Gina Raimondo says Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent about it than the state.

Context: a fundraising letter.


J Jacobs says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.

Context: an interview


Tom Wolf says If the General Assembly does not address the states structural deficit, more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools.

Context: his budget proposal address


Farouk Shami says he brought 1,200 jobs to Texas by moving his factories here from China.

Context: a TV ad


Stephen Simpson says U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has not authored any legislation that has been adopted by Congress.

Context: an article


Barack Obama says On recess appointments.

Context: a prepared statement


Vernon Jones says "Four years as a congressman, he [U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson] never talked about MARTA."

Context: a candidate forum


Kathleen Sebelius says Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. ... And there are more uninsured children in Texas than in any other state.

Context: an opinion column


Louie Gohmert says Eighty percent of Wall Street executives and their spouses donations go to Democrats.

Context: a speech at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit


Jim Sensenbrenner says Like me, Scott Walker opposed the 1998 transportation bill and the $9 billion of wasteful spending.

Context: a radio ad for the Scott Walker gubernatorial campaign


Republican Party Florida says Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Floridas investments? Alex Sink.

Context: a campaign ad


Alan Bates says 80 percent of the health care dollars are spent by 20 percent of the population.

Context: a floor speech.


Allen Boyd says Steve Southerland did not pay his taxes in 05, 06, 07, 08 or 09.

Context: a TV ad


Mitt Romney says Eliminating Obamacare ... saves $95 billion a year.

Context: a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire


Mark Obenshain says There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family.

Context: a floor debate.


Phyllis Schlafly says broken compact fluorescent light bulbs allegedly cause migraines and epilepsy attacks.

Context: an e-mail blast.


David Dewhurst says At least a quarter of those apprehended at the border have criminal records.

Context: a news story


Charlie Crist says Rick Scotts record on jobs includes Florida ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment.

Context: a post on his campaign website


Jim Demint says President Obamas new immigration plan is amnesty.

Context: a news release


Ed Gillespie says For the first time in over 40 years, Republicansdont hold a single statewide office in Virginia.

Context: a speech


Gabrielle Giffords says Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support expanding background checks.

Context: an op-ed in the "New York Times"


City Austin says Nearly 20% of our residents are born abroad.

Context: a press release


Jack Markell says When it comes to jobless workers, Mitt Romney says he likes to fire people.

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


John Mccallum says A child born in America today will inherit $1.5 million in debt the moment theyre placed in their mothers arms.

Context: a video


Randy Forbes says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.

Context: a column.


Associated Press says Georgias share of money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund declined 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.

Context: in a newspaper article


Hillary Clinton says "Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."

Context: Plymouth, N.H.


Allen West says If you look at the application for a security clearance, I have a clearance that even the president of the United States cannot obtain because of my background.

Context: a candidate forum


Chain Email says Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a late-night visit to Kinkos to forge President Barack Obamas birth certificate two days before Obama unveiled it to the media.

Context: e-mail messages circulating on the Internet


Hillary Clinton says In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.

Context: Iowa


Hillary Clinton says If you want to vote in Texas, you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isnt good enough.

Context: a speech in Houston


Martin Omalley says the cascading effects of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.

Context: interview with Democracy Now!


Alberta Darling says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab forViagra.

Context: a TV ad and campaign flier


Jerome Corsi says Barack Obama "rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents."

Context: his book <i>The Obama Nation</i>.


Charles Van Zant says A company hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can.

Context: speech in March publicized May 16 by Think Progress


Clarence Thomas says The U.S. Supreme Court has not traditionally asked a lot of questions during oral arguments.

Context: a speech


Kris Jordan says Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio.

Context: a speech in the Ohio Senate


Paul Ryan says In 2004, "20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent."

Context: a speech to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs


John Kasich says We are now eighth in the nation in job creation . . . we are No. 1 in the Midwest.

Context: a news conference


Rick Santorum says In Europe, church attendance rates (are) in the single digits because churches are supported by taxes.

Context: a house party in Henniker, N.H.


Adam Hasner says George LeMieux even compared Marco Rubio to Barack Obama.

Context: an Internet ad


Matt Mackowiak says Barack Obama promised to halve the deficit in his first term.

Context: an opinion column.


Bill Clinton says the government has gotten the TARP money back plus a profit.

Context: an interview on "The Daily Show"


Michelle Nunn says Points of Light is the worlds largest volunteer organization.

Context: television ad


Tom Cotton says Mark Pryorcut Medicare to pay for Obamacare.

Context: a campaign ad


Mike Pence says Tim Kaine actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion.

Context: the 2016 Vice Presidential debate


Rand Paul says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion welfare program in tax credits and $1 trillion in new military spending.

Context: a debate


Don Balfour says I am the only senator who turned down the state pension plan for part-time legislators.

Context: campaign flier


Hugh Fitzsimons says Female buffalo lead the herd.

Context: a blog post on campaign website


Donald Trump says There is no system to vet refugees from the Middle East.

Context: a speech on terrorism and immigration


Barbara Buono says Chris Christies plan to kick-start our economy is to propose an income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...hes still proposing it.

Context: an interview on bluejersey.com


Chain Email says Obama used $20 million in federal money to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA.

Context: a chain e-mail


Barack Obama says On offshore drilling.


Hillary Clinton says We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

Context: an interview on ABC


Rick Santorum says I think its seven or eight of the California system of universities dont even teach an American history course. Its not even available to be taught.

Context: in a speech in Wisconsin


Menendez Facts says Sen. Bob Menendez voted to enact a new tax on the sale of homes of 3.8%.

Context: a blog


Rick Scott says his budget provides the highest state funding level in history for education.

Context: a news conference


Jay Nixon says Ive been here almost every day.

Context: on ABC's "This Week"


Mackubin Thomas Owens says In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administrations position on nuclear disarmament.

Context: a commentary in The Providence Journal


John Kasich says an EPA permit languished under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days.

Context: a news conference


John Burzichelli says the governor is going around the state talking about [how] we should fund an income tax cut that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners

Context: an interview with NJToday