Quotes

Donald Trump

Trump's Quotes (section page):

• "I look at all of the polls, I do very, very well against Hillary Clinton. I can tell you, I’m the last person that she wants to run against." RD8

Middle East

• "I’m the only one up here, when the war of Iraq — in Iraq, I was the one that said, “Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East." RD8

• "I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding." RD8

Jobs and Business Policy

• "You wouldn’t have the Keystone pipeline that you want so badly without eminent domain...you wouldn’t have massive factories without eminent domain." RD8

• On Making Deals: "You have to get people in, grab them, hug them, kiss them, and get the deal done. But, it’s got to be the deal that you want." RD8

Immigration

• "I’m the first person that said, “Build a wall.” But I mean, a real wall, not a toy wall like they have right now. A real wall. And you’ll solve lots of problems." RD8

Health Policy

• "As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here." RD1

Tax Reform

• "These lenders aren't babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people that you think, OK?" RD1

Drug Policy

• On approval of medical marijuana: "I think medical marijuana: 100% percent" DTS

Ted Cruz

Cruz's Quotes (section page):

Middle East

• On Waterboarding: "It is enhanced interrogation, it is vigorous interrogation, but it does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture." RD8

Drug Policy

• On Illegal Drugs: "This is an absolute epidemic. We need leadership to solve it. Solving it has to occur at the state and local level with programs like A.A., and counseling, and churches and charities. But it also has to be securing the borders, because you have got Mexican cartels that are smuggling vast amounts of heroin into this country." RD8

Health Policy

• "If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare." RD7

Tax Reform

• On his tax plan: "It's a simple flat tax for everyone. It'll produce enormous economic growth, and it eliminates every mandate, every subsidy, so there's no subsidies for oil and gas, no subsidies for anyone." RD7

Jeb Bush

Bush's Quotes (section page):

Health Policy

• "[A]long with repealing Obamacare, we need to shift all of this power of healthcare, which is the most egregious form of federal power that is suppressing wages and incomes, and allow governors to have the Medicaid plans so that they can create 21st century Medicaid insurance for people that are stuck in poverty." RD8

Tax Reform

• "A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers." RD1

Drug Policy

• "The country’s massive heroin and illicit drug epidemic is compounded and fueled by sharp increases in the abuse of prescription painkillers. The problem is exacerbated by huge increases in the availability of cheap, highly potent heroin, primarily the result of Mexican drug cartels" JBS

Marco Rubio

Rubio's Quotes (section page):

• "That 2016 is not just a choice between Republican or Democrat. It is a referendum on our identity as a nation and as a people." RD8

Tax Reform

• "I am going to repeal every one of Barack Obama’s executive orders" MRS

Jobs and Business Policy

• "I don’t know why we have stigmatized vocational education. Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers." RD4

• "We need to repeal Dodd-Frank. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks" RD1

• "You know, a lot of business activity in America is conducted like the guy that does my dry cleaning. He's a small corporation. He pays on his personal rate, and he is paying higher than the big dry-cleaning chain down the street, because he's paying at his personal rate." RD3

Health Policy

• "Unless they are immune-suppressed for medical exceptions, but I believe all children should be vaccinated." MRI

John Kasich

Kasich's Quotes (section page):

Jobs and Business Policy

• "We work for the people. The people don't work for us. And we have to have an attitude when we're in government of serving-hood. That's what really matters. We serve you. You don't serve us. We listen to you and -- and then we act." RD7

Tax Reform

• "We ought to have politicians who not only have government experience but know how the CEOs and the job creators work." RD3

• "If I become President because we'll have a Constitutional Amendment to require a federally balanced budget so they will do their job." RD3

Drug Policy

• "Sending mixed signals to kids about drugs is a disaster. Drugs is one of the greatest scourge in this country" RD3

Bernie Sanders

Sanders' Quotes (section page):

Criminal Justice Reform

• "Whenever anybody in this country is killed while in police custody, it should automatically trigger a U.S. attorney general's investigation." DD4

Health Policy

• "People should be able to get the treatment that they need when they need it, not two months from now" DD4

Drug Policy

• "Why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there’s nothing that the government can do to stop it." DD5

Tax Reform

• "We have to make Congress respond to the needs of the people, not big money" DD4

• "I pay for it through a tax on Wall Street speculation. This country, and the middle class, bailed out Wall Street. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class." DD4

Jobs and Business Policy

• "You've got to bring back the 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation and you've got to break up these huge financial institutions." DD4

• "I find it very strange that a major financial institution that pays $5 billion in fines for breaking the law, not one of their executives is prosecuted, while kids who smoke marijuana get a jail sentence." DD4

Hillary Clinton

Clinton's Quotes (section page):

Drug Policy

• "We have to move away from treating the use of drugs as a crime and instead, move it to where it belongs, as a health issue" DD4

Health Policy

• "I want us to defend and build on the Affordable Care Act and improve it." DD4

• "The Republicans just voted last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and thank goodness, President Obama vetoed it and saved Obamacare for the American people." DD4

Jobs and Business Policy

• "Small businesses have to create most of the jobs, and we’re not creating and growing small businesses." DD5

Tax Reform

• "I’m not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it" DD5