“I have a lot of respect for the first lady and the job she has done for the American people over the last seven-and-a-half years, but I don't understand the basis of her claim.”— Mike Pence, newsmax.com
“The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD”— Donald Trump, twitter.com
“Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure. I’ll look for . . . well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American. I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anyth…”— Steve Webb, bostonglobe.com
“The media is indeed sick, and it’s making our country sick, and we’re going to stop it.”— Donald Trump, bostonglobe.com
“If [Hillary Clinton] is in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it. We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would…”— Dan Bowman, bostonglobe.com
“Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin bottle they have chosen to toss through the window.”— David Gelernter, wsj.com
“We believe that Ms. Clinton will prove a worthy example to girls who celebrate the election of America’s first female president. We believe, too, that anyone who votes for her will be able to look back, four years from now, with pride in that decision.”— The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com
“Mr. Trump, by contrast, has shown himself to be bigoted, ignorant, deceitful, narcissistic, vengeful, petty, misogynistic, fiscally reckless, intellectually lazy, contemptuous of democracy and enamored of America’s enemies. As president, he would pose a grave danger to the nation and the world.”— The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com
“We did what the law allows. We published newsworthy information about a subject of deep public concern. If Mr. Trump disagrees, if he believes the American people have no right to hear what these women have to say and that the law of this country forces us and those who would dare criticize him to s…”— David McCraw, twitter.com
“Take a look, you take a look, look at her, look at her words — you tell me what you think. I don't think so.”— Donald Trump, cnn.com
“If you vote for Donald Trump, you'll see something. And you'll be so happy, so thrilled.”— Donald Trump, facebook.com
“I have to tell you that I can't stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way I couldn't have predicted. So while I'd love nothing more than to pretend that this isn't happening, and come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous for me to jus…”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“We saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women, and I can't believe I am saying that a candidate for President of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“The fact is: in this election we have a candidate for President of the United States who over the course of his lifetime and the course of this campaign has said things about women that are so shocking, so demeaning, that I will simply not repeat anything here today.”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“We need to recover from our shock and depression, and do what women have always done in this country: we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Because remember this: when they go low, we go high.”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else...And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it. [...] Is everyone okay? You know they’re standing there with no clothes.…”— Donald Trump, washingtonpost.com
“Just because you draw big crowds doesn't mean you're winning the election. If all you needed to win was a big crowd of people, our next president would be Ikea on a Saturday.”— Seth Meyers, salon.com
“Utah Republicans were perceptive enough to reject Trump in their March presidential caucus voting. Were they to support Clinton now, even by the narrowest of pluralities, it would send a strong message to the Republican Party to turn their backs on Trumpism and to work with Clinton where they can, r…”— The Salt Lake Tribune, sltrib.com