This article is more than 11 years oldDebate quiz: can you tell Obama and Romney's promises apart?This article is more than 11 years oldCan you tell the president's promises apart from Mitt Romney's? Test your political savvy in this special debate quiz1."What things would I cut from spending? Well, first of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test, if they don't pass it: is the program so critical it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I'll get rid of it.... I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal2."[My opponent] has said he wants to, in a revenue-neutral way, close loopholes, deductions he hasn't identified which ones they are – but that thereby bring down the corporate rate. Well, I want to do the same thing, but I've actually identified how we can do that. And part of the way to do it is to not give tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal3."I will take ideas from anybody, Democrat or Republican, as long as they're advancing the cause of making middle-class families stronger and giving ladders of opportunity to the middle class."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal4."I'll double [the number of permits for natural gas and oil drilling], and also get the oil from offshore and Alaska. And I'll bring that pipeline in from Canada. And, by the way, I like coal. I'm going to make sure we can continue to burn clean coal. People in the coal industry feel like it's getting crushed by your policies. I want to get America and North America energy independent so we can create those jobs."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal5.“As president, I will sit on day one – actually, the day after I get elected – I'll sit down with the Democratic leaders, as well as Republican leaders … We have to work on a collaborative basis, not because we're going to compromise our principle, but because there's common ground.”Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal6."I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year, that we should go back to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton was president, when we created 23m new jobs, went from deficit to surplus, and created a whole lot of millionaires to boot."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal7."I will not cut our commitment to our military. I will keep America strong."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaReveal8."If I'm elected we won't have Obamacare. We'll put in place the kind of principles that I put in place in my own state and allow each state to craft their own programs to get people insured and we'll focus on getting the cost of healthcare down."Mitt RomneyBarack ObamaRevealExplore more on these topicsMitt RomneyUS presidential debates 2012US elections 2012Barack ObamaUS politicsquizzesShareReuse this content