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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
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."
Mostly True
By Josh Rogers • August 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 8, 2011 in a New Hampshire town hall.:
Says a poll found him the only Republican candidate who could beat Barack Obama in Texas -- and by eight points.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
Says that under President John F. Kennedy, "government took up" 27 percent of the economy, and today it "consumes 37 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 11, 2011 in the Republican debate in Ames, Iowa:
"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 5, 2011 in 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 in 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 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.
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire:
"Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 in an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop:
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 in a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 2, 2011 in a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 12, 2011 in a speech in Ann Arbor, Mich.:
President Obama’s health care law "represents a government takeover of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"In the month of January, Canada created more new jobs than we did."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 11, 2011 in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 7, 2010 in a Fox News Sunday interview:
"Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''
Mostly True
By Alex Holt • March 22, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 in his book "No Apology.":
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 in the book 'No Apology':
"The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 in a 'Today Show' interview:
"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens."
False
By Robert Farley • March 2, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 1, 2008 in Denver:
John McCain has said the economy is "not his strong suit."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 24, 2008 in Boca Raton, Fla.:
"Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 30, 2008
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