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28 Times Hillary Clinton Attacked Her Opponent, Donald Trump

Direct quotes from Hillary Clinton on her opponent in the 2016 Election, Donald J. Trump
Jacob Geers
August 30, 2016
“Still, we know that people are working harder and longer just to keep their heads above water. And to deal with the costs, the everyday costs, the costs of basics like childcare and prescription drugs that are too high. College is getting more expensive every day. And wages are still too low and inequality is too great. Good jobs in this country are still too hard to come by.

Now these problems are serious — but I know we can overcome them together. I really believe in this country because I believe in the American people. America’s economy isn’t yet where we want it to be — but we are stronger and better positioned than anyone in the world to build the future you and your children deserve.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Economy, Inequality, Healthcare, Childcare, 2016 Election
“And I have spent my adult life working to even the odds for people who’ve had the odds stacked against them. I helped break down barriers to education for poor and disabled children as a young lawyer; fought for health insurance for all, and have been committed to that since my days as First Lady; I worked to bring opportunity back to upstate New York as Senator; and went to bat for American workers and American businesses as your Secretary of State.

And everything I’ve learned, and everything I’ve done, has convinced me that we are stronger when we grow together.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election
“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 weeks ago, I said his foreign policy proposals and reckless statements represent a danger to our national security. But you might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he’d be better prepared to handle the economy. Well it turns out, he’s dangerous there, too.


Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, Economy, National Security
“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, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Donald Trump
“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 someone who thinks highly of women who work, or who cares about helping parents balance work and family.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, Women's Issues, Economy
“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 would Trump do? He said he wants to wipe out the tough rules we put on big banks. He said they created — quote — ‘a very bad situation.’ Well he’s got it backwards. The ‘very bad situation’ was millions of families seeing their homes and savings disappear.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Wall Street, 2016 Election
“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 national debt by more than $30 trillion over 20 years. That’s ‘trillion’ with a ‘t.’ It’s much, much more than any nominee of either party has ever proposed. An economist described it with words ‘not even in the universe of the realistic.’


And how would he pay for all this debt? He said, and I quote, ‘I would borrow, knowing if the economy crashed, you could make a deal. It’s like, you know, you make a deal before you go into a poker game.’


Well actually, it’s not like that at all.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, National Debt
“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, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election
“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 outside of our country. 

On the other hand, Donald Trump never misses a chance to say that Americans, he’s talking about us, to say that Americans are losers and the rest of the world is laughing at us.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, United States, Economy
“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 rebuilding our schools or modernizing our energy grid.


He has no ideas how to strengthen Medicare or expand Social Security — in fact, his tax plan would endanger both.


He 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, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Donald Trump, Immigration, Economy, Education
“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, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Economy, 2016 Election, 2016 Election Jokes
“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 seem to end at Chapter 11. Go figure.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, 2016 Election Jokes
“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, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election
“And beyond that — this election will say something about who we are as a people. Donald Trump believes in the worst of us. He thinks we’re fearful, not confident. That we favor division, not unity; walls, not bridges; and yesterday, not tomorrow. He thinks the only way forward is to go back to a past prosperity that left a lot of people out.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, Immigration, Diversity
“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia.

He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties.

His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Donald Trump misses so much.

He doesn’t see the success of black leaders in every field…

The vibrancy of black-owned businesses…Or the strength of the black church… He doesn’t see the excellence of historically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive…And he certainly doesn’t have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“It takes a lot of nerve to ask people he’s ignored and mistreated for decades, ‘What do you have to lose?’ The answer is everything!”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“If Trump doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants.

Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’ – ‘C’ for ‘colored’ – and then rejected.

Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.

The pattern continued through the decades.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage.

Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as ‘the textbook definition of a racist comment.’

To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death.
The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution.

Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Don’t worry, some will say, as President, Trump will be surrounded by smart advisors who will rein in his worst impulses.

So when a tweet gets under his skin and he wants to retaliate with a cruise missile, maybe cooler heads will be there to convince him not to.

Maybe.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. ‘We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,’ one white supremacist said.

Duke laughed. There’s still more work to do, he said.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“At a recent high school basketball game in Indiana, white students held up Trump signs and taunted Latino players on the opposing team with chants of ‘Build the wall!’ and ‘Speak English.’

After a similar incident in Iowa, one frustrated school principal said, ‘They see it in a presidential campaign and now it's OK for everyone to say this.’

We wouldn’t tolerate that kind of behavior in our own homes. How can we stand for it from a candidate for president?”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out.

The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims ‘love America just as much as I do.’

In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator McCain made sure they knew – Barack Obama is an American citizen and ‘a decent person.’

We need that kind of leadership again.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain