Clinton Quote by Mark Shields

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.…

— David Brooks

These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of…

— Ryan Grim

Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has…

— Jill Stein

“The Mystery of Futile Debate: Why do we engage endlessly in futile political debates? We can argue politics forever, with nary a hint of…

— Guillermo Jimenez

Why aren't we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? That's a pretty valid attempt to influence an election. Somebody giving…

— Sean Spicer

The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Every time the conservatives get in trouble, they start pounding on this ridiculous idea that the liberals want to take their microphones. They want…

— Ed Schultz

We were telling, and frankly the media didn't take it seriously, during the time when we tried to point out that Debbie Wasserman Schultz…

— Jonathan Tasini

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out…

— Joy-Ann Reid

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

— Donald Trump

[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi.

— Rush Limbaugh

Over three-quarters of the American people are saying it's time to open up the debates. We have rejected these two candidates [Hillary Clinton and…

— Jill Stein