Tonight's #DemDebate is about to begin. We'll be livetweeting all the top moments throughout the night's proceedings.
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Sanders: 'In order to beat Donald Trump we're gonna need the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States.' #DemDebate
Sanders goes directly at Bloomberg early: 'Mr. Bloomberg had policies in NYC of Stop & Frisk, which went after African American and Latino in an outrageous way.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'I don't think there's any chance of Senator [Sanders] beating Donald Trump.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history...of harassing women and supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'I'm the only one with the receipts [of high voter turnout] to have done that in Republican districts again and again.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'Who can beat Donald Trump, and who can do the job when they get into the White House. I would argue that I am the candidate who can do exactly both those things.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday. And the only two candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders & Mike Bloomberg. The two most polarizing figures on this stage.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'We shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down, and another who wants to buy this party out.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'We are giving a voice to people who are saying we are sick and tired of seeing billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg see huge expansions of their wealth while a half a million sleep out on the street tonight.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'We have more union support than [Mayor Buttigieg] has ever dreamed of.' #DemDebate
Warren, on the 'Bernie Bros' controversy: 'I have said many times before, we are all responsible for our supporters. We need to step up. That's what leadership is all about.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'We need a candidate with unshakeable values and a candidate who can get something done.' #DemDebate
Sanders: If a small minority of my supporters 'make ugly remarks...I disown those people, they are not part of our movement.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg, to Sanders: 'Why is it especially the case among your supporters...that seems to be motivating this behavior more than others?' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'We got 87M who are uninsured or underinsured...We're getting ripped off outrageously by the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'Health care is a crisis in this country...we need as much help for as many people as quickly as possible.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: '[My health care plan] is a plan that solves the problem, makes sure there is no such thing as an uninsured American, and does it without kicking anybody off the plan that they have.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'My plan is a public option...it is a significant thing. It was what Barack Obama wanted to do from the very beginning.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'Last year the health care industry made one hundred billion in profits...those CEOs are contributing to Pete's campaign, and other campaigns up here.' #DemDebate
Biden: 'I'm the only one on this stage that actually got anything done on health care. I'm the guy the President turned to and said go get the votes on Obamacare.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'We shouldn't just walk away and start something that is just totally new, untried [on health care reform]' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'If I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop & frisk' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: '[Stop & frisk] got out on control... we cut 95% of it out, and I've sat down with a bunch of African American clergy and business people to talk about this, to try to learn.' #DemDebate
Biden: 'Let's get the facts straight: [stop & frisk] was abhorrent. It was a violation of every right people have.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg says 'there is no great answer' on criminal justice, adding that every person on the stage has documented mistakes on criminal justice in their previous careers #DemDebate
Warren: '[Stop & frisk] was designed...to target communities of color. It targeted Black & brown men from the beginning.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'I have the support of African Americans in my community in every election...that's because I've earned it.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg, on Sanders' alleged lack of transparency on medical records: 'Transparency matters, especially living in the Trump era.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'On issue after issue after issue this is what Senator Sanders is saying. If you're not with him...you must be for the status. That is a picture that leaves most of the American people out.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg, on allegations of workplace harassment at his company: 'I have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the #MeToo movement has exposed. Anybody who has done anything wrong, we investigate it.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg touts his working relationship with women in power in both his time in finance and NY's City Hall.
Warren, in response: 'I hope you heard what his response was: I've been nice to some women.' #DemDebate
Warren, in response: 'I hope you heard what his response was: I've been nice to some women.' #DemDebate
Warren: '[Bloomberg's history] is also a question about electability. We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many NDAs and the drip-drip-drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar, on a recent incident where she forgot the name of the Mexican president: 'I don't think momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico or how much I care about it.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg, on his lack of Washington experience: 'Experience and tenure is not always the same thing as judgment' #DemDebate
Biden: 'It is the existential threat that humanity faces, global warming.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'If you're president, the first thing you do the first day is you rejoin the Paris Agreement...you will never solve this problem without China, India, Western Europe, and America.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'We cannot continue to let our public lands be used for profits by those who don't care about environment and making it better.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'We're fighting for the future of this planet the Green New Deal...will create up to 20M good-paying jobs as we move our economy away from fossil fuel.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'This is a crisis. A lot of our plans are very similar to get to carbon neutral by 2045-2050...[but] we're not gonna be able to pass this, unless we bring people with us.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'If not willing to role back the filibuster, then you're giving the fossil fuel industry a veto [on any climate legislation].' #DemDebate
Biden: 'On day one when I'm elected president. I'm gonna invite all the members of the Paris Accord to Washington, D.C.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'You have to negotiate with [China, on climate]...you have to convince the Chinese that it is in their interest as well. Their people are gonna die just as our people are gonna die, and we'll work together.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'If we don't elect a president who actually believes in climate science now, we will never meet any of the other scientific or policy deadlines that we need to.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'For generations now in this country, toxic waste dumps, polluting factories have been located in or near communities over and over and over...we have to own up to our responsibility [on environmental justice]' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'It is time to recognize not just the diversity of the Latino community, but also issues of economic empowerment.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'I'm the only one here I think that's ever started a business' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'I can't speak for all billionaires. All I know is I've been very lucky, made a lot of money, and I've been giving it all away to make this country better, and a good chunk of it goes to the Democratic Party.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'Let's talk about democratic socialism, not communism, that's a cheap shot Mr. Bloomberg...we are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'I disagree with [Sen. Warren] on the wealth tax, but I do agree the rich aren't paying their fair share [of taxes].' #DemDebate
Biden: 'We should be rewarding work, not just wealth...The middle class is getting killed and the poor have no way up.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'It's true that I was into Bernie before it was cool...the qualities I admire then I still respect a great deal.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'We can't be so eager to be liked by Mitch McConnell that we forget how to fight the Republicans.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'Just because I am willing to talk about common ground, that is where America is...it is because I am willing to work with people.' #DemDebate
Biden: 'We have to have someone who understands what it's like for ordinary people...how long it took to buy a house, how long it took to get back in the game again.' #DemDebate
Warren: '[Mitch McConnell] stole a Supreme Court seat from the Democrats.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: '[Dreamers] know no other country but our own,' says obligation of the president is to bring them 'peace.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg criticizes Klobuchar's votes for past Trump judicial appointees, 'who we know are especially hostile to Dreamers and the rights of immigrants.' #DemDebate
Klobuchar: 'We need a candidate that can bring a candidate with her...you need someone that has the heart to be the president.' #DemDebate
Bloomberg: 'This is a management job. Donald Trump is not a manager...this country has to pull together and understand the people we elect — and it's not just the president — they should have experience, they should have credentials.' #DemDebate
Buttigieg: 'We need to draw everybody we can...the only way we can do this is to create a sense of belonging in this country that moves us out of the toxic and polarized moment that we are living in today.' #DemDebate
Warren: 'I've been the one out fighting for families the longest time...give me a chance, I'll go to the White House, I'll fight for your family.' #DemDebate
Biden: 'Obamacare has to be expanded. I think it's important that on day one that we deal with sending an immigration bill to the [president's] desk.' #DemDebate
Sanders: 'All of us are united in defeating the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country...bottom line here: real change never takes place from the top-on-down.' #DemDebate
