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Tonight's #DemDebate starts now.

We'll be livetweeting the entire proceedings—follow along with us, won't you?

Biden: "[Impeachment] was a constitutional necessity for the House to act like it did...we need to restore the integrity of the presidency.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We have a president who is a pathological liar. We have a president who is running the most corrupt administration in modern history.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'Last night the president was impeached...[upholding] our Constitution doesn't mean loyalty to an individual, it doesn't mean loyalty to a political party.' #DemDebate

Warren calls Trump 'the most corrupt president in living history...we need a candidate for president who can draw the sharpest distinction between the corruption of the Trump admin & a Democrat who is willing to get out and fight.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'The president is not king, the law is king...as we face this trial in the Senate, if the president claims that he is so innocent, then why doesn't he have all the president's men testify?' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'This is beyond polls, this is beyond politics. The president left the House with no choice.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'Let me remind everyone I'm the one who started the 'Need to Impeach' movement over two years ago.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'The more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all our problems, the [more Americans] lose trust.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'At the end of the day, [the USMCA trade deal] is not going to stop outsourcing...we need a trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar says she does support the USMCA deal, cites the support her Senate colleague Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has for it as large factor. #DemDebate

Biden: 'We are not growing. Wealthy people are growing. Ordinary people are not growing [in this economy.]' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'The biggest problem in our economy is simple: people are not getting paid enough...[that is] bad policy, and we've got to change it.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'This unemployment rate and GDP experience has very little to do with people's lived experience on the ground.'

Cites declining U.S. life expectancy due to opioid abuse and suicide rates. #DemDebate

Warren: 'When you see a government that works great for the wealthy and well-connected and no one else, that is corruption pure and simple, and we need to call it out.' #DemDebate

Warren is asked what she says to economists who say her tax plans will stifle growth.

Warren: 'Well they're just wrong.'

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Steyer: 'I'm in favor of undoing all the tax breaks [passed by the Trump administration].' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'Yes, we must deliver big idea. And yes, taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations are going to have to go up. We can also be smart about the promises we're making, promises we can keep.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'Getting back into the international climate agreement, I will do that one day one...[I will] introduce sweeping legislation to put a tax on carbon and build a bridge to the new generation.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: '[Climate change policy] will be a topic of day one action...we have to summon the energies of the entire country to deal with this.' #DemDebate

Biden, when asked if a transition to a green economy will cost jobs for thousands of blue collar workers: 'Their skills are going to be needed for new opportunities.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'The United States has got to lead the world...instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources to fight a common enemy, which is climate change.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'I want to put the energy, literally, and the money and the resources behind clean energy...innovate our way out of this problem and be a world leader. The biggest climate problem we face are the politicians in Washington.' #DNCDebate

Yang: 'We need to have everything on the table during a crisis, which [climate change] is.' Says that includes nuclear power. #DemDebate

Steyer: 'We can [fight climate change] in a way that rebuilds this country on an accelerated basis and creates millions of union jobs.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I refuse to accept the notion that we can never, never get to the place where we have cooperation again...the fact is, we have to be able to get things done.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Fewer than 5% of Americans donate to political campaigns. You know what you need to donate to political campaigns? Disposable income.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: '[Republicans] have made it harder for African Americans to vote—as one court said, with surgical precision.' #DemDebate

Bernie: 'Israel the right not only to exist, but to exist in peace and security. But what U.S. foreign policy is about is not just being pro-Israel. We must be pro-Palestinian as well.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'What my foreign policy will be about is human rights, is democracy...trying to negotiate agreements, not starting endless wars with trillions of dollars in expenses.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: President Trump casts himself as pro-Jewish, 'while inviting white nationalists into the White House.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: '[World leaders] look at the president with a mix of contempt and pity.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'It's time to close [Guantanamo Bay]. It not only costs us money. It is an international embarrassment. We have to be an America that lives our values every single day.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We need to be an America that relies on our state department, that relies on diplomacy, that relies on our economic power,' as opposed to just sheer military strength #DemDebate

Biden: 'There's no solution for Israel without there being a two-state solution. There is no solution...we have to put pressure on the Israelis constantly for a two-state solution.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: When it comes to pressuring China to improve its human rights record, 'Any tool ought to be on the table, especially social, diplomatic, and economic tools' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'We have to work with [China] as a frenemy...we are linked to them in a world that is ever getting closer.'

Cites need to partner with the Chinese to solve climate crisis #DemDebate

Biden: 'We have to make clear that we in fact are not going to abide what [China's] done. A million Uighurs are in concentration camps.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'We have to build an international coalition to set technology standards...this is where we need to outcompete [the Chinese] and win.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'The president is echoing the vocabulary of dictators around the world...freedom of the press not just here at home but around the world gets weaker.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I'm running on my experience. With experience comes judgment and hopefully a little bit of wisdom.' #DemDebate

Biden refuses to commit to running or not running for a second term, jokes: 'I haven't even been elected to one term yet.' #DemDebate

Moderator: 'Senator Warren you would be the oldest president ever inaugurated.'

Warren: 'I'd also be the youngest women ever inaugurated.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg, on raising money from big donor fundraising: 'This is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump, and we shouldn't do it with one hand tied behind our back.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States,' a clear shot at Buttigieg's recent fundraising events #DemDebate

Buttigieg responds to Warren: 'According to Forbes I am the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you can not pass...Senator, your net worth is 100x mine.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We need to get money out of politics, we should run our campaigns on that basis [by rejecting contributions from billionaires]' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'I'm running because this government is broken, because it's purchased by corporations.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Our country is deeply misogynist...money and men are tied together. The fact is, strong societies would elect more female leaders. Strong men treat women well.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Immigrants make our country stronger and more dynamic. And they're being scapegoated for issues they had nothing to do with.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'Day one, executive order: Restore the legal status of 1.8 million people in the DACA program...Day one, we introduce bipartisan legislation which will result in a path toward citizenship for all of the 11 million who are undocumented.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'Trump thinks, mistakenly, that he is gnna win reelection by dividing us up. We are gonna win this election by bringing our people together. Black and white and Latino, Native American and Asian American.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'Immigrants don't diminish America, they are America.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'I think it's important to note that this president is not against immigration. He's against immigration by non white people. This is his attempt to divide us, as Sen. Sanders said, on race.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg says the U.S. has a 'moral obligation' to extend both compensation and citizenship to young children who have been separated from their families at the border #DemDebate

Biden: '[Immigrants] are the future of America, and we should invest in them. Everybody will benefit from them. Every single American.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We need a progressive agenda. Medicare For All. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage. Leading the world on climate change...and canceling all student debt.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg on his lack of support for universal free college: 'I do think if you're in the lucky 10% of America...I still want you to go ahead and pay your own tuition.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'I believe in the concept of universality. One of the crises in America today is people are sick and tired of filling out forms.' #DemDebate

Steyer says a priority of U.S. policy needs to be 'supporting people with disabilities and later when they're part of the workforce' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Special needs children are going to become special needs adults...we have to stop confusing economic value and human value.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'I've opposed many, many judges, and I think everyone will remember what happened at the Kavanaugh hearing, when that nominee went after me, I stood my ground, and he had to apologize.' #Demdebate

Sanders: 'We need moral leadership in the White House. We need a president who do everything humanly possible to end discrimination against the transgender community.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'As a nation, we are forced to address the particular vulnerability [of trans Americans].' #DemDebate

Biden: 'Rebuilding [Afghanistan] as a whole nation is beyond our capacity...the first thing I would do as POTUS is make sure we brought all troops home [save special forces]' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We need to rethink the entire War on Terror. We have lost thousands of our own men and women...hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have been killed abroad or forced to leave their countries.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'We're going to leave [Afghanistan] one way or the other. The questions is to make sure we do it well and not poorly.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'At a time when we're spending twice as much per capita as any other nation on health care...we [must] go out to the American people and tell them we have got to take on the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry' #DNCDebate

Biden: 'I don't think [Sanders' Medicare for All plan] is realistic' #DNCDebate

Sanders responds: 'Under Joe's [health care] plan, we essentially retain the status quo.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'I think you can be progressive and practical at the same time. Which is why I support a public option.' #DemDebate

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Steyer: 'If we're gonna have bold change, we need new people in charge and new ideas...I know how to build prosperity. I can take Trump on the economy and beat him.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Our campaign is growing...because we are laser focused on the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'Our politics right now, because of Donald Trump, are toxic. We need a leader who can bring people together and can win that way.' #DNCDebate

Buttigieg: 'Help us build a future defined not by exclusion, but by belonging.' #dncdebate

Warren: 'I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope...I am not working for millionaires & billionaires. I'm here to work for tens of millions of people across this country.' #DNCDebate

Sanders: 'Real change always takes place from the bottom on up, never from the top on down. And that is why in this campaign I'm so proud we have over a million volunteers.' #DNCDebate

Biden: 'We all have big progressive plans, and the question is who can deliver on those plans.' #DNCDebate