All statements by Hillary Clinton
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"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in Indianapolis >>Details


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There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and "we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years."

Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in a speech at a Democratic Party dinner >>Details


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Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


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Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


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"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. >>Details


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Hillary Clinton advocates "a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


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Barely True
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


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"Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


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"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


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Says she is the subject of 60 books.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 in a forum on faith-related issues at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. >>Details


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"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in a television debate in Philadelphia. >>Details


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Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details


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"My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination until June."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board >>Details


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"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in a news conference in Greensburg, Pa. >>Details


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"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in Eugene, Ore. >>Details


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As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


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McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details


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"I remember landing under sniper fire."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


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Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa. >>Details


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"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details


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"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


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"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


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Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. >>Details


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"Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details


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Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details


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Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


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"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details


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"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>Details


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Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a campaign event in Robstown, Texas. >>Details


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"I have 35 years' experience making change."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


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"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview >>Details


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"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


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Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


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"Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in a conference call to reporters led by Cilnton pollster Mark Penn >>Details


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In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in Iowa >>Details


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"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details


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Barely True
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


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The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


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"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


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"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas. >>Details


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"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details


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"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


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"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


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“You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.”

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


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Barely True
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


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"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. >>Details


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"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


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"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 19th, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa >>Details


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"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in New York, N.Y. >>Details


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"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa >>Details


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"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 in a news release >>Details


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Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out.”

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details


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"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Plymouth, N.H. >>Details


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

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details


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Barely True
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


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"My husband has not withheld a single document."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details


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"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


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“The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.”

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


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Sen. Obama "made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 in >>Details


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"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


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"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a television ad >>Details


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"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


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"Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 in a forum hosted by Slate/Yahoo/Huffington Post. >>Details


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Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


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"Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


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Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


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Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000.”

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


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English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can’t print ballots in any other language."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 in New Hampshire. >>Details


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"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who’d already made up their minds."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally. >>Details


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"In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a comment by husband Bill Clinton on Larry King Live. >>Details


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"Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details


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