"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."
"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops."
"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem."
Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class."
John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."
Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."
Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
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