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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 13, 2008

This bill that the president just signed that had nearly 10,000 earmark pork-barrel projects on it, and take that money and give it to these education and training programs.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 13, 2008

For them, somehow to suggest that we are interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't commented on is pretty hard to figure out.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 13, 2008

For them, somehow, to suggest that we are interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't commented on is pretty hard to figure out.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 13, 2008

We are all Democrats. We all believe in civil rights. We all believe in equal rights.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 13, 2008

We are all Democrats, we all believe in civil rights and we all believe in equal rights.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 13, 2008

This is, you know, an unfortunate storyline that the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 13, 2008

the gloves are off. Exhibit A in the Clinton-Obama battle. The issue of race explodes. The war of words turns nasty.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jan 13, 2008

if -- even if he comes in second in -- in -- in Michigan, if he wins among Republican voters, that -- he is going to take that as a victory.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jan 13, 2008

I have got Michigan in my DNA. I have got it in my heart and I have got cars in my bloodstream.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 12, 2008

The American Dream is slipping out of reach for many families whose paychecks aren't meeting the increased costs of their medical bills and tuition payments.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 12, 2008

The time has come to bridge the growing divide between Main Street and Wall Street.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 11, 2008

I'll be a president who ends those tax breaks for corporations that are shipping jobs overseas and puts those tax breaks to work here in the United States and puts them in the pockets of working Americans who deserve them.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 11, 2008

And we cut taxes, but Ronald Reagan knew we had to cut spending at the same, and that was our great failure as a party, is we cut taxes and then we let spending get out of control.

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Daniel Akaka
@danielakaka· Democratic · HI· Jan 11, 2008

I urge you to support the nomination of GEN Eric K. Shinseki to Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jan 11, 2008

Let's get the record straight: could we be headed for a recession? Absolutely. Do we have to be headed for a recession? Absolutely not.

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