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"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."
"And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative."
"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."
Obama would "experiment with socialism."
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
"Obama raises taxes on seniors (and) hard-working families to give welfare to those who pay none."
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