Highlights from Hillary Clinton's paid speeches.

Some discussion and full excerpts from the hard work of /u/ColtonCM https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/56iakr/theres_an_80page_downloadable_doc_of_speech/

Link to the Podesta email from Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

Edit: added Open trade, healthcare

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OPEN TRADE

"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders," [Hillary Clinton 5/16/2013 Remarks to Banco Itau.doc, p. 28]

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HEALTHCARE

Here Clinton says she wants to have Universal Healthcare like Canada but she said during the campaign that it is not achievable and that Bernie's plans are pie in the sky.

"If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know. It takes longer to get like a hip replacement than it might take here.” [Hillary Clinton remarks to ECGR Grand Rapids, 6/17/13]

Clinton Cited President Johnson’s Success In Establishing Medicare And Medicaid And Said She Wanted To See The U.S. Have Universal Health Care Like In Canada. Edit "and keep moving forward to get to affordable universal healthcare coverage like you have here in Canada. ".[Podesta summary of Clinton Speech For tinePublic – Saskatoon, CA, 1/21/15]

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SYRIA

• Hillary Clinton Said She Favored “More Robust, Covert Action” In Syria But Said Things Have Been “Complicated By The Fact That The Saudis And Others Are Shipping Large Amounts Of Weapons—And Pretty Indiscriminately.” 2014 Jewish United Fund Advance & Major Gifts Dinner, 10/28/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said Some Advise In Syria To “Let Them Kill Themselves Until They Get Exhausted, And Then We’ll Figure Out How To Deal With What The Remnants Are.” [2014 Jewish United Fund Advance & Major Gifts Dinner, 10/28/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said “You Can’t Squander Your Reputation And Your Leadership Capital. You Have To Do What You Say You’re Going To Do.” [Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said One Of The Problems With A No Fly Zone Would Be The Need To Take Out Syria’s Air Defense, And “You’re Going To Kill A Lot Of Syrians." [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Hillary Clinton: “My View Was You Intervene As Covertly As Is Possible For Americans To Intervene. We Used To Be Much Better At This Than We Are Now.” [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said It Was Fair To Argue “We Don’t Know What Will Happen” And Said The Big Problem Was That Iran Was Heavily Invested In Sustaining Assad. “ [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Discussing Syria, Clinton Mentioned Boots On The Ground As A Tool To Help Eliminate Chemical And Biological Weapons. [Clinton Speech For Deutsche Bank, 4/24/13]

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MILITARY

• Hillary Clinton: “We Do Not Ever Want To Turn Over To Our Military The Kind Of Civilian Authority That Should Be Exercised By Elected Officials.” [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

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TPP and FINANCIAL SYSTEM

• Hillary Clinton: “You Know, I’m Not In The Pro- Or Anti-Regulation Camp, I’m In The Smart Regulation Camp.” "You know, obviously, when I was a senator, I had great working relationships with, you know, most of the businesses and their associations in New York because I listened. And I think there is a perception that maybe that is not as common as it needs to be in our party.” [Hillary Clinton Remarks at Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, 10/13/14]

• Clinton: “How Do We Strengthen And Improve Our Financial Systems To Promote Responsible Investments While Preventing Irresponsible Risk-Taking? I'm A Huge Supporter Of Risk-Taking.” [Remarks for CIBC, 1/22/15]

• Clinton: “It Was A Good Sign When Prime Minister Abe Said That Japan Would Negotiate On The Transpacific Partnership.” [Hillary Clinton remarks at Sanford Bernstein, 5/29/13]

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POLITICS

• Clinton: “When My Husband Was Elected In His First Two Years He Made A Lot Of Changes. […] He Passed NAFTA, Alienating A Lot Of The Democratic Base." [Remarks for CIBC, 1/22/15]

• Hillary Clinton Said She Would Like To “See More Successful Business People Run For Office” Because The Have A “Certain Level Of Freedom.” [Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13]

• Hillary Clinton Blamed Gerrymandering For Rewarding Partisanship. “Secondly, you know, people get rewarded for being partisan, and that’s on both sides. The biggest threat that Democrats and Republicans face today, largely because of gerrymandering in the House, is getting a primary opponent from either the far right or the far left.” [ Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Clinton Compared The Retail Industry To Politics: “We Have To Know What's On People's Minds If You're Going To Sell Them Something Or Get Their Vote.” [Hillary Clinton remarks at Sanford Bernstein, 5/29/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said Moderate Voices In Congress Need More Support, Citing Eight-Senator Immigration Compromise. [Hillary Clinton remarks to Apollo Global Management, 5/13/13]

• Clinton Criticized Those Who Run For Office As “Kind Of Above That Political Process, The Democratic Process.” “So when somebody runs for and asks for your vote who tries to set him or herself kind of above that political process, the democratic process, that person should not earn your vote. And in addition, they should not earn your contribution.” [Remarks to CME Group, 11/18/13]

• Clinton: “If You're On The Left, The Best Way To Get Rid Of You Is By Having Somebody Even Further Left Run Against You In A Primary, And The Same If You're On The Right, Having Somebody Even Further Right.” [Clinton Speech For National Multi-Housing Council, 4/24/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said She Would Like To “See More Successful Business People Run For Office” Because The Have A “Certain Level Of Freedom.” [Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13]

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MARIJUANA

• Clinton Said She Was Strongly Against Legalizing Marijuana. [Hillary Clinton Remarks, Remarks at Xerox, 3/18/14]

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MIDDLE EAST

• Hillary Clinton Said Mutually Assured Destruction Did Not Work In The Middle East Because The Gulf States Were Unwilling To Accept A Shared Missile Defense System.[ Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Hillary Clinton Said There Would Be Unpredictable Consequences To Bombing Iran, Noting It Was A Global Sponsor Of Terror. [ Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

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WIKILEAKS and SNOWDEN

• Hillary Clinton: “So I Think That Wikileaks Was A Big Bump In The Road, But I Think The Snowden Material Could Be Potentially Much More Threatening To Us.” [Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13]

• Hillary Clinton: “But The Collection Of The Metadata Is Something That Has Proven To Be Very Useful.” [Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13]

• Clinton Said The Lesson From Wikileaks And Snowden Is That Even Encrypted Information Can Be Hacked And Said She Doesn’t Know How To Protect Against Employees Who Were Supposedly Vetted. [Remarks at Mediacorp, 11/13/13]

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FRACKING

• Clinton Discussed Promoting Oil Pipelines and Fracking In Eastern Europe. “So how far this aggressiveness goes I think is really up to us. I would like to see us accelerating the development of pipelines from Azerbaijan up into Europe. I would like to see us looking for ways to accelerate the internal domestic production. [International Leaders' Series, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 3/18/14]

• Clinton Talked About “Phony Environmental Groups” Funded By The Russians To Stand Against Pipelines And Fracking. [Remarks at tinePublic, 6/18/14]

• Hillary Clinton Said She’s Not Crazy About The Consequences Of Natural Gas – With The Release Of Methane – But It Is Replacing Coal. [02042014 HWA Remarks at Citi [Westchester].DOC, p. 24]

• Clinton Said She Wanted United States To Export Gas. [Clinton Remarks to Deutsche Bank, 10/7/14]

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SAUDIS

• Hillary Clinton Said The Saudis Opposed The Muslim Brotherhood, “Which Is Kind Of Ironic Since The Saudis Have Exported More Extreme Ideology Than Any Other Place On Earth Over The Course Of The Last 30 Years.” [2014 Jewish United Fund Advance & Major Gifts Dinner, 10/28/13]

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CYBERSECURITY

• Clinton Said Issuing An Executive Order On Cybersecurity Would Be In Top Five Executive Order Priorities. “ [Clinton Remarks to Deutsche Bank, 10/7/14]

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WALMART

• Hillary Clinton Said People Can Criticize Wal Mart, But “But Those Stores Served A Real Purpose, Not Only For Employment And Low Cost Goods, But They Did Become A Way For People Who Wanted To See What Else Was Available To Them Could Go And Look.” [Remarks at London Drug Toronto, 11/4/13]

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WALLSTREET

• Hillary Clinton Said Politicians Treat NYC Like An ATM And “Political Givers” Need To Tell Politicians “Here Are Things I Want You To Do For The Country.” [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• 2013: Hillary Clinton Said Someone Running For President In 2016 Would Need To Be Raising Money “Sometime Next Year Or Early The Following The Year.” [Speech to Goldman Sachs, 2013 IBD Ceo Annual Conference, 6/4/13]

• Clinton Said Dodd-Frank Was Something That Needed To Pass “For Political Reasons.” [Goldman Sachs AIMS Alternative Investments Symposium, 10/24/13]

• Clinton Said Of Wall Street, “You Have To Keep Looking Over The Horizon To Make Choices That Are Not Only Going To Benefit You But…The Larger Economy.” [Remarks to CME Group, 11/18/13]

• Clinton: “It Is In Everyone's Interest, Most Of All Those Of You Who Play Such A Vital Role In The Global Economy, To Make Sure That We Maintain And Where Necessary Rebuild Trust.” [Clinton Remarks to Deutsche Bank, 10/7/14]

• Clinton Praised Bob Hormats For His Role In Spurring Economic Development From Private Corporations To Either Supplement Or “Replace Government Dollars Eventually.” [Clinton Speech For JP Morgan, 4/22/14]

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TAXES

• In Fielding Question About U.S. Corporate Tax Reform, Hillary Clinton Mentioned Her Frequent Meetings With Corporate Executives And “Groups All Across The Private Sector.” HILLARY CLINTON: “This time around, a number of business leaders have been talking to my husband and me about an idea that would allow the repatriation of the couple trillion dollars that are out there. And you would get a lower rate -- a really low rate -- if you were willing to invest a percentage in an infrastructure bank. [Hillary Clinton Remarks at Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, 10/13/14]

• Clinton Said Lowering The Corporate Tax Rate Could “Be On the Table And To Be Looked At As Part Of A Broader Package” To Make America More Competitive. [Remarks to Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 9/15/14]

• Hillary Clinton Said “The Corporate Tax Code Is, You Know, An Impediment And Kind Of A Dinosaur Waiting To Be Changed.” [Hillary Clinton remarks to ECGR Grand Rapids, 6/17/13]

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analysis of Clinton's position on Social Security - a comment by /u/ackthppt

This from David Sirota: http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-wall-street-promoted-commission-pushed-social

Clinton on the campaign trail declared, “I won’t cut Social Security.” Yet in the email’s excerpts of her Morgan Stanley speech, she lauded a presidential commission that proposed changes that would slash Social Security benefits, according to experts.

The email shows Clinton specifically telling Morgan Stanley that the Simpson-Bowles commission “put forth the right framework” for dealing with fiscal challenges. She also said “the Simpson-Bowles framework and the big elements of it were right.”

As the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in 2011, that commission proposed a plan to “cut benefits for the vast majority of Social Security recipients, weaken the link between a recipient’s benefits and past earnings (which could undermine public support for the program), and, despite the claims of the co-chairs, fail to protect most low-income workers from benefit cuts.”

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Edit: added information from an email about a speech on Isis - not a paid speech

THROWING SHADE AT ARABS

Email Discussion about including disparaging comments about Arabs in Clinton speech on ISIS:

"We can throw some more shade at the Arabs, though. Dan and I have an idea."

"I’m glad you’re bumping that up a bit. You cover regional responsibility, but this is a big flash point for voters."

"We now have a John Anzalone memorial paragraph in the speech." (john anzalone is a Clinton's pollster, I think this is supposed to be a joke)

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/905

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Edit: added information from an email about Israel - not a paid speech

ISRAEL

This email is from a Clinton surrogate who spoke with Netanyahu.

We discussed possible economic initiatives to help the Palestinians, like more Palestinian investment in Zone C, and/or an agreement to limit settlement expansion to the established blocs that under the Clinton parameters would be in Israel after any negotiation.

Abu Mazan continues to talk about retiring, as he has done for years, but seems more serious now. There is no obvious successor if he leaves, “other than the guy in jail”. (Added Marwan Barghouti) Israel Arabs are a “real problem.” The government had to dismantle the northern branch of the Islamic Association because they were radicalizing the Israeli Arabs, who are 20% of the population.

But the Prime Minister and the Defense Minster, and “certainly the military and intelligence community”, want to keep the PA. There is still intelligence sharing on radicals, but when Israel asks them to arrest the radicals they identify, they refuse, and ask the Israelis to do it, and then protest the arrests. But this is all part of a scenario of cooperation. However, if the PA takes Israel to the International Criminal Court, this would be a “huge problem” and a potential game changer in terms of their relationship with the PA.

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/346 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_E._Eizenstat

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