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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 a victory speech in Las Vegas on Feb. 4, 2012:
"Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8 percent."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • February 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a tweet:
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 22, 2011 a Republican debate in Washington:
"We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • November 23, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 29, 2011 a campaign video.:
President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s "decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • November 10, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate:
"I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 a Town Hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.:
"Federal law requires that hospitals treat people whether or not they can pay. So someone (who) doesn’t have health insurance --  they can go to the hospital and get free care."
Mostly False
By Dan Gorenstein • July 22, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 a town hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.:
During his first year, President Obama said he "was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world."
Mostly False
By Josh Rogers • July 20, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 28, 2008 West Palm Beach, Fla.:
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 College Station, Texas:
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 St. Petersburg, Fla.:
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
Mostly False
By Michael Van Sickler • November 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 2, 2007 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
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