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Donna Brazile

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Donna Brazile is an American author, political strategist, and television political commentator. Born on December 15, 1959, she has made significant contributions to the field of politics and has been involved in numerous political campaigns. Brazile has written several books and has been a regular contributor to various media outlets.

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“Hillary's was a sterile, math-driven campaign in an angry, populist cycle – a perfect case of professional-class hubris that will one day take its place alongside the expert-planned, systems-analyzed war in Vietnam as a parable of technocratic folly.”

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“Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!”

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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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“Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.”

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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.”

“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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“We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.”

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“The economy is most important. It is off track.”

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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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“Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.”

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“Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.”

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“I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.”

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“I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.”

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“It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.”

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“The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.”

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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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“I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.”

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“Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a march to raise expectations that this country could live up to its ideals. I have watched this debate, this conversation [betwin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] about bigotry, about racism, I find it all misplaced.”

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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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“Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done.”

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“I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.”

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“I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.”

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“This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has shown over and over again in her career that she will elevate this conversation but, more importantly, she will get things done so all Americans can prosper and grow.”

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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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“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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“I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.”

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“It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.”

Racism Renaissance

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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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“Hillary Clinton is talking to all Americans. She's talking about jobs, she's talking about how to make this country stronger in terms of our national security. She's talking about opportunity for our young people.”

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“No one is spreading any kind of rumors or saying anything about Donald Trump supporters or, for that matter, the supporters of Ted Cruz and everyone else.”

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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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“I've been a government official. I've been dealing with another situation, another e-mail situation. The DNC was the victim of a cybercrime, an attack. And that has been my focus, not the focus of another round of e-mail controversies.”

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“I'm a reporter. I've been a big supporter of The Clinton Foundation. Back in 2001 and 2002, people forget that Bill Clinton went to Harlem and set this foundation up. They've helped millions of people across the globe and here in America.”

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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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“We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.”

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“We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.”

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“We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials.”

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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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“We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner.”

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“[Donna] Brazile was giving [Donald] Trump no quarter.”

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“While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains a huge stable of paid pundits. [Donna] Brazile was on the air and the payroll at CNN while vice chairwoman of the party. She took an absence when she became chief.”

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“Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.”

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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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“[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.”

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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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“[Glenn] Thrush's emails to [Hillary] Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were splashed across screens in newspapers nationwide. Thrush was criticized for sharing a half dozen paragraphs of a draft of a story for Podesta to rebut. Some reporters do just that. Other newsrooms have policies discouraging or forbidding it. Thrush says he does the same for Republicans.”

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“The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].”

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“[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.”

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“We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].”

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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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Born: December 15, 1959
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