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Newt Gingrich
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:

The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.

By Maryalice Gill • January 8, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 in a TV airing in Florida:

Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.

By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on December 20, 2011 in a conference call by a campaign spokesman with New Hampshire reporters.:

"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent."

By Jake Berry • December 28, 2011

Democratic National Committee
stated on December 6, 2011 in a Web video.:

"Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won’t."

By Matt Clary • December 16, 2011

Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2011 in a talk at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H.:

In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."

By Jake Berry • November 3, 2011

Ron Paul
stated on September 30, 2011 in remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.:

Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.

By Maryalice Gill • October 24, 2011

David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:

Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.

By Jake Berry • October 17, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."

By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011

David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:

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

By John Gregg • October 5, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on August 15, 2011 in a town hall in Litchfield, N.H.:

Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.

By Kevin Landrigan • September 3, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 in a house party in New Hampshire:

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

By Maryalice Gill • September 2, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 in a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H.:

There are 500 million Internet users "and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent."

By Jake Berry • August 19, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on August 8, 2011 in a speech to a Manchester, N.H. Rotary club:

Says he worked with the Democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that "at the end of my four-year term, the rainy day fund was established at more than $2 billion."

By Josh Rogers • August 16, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 in a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H. :

The United States has "the longest surviving constitution."

By Jake Berry • August 8, 2011

New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on June 27, 2011 in a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters:

"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."

By Jake Berry • July 10, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on June 27, 2011 in a roundtable with small business leaders in Salem, N.H.:

By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.

By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011

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