Donald Trump in Third 2016 Presidential Debate
On Abortion:
Overturn Roe v, Wade and return abortion laws to the states
Q: Do you want the court, including the justices that you will name, to overturn Roe v. Wade, which includes -- in fact, states -- a woman's right to abortion?TRUMP: Well, if that would happen, because I am pro-life, and I will be appointing
pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states. If we put another two or perhaps three justice on, that's really what's going to be. That'll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices
on the court. I will say this: It will go back to the states, and the states will then make a determination.
CLINTON: I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate decisions about her
health care that one can imagine. And in this case, it's not only about Roe v. Wade. It is about what's happening right now in America. So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Abortion:
Not acceptable to rip baby from womb in 9th month
CLINTON: [On partial-birth abortion]. Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account. The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often
the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make. I do not think the US government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. TRUMP: If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can rip the
baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, Hillary can say that that's OK. But it's not OK with me, because based on what she's saying, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month on the
final day. And that's not acceptable.
Q: Is it the government's business to be in that decision?
TRUMP: Honestly, nobody has business doing what I just said, doing that, as late as one or two or three or four days prior to birth. Nobody has that.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate, moderated by Chris Wallace
Oct 19, 2016
On Budget & Economy:
Economic machine to increase US growth rate to 5% or 6%
Q: Our national debt, as a share of GDP, is now 77%. That's the highest since just after World War II. Under Secretary Clinton's plan, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says, debt would rise to 86% of GDP over the next 10 years.
Mr. Trump, under your plan, it would rise to 105% of GDP over the next 10 years.TRUMP: Well, I say they're wrong, because I'm going to create tremendous jobs. And we're bringing GDP from, really, 1% [growth rate], which is what it is now, and if she
got in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1% up to 4%. And I actually think we can go higher than 4%. I think you can go to 5% or 6%. And if we do, you don't have to bother asking your question, because we will have created a
tremendous economic machine once again, the likes of which we haven't seen in many decades. And people will again go back to work, and we'll have companies that will grow and expand and start from new.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Budget & Economy:
We're dying at 1% GDP growth; we don't make things anymore
India is growing at 8%. China is growing at 7%. And that for them is a catastrophically low number. We are growing right around the 1% level. And I think it's going down.Last week, they came out with an anemic jobs report. Look, our country is
stagnant. We've lost our jobs. We've lost our businesses. We're not making things anymore, relatively speaking. Our product is pouring in from China, pouring in from Vietnam, pouring in from all over the world.
GDP is at 1% now, and if [Hillary] got
in, it will be less than zero. But we're bringing it from 1% up to 4%. And I actually think [with my economic plan] we can go higher than 4%. I think you can go to 5% or 6%. And if we do, you don't have to bother asking [about jobs], because we have a
tremendous machine. We will have created a tremendous economic machine once again. To do that, we're taking back jobs. We're not going to let our companies be raided by other countries where we lose all our jobs, we don't make our product anymore. I
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate, moderated by Chris Wallace
Oct 19, 2016
On Foreign Policy:
Condemn Russian & any country's involvement in our elections
Q: What about allegations of Russian involvement in this election?TRUMP: I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. He has no respect for our president. He has no respect for [Hillary Clinton].
CLINTON: Well, that's because he'd rather have a puppet as president of the United States.
TRUMP: No puppet. You're the puppet!
CLINTON: It's pretty clear you won't admit that the Russians have engaged in cyberattacks against the
United States of America, [but] we have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these cyberattacks come from the highest levels of the Kremlin and they are designed to influence our election.
TRUMP: She has no
idea whether it's Russia, China, or anybody else.
Q: Do you condemn any interference by Russia in the American election?
TRUMP: By Russia or anybody else. Let me tell you, Putin has outsmarted her and Obama at every single step of the way.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate, moderated by Chris Wallace
Oct 19, 2016
On Free Trade:
I disagreed with Ronald Reagan on trade; we need better
CLINTON: When I hear Donald's slogan, "Make America Great Again," I wonder when he thought America was great. And before he rushes and says, "You know, before you and President Obama were there," I think it's important to recognize that he has been
criticizing our government for decades. Back in 1987, he took out a $100,000 ad in the New York Times, during the time when President Reagan was president, and basically said exactly what he just says now, that we were the laughingstock of the world.
He was criticizing President Reagan. TRUMP: Because I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.
CLINTON: This is the way Donald thinks about himself, puts himself into the middle and says, "I alone can fix it," as he said on the convention stage.
TRUMP: Yeah, we've heard this before, Hillary. And frankly, now we're going to do it right.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Government Reform:
There are millions who should not be registered to vote
Q: Will you accept the results of this election?TRUMP: I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now. What I've seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt, and they've poisoned the mind of the voters. But
unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it. If you look at your voter rolls, you will see millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn't be registered to vote.
Q: But one of the prides of this country is the
peaceful transition of power and that no matter how hard-fought a campaign is, that at the end of the campaign that the loser concedes to the winner, Are you saying you're not prepared now to commit to that principle?
TRUMP: What I'm saying is that
I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. OK?
CLINTON: That's horrifying. You know, every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him. This is how Donald thinks.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Gun Control:
We need Supreme Court to stand up for the 2nd Amendment
We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege. I believe if my opponent should win this race, which I truly don't think will happen, we
will have a Second Amendment which will be a very, very small replica of what it is right now. But I feel that it's absolutely important that we uphold, because of the fact that it is under such trauma. The justices that I'm going to appoint will be
pro-life. They will have a conservative bent. They will be protecting the Second Amendment. They are great scholars in all cases, and they're people of tremendous respect. They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted.
And I believe that's very, very important.I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Health Care:
ObamaCare collapses under its own weight if we don't repeal
One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare. It's destroying our country. It's destroying our businesses. You take a look at the kind of numbers that that will cost us in the year '17, it is a disaster.
It's probably going to die of its own weight. But Obamacare has to go. The premiums are going up 60 , 70 , 80 percent. Bad health care at the most expensive price. We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On Immigration:
Amnesty is unfair to people waiting on line for years
Clinton wants to give amnesty, which is a disaster and very unfair to all of the people that are waiting on line for many, many years. We need strong borders. In the audience tonight, we have four mothers whose children have been killed,
brutally killed by people that came into the country illegally. You have thousands of mothers and fathers and relatives all over the country. They're coming in illegally. Drugs are pouring in through the border. We have no country if we have no border.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Immigration:
We have some bad hombres here; I'll get them out
I was up in New Hampshire the other day. The single biggest problem is heroin that pours across our southern border. It's just pouring and destroying their youth. It's poisoning the blood of their youth and plenty of other people. We have to have strong
borders. We have to keep the drugs out of our country. We are getting the drugs, they're getting the cash. We need strong borders. We cannot give amnesty. I want to build the wall. We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
On Principles & Values:
Debunked women fictionalized stories about sexual harassment
CLINTON: At the last debate, we heard Trump talking about what he did to women [on a "hot mic" tape]. And after that, a number of women have come forward saying that's exactly what he did to them.
Now, what was his response? Well, he held a number of big rallies where he [denounced the women making claims, and]
attacked the woman reporter writing the story, called her "disgusting," as he has called a number of women during this campaign.TRUMP: Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody. Those stories have been largely debunked. She mentions
this, which is all fiction, all fictionalized, probably or possibly started by her and her very sleazy campaign. What isn't fictionalized are her e-mails, where she destroyed 33,000 e-mails criminally--criminally!--after getting a subpoena from Congress.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On Principles & Values:
Electing Hillary means four more years of Obama
We're going to make America great. We have a depleted military. It has to be helped. We don't take care of our veterans. We take care of illegal immigrants better than we take care of our vets. We need law and order,
but we need justice, too. Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. We cannot take four more years of Barack Obama, and that's what you get when you get her.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On Principles & Values:
Hillary & Obama criminally paid people to start riots
Look at what came out today on the clips--I was wondering what happened with my rally in Chicago and other rallies where we had such violence. Clinton is the one--and Obama--that caused the violence. They hired people--they paid them $1,500, and they're
on tape saying "be violent, cause fights, do bad things." That was now all on tape, started by her. I believe she got these [sexual assault accusers] to step forward. If it wasn't, they get their 10 minutes of fame. It was lies, and it was fiction.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On War & Peace:
If we overthrow Assad, we could end up with worse than Assad
CLINTON: I think we can take back Mosul, and then we can move on into Syria and take back Raqqa.TRUMP: Assad turned out to be a lot tougher than she thought. Everyone thought he was gone two years ago. He aligned with Russia. He now also aligned with
Iran, who we made very powerful. We don't know who the rebels are. But if they overthrow Assad, as bad as Assad is, and he's a bad guy, but you may very well end up with worse than Assad.
CLINTON: I think a no-fly zone could save lives and could
hasten the end of the conflict. I'm aware of the concerns that you have expressed. This would not be done on the first day. This would take a lot of negotiation. And it would also take making it clear to the Russians and the Syrians that our purpose
here was to provide safe zones on the ground.
TRUMP: We are so outplayed on missiles, on cease-fires. But our country is so outplayed by Putin and Assad, and by the way--and by Iran. Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On War & Peace:
We need element of surprise; stop saying where we'll attack
TRUMP: About three months ago, I started reading that they're going to attack Mosul. Whatever happened to the element of surprise. We announce we're going after Mosul. These people have all left. They've all left. So we're now fighting for
Mosul, that we had. All she had to do was stay there, and now we're going in to get it. The leaders that we wanted to get are all gone because they're smart. They say, "what do we need this for?"
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
On War & Peace:
Iran is taking over Iraq
TRUMP: Iran should write us a letter of thank you, the stupidest deal of all time, a deal that's going to give Iran absolutely nuclear weapons.
Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we've made it so easy for them.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
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