"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
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."
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
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