Clinton on the cost of her proposals:
Especially with health care, this is not about math. This is about people’s lives.
Sanders, denying that he wants to dismantle the Affordable Care Act:
In my view, health care is a right of all people, not a privilege, and I will fight for that.
Sanders, resisting Clinton’s attempts to price out her policy proposals:
Senator Clinton, you are not in the White House yet.
Clinton, speaking to Wisconsin Democrats:
And Senator Sanders’ plan really rests on making sure that governors like Scott Walker contribute $23 billion on the first day to make college free. I’m a little skeptical about your governor actually caring enough about higher education to make any kind of commitment like that.
Clinton on getting the support of female voters:
I have spent my entire adult life working toward making sure that women are empowered to make their own choices, even if that choice is not to vote for me.
Sanders on the need from criminal justice reform:
Today a male African-American baby born today stands a 1 in 4 chance of ending up in jail. That is beyond unspeakable.
Sanders, explaining how trade policies fuel racial resentment:
No one thinks working in a factory is the greatest job in the world, but you can make a middle class wage. Decent health care, decent benefits. You once had a pension. Those jobs, in many cases, are now gone. They’re off to China.
Sanders on expanding protections for seniors:
You know, you judge a nation not by the number of millionaires and billionaires it has but by how you treat, we treat, the most vulnerable and fragile people in our nation. And by those standards, we’re not doing particularly well.
Clinton on dark money:
The Koch brothers have a very clear political agenda. It is an agenda, in my view, that would do great harm to our country.
Clinton on what campaign contributions don’t do:
[President Obama] was the recipient of the largest number of donations ever. When it mattered, he stood up and took on Wall Street. He pushed through and he passed the Dodd-Frank regulation, the toughest regulations since the 1930s. So let’s not imply here that either president Obama or myself would not take on any vested interest… to stand up to do what's best for the American people!
Sanders on where campaign contributions do go:
Why does the fossil fuel industry pay huge amounts of money in contributions? Any connection to the fact that not one Republican candidate for president thinks and agrees with the scientific community that climate change is real and that we have got to transform our energy system?
Clinton on domestic counterterrorism efforts:
We need to understand that American Muslims are on the front line of our defense. They are more likely to know what’s happening in their families and their communities, and they need to feel not just invited but welcomed within the American society.
Clinton on voting records:
I do not believe a vote in 2002 is a plan to defeat ISIS in 2016. It's very important we focus on the threats we face today.
Sanders on one of Clinton’s “friends”:
I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country. I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.
Sanders on responding to humanitarian crises:
Given our history as a nation that has been a beacon of hope for the opposed, for the downtrodden… I very strongly disagree with those Republican candidates that say, You know what, we’ve got to turn our backs on women and children who left their homes with nothing, nothing at all. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Clinton on Sanders’ criticism of Obama:
I don’t think [Obama] gets the credit he deserves for being a president who dug us out of that ditch, put us on firm ground, and himself sent us into the future… The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans. I do not expect [it] from someone running for the democratic nomination to succeed president Obama.
Clinton’s closing statement spoke directly to Wisconsin politics, while Sanders didn’t really seem attuned to the local political environment. This could be read a couple of ways, though: as Clinton being carefully handled, or as Sanders taking the 10,000-foot view of politics.
Closing statements
Bernie Sanders:
“One of us ran against Barack Obama - I was not that candidate. This has been a great debate - lot of interesting issues have come together. Let me conclude by just saying this: There is no president, in my view, not Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders, who has the capability or the power to take on Wall Street, large campaign donors, the corporate media, the big money interests in this country alone. This campaign is not just about electing a president. What this campaign is about is creating a process for a political revolution in which millions of Americans, working people who have given up on the political process... tens of millios of people, together to demand that we have a government that represents all of us - and not just the one percent who today have so much economic and political power.”
Hillary Clinton:
“I am not a single-issue candidate, and I do not believe that we live in a single-issue country,” Clinton says. “Does Wall Street and big financial interests, along with drug companies, insurance companies, Big Oil, have too much influence? Right.” But even if that influence were to evaporate, other issues of inequality wouldn’t disappear. “We would still have LGBT people who get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday,” she says. “I don’t think our country can live up to its potential unless we give a chance to let every single American to live up to their potential/”
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