The Most Memorable PolitiQuotes of 2012

Top political quotes from the 2012 campaign.

Say What? - Political quotes were a gift that kept on giving — all year long. With gaffes and zingers, lawmakers and those who aspired to win election showed voters that in the end, they are only human, too. Here's the best and the worst, depending on your standpoint. – Joyce Jones

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Say What? - Political quotes were a gift that kept on giving — all year long. With gaffes and zingers, lawmakers and those who aspired to win election showed voters that in the end, they are only human, too. Here's the best and the worst, depending on your standpoint. – Joyce Jones

Newt Gingrich - Speaking at a breakfast on Monday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Newt Gingrich told the audience that the first bill he co-sponsored was one to make King’s birthday a legal holiday. "As a Georgian, I felt a particular obligation to stand up and say this was the right thing to do," he said. But later that night at the GOP debate, Gingrich defended calling President Obama a “food stamps president” and advocating that poor children take jobs as janitors to learn a work ethic, which critics say belittles the poor and racial minorities. —Joyce Jones(Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed)

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Newt Gingrich - "This is going to be Armageddon – they are going to come in here with everything they've got, every surrogate, every ad, every negative attack," Newt Gingrich said of the plans that a super PAC supporting him had for Mitt Romney before the January primary in South Carolina. (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed)

Cory Booker - "It's nauseating to the American public," said Newark Mayor Cory Booker in May on NBC News' Meet the Press, criticizing the Obama campaign for attacking Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital. (Photo: MSNBC)

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Cory Booker - "It's nauseating to the American public," said Newark Mayor Cory Booker in May on NBC News' Meet the Press, criticizing the Obama campaign for attacking Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital. (Photo: MSNBC)

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Mitt Romney - "I'm not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America," said Mitt Romney in an interview on CNN in February. (Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius)

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Mitt Romney - "I'm not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America," said Mitt Romney in an interview on CNN in February. (Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius)

Herman Cain - "A lot of people thought that after the character assassination that was launched against me that Herman was going to shut up and sit down and go away," Cain told a group of conservative activists in February. "Ain't going to happen." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Herman Cain - "A lot of people thought that after the character assassination that was launched against me that Herman was going to shut up and sit down and go away," Cain told a group of conservative activists in February. "Ain't going to happen." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Foster Friess - "Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly," said Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess on MSNBC during a discussion of the Affordable Care Act mandate requiring health care plans to provide contraception.  (Photo: Ron Sachs / CNP/DPA /LANDOV)

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Foster Friess - "Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly," said Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess on MSNBC during a discussion of the Affordable Care Act mandate requiring health care plans to provide contraception.  (Photo: Ron Sachs / CNP/DPA /LANDOV)

Mitt Romney - "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals working for me," said Mitt Romney at a Republican primary debate in October 2011. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals working for me," said Mitt Romney at a Republican primary debate in October 2011. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "[Republicans are] saying that the problem is that you, the workers, made out like bandits in all of this; that saving the American auto industry was just about paying back unions," Obama said in remarks delivered at the United Auto Workers conference in February. "Really? Even by the standards of this town, that's a load of you-know-what!" (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "[Republicans are] saying that the problem is that you, the workers, made out like bandits in all of this; that saving the American auto industry was just about paying back unions," Obama said in remarks delivered at the United Auto Workers conference in February. "Really? Even by the standards of this town, that's a load of you-know-what!" (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Maxine Waters - "These are demons," said Rep. Maxine Waters of House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor in remarks delivered at the California Democratic Convention in February.  (Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "This is my last election," said Obama, whose conversation with outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was caught on an open microphone at the March Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea "After my election, I have more flexibility." (Photo: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "This is my last election," said Obama, whose conversation with outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was caught on an open microphone at the March Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea "After my election, I have more flexibility." (Photo: Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments," Romney told reporters at his Michigan campaign office in February. "I'm not willing to set my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments," Romney told reporters at his Michigan campaign office in February. "I'm not willing to set my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," Obama announced in an interview with ABC News in May. (Photo: ABC News)

James Carville - "You know what, he is — if this president, if I had anything in the world I would love to do? I would love to go to Las Vegas and stand by him at a craps table. 'Mr. President, you just throw the dice. I’ve got my money on every roll,'" said Democratic strategist James Carville in February of how recent economic news has helped Obama. "He's a lucky, lucky, lucky guy." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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James Carville - "You know what, he is — if this president, if I had anything in the world I would love to do? I would love to go to Las Vegas and stand by him at a craps table. 'Mr. President, you just throw the dice. I’ve got my money on every roll,'" said Democratic strategist James Carville in February of how recent economic news has helped Obama. "He's a lucky, lucky, lucky guy." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Ann Romney - "I still look at him as this is the boy that I met, in high school, when he was pulling all the jokes, and really just being crazy. Pretty crazy. So there's a wild and crazy man inside of him ... just waiting to come out," said Ann Romney during a May appearance with her husband on CBS This Morning. (Photo: CBS News) 

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Ann Romney - "I still look at him as this is the boy that I met, in high school, when he was pulling all the jokes, and really just being crazy. Pretty crazy. So there's a wild and crazy man inside of him ... just waiting to come out," said Ann Romney during a May appearance with her husband on CBS This Morning. (Photo: CBS News) 

Barack Obama - "When people ask you what this election is about, you tell them it is still about hope. You tell them it is still about change," said President Obama at a rally in Ohio where he formally launched his re-election bid on May 6. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "When people ask you what this election is about, you tell them it is still about hope. You tell them it is still about change," said President Obama at a rally in Ohio where he formally launched his re-election bid on May 6. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done and help was given, the [auto] companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back," Romney said in May, although he famously wrote a New York Times op-ed titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," in which he argued that federal loans weren't the solution to saving the auto industry. (Photo: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done and help was given, the [auto] companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back," Romney said in May, although he famously wrote a New York Times op-ed titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," in which he argued that federal loans weren't the solution to saving the auto industry. (Photo: Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)

Richard Mourdock - "Life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," said Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in October. (Photo: REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein)

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Richard Mourdock - "Life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," said Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in October. (Photo: REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Mitt Romney - "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed … I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job," said Romney at a Florida dinner in June 2011. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed … I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job," said Romney at a Florida dinner in June 2011. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Joe Biden - "I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive," said Joe Biden at an ACLU Labor Day rally in September 2012. (Photo: AP PHOTO/CAROLYN KASTER)

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Joe Biden - "I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive," said Joe Biden at an ACLU Labor Day rally in September 2012. (Photo: AP PHOTO/CAROLYN KASTER)

Mitt Romney - "I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners," said Romney when asked whether he follows NASCAR. (Photo: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Mitt Romney - "I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners," said Romney when asked whether he follows NASCAR. (Photo: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Barack Obama - "I don’t look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long," Obama told Romney during their second debate on Oct. 17. (Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Barack Obama - "I don’t look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long," Obama told Romney during their second debate on Oct. 17. (Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Mitt Romney - In a string of gaffes made during his first trip abroad, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney insinuated London wasn't ready to host the Summer Games. "It's hard to know just how well it will turn out ... There are a few things that were disconcerting." (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging," said Romney while in London on his undiplomatic trip to Europe just before the start of the Summer Olympics in July. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney - "I like being able to fire people," said Romney the day before the New Hampshire primary, which he won in January 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of ABC NEWS)

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Mitt Romney - "I like being able to fire people," said Romney the day before the New Hampshire primary, which he won in January 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of ABC NEWS)

Bill Bolling - Anyone who votes to give Obama a second term should “check themselves into a mental hospital,” said Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Bill Bolling - Anyone who votes to give Obama a second term should "check themselves into a mental hospital," said Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling in July. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney - Mitt Romney, who at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference added the curious phrase “severely conservative” to the political lexicon, won the event’s weekend straw poll with 38 percent and the Maine caucuses with 39 percent of support, both by slim margins. But he trails rival Rick Santorum in Michigan, the state where Romney grew up, which will hold its primary on Feb. 28.(Photo: REUTERS/Jim Bourg)

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Mitt Romney - "I was a severely conservative Republican governor," Romney said in remarks delivered at CPAC in February 2012. (Photo: REUTERS/Jim Bourg)

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Barack Obama - "If you've got a business, didn't build that," said Obama campaigning in Virginia in July, giving Republicans a sound bite used to portray the president as anti-business. (Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Barack Obama - "If you've got a business, didn't build that," said Obama campaigning in Virginia in July, giving Republicans a sound bite used to portray the president as anti-business. (Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sarah Palin - "That cocaine snorting, and what he ate — Fido? Rufus?" said former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at the June RightOnline conference, referring to Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, in which he admits to cocaine use and being served dog by his stepfather in Indonesia. "I think it's funny that the cocktail circuit gives me a hard time for eating elk and moose. Anybody here have a pet moose? There's a difference." (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Sarah Palin - "That cocaine snorting, and what he ate — Fido? Rufus?" said former Alaska governor Sarah Palin at the June RightOnline conference, referring to Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, in which he admits to cocaine use and being served dog by his stepfather in Indonesia. "I think it's funny that the cocktail circuit gives me a hard time for eating elk and moose. Anybody here have a pet moose? There's a difference." (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "Earlier today, Gov. Romney was at it again, knowingly twisting my words around to suggest I don't value small business," said Obama at a July campaign event at Fox Theatre in Oakland, California. "In politics, we all tolerate a certain amount of spin. I understand those are the games that get played in political campaigns. Although when folks just omit entire sentences of what you said, they start slicing and dicing, you may have gone a little over the edge there." (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

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Barack Obama - "Earlier today, Gov. Romney was at it again, knowingly twisting my words around to suggest I don't value small business," said Obama at a July campaign event at Fox Theatre in Oakland, California. "In politics, we all tolerate a certain amount of spin. I understand those are the games that get played in political campaigns. Although when folks just omit entire sentences of what you said, they start slicing and dicing, you may have gone a little over the edge there." (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Ann Romney - "I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!" said Ann Romney in an interview with National Review in February 2012. (Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Ann Romney - "I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!" said Ann Romney in an interview with National Review in February 2012. (Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was," Romney said in May 2012. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was," Romney said in May 2012. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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John Boehner - "The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney," said House Speaker John Boehner at a June fundraiser. (Photo: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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John Boehner - "The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney," said House Speaker John Boehner at a June fundraiser. (Photo: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mitt Romney - "This feels good, being back in Michigan… You know, the trees are the right height," said Romney at a campaign stop in Michigan in February. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "This feels good, being back in Michigan… You know, the trees are the right height," said Romney at a campaign stop in Michigan in February. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Mike Turzai - "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done," said Pennsylvania Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai in July. (Photo: AP)

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Mike Turzai - "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done," said Pennsylvania Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai in July. (Photo: AP)

President Obama to Mitt Romney during debate number three:   - "You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them.”(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed," Obama said during the final presidential debate on Oct. 23. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Romney Disparages 47 Percent of Americans - In the final leg of the presidential campaign, a video was released of Romney at a May 2012 fundraising dinner condemning 47 percent of the American population as overly dependent on government services.  (Photo: Courtesy of Mother Jones)

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Mitt Romney - "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney told a group of donors in a video released in September 2012 by Mother Jones, disparaging 47 percent of Americans as being overly dependent on government services. (Photo: Courtesy Obama for America)

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Eric Fehrnstrom - "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again," said Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom in a CNN interview in March. (Photo: CNN)

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Eric Fehrnstrom - "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again," said Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom in a CNN interview in March. (Photo: CNN)

Rick Santorum - An emboldened Rick Santorum, who will on Tuesday begin getting Secret Service protection, has been kowtowing to the blue-collar crowd by calling President Obama a snob for encouraging higher education, raising concern on the left and the right about whether he’s too extreme. Santorum also said in an ABC News interview that a speech by the late President John F. Kennedy, also a Catholic, calling for the separation of church and state made him want to “throw up.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Rick Santorum - "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" Rick Santorum told a group of Tea Party activists in Michigan in February. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney - "I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women," said Romney in the second presidential debate in October. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women," said Romney in the second presidential debate in October. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

Ann Romney - "We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing," Ann Romney said in an interview on Fox News in March. (Photo: FOX NEWS)

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Ann Romney - "We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing," Ann Romney said in an interview on Fox News in March. (Photo: FOX NEWS)

Sarah Palin - "Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end," said former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in October, prompting claims that she was speaking in racial code. (Photo: AP)

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Sarah Palin - "Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end," said former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in October, prompting claims that she was speaking in racial code. (Photo: AP)

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Mitt Romney - "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised," Romney said in August while campaigning in Michigan.   (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised," Romney said in August while campaigning in Michigan.   (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Bill Clinton - "No president, no president — not me or any of my predecessors, no one, could have repaired all the damage he found in just four years. But he has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy, of shared prosperity, and if you renew the President's contract you will feel it. You will feel it," said former President Bill Clinton during his Democratic National Convention speech on September 6. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Bill Clinton - "No president, no president — not me or any of my predecessors, no one, could have repaired all the damage he found in just four years. But he has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy, of shared prosperity, and if you renew the President's contract you will feel it. You will feel it," said former President Bill Clinton during his Democratic National Convention speech on September 6. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year. I mean, he’s changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping, we’ve got to name this condition that he’s going through. I think it's called Romnesia," Obama said at a campaign rally held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in October, adding that Obamacare, which covers pre-existing conditions, could fix it. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year. I mean, he’s changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping, we’ve got to name this condition that he’s going through. I think it's called Romnesia," Obama said at a campaign rally held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in October, adding that Obamacare, which covers pre-existing conditions, could fix it. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Joe Biden - "That's a bunch of malarkey," Vice President Joe Biden said of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's foreign policy claims during their Oct. 11 debate. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Joe Biden - "That's a bunch of malarkey," Vice President Joe Biden said of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's foreign policy claims during their Oct. 11 debate. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mitt Romney - "I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president," said Romney in an address at the NAACP annual convention. (Photo: Eric Kayne/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - "I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president," said Romney in an address at the NAACP annual convention. (Photo: Eric Kayne/Getty Images)

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Joe Biden - "Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his," said Vice President Joe Biden in a speech delivered at the National Council of La Raza conference in Las Vegas, referring to what Democrats view as Romney's unwillingness to provide full financial disclosure and release his tax returns. (Photo: AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, Pool)

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Joe Biden - "Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his," said Vice President Joe Biden in a speech delivered at the National Council of La Raza conference in Las Vegas, referring to what Democrats view as Romney's unwillingness to provide full financial disclosure and release his tax returns. (Photo: AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, Pool)

Laura Ingraham - "These are not people who have Black friends, who know Black people," conservative commentator Laura Ingraham said of left-leaning MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow in September. "Oh, sorry, except, you know, Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher who date Black gals. So they think they're freedom riders." (Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

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Laura Ingraham - "These are not people who have Black friends, who know Black people," conservative commentator Laura Ingraham said of left-leaning MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow in September. "Oh, sorry, except, you know, Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher who date Black gals. So they think they're freedom riders." (Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

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Allen West - "I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party," West said at a district town-hall style meeting in April. "They actually don’t hide it. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus." (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Michele Bachmann - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is polling in the single digits, is ramping up her fundraising efforts to become more competitive. In a fundraising letter to supporters she said she’s got to raise every dollar she can before the January primary season “to ensure our hard-charging constitutional conservative campaign — not some milquetoast opponents like Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich — wins over these undecided Iowa voters." She hit the club scene in Scottsdale, Arizona, Sunday night, raising $50,000.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Michele Bachmann - "I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now," said Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann at an August 2011 campaign event. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Run, Trump, Run   - Donald Trump decided he'd like to throw his hat into the presidential race early. Unfortunately, the only political platform he could run on was the racist idea that President Obama wasn't born in America. And when the Prez, again, presented his birth certificate for all to see, Trump not only shut up, but dropped out of the race.  (Photo: Courtesy CNN/Obama for America)

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Donald Trump - "I've been told very recently, Anderson, that the birth certificate is missing. I've been told that it's not there or it doesn't exist. And if that's the case, it's a big problem," Donald Trump told CNN host Anderson Cooper in an April 25, 2012 interview. (Photo: Courtesy CNN/Obama for America)

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Barack Obama - "I’m going to wait until everybody is voted off the island,” President Obama said during his appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show about when he’ll begin tuning into the Republican presidential nominating race. “Once they narrow it down to one or two, I’ll start paying attention.”(Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC)

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Barack Obama - "My issues with Donald Trump go back to our childhood together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field. He wasn't very good and resented it. When we finally moved to America, I thought it would be over," joked Obama during an Oct. 25 appearance on NBC's Tonight Show. (Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC)

Worst: Donald Trump Attacks President Obama - Is there anything The Donald wouldn't do for publicity? The one-time presidential candidate, once he retired from the race, aimed all his political ammunition at taking down the president. Trump accused President Obama of everything from covering up his birth details to coasting through college courtesy of affirmative action. Thankfully, Trump's accusations fell on deaf ears and voters put him in his place come Election Day. (Photo: Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)

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Donald Trump - "This election is a total sham and a travesty," tweeted Donald Trump after Obama won re-election Nov. 6. "We are not a democracy!" (Photo: Edward Linsmier/Getty Images)

Pat Robertson - "[Obama] wouldn't admit to being a socialist but that's what it is," said evangelist Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club on Dec. 13. "He has an agenda."  (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Pat Robertson - "[Obama] wouldn't admit to being a socialist but that's what it is," said evangelist Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club on Dec. 13. "He has an agenda."  (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)