"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."
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