Standout Quotes from the Presidential Debate

Last night the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, debated for 90 minutes at Hofstra University. Below is a list of standout quotes said by the two candidates taken from the National Public Radio’s transcript of the debate.

“The central question in this election is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we will build together.” -Hillary Clinton

“Under my plan I will be reducing taxes tremendously from thirty five percent to fifteen percent for companies, small and big businesses.” -Donald Trump

 

No wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.”Independent experts have looked at what I’ve proposed and looked at what Donald has proposed. And basically they have said this — that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over five trillion dollars and would, in some instances, disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose three and a half million jobs.” -Hillary Clinton 

“So I will tell you this, we have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs and we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentive to build new companies or to expand.” -Donald Trump

“There are different views about what’s good for our country, our economy and our leadership in the world. And I think it is important to look at what we need to do to get our economy going again. That’s why I said new jobs, with rising incomes, investments, not in more tax cuts that would add five trillion dollars to the debt.” -Hillary Clinton

“Your regulations are disaster, and you’re going to increase regulations all over the place. And by the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I’m very proud of it.” -Donald Trump

” What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy because they have made all the gains in the economy. And I think it’s time that the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share to support this country.” -Hillary Clinton

“Typical politician. All talk no action. Sounds good. Doesn’t work. Never going to happen. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms of what is going on. Now look, we have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression.” -Donald Trump 

“Or maybe he does not want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he has paid nothing in federal taxes because the only years that anybody has ever seen for a couple of years where he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license. And they showed he did not pay any federal income tax.” – Hillary Clinton

“Our airports are like from a Third World country. You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible — you come in from China — you see these incredible airports and you land… we become a Third World country.” -Donald Trump

“I’ve met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.” -Hillary Clinton

“We need law and order. If we don’t have it, we’re not going to have a country.” -Donald Trump

“But when it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said in my first budget we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by re- training a lot of our police officers.” -Hillary Clinton

“But stop and frisk had a tremendous impact on the safety of New York City, tremendous beyond belief, so when you say it has no impact, it really did.” -Donald Trump

“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president, and I think that’s a good thing.” – Hillary Clinton

” It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He even said, you know if there were nuclear war in East Asia well, you know, that’s fine, have a good time folks.” – Hillary Clinton

“We defend Germany. We defend South Korea. We defend Saudi Arabia. We defend countries. They do not pay us what they should be paying us because we are providing tremendous service and were losing a fortune.” -Donald Trump

“Well, as soon as he travels to one hundred and twelve countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, and opening of new opportunities and nations around the world or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.” – Hillary Clinton 

“Let me tell you, let me tell you. Hillary has experience but it’s bad experience. We have made so many bad deals during the last…so she’s got experience that I agree but it’s bad, bad experience.” -Donald Trump

“Well, one thing Lester, is you know, he tried to switch from looks to stamina but this is a man who is called women pigs, slobs, and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers.” -Hillary Clinton 

“I want to make America great again. We are a nation that is seriously troubled.” – Donald Trump 

The next debate will take place on October 9th in St. Louis, Missouri.