“I’m a cook. Inclusion is how I make a living. I feed the few, but I want to feed the many. I want everyone at the same table. Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone. Please, pass the salsa!”— José Andrés, washingtonian.com
“Someone wants to make America great again. Who are you? Where have you been? Maybe he skipped history class. America has always been great!”— José Andrés, washingtonian.com
“And I promise you this. Together we’re going to prove that we can make the future what it should be for all of you; that there is a positive, optimistic, confident America out there; that America’s best days are ahead of us, not the dark and divisive vision of my opponent, but one in keeping with wh…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“Trump even had the nerve – this is what kills me about him – he even had the nerve to brag about how American steel will send new skyscrapers soaring. And the whole time he was hiding the truth. Hiding the fact that he chose to buy illegally-dumped Chinese steel instead of American steel. You know,…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“What that meant was Trump paid zero, zero for the military, zero for our vets, zero for Pell Grants to help a lot of you afford college and get through college. And then he did something that, in retrospect, seemed both odd and not very smart. He brought in Warren Buffett. He said, ‘Well, everybody…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“And please, never forget America is great because America is good, and if we deviate, if we deviate from our fundamental values – and that’s indeed the kind of campaign my opponent has run. He has said he would order our men and women in uniform to commit war crimes. He has said he would impose a re…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“We don’t have to make America great. We’ve got to do what we can to make sure it remains great and it becomes greater because we keep broadening that circle of opportunity.”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“You know what’s at stake, but you also know what you believe. And you don’t want someone who says that he’s going to appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse marriage equality; who will – who will keep Citizens United, one of the worst decisions ever made, that allowed dark, unaccountable mon…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“Yes, [Trump] has insulted and demeaned women; we’ve seen it over and over again. But he has targeted others as well. He’s disrespected and denigrated African Americans and Latinos, Muslims and POWs, people with disabilities and immigrants. He is an equal-opportunity insulter if there ever was one. T…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“When I think about the challenges that we’re facing, I don’t think any one person has all the answers. I think we have to listen to each other and respect each other and celebrate our diversity, because that makes us smarter as well as stronger.”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“I want to be a president for all Americans. I think the American dream is big enough for everybody. And I am honored to have support, not just from Democrats, but from independents and Republicans, because we’ve got to pull this country together if we’re going to move into the future together, creat…”— Hillary Clinton, dispatch.com
“I’ve been very lucky and I’ve led a great life. Now, I want to give back to the country which I love so much and has been so good to me. I want to go into the inner cities, the poorer rural communities, and the failing schools and I want to work with a national plan of revitalization.”— Donald Trump, time.com
“My job is to look at undeveloped spaces and imagine what they could be. These are spaces that have no hope, have no future, but you need imagination and you need the ability to get them done and to unlock their potential and to unlock the potential of the people working on those spaces and on those…”— Donald Trump, time.com
“And now, it was just announced yesterday that Obamacare is in free fall, with premiums going up massively in places like the great state of Arizona, going up over 100 percent in cost. Unaffordable, unusable and doesn’t work, even if you can afford it. The American people know what this election is a…”— Donald Trump, time.com
“2016 is a year that has challenged political norms and traditional coalitions, something that is evident in Gaston County. The faultlines in America, this election has shown, are between white and nonwhite and increasingly between those with a college education and those without it.”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“Gaston County is made up of cities and towns filled with modest homes and businesses. Most of its roughly 200,000 residents are white, and more than half of people aged 25 and over have attended at least some college. In 2012, Mitt Romney won the suburban county easily, 62 percent to President Obama…”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“In the 30-plus years that Bill and Hillary have been in the public eye, we’ve bristled at the way transparency always seems to be an inconvenience to them. They constantly want to work for the public, yet lose their shit when that same public wants accountability. We’re well beyond ‘right-wing consp…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“I think Hillary Clinton has operated in the upper-stratosphere of public life for so long, that I generally feel like she doesn’t quite understand the optics of everything she does. She’s obviously a very smart woman, but the cocoon of government and power seems to have skewed her perspective on wha…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“The State Department, noticing gaps in their files, actually sent official letters to former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton, asking for additional records. In response, Clinton and her team released 55,000 pages of emails that were relate…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“The constant term thrown around is that Clinton was running a secret email server, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Hillary Clinton’s email address was visible to anyone who received a message from her — or anyone on her staff. The idea that this was some clandestine move by Clinton to m…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com