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from 2008 Democratic debate on the eve of Super Tuesday (number of quotes indicated):
- Barack Obama (13)
- Hillary Clinton (20)
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Families & Children
Barack Obama: Parents should control what's coming over the airwaves.
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Government Reform
Hillary Clinton: It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush.
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Health Care
Barack Obama: Against enforcement mechanism for mandating insurance.
Hillary Clinton: Taxpayers pay for drug R&D, not drug companies.
Hillary Clinton: Mandate insurance AND make it affordable for all.
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Immigration
Barack Obama: Solve the driver's license issue with immigration reform.
Barack Obama: Immigrants are scapegoats for high unemployment rates.
Barack Obama: Support the DREAM Act for the children of illegal immigrants.
Hillary Clinton: Deporting all illegal immigrants is unrealistic.
Hillary Clinton: Illegal immigrants with driver's licenses puts them at risk.
Hillary Clinton: Exploitation of undocumented workers drives down wages.
Hillary Clinton: Co-sponsored comprehensive immigration reform in 2004.
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Principles & Values
Barack Obama: The Clinton years were undeniably better than the Bush years.
Hillary Clinton: Being the president is much more than being a CEO.
Hillary Clinton: The next president faces a stack of problems on day one.
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Tax Reform
Barack Obama: I'm not bashful about it: wealthy will pay more taxes.
Hillary Clinton: Wealthy should go back to paying pre-Bush tax rates.
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War & Peace
Barack Obama: The Iraq war has undermined our security.
Barack Obama: Iraq is distracting us from a host of global threats.
Barack Obama: End the war, and end the mindset that got us into war.
Barack Obama: We have set the bar so low in Iraq.
Barack Obama: The Iraq war was conceptually flawed from the start.
Barack Obama: Title of Iraq war authorization bill stated its intent.
Hillary Clinton: Leaving 130,000 troops in Iraq is irresponsible abdication.
Hillary Clinton: Have nearly all combat troops out in a year.
Hillary Clinton: Withdraw one to two brigades in Iraq each month.
Hillary Clinton: Can't leave Iraq safely without a plan.
Hillary Clinton: Can't let the Iraqis think the US will be there forever.
Hillary Clinton: Voted against precedent of US subordinate to UN in Iraq.
Hillary Clinton: Iraq war authorization was not authority for preemption.
Hillary Clinton: Told by the White House how the war resolution would be used.
Hillary Clinton: Iraq war vote was meant to be used as coercive diplomacy.
Hillary Clinton: Would have never diverted attention from Afghanistan.
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