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Sanders: 'Donald Trump lies all the time. It's a sad state of affairs.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'I believe the way we beat Trump is by having the largest voter turnout in the history of this country.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'Young people came out [in Iowa] in higher numbers than President Obama's historic 2008 campaign.' He says if Democrats replicate that in the general, they will win. #DemDebate

Klobuchar touts her ability to appeal to centrists and moderate Republicans, saying: 'There are so many of them out there that are looking for a candidate.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'Donald Trump's worst nightmare is a candidate who will bring people in from the middle.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'I don't think there's any question that, after this week, there's a real threat that Donald Trump can get reelected.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Instead of following GDP & corporate capitalism off a cliff, we should be measuring our own health and wellness, life expectancy, [and] mental health.' #DemDebate

Warren on corruption messaging: 'We bring our party together. It's an issue we all agree on...We should be the party on the side of hard working people. And we can bring in independents and Republicans on that.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg decries Sen. Sanders' campaign as a 'My way or the highway' mindset that the Democratic Party can't afford in a nominee. #DemDebate

Sanders, responding to Buttigieg's dig: 'The way you bring people together is by presenting an agenda that works for the working people of this country and not the billionaire class.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'The way you bring people together is to end the international of this country being the only major nation on earth not to guarantee health care.' #Demdebate

Buttigieg: 'What I am offering is campaigning for all of these things that Americans want...that will actually galvanize and energize, and not pulverize, the American people.' #DemDebate

Biden joins Buttigieg in critiquing Sanders early.

Biden calls Sanders' M4A plan unrealistic, adding 'I know how hard it is [to pass health care reform].' #DemDebate

Sanders, in reply to Biden: 'The health care industry last year made $100B in profit...what Medicare For All will do is save the average American substantial sums of money.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I tell you how I'm gonna pay for it...the fact is, Bernie's plan [will] cost double what the taxpayers are paying for every single program we spend on in the U.S.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar says the debate over Medicare For All is 'not real.'

To Sanders: 'Two-thirds of Democrats in the Senate are not on your bill.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar says a public option 'is the best way to do' health care reform. #DemDebate

Warren: 'On day one I will defend the Affordable Care Act...we can start making health care better for Americans from the beginning.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg on his perceived inexperience: 'As to experience, I just bring a different perspective...the perspective I'm bringing is as someone whose life has been shaped by those big white buildings in Washington.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I was the first major leader holding public official to call for same sex marriage. I don't know what about the past of Barack Obama was so bad.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'There was courage from Mitt Romney, who took a very, very difficult vote [on impeachment].' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'It is easy to go after Washington, that's a popular thing to do...It is much harder to lead, and much harder to take those difficult positions.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'We have a newcomer in the White House, and look where it got us. I think having some experience is a good thing.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'Everybody on this stage is better on economic justice and health care than anybody in the Republican Party, and a million times better than Donald Trump.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'If we want to beat this President, we've gotta be ready to move on from the playbook we've used in the past, and unify this country.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'Trump is not the cause of all of our problems and we are making a mistake when we act like he is. He is a symptom of a disease that has been building in our communities...for decades.' #DemDebate

Yang: If we tackle the problems of automation, 'We will not just defeat Donald Trump in the fall, we will move this country forward.' #DemDebate

Warren on potential future investigations of President Trump: 'No one is above the law, and that includes the president of the United States...we need to establish the rule of law in this country.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'The saddest aspect of [impeachment & acquittal] is you had Republican senators who knew better. They knew Donald Trump is a crook, they knew Donald Trump is a cheat.' #DemDebate

Steyer: '[Trump] is incompetent as a president. His economy isn't delivering for working people.' #DemDebate

Biden, on GOP attacks on him & his son, Hunter: 'It is a diversion. Whomever the nominee is, the president's gonna make up lies about. He thinks he has free reign right now.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'The way that we unite [voters] is by having an optimistic agenda for America.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'There are ways we can work with Republicans on issues where we have a common basis.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'There is no evidence that [the strike of Qasem Soleimani] made our country safer...taking out a bad guy is not a good idea if you do not know what you are doing. This president has moved us this much closer to the brink of war.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'This president has insulted the intelligence community but they put their lives on the line.' #DemDebate

Biden: '[Trump's] America-First police has made America alone...we are alone [in the Middle East] without friends, without support.' #DemDebate

Biden blasts Trump for referring to soldiers' traumatic brain injuries as headaches, saying: 'This guy doesn't deserve to be commander-in-chief for one more day.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'Nobody sees a solution to this war [in Afghanistan]. All they can describe is endless war.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: The next president will not just be 'dealing with the aftermath of the war in Iraq, it's about preventing a war with Iran...the next president will have to restore the credibility of this country.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I made a mistake' on the Iraq War. 'I said it 14 years ago.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'NATO is going to trouble if we don't beat Trump.' #DemDebate

Steyer on current American foreign policy: 'We have abandoned diplomacy. We don't have a strategy. We don't have allies.' #DemDebate

Steyer: U.S. foreign policy 'ignores the biggest problem that we face internationally in the world, which is climate change. And it cannot be solved with guns, and tanks, and planes.' #DemDebate

Steyer: '[The U.S. cannot] continue spending on $700 billion a year on defense, when we spend $70 billion on the federal level on education' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'Trump wants to build a wall around America. Problem is, if we're going to deal with issues like climate change...we have to lead the entire world. This is not an American issue. It is a global issue.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'Incarceration should no longer be the response to drug possession.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: America's drug crisis 'has been driven by companies that were acting irresponsibly with substances that were lawful.' #DemDebate

Yang: Profits of companies that have fueled the opioid crisis are essentially 'blood money.' #DemDebate

Sanders, on his past support for gun rights: 'The world has changed. People are sickened by the mass shootings that we have seen and the gun violence we have seen...my views have changed.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I'm the only guy who beat the NRA twice...Bernie voted [against the Brady bill] 5 times.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We have a gun violence problem in America.' Adds that the problem extends beyond mass shootings, into communities of color, incidents of domestic violence, and the U.S. suicide rates. #DemDebate

Biden 'A litmus test [for judges] on abortion relates a fundamental value of the Constitution. A woman does have a right to choose.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'If we are going to protect the peple of the United States, and we are going to protect our rights to have dominion over our bodies, we can't simply rely on the courts.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We should be pushing for a Congressional solution [on Roe v. Wade's potential repeal]...it is time to have a national law to protect the right of a woman's choice.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I agree with Ruth Bader Ginsburg [against packing the Supreme Court beyond 9 justices].' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'I will never nominate anyone to the Supreme Court, or the federal courts in general, who is not 100% pro-Roe v. Wade.' #DemDebate

Sanders: ;'We've got to codify Roe v. Wade into legislation...we've got to significantly expand funding for Planned Parenthood.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'We have not said one word tonight about race. Are you kidding me?...The heart and soul of this party is diversity: Black people, Latinos, AAPI, Native Americans, and white people.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'I took a lot of heat for discussing systemic racism with my own police department.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: The next President needs to 'make sure we legalize marijuana, and when we do it, do it retroactively with expungements to correct the harms done...disproportionately to Black & brown Americans.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'It's important to own up to the facts about how race has totally permeated our criminal justice system.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We cannot just say criminal justice is the only time we wanna talk about race specifically. We need to have race-conscious laws. Housing for example...in education, in employment, in entrepreneurship.' #DemDebate

Yang cites Dr. Martin Luther King's support for universal basic income.

'We can't regulate [racism] away by any other means except by putting money directly into the hands of African Americans, and Latinos, and people of color.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I have support...in the Black community than anybody else.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'We've got to stop taking the Black community for granted...make it a priority' #DemDebate

Sanders is asked about surrogate Nina Turner's remarks that Joe Biden 'betrayed' Black voters.

Sanders: 'Joe Biden is a friend of mine, and I am not here to attack him.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'There is something else insidious going on that we haven't addressed. And that s the systemic racism when it comes to voting...we are not going to be able to get any of these things done if we do not give people the right to vote.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We cancel student loan debt for 43M Americans. And because African Americans have to borrow more money to go college...that one law is gonna help close the Black/White loan get for people with student loans by about 20 points.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'I would set up a formal commission on race on day one...I believe out of narrative comes policy. We need to repair damage [to the Black community] that's been done.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'We are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in this country.' #DemDebate

Warren, on Mike Bloomberg: " I don't think anyone ought to be able to buy their way into a nomination or to be president of the United States.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar, on Mike Bloomberg: 'I don't think people look at the guy in the White House and think, can we get someone richer?' #DemDebate

Sanders, on Mike Bloomberg: 'It's a funny thing. There are millions of people who can desire to run for office. But I guess if you're worth $60B...you have a slight advantage. That is nonsense.'

Adds a call for public financing of elections. #DemDebate

Sanders: 'If you want to change America, you're not gonna do it by electing candidates going to rich people's homes begging for money.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'If we want to bring about any of the changes that anyone is talking about so elegantly up here...we need a politics that is defined not by who we reject, but how we bring everyone into the fold.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'Everybody wants to get into our market. And that's how we convince them that they've got to be right on climate, too.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'We have a president that literally blames everyone in the world. He blames Barack Obama for everything that goes wrong...he blames the King of Denmark. Who does that?' #DemDebate

Klobuchar, on the USMCA trade deal: '[It]was not perfect. But the point of it is, if we start isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, we are gonna hurt ourselves economically, and we are going to hurt our nation's security.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'If we want to alleviate child poverty, we have to put money directly into the hands of families, especially single parents.' #DemDebate

Yang: 'The mission in this campaign has to be for us to disentangle economic value and human value...We each have intrinsic value as citizens, as human beings.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'The American people want to see change...we need to recognize that the time has arrived for a different kind of politics, to turn the page.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'The best investment we can make as a nation...is to invest in our children.' #DemDebate

She cites her 2-cent wealth tax as a way to provide affordable child care and preschool services.

Biden on combatting child poverty: 'We have to focus on what is at stake here: this isn't someone else's children. They're all of our children. These are the kitestrings that lift our national ambitions aloft.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'Our priorities are determined by the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors...[who] are turning their backs on the working families of this country.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'We may have lost an election in 2016, but we did not lose hope...[to eradicate child poverty] we have to be able to reach those voters in this state and across the country.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'We are not going to win just by criticizing Mr. Trump. I know there is a better America out there...and that America understands that when a kid succeeds in Columbia, SC, that is a triumph for every American.' #DemDebate

That concludes tonight's #DemDebate. Thanks for following along with us!

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