“In America, we don’t begrudge people being successful — but we know they shouldn’t do it by destroying other people’s dreams.”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“My late father was a small businessman. If his customers had done what Trump did, my dad would never have made it. So, I take this personally.”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“I think Donald Trump has said he’s qualified to be President because of his business record. A few days ago, he said, and I quote, ‘I’m going to do for the country what I did for my business.’ So let’s take a look at what he did for his business. He’s written a lot of books about business — they all…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Donald Trump has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises. But then maybe we shouldn’t expect better from someone whose most famous words are, ‘You’re fired.'”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“The King of Debt has no real plan for making college debt payable back or making college debt free, this is a crisis that affects so many of our people. He has no credible plan for rebuilding our infrastructure, apart from the wall that he wants to build. Personally I’d rather spend our money on reb…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“I honestly believe that the difference between us is not just about policy. We have fundamentally different views of whether America is strong or weak. See I believe in the ingenuity and productivity of our workers. I know we can sell our products to the 95 percent of global consumers who live outsi…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Instead of causing large-scale misery and shrinking our economy, we should pass sensible immigration reform with a path to citizenship. Because the youth, the youth and diversity of our workforce is one of our greatest assets. Most of the rest of the world that we compete with is aging, so by stayin…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Now maybe Donald feels differently because he made a fortune filing bankruptcies and stiffing his creditors. I’ll get to his business practices in a minute, but the United States of America doesn’t do business Trump’s way.”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Now, I have a plan to pay for all my proposals, because I take America’s long-term financial health seriously. Donald Trump has a different approach. He calls himself the King of Debt. And his tax plan sure lives up to that name. According to the independent Tax Policy Center, it would increase the…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“After the 2008 crisis, President Obama fought to enact the toughest, most comprehensive set of Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression. They’re designed to protect consumers and ensure that Wall Street can never again take the kinds of risks that crashed our economy the last time. So what wou…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Over the years, Donald Trump has said all kinds of things about women in the workforce. He once called pregnant employees — and I quote — ‘an inconvenience.’ He says women will start making equal pay as soon as we do as good a job as men — as if weren’t already. Now these are the words not of someon…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Every day, we see how reckless and careless Trump is. He’s proud of it. Well — that’s his choice. Except when he’s asking to be our President. Then it’s our choice.”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“But today, I want to talk about what Donald Trump is promising to do to the economy. After more than a year, it’s important that he be held accountable for what he says he’ll do as President. And we need to clear the way for a real conversation about how to improve the lives of working people. A few…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Donald Trump is a clown — literally, he could be in the circus. He’s getting huge support from people who are angry at everything. Mostly white males. Working-class, middle-class, poor white males. And their wives and traditional families. They are furious about everything.”— Noam Chomsky, rawstory.com
“Our original Constitution did not even have an income tax. Instead, it had tariffs - emphasizing taxation of foreign, not domestic, production. Yet today, 240 years after the Revolution, we have turned things completely upside-down. We tax and regulate and restrict our companies to death, then we al…”— Donald Trump, politico.com
“I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being s…”— Kevin Drum, motherjones.com
“‘This is a dark day,’ he said. ‘But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.”— Andy Borowitz, newyorker.com
“Latino support of Trump is almost what I call social schizophrenia. That’s when you should understand that this movement is so totally against your own interest, however, you don’t have the common sense, the self-worth or the knowledge to see things the way they are.”— Mona Llamas, latimes.com
“Robin Abcarian: Trump's rhetoric about Mexicans doesn’t bother you? Mary Jennings: It’s about illegal aliens! Mom and I can’t go to Canada and just squat and get benefits. We couldn’t go to Mexico either without the proper paperwork. They’d put us in jail!”— Robin Abcarian, latimes.com
“In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”— Barack Obama, vox.com