The Media and Technology
[DT] “In the morning, I read The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post. In print—I generally like paper.”—interview with The Hollywood Reporter, August 19, 2015
[HRC] “Can we get the press out of here, please?”—Clinton to Nick Merrill, her traveling press secretary, following her voting in the New York primary, Chappaqua, New York, April 19, 2016
[DT] “I think the thing I’m worst at is managing the press.”—The New Yorker, May 19, 1997
[DT] “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.”—campaign rally, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2016
[DT] “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.”—post on Donald Trump’s Facebook page, June 13, 2016
[HRC] “I have done nearly 300 interviews just in 2016 and I believe that it’s important to continue to, you know, speak to the press as I’m doing right now.…I believe that we do and we should answer questions. Of course, I’m going to, and in many, many different kinds of settings.”—interview on CNN, May 31, 2016
[DT] “Crooked Hillary Clinton has not held a news conference in more than 7 months. Her record is so bad she is unable to answer tough questions!”—Twitter, June 6, 2016
[DT] “And believe me, if I become president, oh do they [the press] have problems. They’re going to have such problems.”—campaign rally, Forth Worth, Texas, February 26, 2016
[HRC] “I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else.”—interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes, July 24, 2016
[DT] “I understand social media. Maybe better than anybody, ever. Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.”—town hall, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, November 18, 2015
[DT] “It’s [eighty-pound bronze-gilded bust of Donald Trump that is being shuttled between rallies where members of the electorate had a chance to pose with it] gorgeous. I’d love to have this in my office.”—The New Yorker, April 4, 2016
[HRC] “But it [selfies with voters] is what they want. It is important to them.…I had some really meaningful interactions [about mental health and student-loan debt] in and amongst all the selfies….Younger voters today live in a social-media world…it’s as important as anything they could have asked me. So I just say, ‘OK, we’re going to do it.’”—interview with the Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, July 28, 2015
[DT] “But what has happened is ISIS—and Facebook, incredible, too, we’re doing great on Facebook, almost five million on Facebook—but I will say that ISIS has really done incredibly well with the whole social media thing. I mean, beyond anybody, probably ever. And it was our baby. I mean, we’re the ones that developed it and founded it and birthed it. We’re the ones that did it.”—campaign event, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 16, 2015
[HRC] “We’ve got to defeat them online. That is where they radicalize, and that’s where they propagandize.”—campaign event, Everett, Washington, March 22, 2016
[HRC] “We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table—bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. I am willing to bet he is writing a few right now.”—speech on foreign policy, June 2, 2016
[DT] “Crooked Hillary no longer has credibility—too much failure in office. People will not allow another four years of incompetence!”—Twitter, June 2, 2016
[DT] “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!”—Twitter, June 9, 2016
[HRC] “Delete your account.”—Twitter, June 9, 2016
[HRC] “Some of my opponents want to build walls and shut the world off. Well, you tell me, how high does the wall have to be to keep the internet out?”—campaign rally, Everett, Washington, March 22, 2016
[DT] “And remember the $5 billion [Obamacare] website? Five billion we spent on a website. And to this day it doesn’t work. A $5 billion website. I have so many websites I have all over the place. I hire people, they do a website, it’ll cost me $3.”—speech announcing his GOP presidential campaign, Trump Tower, New York City, June 16, 2015
[DT] “All I know is what’s on the internet.”—interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, March 13, 2016
[DT] “I assume when I pick up my telephone, people are listening to my conversations anyway, if you want to know the truth. It’s pretty sad commentary. But I err on the side of security.”—interview with The New York Times, December 1, 2015
[HRC] “How much is too much? And how much is not enough? That’s the hard part. I think if Americans felt like, number one, you’re not going after my personal information, the content of my personal information. But I do want you to get the bad guys, because I don’t want them to use social media, to use communications devices invented right here to plot against us. So let’s draw the line. And I think it’s hard if everybody’s in their corner. So I resist saying it has to be this or that. I want us to come to a better balance.”—The Re/Code Interview, Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women in Santa Clara, California, February, 24, 2015
[DT] “Hacking is a big problem.…How about 30 million people are being hacked, everybody in government is being hacked…China and/or Russia or both and probably other countries are hacking 30 million people.”—interview with The Hollywood Reporter, August 19, 2015
[DT] “It’s a rigged deal, so it’s probably going to be Hillary. I don’t think the e-mails will take her down because she is being protected by the Democrats. It would take anybody else down, but it’s not going to take her down because she is being protected.”—interview on MSNBC, April 12, 2016
[HRC] “Oh, for goodness, it’s [whether she would quit the presidential race if she were indicted over her private e-mail server] not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question.”—CNN/Univision Democratic presidential debate, Miami, Florida, March 9, 2016
[DT] “Hillary has problems far greater than the nomination. If you look at what’s going on with the emails, it’s a fraud if you think about it. This looks like Watergate on steroids, frankly. Watergate was about the cover-up more than the act. This isn’t something we’re going to solve tomorrow. This could go on for years. You can’t have a nominee who is under investigation. What are they going to do, run and then two nights before the presidential race she gets indicted?”—interview with The Hollywood Reporter, August 19, 2015
[HRC] “As I’ve said many times, if I could go back, I would do it differently. I know people have concerns about this [her private e-mail server]. I understand that. But I think voters are going to be looking at the full picture of what I have to offer, my life and my service, and the full threat that Donald Trump offers our country.”—interview on ABC News, May 26, 2016
[DT] “FBI director [James Comey] said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow!”—Twitter, July 5, 2016
[DT] “Honestly, she should not be allowed to run. It’s a disgrace, it’s a disgrace. With that being said, I want to beat her. But she should not be allowed to run.”—remarks made at an airfield while standing in front of his private plane, Sacramento, California, June 1, 2016
[DT] “In order to try and deflect the horror and stupidity of the Wikileakes [sic] disaster, the Dems said maybe it is Russia dealing with Trump. Crazy!”—Twitter, July 26, 2016
[DT] “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”—staring directly into the cameras, press conference, Doral, Florida, July 27, 2016
[HRC] “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That’s not hyperbole, those are just facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.”—response from the Clinton campaign, July 27, 2016
[DT] “Of course I’m being sarcastic.”—interview on Fox News, July 28, 2016
[DT] “Donald…the world is waiting for you to be president.”—Saturday Night Live, November 7, 2015
[HRC] “Oh, no, no. It’s a she. It’s definitely a she.”—cameo appearance on Comedy Central’s Broad City, March 16, 2016
[HRC] “That I might do [watch Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live]. I think he watched me.”—Jimmy Kimmel Live!, November 6, 2015
[DT] “There were a couple [of Saturday Night Live skits] that were too risqué. Because you know, the poll just came down, I’m leading in Iowa, I want to stay leading in Iowa.”—interview on Fox News, November 6, 2015
[DT] “I am the most successful person ever to run for president.…I go on one of these shows and the ratings double, they triple.…And that gives you power.”—interview with Time magazine, March 3, 2016
[HRC] “Well, Meryl Streep, of course.”—interview on Live with Kelly & Michael, November 19, 2015
[DT] “Somebody really, really handsome. That’s the only thing that matters. I don’t care if he can act well. He’s got to be really, really good-looking. OK?”—interview with The Hollywood Reporter, August 19, 2015