“Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out. The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims ‘love America just as much as I do.’ In 2008, John McCain told…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bob Dole, George W. Bush
“At a recent high school basketball game in Indiana, white students held up Trump signs and taunted Latino players on the opposing team with chants of ‘Build the wall!’ and ‘Speak English.’ After a similar incident in Iowa, one frustrated school principal said, ‘They see it in a presidential campaign…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now. On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. ‘We appear to hav…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Don’t worry, some will say, as President, Trump will be surrounded by smart advisors who will rein in his worst impulses. So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will be there to convince him not to. Maybe.”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution. Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death. The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage. Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as ‘the textbook definition of a racist comment.’ To this day, he’s never apologize…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants. Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’ – ‘C’ for ‘colored’ – and then rejected. Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court b…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“If Trump doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military.”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Donald Trump misses so much. He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field… The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…Or the strength of the black church… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thr…”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.”— Hillary Clinton, politico.comTagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump