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That Is The Number-one Threat We Face In The World. And It Becomes Particularly Threatening If Terrorists Ever Get Their Hands On Any Nuclear Material. So A Man Who Can Be Provoked By A Tweet Should Not Have His Fingers Anywhere Near The Nuclear Codes, As Far As I Think Anyone With Any Sense About This Should Be Concerned.

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Hillary Clinton

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That Is The Number-one Threat We Face In The World. And It Becomes Particularly Threatening If Terrorists Ever Get Their Hands On Any Nuclear Material. So A Man Who Can Be Provoked By A Tweet Should Not Have His Fingers Anywhere Near The Nuclear Codes, As Far As I Think Anyone With Any Sense About This Should Be Concerned.

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I've Gone To Work, I've Raised A Child, And I've Spent 30 Years Trying To Better The Lives Of Children And Families. But I Often Return To One Thing I Said Way Back Then - That Politics Is The Art Of Making Possible What Appears To Be Impossible.

I Think There's A Lot We Could Do That Maybe Would Give A Little More Decision Space To Ceos, To Shareholders Who Want To Hold For The Long Term, To Investors Who Want To Be Part Of The Long Term, That They Would Maybe Have A Little More Room To Withstand The Pressure That Is Otherwise Coming Down On Them.

It May Be Hard To Remember How Difficult It Was For People To Talk About Hiv/aids Back In The 1980's And Because Of Both Ronald Reagan And Nancy Reagan - In Particular Mrs Reagan - We Started A National Conversation, When Before Nobody Would Talk About It, Nobody Wanted To Do Anything About It. Something That I Really Appreciate Was Her Very Effective But Low-key Advocacy, But It Penetrated The Public Conscience, And People Began To Say "hey We Have To Do Something About This Too.

I Want To Get Everybody Out Of The Shadows, Get The Economy Working, And Not Let Employers Like Donald Trump Exploit Undocumented Workers, Which Hurts Them, But Also Hurts American Workers.

I Don't Think It Was Progressive To Vote To Give Gun Makers And Sellers Immunity. I Don't Think It Was Progressive To Vote Against Ted Kennedy's Immigration Reform.

Everybody Has Some Dysfunction In Their Families.

No Human Being Is Immune To Adversity Or Personal Setbacks.

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

It's Important To Recognize The Vital Role That The Financial Markets Play In Our Economy And That So Many Of You Are Contributing To. To Function Effectively Those Markets And The Men And Women Who Shape Them Have To Command Trust And Confidence, Because We All Rely On The Market's Transparency And Integrity. So Even If It May Not Be 100 Percent True, If The Perception Is That Somehow The Game Is Rigged, That Should Be A Problem For All Of Us, And We Have To Be Willing To Make That Absolutely Clear.

Stop-and-frisk Was Found To Be Unconstitutional And, In Part, Because It Was Ineffective. It Did Not Do What It Needed To Do.

Before It Was Called Hillarycare - I Mean, Before It Was Called Obamacare It Was Called Hillarycare Because We Took Them On, And We Weren't Successful, But We Kept Fighting And We Got The Children's Health Insurance Program. Every Step Along The Way I Have Stood Up, And Fought, And Have The Scars To Prove It.

I Think That I Am The Person Who Can Do All Aspects Of The Job. I Think I'm The Person Best Prepared To Take The Case To The Republicans. And I Think That At The End Of The Day, It's Not So Much Electability. It Is Who The American People Can Believe Can Keep Them Safe, Can Get The Economy Moving Again, Can Get Incomes Rising, Can Build On The Progressive Accomplishments Of President [barack] Obama.

I Believe That The Rights Of Women And Girls Is The Unfinished Business Of The 21st Century.

When Women Progress, All Of Society Benefits.

People Support Me Because They Know Me. They Know My Life's Work. They Have Worked With Me And Many Have Also Worked With Senator [bernie] Sanders. And At The End Of The Day They Endorse Me Because They Know I Can Get Things Done.

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You Never Know In Retrospect Whether You Did Or Didn't Do Exactly The Right Thing, Stay-at-home Mothers, Gone-away Mothers, All Ofus Worry Whether We Should Have Done Something Differently Than We Did.

My Brand Of Leadership, Which Is Very Focused On Bringing People Together, Solving Problems - It's What I Have Always Tried To Do - Just Had A Hard Time Being As Powerfully Compelling In The Campaign As I Think It Has Been In Previous Years For Other Candidates.

I Have Not Supported Same-sex Marriage. I Have Supported Civil Partnerships And Contractual Relationships.

I Think If You Had A Capital-gains System Where The Long, Patient Capital Would Actually Be Rewarded, Nanosecond Capital Turning Would Not Be.

Our Lives Are A Mixture Of Different Roles. Most Of Us Are Doing The Best We Can To Find Whatever The Right Balance Is . . . For Me, That Balance Is Family, Work, And Service.

What I Found When I Became Secretary Of State Was A Lot Of Doubts And A Lot Of Concerns And Fears From Friends, Allies, Around The World.

One Of The Problems, Frankly, The Republicans Seem To Have Had Is They Don't Like His [donald Trump] Personality, His Tactics, But They Basically Agree With Him On So Many Of The Issues.

Well, I'm Just Quoting You When You [donald Trump] Were Asked About A Potential Nuclear Competition In Asia, You Said, You Know, Go Ahead, Enjoy Yourselves, Folks.

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