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When I Was In The Senate, I Had Eight Great Years Working With The Community On Major Issues, Trying To Deal With Problems That People Brought To My Attention. That's Certainly What I Intend To Do As President. I Think That Is What President Obama Has Done.

-Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Clinton

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When I Was In The Senate, I Had Eight Great Years Working With The Community On Major Issues, Trying To Deal With Problems That People Brought To My Attention. That's Certainly What I Intend To Do As President. I Think That Is What President Obama Has Done.

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Second Amendment

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We Need To Make It Very Clear - Whether It's Russia, China, Iran Or Anybody Else - The United States Has Much Greater Capacity. And We Are Not Going To Sit Idly By And Permit State Actors To Go After Our Information, Our Private-sector Information Or Our Public-sector Information.

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I Just Want To Sleep And Exercise And Travel For Fun. And Relax. It Sounds So Ordinary, But I Haven't Done It For 20 Years.

I Have Written A Book It's Called "stronger Together."

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I Intend To Be A Leader Of America That People Can Count On, Both Here At Home And Around The World, To Make Decisions That Will Further Peace And Prosperity, But Also Stand Up To Bullies, Whether They're Abroad Or At Home.

I Think I've Set Some Big Goals. The American People Haven't Had A Raise In 15 Years. Getting Incomes Up Is A Huge Goal. Now Maybe It's Not As Exciting To Some People, But It's A Huge Goal.

It's Not Right That Donald Trump Can Ignore His Debts, But Students And Families Can't Refinance Theirs.

We Are Stronger Together. We Are Stronger Together In Facing Our Internal Challenges And Our External Ones.

It's Just A Fact That If You're A Young African-american Man And You Do The Same Thing As A Young White Man, You Are More Likely To Be Arrested, Charged, Convicted, And Incarcerated. So We've Got To Address The Systemic Racism In Our Criminal Justice System.

Such Pushy People, The School Union Chiefs.it's Almost Not Worth The Campaign Donations. Almost.

I Have The Experience We Need To Make The Changes We Want And I Think That's A Winning Case.

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Sometimes There's Not A Direct Transfer Of Skills From Business To Government, But Sometimes What Happened In Business Would Be Really Bad For Government.

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 Colin Powell Showed Up As Secretary Of State In 2001, Most State Department Employees Still Didn't Even Have Computers On Their Desks. When I Got There They Were Not Mostly Permitted To Have Handheld Devices. I Mean, So You're Thinking How Do We Operate In This New Environment Dominated By Technology, Globalizing Forces? We Have To Change, And I Can't Expect People To Change If I Don't Try To Model It And Lead It.

Gay People Are Born Into, And Belong To, Every Society In The World. They Are All Ages, All Races, All Faiths. They Are Doctors And Teachers, Farmers And Bankers, Soldiers And Athletes. And Whether We Know It Or Whether We Acknowledge It, They Are Our Family, Our Friends, And Our Neighbors. Being Gay Is Not A Western Invention. It Is A Human Reality.

I Do. You Know, I Made A Mistake Using A Private E- Mail.

Today We Voted As Democrats And Republicans. Tomorrow We Begin Again As New Yorkers.

I Count My Blessings Every Single Day That I Am An American.

I, For One, Respect Those Who Believe With All Their Hearts And Conscience That There Are No Circumstances Under Which Any Abortion Should Ever Be Available.

A Political Life, I've Often Said, Is A Continuing Education In Human Nature, Including One's Own. My Involvement On The Ground Floor Of Two Presidential Campaigns And My Duties As First Lady Took Me To Every State In Our Union And To Seventy-eight Nations. In Each Place, I Met Someone Or Saw Something That Caused Me To Open My Mind And My Heart And Deepen My Understanding Of The Universal Concerns That Most Of Humanity Shares.

When You're President, You Can't Vote Present. You Have To Make A Decision. Sometimes It's A Split Second Decision. You Don't Have Time To Think About It. You've Got To Actually Decide.

If I Didn't Kick His Ass Every Day? He Wouldn't Be Worth Anything.

If The People Of The Middle East Are Not Sure What Democracy Means, Let Them Look To Israel.

The Facts Are - I Did Say I Hoped It [trans-pacific Partnership] Would Be A Good Deal, But When It Was Negotiated Which I Was Not Responsible For, I Concluded It Wasn't. I Wrote About That In My Book.

What I Have Proposed Would Cut Regulations And Streamline Them For Small Businesses.

There's A Lot That The Majority, A Big Majority Of The American People Want To See Us Do And I'm Very Excited About That Work. I Think The Democratic Party Has A Record Of Being Better For The Economy When We Hold The White House.

There's A Certain Consistency To Who I Am And What I Do, And I Think People Have Finally Said, 'well, You Know, I Kinda Get Her Now.' I've Actually Had People Say That To Me.

Part Of Diplomacy, The Hard Work Of Diplomacy Is Trying To Extract Whatever Concessions You Can Get, And Giving Something The Other Side Wants. Of Course You've Got To Try To Make Peace With, And Work With Those Who Are Your Adversaries, But You Don't Just Rush In, Open The Door, And Say, "here I Am. Let's Talk And Make A Deal."

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