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Whether A Woman's Running For Office Or She's Supporting Her Husband Who's Running For Office And She Gets Criticised For Wearing Open-toed Shoes Or For The Colour Of Her Coat, There's Just A Lot Of History That You Bear If You Are A Woman Who Puts Herself Out In The Political Arena.

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Hillary Clinton

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Whether A Woman's Running For Office Or She's Supporting Her Husband Who's Running For Office And She Gets Criticised For Wearing Open-toed Shoes Or For The Colour Of Her Coat, There's Just A Lot Of History That You Bear If You Are A Woman Who Puts Herself Out In The Political Arena.

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Many Americans Are Feeling, You Know, Shut Out, Shut Down, The Great Recession Hasn't Ended For Too Many Americans, Wages Are Flat, Families Are Struggling, Not Enough New Jobs, Or New Businesses Are Being Created, And It's Important That We All Try To Figure Out What We're Going To Do, And That's What I've Done My Entire Life, Fighting For A Higher Minimum Wage, Or Family Leave, Now Paid Family Leave Which I Believe In, Equal Pay For Equal Work.

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It Wasn't The Best Choice. I Made A Mistake. It Was Not Prohibited. It Was Not In Any Way Disallowed. And As I Have Said And As Now Has Come Out, My Predecessors Did The Same Thing And Many Other People In The Government.

There Are Resources To Help And Simple Steps That Parents, Preschools, Businesses, And Communities Can Take To Help Our Kids Succeed, Because We're All In This Together, And That's What The Too Small To Fail Initiative Is All About.

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We Regret Mistakes Were Made.

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There Are Many Ways To Be Influential. You Can Work For Politicians Or In Government And Make A Difference. And For Young Women Who Are Interested In Running For Office, You Just Have To Decide You're Going To Follow Eleanor Roosevelt's Maxim About Growing Skin As Thick As The Hide Of A Rhinoceros, And You Have To Be Incredibly Well-prepared - Better Prepared [than A Man], Actually - And You Have To Figure Out How You're Going To Present Yourself, And You Have To Have A Support Group Around You, Because It Can Be Really A Brutal Experience.

I Have Clearly Said We Faced Terrorist Enemies Who Use Islam To Justify Slaughtering Innocent People And We Have To Stop Them And We Will. We Have To Defeat Radical Jihadist Terrorism.

People Like Donald Trump Can Take All The Money That's Made From A Tv Show, From Selling Neckties Made In China, Running Golf Courses, And Wipe Out That Income For Tax Purposes With Depreciation. Only A Narrow Segment Of People Qualify For This.

We Can Do Better. ...we Can't Ignore The Inequalities That Persist In Our Justice System That Undermine Our Most Deeply Held Values Of Fairness And Equality.

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In The Aftermath Of September 11, And As The 9/11 Commission Report So Aptly Demonstrates, It Is Clear That Our Intelligence System Is Not Working The Way That It Should.

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We Ought To Be Doing All We Can To Make It Possible For Every Child To Fulfill His Or Her God-given Potential.

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One Thing We Know For Sure Is That Change Is Certain. Progress Is Not. Progress Depends On The Choices We Make Today For Tomorrow And On Whether We Meet Our Challenges And Protect Our Values.

The Harder They Hit, The More Encouraged I Get.

America Is The Only Developed Nation In The World With No Guaranteed Paid Leave Of Any Kind. That Means We're Leaving A Whole Lot Of Talent On The Sidelines.

If Planned Parenthood And Human Rights Campaign Were Part Of The Establishment, That Would Be Time For All Of Us To Just Quit Having To Work So Hard And Defend It And Fight For It.

I've Never Seen People As Physically Distraught As The Bush Administration Team Was Because Of What Was Happening To The Economy. I Personally Believe That The Steps That President Obama Took Saved The Economy. He Doesn't Get The Credit He Deserves For Taking Some Very Hard Positions. But It Was A Terrible Recession. So Now We've Dug Ourselves Out Of It, We're Standing, But We're Not Yet Running.

The Orlando Terrorist May Be Dead. But The Virus That Poisoned His Mind Remains Very Much Alive. And We Must Attack It With Clear Eyes, Steady Hands, Unwavering Determination And Pride In Our Country And Our Values.

When A New President Comes In, A New President Gets To Clean House.

We Know That Russian Intelligence Services, Which Is Part Of The Russian Government Which Is Under The Firm Control Of Vladimir Putin, Hacked Into The Dnc. And We Know That He Arranged For A Lot Of Those Emails To Be Released.

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It's Also Important That We Look At The Entire Global Situation. There's No Doubt That We Have Other Problems With Iran. But Personally, I'd Rather Deal With The Other Problems Having Put That Lid On Their Nuclear Program Than Still To Be Facing That.

In The Very First Debate I Was Asked Am I A Moderate Or A Progressive And I Said I'm A Progressive Who Likes To Get Things Done. Cherry Picking A Quote Here Or There Doesn't Change My Record Of Having Fought For Racial Justice, Having Fought For Kids Rights, Having Fought The Kind Of Inequities That Fueled My Interest In Service In The First Place Going Back To My Days In The Children's Defense Fund.

Americans Have Always Had Innovators And Entrepreneurs Who Built Real Companies And Create Real Value, But We Should Not And We Will Not Respect Those Who Get Rich By Cheating Everybody Else.

I Did Put Together The Coalition To Impose Sanctions. I Actually Started The Negotiations That Led To The Nuclear Agreement, Sending Some Much My Closest Aides To Begin The Conversations With The Iranians.

I Think Again We're Way Out Of Balance. We've Got To Rein In What Has Become Almost An Article Of Faith That Almost Anybody Can Have A Gun Anywhere At Any Time. And I Don't Believe That Is In The Best Interest Of The Vast Majority Of People.

I Want To Appoint Supreme Court Justices Who Understand The Way The World Really Works, Who Have Real-life Experience, Who Have Not Just Been In A Big Law Firm And Maybe Clerked For A Judge And Then Gotten On The Bench, But, You Know, Maybe They Tried Some More Cases, They Actually Understand What People Are Up Against.

I Think It's A Broader Target List Than Just Wall Street, And I Believe That We Have To Be Very Focused On How We Try To Take Back The Power And Increase The Empowerment Of The American People. And, I Think I Have That Kind Of Experience, Maybe Because They've Beat Me Up For So Many Years, And I Know Exactly How To Handle Them Because I've Been In The Arena With Them Time And Time Again.

I Would Say That When You Have A Big Dream Or You're Trying To Solve A Big Problem, There Will Always Be People Who Tell You That You Can't. Here's My Advice: Don't Listen.

I Grew Up In A Middle-class Family In The Middle Of America In The Middle Of The Last Century.

China Is Illegally Dumping Steel In The United States And Donald Trump Is Buying It To Build His Buildings, Putting Steelworkers And American Steel Plants Out Of Business. That's Something That I Fought Against As A Senator And That I Would Have A Trade Prosecutor To Make Sure That We Don't Get Taken Advantage Of By China On Steel Or Anything Else.

In Most Of The Usa, The Three Largest Health Insurance Companies In Each State Control 80 Percent Of The Market. No Wonder Premiums Are Going Up.

Donald Trump's Talking Down Our Democracy. And I, For One, Am Appalled That Somebody Who Is The Nominee Of One Of Our Two Major Parties Would Take That Kind Of Position.

When I Was A Senator From New York, I Represented And Worked With So Many Talented Principled People Who Made Their Living In Finance. But Even Thought I Represented Them And Did All I Could To Make Sure They Continued To Prosper, I Called For Closing The Carried Interest Loophole And Addressing Skyrocketing Ceo Pay. I Also Was Calling In '06, '07 For Doing Something About The Mortgage Crisis, Because I Saw Every Day From Wall Street Literally To Main Streets Across New York How A Well-functioning Financial System Is Essential.

A Nuclear-weapons Armed Iran Is Not In Anyone's Human-rights Interests. That Is A Direct Threat To The Lives And The Livelihoods And The Stability Not Only Of The Region But Beyond.

I Mean, Honestly, We Have To Be Clear That The Life For Many Afghan Women Is Not That Much Different Than It Was A Hundred Years Ago, 200 Years Ago. The Country Has Lived With So Much Violence And Conflict That Many People, Men And Women, Just Want It To Be Over.

I Will Not Let Somebody Who Traffics In Bigotry And Bullying Become President Of The United States.

I Prepared To Be President. And I Think That's A Good Thing.

On The Spending, Don't Forget Bridges And Roads. It's Like Puppies And Ice Cream - Who Doesn't Like Them?

I Want To Join Everyone In Expressing My Great Sympathy And Support For People Who Lost Loved Ones In This Terrible Terrorist Attack [in Orlando] And Everybody Still In The Hospital Who Is Struggling And All The First Responders.

The Most Important Thing I Have To Say To You Today Is That Hair Matters. Pay Attention To Your Hair, Because Everyone Else Will.

Every Nation Has To Either Be With Us Or Against Us. Those Who Harbor Terrorists Or Who Finance Them, Uh, Are Going To Pay A Price.

When I Was In The Senate, I Had A Number Of Trade Deals That Came Before Me, And I Held Them All To The Same Test. Will They Create Jobs In America? Will They Raise Incomes In America? And Are They Good For Our National Security? Some Of Them I Voted For.

When You Stumble, Keep Faith. And When You're Knocked Down, Get Right Back Up And Never Listen To Anyone Who Says You Can't Or Shouldn't Go On.

American Values Are Not Just About America, But They Speak To The Human Dignity, The God-given Spark That Resides In Each And Every Person Across The World.

I Have Met Thousands And Thousands Of Pro-choice Men And Women. I Have Never Met Anyone Who Is Pro-abortion. Being Pro-choice Is Not Being Pro-abortion. Being Pro-choice Is Trusting The Individual To Make The Right Decision For Herself And Her Family, And Not Entrusting That Decision To Anyone Wearing The Authority Of Government In Any Regard.

My Plan Is Based On Growing The Economy, Giving Middle-class Families Many More Opportunities. I Want Us To Have The Biggest Jobs Program Since World War Ii, Jobs In Infrastructure And Advanced Manufacturing.

Seen In The Context Of Donald Trump Having Committed Sales Tax Fraud In The Past, Which Is Indisputable, I Think That It's Reasonable For The American Public To Ask, Did You Go Beyond What's Lawful, Maybe Scandalously Lawful, But Lawful, And Violate The Law?

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