Politiquotes of the Week: Dec. 16

The two GOP frontrunners have some convincing to do.

Barack Obama - "The war in Iraq will soon belong to history, and your service belongs to the ages,” said President Obama, marking the end of America’s military engagement in Iraq.(Photo: Davis Turner/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - "The war in Iraq will soon belong to history, and your service belongs to the ages,” said President Obama, marking the end of America’s military engagement in Iraq.(Photo: Davis Turner/Getty Images)

David Axelrod - “Just remember, the higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt,” said President Obama’s chief communications strategist David Axelrod, recalling some political wisdom he learned from a Chicago alderman. “So, [Newt Gingrich] is very high on the pole right now, and we’ll see how people like the view.”(Photo: Chris Usher/Landov)

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David Axelrod - “Just remember, the higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt,” said President Obama’s chief communications strategist David Axelrod, recalling some political wisdom he learned from a Chicago alderman. “So, [Newt Gingrich] is very high on the pole right now, and we’ll see how people like the view.”(Photo: Chris Usher/Landov)

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Newt Gingrich - “Let's be candid. The only reason you didn't become a career politician is you lost to Teddy Kennedy in 1994,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich told rival Mitt Romney during the last GOP presidential debate.(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

A presidential candidate is only as good as his word, and the six remaining Republican presidential candidates have been slinging quite a few to win over voters. Ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, BET.com discovered where candidates line up and where they fall short. According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center, presidential Mitt Romney’s repeated and prominent claim that he created 100,000 jobs through his work with private equity firm Bain Capital is misleading because there is no clear count of jobs lost as well as created in the multiple companies in which the firm invested. —Britt Middleton(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - “Zany is great in a campaign. It’s great on talk radio. It’s great in print, it makes for fun reading,” said Mitt Romney about why rival Newt Gingrich should not be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. “But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together.”(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Harry Reid - “Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid from the Senate floor, arguing for a surtax on the wealthy to help pay for a payroll tax cut that would benefit millions of workers. “They are impossible to find and don’t exist.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Harry Reid - “Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Majority Leader Harry Reid from the Senate floor, arguing for a surtax on the wealthy to help pay for a payroll tax cut that would benefit millions of workers. “They are impossible to find and don’t exist.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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John Boehner - “The White House needs to update their clock because now it’s time for the Senate to act,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters after his chamber passed a bill to extend federal payroll tax cut and unemployment programs, referring to the clock installed in the White House briefing room to mark the time left before the programs expire.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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John Boehner - “The White House needs to update their clock because now it’s time for the Senate to act,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters after his chamber passed a bill to extend federal payroll tax cut and unemployment programs, referring to the clock installed in the White House briefing room to mark the time left before the programs expire.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rudolph Giuliani - “I have never seen a guy — and I've run a lot of elections, supported a lot of people — I've never seen a guy change his positions on so many things, so fast, on a dime. Everything," said former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani about Mitt Romney.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Rudolph Giuliani - “I have never seen a guy — and I've run a lot of elections, supported a lot of people — I've never seen a guy change his positions on so many things, so fast, on a dime. Everything," said former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani about Mitt Romney.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Herman Cain - “I happen to believe that Democrats did not want an accomplished, articulate, optimistic Black man to face President Obama. I can't prove that … but I do believe that," former GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain told Barbara Walters when asked if the sexual allegations that forced him to suspend his campaign were related to race.(Photo: ABC/DONNA SVENNEVIK)

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Herman Cain - “I happen to believe that Democrats did not want an accomplished, articulate, optimistic Black man to face President Obama. I can't prove that … but I do believe that," former GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain told Barbara Walters when asked if the sexual allegations that forced him to suspend his campaign were related to race.(Photo: ABC/DONNA SVENNEVIK)

 Christine O'Donnell - “That’s one of the things that I like about him, because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind,” said the former Senate candidate from Delaware, Christine O’Donnell, about why she has endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. She made headlines in 2010 for an ad in which she declared, “I am not a witch,” after news emerged that she’d dabbled in the “dark arts.”(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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 Christine O'Donnell - “That’s one of the things that I like about him, because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind,” said the former Senate candidate from Delaware, Christine O’Donnell, about why she has endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. She made headlines in 2010 for an ad in which she declared, “I am not a witch,” after news emerged that she’d dabbled in the “dark arts.”(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Stephen Colbert - “Here’s the thing that I don’t think Newt Gingrich gets credit for. Okay. A lot of politicians screw around on their wives, but he was enough of a gentleman to ask permission first. Okay? That’s a Southern gentleman. That’s what Robert E. Lee would have done,” said comedian Stephen Colbert on MSNBC's Morning Joe about the former House speaker’s infidelities.(Photo: Fernando Leon/Getty Images for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)

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Stephen Colbert - “Boom! Mitt Romney is back in it. Christine O’Donnell’s endorsement will cast a spell over primary voters,” said late-night comedian Stephen Colbert. He then added, “In fact, this endorsement proves that she is not a witch, because a witch would have gone for the eye of Newt.” (Photo: Fernando Leon/Getty Images for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)