Quotations in the News

“We just won Kentucky! Thanks to everyone who turned out. We’re always stronger united.” — Hillary Clinton in a Twitter post despite the race being too close to call. Clinton later lost Oregon’s primary to rival Bernie Sanders.

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“I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him.” — Donald Trump in an interview with Reuters, indicating that he’s open to speaking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to halt the communist nation’s nuclear program.

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“He went, in a matter of seconds, from distraction to disaster.” — National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt on Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian, largely blamed for the deadly derailment in Philadelphia last year.