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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 27, 2007 in a TV ad:
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Mostly False
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 in College Station, Texas:
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas:
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • December 21, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 18, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • December 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 5, 2007 in a TV ad:
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H.:
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 12, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair, Tom Tobin • December 13, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on October 9, 2007 in Detroit:
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Mostly False
By David DeCamp • December 11, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :
"I do provide universal health care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 28, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg:
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 29, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
Mostly False
By Michael Van Sickler • November 28, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on November 14, 2007 in an email press release:
"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • November 27, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :
Obama says his health care plan is "universal."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 5, 2007 in Washington, D.C.:
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 in Philadelphia:
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 10, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 30, 2007 in Philadelphia:
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 2, 2007 in a TV ad airing in New Hampshire.:
"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."
Mostly False
By Michael Van Sickler • November 2, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 21, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.:
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Mostly False
By Jody Kyle • October 25, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 21, 2007 in a debate in Orlando, Fla.:
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • October 22, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on September 10, 2007:
In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."
Mostly False
By Amy Hollyfield • October 16, 2007
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