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Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference:

Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 a newspaper interview:

"We import more oil today than ever before."

By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on March 10, 2009 a speech on education:

"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."

By Alexander Lane • March 13, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2009 a news conference:

"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 30, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2008 a speech in Roanoke, Va.:

"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."

By Adriel Bettelheim • December 3, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:

"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."

By Alexander Lane • October 16, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:

Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on September 1, 2008 a TV ad:

John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:

"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."

By Robert Farley • October 7, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 a radio ad:

McCain "has opposed stem cell research."

By Robert Farley • September 24, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2008:

"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."

By Robert Farley • September 22, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on August 16, 2008 a TV interview with megachurch pastor Rick Warren in Lake Forest, Calif.:

"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''

By Edward Epstein • August 21, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2008 Lansing, MI:

Oil companies "haven't touched" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.

By Keith Perine • August 18, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2008 a town hall in Berea, Ohio.:

Fully inflating tires is "a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent."

By Alexander Lane • August 8, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on August 6, 2008 a news release:

John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 7, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2008 the campaign's energy plan.:

The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."

By Shawn Zeller • July 11, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2008 Chicago:

"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."

By Stephanie Garry • July 9, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on May 22, 2008 Tampa, Fla.:

"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren't actively fundraising here."

By Robert Farley • May 30, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2008 Philadelphia:

"I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 18, 2008

Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2008 Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.:

"He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."

By Robert Farley • April 16, 2008

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