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If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Donna Brazile

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Donna Brazile
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 15
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Politician
Teacher
Kenner
Louisiana
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I think the president [Barack Obama] is right to call for a full investigation. Every federal agency involved should be - should put everything on the table, and the Democratic Party will put everything on the table.
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I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.
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Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!
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I think they [Hillary and Bill Clinton] have been - they have shown over and over again that they're willing to be transparent and that they have gone beyond the letter of the law, to show that they're trying to make sure there are bright red, green, purple lines that will separate them from any type of conflict.
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Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.
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The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].
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Why you? Because there is no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough.
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Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.
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There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.
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Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.
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The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.
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There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.
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CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp.
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We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.
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There's no question that Donald Trump has said things that are very unsettling. I mean, whether it's comparing Mexicans to rapists, demonizing Muslim Americans, excoriating the federal judge who was handling the case.
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Trent Lott saved my family. I needed three things from him personally, and he came through for me. He made sure that the ice that we desperately needed was delivered. He got us ice, insulin and water. The food came as well. He put politics aside and made sure my family was ok. I will always thank him for that.
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[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.
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People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.
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Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.
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No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.
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