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I Believe We Can Have Common Sense Gun Safety Measures Consistent With The Second Amendment, And, In Fact, What I Have Proposed Is Supported By 90 Percent Of The American People And More Than 75 Percent Of Responsible Gun Owners.

-Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Clinton

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I Believe We Can Have Common Sense Gun Safety Measures Consistent With The Second Amendment, And, In Fact, What I Have Proposed Is Supported By 90 Percent Of The American People And More Than 75 Percent Of Responsible Gun Owners.

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I Wish We Weren`t Fighting All The Time To Protect Women`s Rights, To Protect Women`s Health.

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You Could Put Half Of Trump's Supporters Into What I Call The Basket Of Deplorables. Right? The Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Xenophobic, Islamaphobic - You Name It.

I Believe That You Have To Withstand Whatever Problems Come Your Way. You Have To Make The Decisions That Are Best For You.

The Episodic, Reactive, Almost Frantic Pace Of What Is Broadcast Makes Children Feel And Act Frantic And Shortens Their Attention Spans And Their Patience For Activities That Take Time And Problems That Don't Yield Immediate Solutions.

The Challenges Of Change Are Always Hard. It Is Important That We Begin To Unpack Those Challenges That Confront This Nation And Realize That We Each Have A Role That Requires Us To Change And Become More Responsible For Shaping Our Own Future.

I Want To Be The President For All Americans, Regardless Of Your Political Beliefs, Where You Come From, What You Look Like, Your Religion.

Rebuilding Our Communities Where The Police And Citizens All See Themselves As Being On The Same Side Will Require Contributions From All Of Us.

I Would Say To The New Leadership The American People Are Ready To Meet You If You Move Forward Toward The Path Of Democracy.

Syria Will Remain A Hotbed Of Terrorism As Long As The Civil War, Aided And Abetted By The Iranians And The Russians, Continue.

I Don't Care If You're A Liberal Icon Or A Conservative Icon. If You Are Not Willing To Be Active In Your Democracy And Do What Is Necessary To Deal With Our Problems, I Think You Should Be Voted Out.

What I Would Like To See Is For People To Come Together And Say: Of Course We're Going To Protect And Defend The Second Amendment. But We're Going To Do It In A Way That Tries To Save Some Of These 33,000 Lives That We Lose Every Year.

I Made Policy Decisions Based On What I Thought Was Right That Keep Americans Safe And To Protect U.s. Interests Abroad. No Wild Political Attacks By Donald Trump Is Going To Change That.

You Know, My View Is That We Have A Big World Out There.

Keeping Your Head Down And Doing The Best Job You Can In The Beginning Gives You The Opportunity To Be Evaluated On The Basis Of The Contributions You Are Making. [then], When You Feel Strongly About Your Work Or About A Position, You'll Be Given More Attention [than] If You Hadn't Done That Constantly.

Donald Trump Attacked The Woman Reporter Writing The Story, Called Her "disgusting," As He Has Called A Number Of Women During His Campaign. Donald Thinks Belittling Women Makes Him Bigger. He Goes After Their Dignity, Their Self-worth, And I Don't Think There Is A Woman Anywhere Who Doesn't Know What That Feels Like. So We Know What Donald Thinks And What He Says And How He Acts Toward Women. That's Who Donald Is.

I Have To Defend My Husband.

I Have Absolutely No Interest In Running For President Again. None. None. I Mean, I Know That's Hard For Some People To Believe, But, You Know, I Just Don't.

In Fact, Donald [trump] Was One Of The People Who Rooted For The Housing Crisis.

We Know In New York We Have Several Million At Any One Time Who Are In New York Illegally.

I Have Met So Many People Who Had Their Life Savings Wiped Out, Who Lost Their Homes, Who Are Barely Back With Their Heads Above Water.this Was A Disaster For Our Country, And We Can Never Let That Happen Again.

I Am Going To Bring Back Infrastructure Jobs, Advanced Manufacturing Jobs, Clean Renewable Energy Jobs, Innovation, Technology, Small Business.

I Am 100 Percent Confident. This Is A Security Review That Was Requested. It Is Being Carried Out. It Will Be Resolved. But I Have To Add If There's Going To Be A Security Review About Me, There's Going To Have To Be Security Reviews About A Lot Of Other People, Including Republican Office Holders, Because We've Got This Absurd Situation Of Retroactive Classifications.

Although We Weren't Able To Shatter That Highest, Hardest Glass Ceiling This Time, Thanks To You, It's Got About 18 Million Cracks In It.

I Mean, Of Course That's A Theoretical Question, And We Don't Know What It Would Be For, And We Don't Know How Many Numbers There Are. I Am Against American Combat Troops Being In Syria And Iraq.

When I Am Talking About "it Takes A Village", I'm Obviously Not Talking Just About Or Even Primarily About Geographical Villages Any Longer, But About The Network Of Relationships And Values That Do Connect Us And Binds Us Together.

It Takes A Village

I Have A Plan To Make Tuition Debt-free For Public Colleges And Universities.

Going Out And Playing Football Or Baseball With The Boys, When I Was A Tomboy, Was A Great Way To Learn About Winning And Losing, And Most Girls Didn't Have That Experience.

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I'm Not Going To Put My Lot In With Economists, Because I Know If We Get It Right, If We Actually Did It Right, If We Had A President Who Used All The Tools Of The Presidency, We Would Design It In Such A Way That It Would Be Implemented Effectively.

The Way To Continue Our Fight Now To Accomplish The Goals For Which We Stand Is To Take Our Energy, Our Passion, Our Strength And Do All We Can To Help Elect Barack Obama.

I Don't Recognize This New Brand Of Republicanism That's Afoot Now, Which I Consider To Be Very Reactionary, Not Conservative In Many Respects.

I Support The Second Amendment. I Lived In Arkansas For 18 Wonderful Years. I Represented Upstate New York. I Understand And Respect The Tradition Of Gun Ownership. It Goes Back To The Founding Of Our Country.

Where We Have A Different Background [with Hillary Clinton] On This Issue Is We Differ On The War In Iraq, Which Created Barbaric Organizations Like Isis.

I Think We Need To Do Much More With Our Tech Companies To Prevent Isis And Their Operatives From Being Able To Use The Internet To Radicalize, Even Direct People In America And Europe And Elsewhere.

I Respect Donald Trump's Children. His Children Are Incredibly Able And Devoted, And I Think That Says A Lot About Donald. I Don't Agree With Nearly Anything Else He Says Or Does, But I Do Respect That. And I Think That Is Something That As A Mother And A Grandmother Is Very Important To Me.

Individual Consciences Are Fine But Individual Consciences Have To Be Made Manifest.

I Am Going To Attack Income Inequality And I Think I Have A Pretty Good Plan To Do So. I Don't Just Tell You What I'm Against. I Tell You What I'm For And How I Would Do It.

Most Of The Gains In The Last Years Since The Great Recession Have Gone To The Very Top. So We Are Going To Have The Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share. We're Going To Have Corporations Make A Contribution Greater Than They Are Now To America.

I Have Said Publicly No Option Should Be Off The Table, But I Would Certainly Take Nuclear Weapons Off The Table.

People Should Be Able To Rise As Hard, High As Their Hard Work, Their Ambition, Their Talent Will Take Them.

Bringing Undocumented Immigrants Out From The Shadows, Putting Them Into The Formal Economy Will Be Good, Because Then Employers Can't Exploit Them And Undercut Americans' Wages.

At The End Of The Day, You Know, Love Does Not Happen Between Two Perfect People As Much As We Would Wish.

I Think That's Why I'm So Well-suited To This Time, Because I Think The Values Reflect Really Profound American Values, And I Think My Agenda Would Be The Best Way To Really Get Americans Once Again To Feel More Confident And More Optimistic About Our Future And Deliver Results, Which I Think Is What It's About.

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