"Magic Words"
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that, once uttered, will stop terrorists from coming after us? Trump, as usual, is obsessed with name-calling.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“So there’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point; it’s not a strategy.”
Osama bin Laden
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“In the end, it didn’t matter what we called bin Laden — it mattered that we got bin Laden.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“If the implication is that those of us up here and the thousands of people around the country and around the world who are working to defeat ISIL aren’t taking the fight seriously, that would come as a surprise to those who have spent these last seven and a half years dismantling al Qaeda in the FATA, for example — including the men and women in uniform who put their lives at risk and the Special Forces that I ordered to get bin Laden and are now on the ground in Iraq and in Syria.”
American Ideals
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“I’ve talked before about how this approach is un-American. It goes against everything we stand for as a country founded on religious freedom.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“Because that’s not the America we want. It doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals. … It makes Muslim Americans feel like their government is betraying them. It betrays the very values America stands for.”
How Trump's Words Are "Dangerous"
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“It goes against everything we stand for as a country founded on religious freedom. But it is also dangerous. First, we rely on partners in Muslim countries to fight terrorists; this would make it harder. Second, we need to build trust in Muslim communities here at home to counter radicalization; and this would make it harder. Third, Trump’s words will be, in fact they already are, a recruiting tool for ISIS to help increase its ranks of people willing to do what we saw in Orlando.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“It won’t make us more safe; it will make us less safe — fueling ISIL’s notion that the West hates Muslims, making young Muslims in this country and around the world feel like no matter what they do, they’re going to be under suspicion and under attack. It makes Muslim Americans feel like their government is betraying them. It betrays the very values America stands for. ”
Letting The Terrorists Win
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“And fourth, he’s turning Americans against Americans, which is exactly what ISIS wants.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“And then the terrorists would have won. And we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.”
Distractions
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“These are demonstrably lies. But he feels compelled to tell them — because he has to distract us from the fact that he has nothing substantive to say for himself.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“This is a political distraction.”
Gun Sales And The "No-Fly" List
Hillary Clinton (June 14)
“It just seems like western Pennsylvania common sense, if you’re too dangerous to get on a plane, you’re too dangerous to buy a gun.”
Barack Obama (June 14)
“People with possible ties to terrorism who aren’t allowed on a plane shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun.”