Quotations in the News

“Thanks to you we’ve reached a milestone.” — Hillary Clinton, who claimed victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and will be the first woman to lead a major U.S. political party.

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“Our fight is to transform this country and to understand that we are in this together, to understand that all of what we believe is what the majority of the American people believe and to understand that the struggle continues.” — Bernie Sanders, who vowed to stay in the race until next month’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

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“I regret those comments he made. Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment.” — House Speaker Paul Ryan, who disavowed Donald Trump’s attacks on a federal judge hearing the lawsuit against his now-defunct real estate seminar company.