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Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on 2007-10-03:
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
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By David Baumann • October 15, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-10-04 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 11, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on 2007-09-26 a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.:
"Today New Mexico (has) the sixth-fastest growing economy."
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By Bill Adair • September 27, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on 2007-09-25:
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 23, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2007-06-19 Washington, DC.:
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
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By John Frank • September 20, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-08-30 a television interview.:
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
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By Josh Korr • September 19, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-09-17 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-09-26 a television ad.:
"Took on the Olympics and turned them around"
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By David Baumann • September 18, 2007
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on 2007-09-17 a statement on his campaign Web site.:
"Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress."
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By Nell Benton • September 17, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on 2007-09-09 a debate in Miami, Fla.:
"We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"
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By Jody Kyle • September 14, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-09-02 a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally.:
"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who'd already made up their minds."
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By Lissa August • September 10, 2007
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on 2007-09-05 a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."
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By Jody Kyle • September 9, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on 2007-09-09 a debate in Miami, Fla.:
"Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.
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By David DeCamp • September 7, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on 2007-09-05 a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent."
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By Miranda Blue • September 3, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2007-03-21 Oklahoma City.:
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 1, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on 2007-09-05 a TV ad.:
"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."
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By Tom Tobin • August 30, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2007-08-06 Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
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By Miranda Blue • August 30, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on 2007-06-19 Washington, DC:
"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war."
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By John Frank • August 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-04-26 Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on 2007-06-21 New York City.:
An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.
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By Wes Allison • August 23, 2007
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