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Hillary Clinton: If your candidacy is going to be about words, then they should be your own words. That's, I think, a very simple…

On the recordFebruary 20, 2008
If your candidacy is going to be about words, then they should be your own words. That's, I think, a very simple proposition.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton critiques Obama for allegedly using lines from other speeches.

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