The debt comes up all the time in town meetings ... but its never asked in the debates. Its really weird. It hasnt been brought up.


The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.


Hillary Clintoninsists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs have to be changed.


Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes.


Studies show the average age of entry into prostitution is 12 to 14 years old.


The pension and health benefits reform eliminated collective bargaining for health benefits.


I remember landing under sniper fire.


I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state.


Israels per capita income is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world.


Wisconsin law says all recall petition signers must sign in the presence of another person.


Connie Mack IV co-sponsored a bill to take a third of the Social Security Trust Fund ... give it in individual accounts to the senior citizens, who then were to invest it in the stock market.


Obamacare could cause 20 million people to lose their current coverage.


Obamacare puts the federal government between you and your doctor.


Wisconsin was literally broke when Republicans took office in January 2011.


Mitt Romney is proposing a tax plan that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year.


Sherrod Brown has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time.


Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger believed that people like me should be eliminated.


The federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993.


You can import as many hemp products into this country as you want...but we cant grow it.


Currently we have some 40-45% of Americans who are not paying any taxes.


(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ridiculous, yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag.


Republicans have proposed dozens of (health care) solutions designed to help control costs and improve quality.


In 2008, only 54 percent of Latinos in Texas were registered to vote and only 35 percent actually turned out.


Im not one for name calling.


We expanded charter schools.


Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life.


President Barack Obamas health care reform slashed $500 billion from Medicare.


Florida led the nation in job creation while Bush was governor.


Rick Perry cut taxes.


Ive also offered a plan that can help (fix Social Security) thats supported by Robert Reich, secretary of labor previously, in a previous administration.


Were already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail.


Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case.


Because George Holding doesnt live in the congressional district hes running for, he doesnt experience the same things that we are all experiencing.


Florida ranks 45th in the nation for tuition.


Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide.


Rick Scott signed laws requiring mandatory ultrasounds and restricting access to abortion even in cases of rape or incest.


Dow Chemical decided to build a plant in Saudi Arabia rather than Oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas.


Mitt Romney was director of a company that stole millions from Medicare.


Certainly were going to be the most restrictive state in the land in terms of who can get medical marijuana, how it will be prescribed and how it will be achieved in terms of moving it into the marketplace.


Barack Obama won't even use the term 'war on terrorism.'


The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.


A $10 million fire fee proposal in St. Petersburg was inspired by Gov. Rick Scott.


Donald Trump never said that more nations should get nuclear weapons.


Say George Washington said that when government takes away citizens right to bear arms it becomes citizens duty to take away governments right to govern.


President Barack Obama has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation, while Congress has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history.


You cannot implement Paul Ryans plan without allowing for any increases in revenue.


U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston spent our tax dollars on thousands of wasteful earmarks.


When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no.


If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change.


A state bill would end a longstanding requirement that local governments repair highways and sidewalks -- and block injured citizens from suing over neglected maintenance.


The state of Texas rates as unacceptable almost 500 of the states 8,000 public schools.


Marco Rubio wants to raise the Social Security retirement age, and cut benefits.


David Alameel is giving thousands of dollars to support the Republican Party candidates including John Cornyn and Greg Abbott.


The reforms in state Issue 2 will save taxpayer dollars


You cant check out a library book without a photo ID.


Madison Mayor Paul Soglins stated intent when proposing that city contractors disclose private political donations was to discourage contributions to organizations with which he disagrees.


The Atlanta Beltline paid nearly $3.5 million for less than a quarter-acre.


The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.


This years redistricting has been the most open, interactive and transparent redistricting process in Tennessee history.


You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana.


Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times to reflect rising costs. But raised the minimum wage only three times.


In every poll, John Cornyn always loses to any conservative the voters have heard about.


Thousands of Westerners and Americans are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq.


He has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkers budget calls for raising property taxes by nearly $500 billion.


Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in.


We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.


Ive never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot.


We have constitutional amendment that says that there's a ban on drilling right off Florida's coast.


The majority of my contributions have been from private individuals giving $125 on average, not from PACs, not from groups.


Winning enough pledged delegates is not impossible.


There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible.


Jeff Wentworth was the only Republican to vote against the Texas measure requiring women to have a sonogram before receiving an abortion.


In Ferguson, Mo.,youve got threeblack officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American.


Red light camera installed to promote public safety.


Marco Rubio's "income skyrocketed while his power increased."


More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals.


More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty.


It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity.


The poverty rates in America today arent much better than when we started the War on Poverty.


Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Womens soccer And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading.


The United States is behind many countries in Europe in terms of the ability of every kid in America to get ahead.


Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese.


Obamas approval numbers are in the low 40s.


If Cory Gardner gets his way, youd better stock up on condoms.


Florida has the most concealed weapon permits in the nation, nearly double that of the second state, which is Texas.


Obama's plan for health care reform ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays.


Were only inches away from no longer being a free economy.


The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the largest winery on the East Coast.


Accuses Ed FitzGerald of pay-to-play and corruption politics.


Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent.


GOP candidate for governor Nathan Deal is a former Clinton Democrat.


He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that hes been in the United States Senate.


Obama has racked up more debt than any president in history over $5 trillion.


Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. And when they passed them, violence skyrocketed.


Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half.


Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year.


Mike Trainor...still owes $250,000 to the state.


Ohio has 77 job training programs spread across 13 state agencies.


Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state.


Marco Rubio is a "Miami lobbyist."


15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now its $10,000 a month.


Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown shows someone can be bipartisan in Congress because he votes about 66 percent with his own party.


John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.


Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S.


There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools.


Sen. Rand Pauls 2011 budget included a big cut in the CDC.


The Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks.


Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have changed their positions (on the Iraq war withdrawal) to follow Chris Dodd.


When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now.


(Jack Kingston) had more earmarks at one time than every member of the Georgia delegation put together.


Page 992 of the health care bill will establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!


According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, under Obamacare, 7 million people will lose their employer-sponsored insurance.


The government does not need a warrant to read your old emails.


According to a report, the tech sector now drives more than one-quarter of Austins economy.


Each U.S. House member who voted to overhaul Social Security in 1983 was re-elected.


When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years.


David Simpson actually voted for drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.


The health care law is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy.


The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates.


The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago.


How many concerts would Taylor Swift have to perform to pay off one day of interest on our national debt? She would have to perform every day for three years.


Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.


About 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount.


President Barack Obamas own economists say the stimulus cost $278K per job created.


Jason Carters plan: increase spending by $12.5 billion.


Gov. Rick Perry failed to involve border sheriffs in developing plans to prevent violence in their communities.


An EPA permit languished under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days.


Restoring Georgia pre-k to a 180-day program was a real result of his leadership.


Make no mistake -- Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China.


70 percent of Virginias Medicaid cost is for seniors in nursing homes.


Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in 1960, which he banged on the desk in protest.


The insurance risk corridors arent going broke like Republicans predicted.


The wife of the Ferguson, Mo., police chief said African-Americans in Ferguson are feral and violent.


The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs.


The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago.


The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.


Nelson Mandela was a communist.


Paul Ryans Medicare plan provides pretty much the same coverage that members of Congress receive.


Gov. Scott Walkers budget includes tax breaks for corporations and the rich that will cost the state of Wisconsin taxpayers $2.3 billion over the next decade.


President Obama funneled $716 billion out of Medicare at the expense of the elderly.


More Americans believe the moon landing was fake than believe Obamacare is affordable.


One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol.


Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, its even more -- almost $1,500 a year.


Do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African-American voter turnout? Massachusetts. Do you know what has the best, where African-American turnout actually exceeds white turnout? Mississippi.


Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects.


Theres never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days.


An 11-year-old girl was investigated by the FBI and had to pay a $500 federal criminal fine because she found an injured woodpecker and put it in a cage to make sure that the bird was OK.


Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been fighting hard to let illegal immigrants vote.


200,000 students attempt suicide every year on college campuses.


Vietnamese is the third most commonly spoken language in Texas.


I have not insulted Donald personally.


Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition.


John Boozman supports privatizing Social Security


Weve added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nations obligations.


For every [coyote] they kill, the population will replace and usually multiply.


Every general City of Milwaukee employee pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not.


Mike Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors.


The latest Quinnipiac poll found that nearly six-in-ten Americans oppose ObamaCare -- 30% support the law and 57% oppose it.


He has yet to get a response from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.


U.S. Rep. Tom Price is sending letters both supporting and opposing the small-business killing Internet Tax Mandate.


Last year the graduation rate for our combined six-district footprint jumped 5.5 percent.


China owns more of our bonds than do Americans.


Were seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created.


In the last 10 years, Georgias middle class income has dropped $6,500.


Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up.


If every house in Florida had a solar-heated water tank, that would eliminate consumption by 17 percent.


Metro on whether it could use bond money for restoration.


Rick Perry proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico.


When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it.


Over 40 percent of small and mid-size banks that loan money to small businesses have been wiped out since Dodd-Frank has passed.


Gov. Rick Scott cut the cost of prepaid college tuition by nearly $20,000.


In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey.


While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep.


Ten retired nuns were barred from voting in the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary.


Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama.


Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade.


I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.


A question about his financial skills at the CNBC debate included discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents.


In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders chose not to expand Medicaid.


Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America.


Freshman Rep. Bob Gibbs is spending his one year anniversary on vacation only working 6 days in all of January.


ISIS lures women with kittens, nutella.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in his budget repair bill is showing that no stone goes unturned as he asks everyone to tighten their belts.


Mitt Romney flip-flopped on an assault weapons ban.


The Senate health care bill "would leave 24 million people without insurance coverage."


Were destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history.


Gov. Maggie Hassans budget proposal raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million.


Rep. Ken Legler voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes.


When Rachel Zenzinger was on the Arvada City Council, she voted to spend taxpayer funds for a junket to China.


Indiana Gov. Mike Pence provides zero state funding for homeless shelters.


Virginia saved $300 million by rebidding a Metrorail construction project to exclude guaranteed union contracts.


Jeff Greene "is the king of the undercover Credit Default Swap that brought about the destruction of our economy that we have right now."


We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."


For every $1 spent on afterschool programs, we can save over $5, almost $6, in crime costs down the line.


Texas colleges and universities may opt to allow guns on campuses.


McCain "has opposed stem cell research."


The financial regulatory bill will kill jobs.


Under Pat McCrory, (North Carolina) has fallen to 41st in teacher pay.


In Congress right now, were doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature, but its still only 19 percent.


Reporters rehearse questions with White House press (secretary).


JoAnne Kloppenburg has told us she thinks its her job to promote a more equal society.


Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."


The majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.


The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."


ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil.


UPS left 15,000 employees spouses without health insurance and told them to, go on an exchange with no employer subsidy.


Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes.


Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.


Rick Scott says he supported in-state tuition for Dreamers while Charlie Crist was against it.


Texas will be majority Hispanic in six years.


Russ Feingold cast the deciding vote for the largest tax increase in history


We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses.


Rick Perry told students he couldnt attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day tweeted that hed just been running with his dog.


Barack Obama founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.


When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, This plant kills.


The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett.


In 2009 Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents.


Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years.


Robert Hurt supports the tax loopholes that send American jobs overseas.


Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent.


Houstons 18th congressional district has been gentrified and is home to more Anglos than African Americans.


Fox News is banned in Canada because it violatesa law thatprevents news channels from lying to their viewers.


Ohios Issue 2 will create a redistricting commission that will have a blank check to spend our money.


Forty-five percent of those whove been unemployed, theyve been unemployed for six months or longer.


North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it.


America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.


McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"


His Patient OPTION Act is the only Republican plan that completely repeals Obamacare and it takes the federal bureaucrat out of decisions for you.


110 people a day move to Austin.


He and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation.


Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district.


The health insurance plan that (members of Congress) have is no different than any other federal employees in the United States government.


Bernie Sanders wants higher standards for toy guns than real guns.


Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated.


Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.


U.S. House opponent Michael Williams does not live in and has never voted in the congressional district hes seeking to represent.


Property tax exemptions can be granted to small businesses that move into Milwaukee County.


Republican (small business tax cut) bill spends $80 million for better Google searches, not job creation


Jeanne Shaheen has voted with the president 99 percent of the time.


His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation.


More people are losing their insurance (due to Obamacare) than are becoming newly insured.


In 2010, everybody said you cant dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.


Bill OBriens Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control.


One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years.


The 2009 stimulus bill failed to get people back to work.


Florida Democrats put my Social Security number and my wifes Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.


In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress.


Rhode Island has the worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska.


Mitt Romney has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.


Taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.


Donald Trump wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.


Ted Cruz has been to Iowa four times. Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- just once.


Unemployment insurance kept more than 620,000 children out of poverty in 2012.


Go look on the West Point website and youll see those specific words, full scholarship to West Point. So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used.


President Obama's proposed 'spending freeze' will only reduce the $42 trillion in government spending proposed between 2011 and 2020 by little more than one-half of 1 percent.


President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare.


Polls show Bernie Sanders would do better than Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head battle against Donald Trump.


A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay.


I was gone when there was a red line against Syria.


The Clinton Foundation accepted millions and millions of dollars from governments like Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, which violated a ban on all contributions to the Foundation from foreign nations.


The governor is going around the state talking about [how] we should fund an income tax cut that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners


Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high.


Over 80 percent of our trade deficit today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners, that are not level playing fields for the United States.


She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama.


An annual income of $500,000 in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class.


According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??


The governor must inform the Senate president about his or her absence from the state.


Gov. Pat McCrory tried to cut education funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years.


A couple of hundred American cities are infested by members of the Mexican cartels.


The immigration bill has a specific provision that says that Secretary Napolitano does not have to build any fence if she chooses not to.


Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely.


Barack Obama has doubled our national debt. Doubled it. Its going to be close to $20 trillion when he leaves.


Lee Zeldin missed 2/3rds of Veterans Affairs Hearings


The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. Were the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. Were the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes.


Heroin comes in the United States from the southern border.


Regulations on developers have thwarted construction on county-owned land in Milwaukees downtown Park East corridor.


Romneycare is a top-down, government-run health care system.


60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. Of the jobs weve gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage.


We have 395 inmates pushed into triple-bunked cells intended for two inmates and bunked in classrooms and areas supposed to be designated for inmate labor.


In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one.


Warren (Buffett) still does support me.


A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army.


Loranne Ausley voted six times to tax your savings.


Brookhaven homeowners pay hundreds of dollars less in property taxes compared with owners of the same-value homes in unincorporated DeKalb County.


The polls show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life.


David Cicilline is the 5th most liberal person in the House of Representatives.


Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income.


President Barack Obama was responsible for the assassination of at least four American citizens in drone strikes.


GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a compromise vote that cost $788 million in higher electricity costs.


John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas.


Ninety percent of American workers dont own their own business.


We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard).


By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family.


State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.


Saturdays shootings reflect a disturbing trend. Mass shootings have become commonplace since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. There have been dozens of incidents where three or more people have been fatally wounded. Hundreds have died.


The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.


Crime is rising in Manchester and has gone up 19 percent under Mayor Ted Gatsas.


GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.


The state GOP ticket says their top priority is a career-long mission to outlaw abortion in all cases and ban some common forms of birth control.


Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion.


In the first round of repayments from financial institutions that received TARP money, the government has actually turned a profit.


The Iran Deal will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.


Obamacare is not a popular law.


You cant read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty.


Alaskas Prince William Sound is pristine now.


Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks.


You need a photo ID to purchase Sudafed in Texas.


A Pro-Stimulus economist admits it is not working


Richmond is the most vegan-friendly city.


The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.


State's expected "increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the African American and Hispanic populations in Texas in virtually every region of the state.


North Dakotas economy is reeling.


Federal investigators found a company that (David Perdue) ran discriminated against women -- paid them less than men for the same work.


Obama used $20 million in federal money to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA.


Cities save an estimated $38 in dental costs for every $1 invested in fluoridation.


I have never supported cap and trade.


Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas.


Mr. Caprio is a career politician who has never worked in the private sector.


In fiscal year 2010, nearly 80 percent of women served in the Texas Womens Health Program received services from a provider other than a Planned Parenthood clinic.


Actually, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican.


FCAT tests account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year.


Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and theyre rushing to build a lot more. Theyll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future.


Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years.


I do provide universal health care.


When adjusted for inflation and population growth, state general revenue spending has decreased 10.7 percent on his watch.


In Florida, illegal immigration costs taxpayers nearly $4 billion (a year). This amounts to $700 for every household in Florida.


More businesses are closing than are opening for the first time in our nations history.


A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.


The city of Brookhavens ordinance could cause the Pink Pony to close, thereby putting 300 Pink Pony employees out of work in this economy.


95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey we are coming because weve been promised amnesty.


The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers.


The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds.


What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is Ive said to each agency ... look at regulations that are already on the books and if they dont make sense, lets get rid of them.


The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash wasnt driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past.


You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites and what Donald Trump saysabout Muslims is used to recruit fighters.


The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years, with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.


Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts to create a legal framework on counterterrorism.


A new Colorado law literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to collectors.


After years of 5.5 percent average tuition increases, we now have a two-year tuition freeze for the first time in the history of the UW System.


By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance for the first time in 17 years.


A tweet he sent out wasnt saying, check out a sex tape. It was just take a look at the background of Alicia Machado.


Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. It was to her presidential campaign.


Under Rick Perrys plan, Texas has cut funding for public schools by 25%.


Without ethanol, gas prices would be at least 15% higher. With gas at four bucks, that means youre saving 12 bucks on a 20 gallon fill up.


You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class at the University of Texas.


In other jurisdictions where (a domestic partnership registry) has been enacted, we have seen that fewer people enter into marriage.


The state budget has increased almost $800 million a year in each of the last two years.


This past (legislative) session, we passed out of the Legislature a resolution requiring Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the (U.S.) Constitution.


The Confederate battle flag never flew over Texas, but... you might soon see it on our license plates.


Were going to be looking at $8 billion a day that were going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that were going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf.


Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function.


The White House has three staff calligraphers making between $86,000 and $97,000 each, and just one National Security Director. She makes $55,000.


Weve used (generally accepted accounting principles) here in this building the last two years.


Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.


Charlie Crist implemented Jeb Bushs A+ Plan.


Rob Cornilles has been endorsed by 20 local mayors, including Independent, Democratic and Republican.


MikeHuckabee.com gets "more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate."


We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops in Iraq.