Just What Did The Candidates Say?

[GOP candidates] [Debate] And why did they say it? Here are snippets from the eight Republican presidential contenders as they battled each other in New Hampshire Thursday night. Any one of them might just be the line that provides the margin of victory on Feb. 20.

[Lamar Alexander]

"Last week the voters of Iowa said yes to new ideas, and they said no to negative advertising. That's why I've been so surprised to see that Sen. Dole has begun negative advertising on television against Pat Buchanan, and now against me."

(320K AIFF or WAV sound)

[Pat Buchanan]

"In the great state of Alaska, Steve, I think you spent $400,000, we spent about $60,000 to $80,000, and we won the state of Alaska. In Iowa, Bob Dole outspent me about 4-1, and Steve about 8-1. Bob started with something like a 55-5 point lead over me and by the end of the night, caucus night, it was three points. This campaign is on fire because we don't care about television attack ads -- we've got a vision and an agenda."

-- on campaign ads

(320K AIFF or WAV sound)

"Sure, NAFTA was really a wonderful deal for America. Two years after we negotiated and signed it, our trade surplus is gone, we've got a $15 billion trade deficit with Mexico, 300,000 jobs have gone south, the Florida winter tomato industry is on its back, illegal immigration is soaring into this country, Mexico is the prime source of narcotics and drugs, and my good friend Sen. Dole negotiated a $50 billion bailout with Bill Clinton for the regime that brought this all about. "

-- on NAFTA and Mexico

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[Bob Dole]

"There's a lot of things we can do, just as we did in 1983. There was one man on that commision who rescued social security and that was Bob Dole."

(480K AIFF or WAV sound)

"So if you're going to use negative ads..." Dole said. Forbes said, "Senator, no pretty picture can get around what you did on taxes". Dole retaliated: "Yeah, yeah, I know your problem. You've got a lot of money and want to buy this election, but this election is not for sale."

(256K AIFF or WAV sound)

"In the interim now, there are about 600,000 people working now in New Hampshire. There's been a growth of 51,000 in the past few years. So they've made a lot of progress; the unemployment rate is about 3.3 percent. We've got about a thousand companies in New Hampshire who export - export! You couldn't do that if Pat Buchanan was here. He'd build a wall around America and you couldn't export anything."

(480K AIFF or WAV sound)

[Robert Dornan]

"And I'm in the arena as a politician, a Washington insider, trying to serve the history of my country and make this world a better one than was given to me"

(160K AIFF or WAV sound)

[Steve Forbes]

"The world my opponents live in is a world of processes, politics and promises. The world I live in is a world of people, payroll and performance."

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[Alan Keyes]

"I think we're exactly like a family where one child is on drugs, another engaging in promiscuous sex, and another is commiting suicide, and all we want to know is where we're going to get the next raise from and how we're going to get the next promotion."

(288K AIFF or WAV sound)

[Morry Taylor]

"You can't compete over there. We can't sell tires down in Mexico; they put a 20 percent duty on it. It's crazy, the same with China, we have to wake up. It's fine, the economy's going great in Washington -- look at the lobbyists, at all the firms. We have to get some practicality."

(192K AIFF or WAV sound)

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