinion column


John Mccain says "One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests."

Context: a TV ad airing in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland


Barack Obama says Paul Ryan supports banning all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.

Context: a tweet


Chain Email says More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before.

Context: a chain email


Barack Obama says Weve doubled the production of clean energy.

Context: a speech in Knoxville, Tenn.


Gary Johnson says Most Americans support the legalization of marijuana.

Context: a Medium post


American Future Fund says Under Barack Obama, the U.S. now has the lowest workforce since (President Jimmy) Carter.

Context: a campaign ad


Chris Koster says A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislatures failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouris rural health care providers.

Context: an Instagram post


Blog Posting says Harambe received 15,000 votes in the presidential election.

Context: articles on the Internet and social media posts


Family Foundation says The United States is one of only seven nations that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization.

Context: a Facebook post.


Senate Majority Pac says Thom Tillis gives tax breaks to yacht and jet owners.

Context: a campaign ad


Newt Gingrich says During his time as House speaker, unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent).

Context: a campaign video


Ellen Qualls says Obamacare was the Republican plan in the early 90s.

Context: comments on Fox News Channel


Allen West says We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education.

Context: a Fox News TV show


Chris Christie says (Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....Theyre down on the ground. Theyre sweating. Theyre twitching. Its ugly, cause I keep saying no.

Context: a video posted on YouTube


Scott Walker says he turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsins history everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid.

Context: a speech


Alan Grayson says Patrick Murphy switched his vote on All Aboard Florida ... because his father tried to get in a bid to build it and was unsuccessful.

Context: an interview with CBS4


Josh Mandel says U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown promised that the first stimulus bill would fund the Brent Spence Bridge.

Context: a news release


Bill Foster says Tampa got more (federal housing) money because they scored higher on the blight scoring system, so theyve got a much bigger problem than we do.

Context: a mayoral forum


Hillary Clinton says In nine Democratic debates, Weve not had one question about a womans right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question.

Context: a Democratic debate in Brooklyn


National Rifle Association says The Manchin-Toomey amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get government approval.

Context: a statement


Democratic National Committee says "McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"

Context: a news release


Eric Cantor says The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined.

Context: a letter to the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch


Barack Obama says "I've issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling."

Context: an address from the Oval Office


Naral Pro Choice says Toomey and Trump will ban abortion and punish women who have them.

Context: an ad.


Barbara Buono says Tuition at Rutgers has increased 10 percent since Gov. Chris Christie took office because he cut funding for higher education.

Context: a speech to students at the Rutgers New Brunswick campus


Barack Obama says The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, You know what? We should start colleges.

Context: an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota


Bob Cole says Capital Metro originally said MetroRails yearly operating costs would be about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate.

Context: morning radio show on KOKE-FM