“How far is it from Trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter in El Paso declaring quote, 'this attack as a response to Hispanic invasion of Texas'. How far apart are those comments? How far is it from white supremacists in Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville? Trump’s very fine people chanting 'you wi…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“What this president doesn’t understand is that like every other nation on earth, we’re unable to define what constitutes America by religion, by ethnicity, or by tribe. You can’t do it. America’s an idea. An idea stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyran…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“Trump offers no moral leadership and seems to have no interest in unifying this nation. No evidence that the presidency has awakened his conscience in the least. Indeed, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism, and d…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“American presidents have stepped up in the past. George H. W. Bush renouncing his membership in the NRA. President Clinton after Oklahoma City. George W. Bush going to a mosque after 9/11, President Obama after Charleston. Presidents who led, who oppose, chose to fight for what the best of American…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“His own FBI director recently testified to Congress that extreme right-wing groups, white nationalists posed the greatest threat to racially motivated domestic terrorism. And what has Trump done? He’s poured fuel on the fire. He’s retweeted postings from extremists and white nationalists. He’s cutti…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“I don’t think it’s that far at all. It is both clear language and in code, this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. His low energy, vacant eyed mouthing the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don’t believe fooled anyone at home or abroad. H…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“After Trump tweeted his go back [inaudible], the leading Nazi website, Neo Nazi website said, 'this is the kind of nationalism we elected him for'. He knows it. He saw it, and on 8chan, a haven for radicalism on the internet where a declaration of hate linked to El Paso shooter was posted. One comme…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“When he said after Charlottesville there were, and I quote, 'very fine people on both sides', I said, then it gave license and safe harbor to white supremacists and Neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. These words not only stunned America, but they stunned the world and in doing so, he has signed a moral…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“Mr. President, release your tax returns. Let's see how straight you are, okay old buddy? I put out 21 years of mine. So show us your tax returns, bud— wh— what are you hiding? You wanna deal with corruption? Start to act like it. Release your tax returns or shut up.”— Joe Biden, cbsnews.com
“Charlottesville was no isolated incident. When Trump announced he was running for president, he called Mexicans rapists. Days before the midterm, he formatted fears of a caravan heading to United States creating hysteria when he said, 'Look, look, some marching up. This is an invasion, an invasion.'…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“You don’t stand with the working class when you try to throw 32 million people off of health insurance. You don’t stand with the working class of this country when 83% of the tax benefits that you push for, that you succeeded in getting, go to the top 1% at the end of 10 years. You’re not standing w…”— Bernie Sanders, rollingstone.com
“Trump will accept the election results and when I defeat him, I will become the president of the United States.”— Bernie Sanders, theintercept.com
“We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. And it’s not just the racism and the pathological lying and the sexism and the homophobia of Donald Trump. It goes beyond that. And I’m the only candidate I think who talks about this consistently.”— Bernie Sanders, rollingstone.com
“Half of the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck. Car breaks down, they’re in severe trouble. They can’t afford to go to the doctor. Those are the folks we have to start paying attention to. And when we do that, you’ll defeat Donald Trump.”— Bernie Sanders, rollingstone.com
“I think keeping your word matters. I’m not the kind of guy who is going to make a commitment and then the moment it’s inconvenient, politically or otherwise, just break it. Right now, we’ve got a president who breaks a promise or tells a lie every day and does [not] seem to care about codes, norms,…”— Pete Buttigieg, theatlantic.com
“Another way to think of it is this: Americans usually want something along the lines of the opposite of whatever we’ve just had in the Presidency. And I might be the one person who can say that, whether it’s President Trump or President Pence, I represent the opposite of what we have just had.”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“The core principle for me is not whether or not the government is your health-insurance provider. The core principle for me is that you get covered one way or the other. That’s what Medicare for All Who Want It entails.”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“Well, the day that Nixon resigned, I’m told, he had about twenty-five per cent of the country with him. So I think we can assume that there’s at least twenty-five per cent that you’re just not going to reach. That still leaves an awful lot of people.”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“Each passing day brings more pain for the people most directly hurt by this president.”— Rashida Tlaib, thenation.com