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The adventure to North Dakota to see the Democratic presidential candidates speak was a success. Obama was inspiring, and everyone in attendance was quite ecstatic. HRC spoke well too, and in great detail (for perhaps too long) — including “interesting” details on China, Saudi Arabia, and America as a moral leader in the world.

My transcriptions (granted a little out of context) from Hil’s speech (full speech video here):

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When I say solutions, I mean declaring energy independence. I’d like us to issue a declaration of energy independence where we say once and for all that we are not going to be held hostage over the barrel of $112 oil. When President Bush took office, oil was $20 a barrel. I waited for him, after 9/11, to summon us to something greater than ourselves. What I was hoping for was a call to energy independence. All he had to do was look at who flew the planes into The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. When I am president, you will not see me holding hands with the Saudis, you will see me holding the Saudis accountable.
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When I say solutions, I mean trade policies that work for American workers for a change. American families. We’re going to call a time out on trade deals until we have such new trade policies. I would appoint a trade prosecutor to make sure that other countries lived up to the agreements that they signed with us.

And we will finally get tough on China, because right now China’s products come here, and our jobs go there. We play by the rules, they manipulate their currency. What do we get in return? Tainted fish. Poisoned pet food. Lead-laced toys. Polluted pharmaceuticals. When I am president, we’re going to put an end to that. We’re going to tell the Chinese that they cannot do that to us anymore.
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When I say solutions, I mean restoring America’s leadership and moral authority in the world.
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It is important to recognize that if America does not lead, the world will lose its way. But you cannot be a leader if no one is following.
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I will send an unmistakable message: that America leads once again by our values. That we know we are strongest when the world is admiring us.
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