A new presidential helicopter "is now going to cost as much as Air Force One."
Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."
Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.
"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."
A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."
"You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."
"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."
"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
"I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail."
"I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that."
Obama "wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas."
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
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