If your candidacy is going to be about words, then they should be your own words. That's, I think, a very simple proposition.
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
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Clinton critiques Obama for allegedly using lines from other speeches.
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