Who Said What?

All of the remaining GOP candidates have been scouring Florida for votes this week. In the process, they've had to tailor their messages to a state that is suffering a real estate crash, as well as a commensurate amount of home foreclosures. Toss in the stock market woes, and that means it's 24/7 speeches on who is best suited to fix the economy. In that light, this edition of Who Said What? focuses on quotes uttered by Republicans about money matters. You know the drill, match the words with the mouth who said them.

Quote #1

"I'll mean more money in your pocket. More money for you to spend on the things that'll grow the economy."















Quote # 2

"I don't want to abandon Florida yet. We have not come to the conclusion that Florida is out of play."















Quote #3

"Every time I've seen things really get scary and the markets really collapse, I've put aside that fear for a moment and said, 'Aha. Is this a buying opportunity?'"















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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which may explain why we've suddenly heard the man's name invoked so much on the campaign trail of late. In that spirit, we've collected a few words spoken by our crop of candidates on the great Civil Rights leader. Your job is to stuff them back into the mouth of the politician who first said them. Good luck.

Quote #1:

"...I voted against the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King. That was a mistake, OK? And later I had the chance to... help fight for... the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King as a holiday in my state."















Quote #2:

"Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Ghandi, they're the heroes of my... in practice of getting civil disobedience to try and get the burden of government off our backs."















Quote #3:

"I must say I was troubled to see a suggestion, that real change that came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that."















These are easy, right? Perfect scores all around? Go to the jump to see how you did.

Once again it's time to match words with mouths. Last week, the majority of you went one for three. Today's quotes concern the topic of religion. So make your selections, then click "Read the full post" to learn the right answers.

Quote 1:

"I understand that the vast majority of people who are of the Islamic religion are good people. And I understand that the vast majority of the people in the Middle East are good people, I even think we should do more business with them, have more cultural exchanges, and get to know each other better."














Quote 2:

"The danger of using good versus evil in the context of war is it may lead us to be not as critical as we should be about our own actions."














Quote 3:

"We can find direction, if we look to the church's call to strengthen families and renew our schools and encourage policies that enable each child to have a chance to fulfill his or her God-given potential."

Hope everyone out there had a fun and safe, holiday.

Now, you know me, always the cynic. Here's a couple of fun, foot-in-their-mouths quotes I've found from our 2008 presidential candidates.

Now these will be sure to zap whatever warm fuzzies you still had in your heart from earlier this week.

Time to get your guess on.

Round One:

"Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage."

Round Two:

"Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.... Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the "criminal justice system," I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

By this late stage in the primary season, most of us who are following the contest for the nomination for president believe we now have an understanding of who each candidate is and what he or she stands for. After reading or listening to countless sound-bites from the stump, it often feels like we could identify the contenders simply by reading a disembodied transcript of a line or two. We at Political Machine thought it would be interesting to put that concept to the test.

Here then is the first in a running feature we're calling "Who Said What?" It will give you a chance to test your acumen at attributing quotes to the candidates candidates who uttered them. So go ahead, put these words in the right mouth, if you can.

Round 1:

"We are, right now, a very polarized country, and that polarized country has led to a paralyzed government... We've got to be the united people of the United States, and a president has got to somehow remind us that we are a great, resilient nation that has to stick together to solve all of these problems."















"I'm not being a wise-ass. I am not joking. The guy with the most money and the woman with the biggest buzz, beaten by the man with the right message! Who people think is honest!"















"You can't have a nominee who says, 'I'm writing off Iowa or New Hampshire.' You've got to have a nominee who cares about the election process in both states. I'm fighting to win in both states because I not only want to win the nomination, but I want to win the general election."














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