"You know, we - we agree that we’ve got to get unaccountable money out of
politics. We agree that Wall Street should never be allowed to wreck
Main Street again. But here’s the point I want to make tonight. I am not
a single- issue candidate, and I do not believe we live in a
single-issue country. I think that a lot of what we have to overcome to
break down the barriers that are holding people back, whether it’s
poison in the water of the children of Flint, or whether it’s the poor
miners who are being left out and left behind in coal country, or
whether it is any other American today who feels somehow put down and
oppressed by racism, by sexism, by discrimination against the LGBT
community, against the kind of efforts that need to be made to root out
all of these barriers, that’s what I want to take on. And here in
Wisconsin, I want to reiterate: We’ve got to stand up for unions and
working people who have done it before... the American
middle class, and who are being attacked by ideologues, by demagogues.
Yes, does Wall Street and big financial interests, along with drug
companies, insurance companies, big oil, all of it, have too much
influence? You’re right. But if we were to stop that tomorrow, we would
still have the indifference, the negligence that we saw in Flint. We
would still have racism holding people back. We would still have sexism
preventing women from getting equal pay. We would still have LGBT people
who get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday. And we would still
have governors like Scott Walker and others trying to rip out the heart
of the middle class by making it impossible to organize and stand up
for better wages and working conditions. So I’m going to keep talking
about tearing down all the barriers that stand in the way of Americans
fulfilling their potential, because I don’t think our country can live
up to its potential unless we give a chance to every single American to
live up to theirs"
Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential Debate, Milwaukee, WI, February 11, 2016.
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