When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
— Maya Angelou
In a Democratic primary debate on February 26, 2008, [redacted] picked up the meme: "Last summer, [Obama] basically threatened to bomb Pakistan, ..."
— February 2008
“by 2004 [Barack Obama] was saying that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war.”— February 2008
"I want ... each and every member of the family to have health insurance," she said at a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. “My opponent only wants your children to have health insurance."
— February 2008
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
— March 2008
“I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before [Obama] did.”
— April 2008
It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."— May 2008
"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states,"
— May 2008
Yet [redacted] cynically told corporate executives at a 2011 State Department roundtable on investment opportunities in Iraq, “It’s time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity.”
— 2011
During her trip that year to India, [redacted] was asked about job outsourcing, and replied: “Well, it’s been going on for many years now, and it’s part of our economic relationship with India. And I think that there are advantages with it that have certainly benefited many parts of our country...”
— 2012
"This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field.”
— November 2012
"They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are, because there are concerns about whether all of them should be sent back," the potential 2016 presidential candidate said in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
— June 2014
“[Edward Snowden] broke the laws of the United States,” [redacted] said at the debate on Tuesday. “He could have been a whistleblower. He could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower. He could have raised all the issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive response to that.” — October 2015www.theguardian.com/...“I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in,” [redacted] said...
— November 2015
She added, "People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have a theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass."
— January 2016
"[Sanders] was against the auto bailout,"
— March 2016
“The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing, ..."
— March 2016
“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about H.I.V./AIDS back in the 1980s,” [redacted], who was attending Mrs. Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, Calif., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.”
— March 2016