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Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:

Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."

By Neil Skene • January 28, 2008
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 30, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC.:

"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."

By Neil Skene • January 3, 2008
Fred Thompson
stated on November 7, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview.:

"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."

By Neil Skene • December 31, 2007
Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas:

"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."

By Neil Skene • December 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 5, 2007 in Washington, D.C.:

"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."

By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 1, 2007 in "Innovators in Action" magazine:

"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."

By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:

"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."

By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007