[DT] “I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president.”—Trump University blog, March 13, 2008

[HRC] “I can’t think of anything more of an outsider than electing the first woman president, but I’m not just running because I would be the first woman president.”—Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 13, 2015

Two Champions

[HRC] “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.”—Twitter, April 12, 2015

[DT] “I’m going to be your champion. I’m going to be America’s champion.”—speech following conclusion of GOP primaries, Westchester, New York, June 7, 2016

[DT] “I’m like, different.”—campaign rally, Sacramento, California, June 1, 2016

[HRC] “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different—they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.”—speech on foreign policy, San Diego, California, June 2, 2016

Politicians

[DT] “I think I’m almost too honest to be a politician.”—interview on CNN, 1997, rebroadcast on CNN Politics Vine, April 1, 2016

[HRC] “I am not a natural politician, in case you haven’t noticed, like my husband or President Obama, so I have a view that I just have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people’s lives and hope that people see that I’m fighting for them and that I can improve conditions economically and other ways that will benefit them and their families.”—Democratic presidential debate, Miami, Florida, March 9, 2016

[DT] “I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”—interview on CNN, August 11, 2015

[HRC] “I’d be happy in a little office somewhere, thinking up policies, making things happen, refining them.”—undated conversation with friend Diane D. Blair when she was first lady, according to Mrs. Blair’s notes

[DT] “I believe non-politicians represent the wave of the future and if elected I would make the kind of president America [needs in the new millennium].”—The America We Deserve, Renaissance Books, 2000

[HRC] “I think that the kind of results that I get when I am actually holding a position speak to that [being better at performing in government jobs than running for office].”—interview on CNN, March 21, 2016

Influences

[DT] “No, he’s [Ronald Reagan] not a model. I didn’t like NAFTA [signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993, but Reagan first proposed a ‘North American accord’ in a 1979 speech, and a precursor to NAFTA was signed by the US and Canada in 1988], I didn’t like some of the economic policies. But he was a man that I respected and liked, and he liked me.”—interview with The Hollywood Reporter, August 19, 2015

[HRC] “I come from the ’60s, a long time ago.”—CBS Democratic presidential debate, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, November 14, 2014

[DT] “I’m speaking with myself [on foreign policy], number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.”—interview on MSNBC, March 16, 2016

Being Presidential

[DT] “I can be as presidential as anybody who ever lived. I can be so presidential if I want.”—interview with Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, April 3, 2016

[HRC] “It’s all entertainment. I think he’s having the time of his life, saying what he wants to say, getting people excited both for and against him.”—speaking to reporters while campaigning in New Hampshire, August 10, 2015

[DT] “It’s easy to be presidential, you know. Being presidential is much easier than being the way I am. Takes much less energy.…You know what they mean by being presidential. Be more low-key. But we can’t do that!”—campaign rally, Berlin, Maryland, April 20, 2016

[HRC] “Come out of those towers named for yourself and actually talk and listen to people. You know, at some point, if you want to be president of the United States, you gotta get familiar with the United States. You gotta spend time with Americans of all sorts and backgrounds in every part of our country.”—campaign rally, Wilmington, Delaware, April 25, 2016

[DT] “Bad performance by Crooked Hillary Clinton! Reading poorly from the telepromter [sic]! She doesn’t even look presidential!”—Twitter, June 2, 2016

[HRC] “This may be one of the most consequential campaigns of our lifetimes.…Running for president is hard. Being president is harder.”—victory speech on Super Tuesday II, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 15, 2016

[DT] “I said, you know, this is something I really would like to do. I think I’d do it really well. Obviously the public seems to like me.”—interview with The Washington Post, March 31, 2016

[HRC] “He [Trump] is a dangerous presence.”—exchange with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (not broadcast but could be heard at the venue during a break in the televised Democratic town hall event), March 14, 2016

Now and Then

[HRC] “Cancel letter to Donald Trump.”—Clinton White House, on whether to acknowledge Donald Trump’s fiftieth birthday, 1996

[DT] “I am nothing more than a frustrated writer of little talent.”—undated letter quoted in The New York Times, June 2, 2016

[HRC] “There is a smorgasbord of personalities spread before me.”—letter from Wellesley to high-school friend John Peavoy, 1967

[DT] “I don’t want to be president. I’m 100 percent sure. I’d change my mind only if I saw this country continue to go down the tubes.”—interview with Playboy magazine, March 1990

[HRC] “If she could go into the past to tell someone that she’d been nominated for President of the United States, it would be her mother.”—The New York Times, June 8, 2016