Memorable debate moments so far

Presidential debates often leave us with some lines that people talk about around the break room the next day and now and then something so memorable that it becomes a part of popular culture.

Tonight Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump debated at Hofstra University in New York.

Here’s some of what they said.

Donald Trump

“Because they’re using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China and many other countries are doing the same thing. So we are losing our good jobs, so many of them.”

Hillary Clinton

“The kind of plan that Donald has put forward would be trickle-down economics all over again…I call it trumped up trickle-down because that’s exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.”

Donald Trump

“And we need law and order. If we don’t have it, we’re not going to have a country.”

Hillary Clinton

“We have to restore trust between communities and the police.”

Donald Trump

“I’m talking about taking guns away from gangs….I think you agree with me. Maybe there is a political reason why you can’t say it.”

Hillary Clinton

“We’ve got too many military-style weapons on the street.”

Donald Trump

“The African-American community has been let down by politicians.”

Hillary Clinton

“We have come back from that (economic) abyss….The last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.”

Donald Trump

“I did not support the war in Iraq. That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her.”

Hillary Clinton

“This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers, who has said women don’t deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.”

Donald Trump

“She doesn’t have the look, she doesn’t have the stamina (to be president.)”

Hillary Clinton

“I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them. It is essential that America’s word be good.

Donald Trump

“Hillary has experience but it is bad experience.”

Hillary Clinton

“He has said repeatedly that he didn’t care if other nations got nuclear weapons - Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia.”

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