The Top 20 Relevant Words from the Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, Dec. 19, 2015

The Democratic debate on December 19 featured extended discussions on issues of national security, race relations and drug policy. Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton also briefly addressed the recent data breach that affected their campaigns and resulted in Sanders firing a staffer. Here are the most relevant words from the debate.
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  1. coalition
    the union of diverse things into one body or form or group
    I'm running for president because I want a new foreign policy; one that takes on Isis, one that destroys ISIS, but one that does not get us involved in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East but rather works around a major coalition of wealthy and powerful
    nations supporting Muslim troops on the ground.
    -Sen. Sanders
  2. validation
    finding or testing the truth of something
    You joined the Senate in voting to get rid of Gadhafi, and you asked that there be a Security Council validation of that with a resolution.
    -Sec. Clinton
  3. prioritize
    assign a status in order of importance or urgency
    And if at the end of 18 months, 24 months there are people who have been cleared, and I would prioritize widows, and orphans, and the elderly, people who may have relatives, families, or have nowhere else to go.
    -Sec. Clinton
  4. glitch
    a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
    Well, I would certainly build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act and work to fix some of the glitches that you just referenced.
    -Sec. Clinton
  5. incarceration
    the state of being imprisoned
    We need, basically, to pledge that we're going to invest in this country, in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration.
    -Sen. Sanders
  6. entitlement
    right granted by law or contract
    But look, there's one big entitlement we can no longer afford as a country, and that is the entitlement that the super wealthy among us, those earning more than a million dollars, feel that they're entitled to pay lower income tax rates and a far lower preferred income tax rate when it comes to capital gains.
    -Gov. O'Malley
  7. responsiveness
    the quality of reacting quickly
    You know, we can't -- if we're not going to send American troops, which there was never any idea of doing that, then to try to send trainers, to try to send experts, is something we offered, Europeans offered, the U.N. offered, and there wasn't a lot of responsiveness at first.
    -Sec. Clinton
  8. inequity
    injustice by virtue of not conforming with standards
    We have systemic racism and injustice and inequities in our country and in particular, in our justice system that must be addressed and must be ended.
    -Sec. Clinton
  9. privatization
    changing something from state to individual ownership
    Social Security, which Republicans call a Ponzi scheme, may face privatization.
    -Sec. Clinton
  10. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
    I'm not going to say that everybody is in agreement. It's a divided country on guns. But there is a broad consensus on sensible gun safety regulations that I, coming from a state that has virtually no gun control, will do my best to bring together.
    Sen. Sanders
  11. opiate
    a narcotic drug
    Well, for a start, this may seem like a radical idea, but I think we have got to tell the medical profession and doctors who are prescribing opiates and the pharmaceutical industry that they have got to start getting their act together, we cannot have this huge number of opiates out there throughout this country, where young people are taking them, getting hooked, and then going to heroin.
    -Sen. Sanders
  12. vulnerability
    the state of being exposed to harm
    And at least if we enact these laws in a prospective way, we can address a major vulnerability in our country.
    -Gov. O'Malley
  13. regime
    the governing authority of a political unit
    But I think -- and I say this with due respect -- that I worry too much that Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be.
    -Sen. Sanders
  14. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    The Clinton campaign called this a very egregious breech of data of ethics and said, quote, "our data was stolen."
    - Sen. Sanders
  15. unilateral
    involving only one part or side
    I voted against the war in Iraq because I thought unilateral military action would not produce the results that were necessary and would lead to the kind of unraveling and instability that we saw in the Middle East.
    -Sen. Sanders
  16. collaborative
    accomplished by working jointly
    I believe that we should never give up our privacy; never should give up our freedoms in exchange for a promise of security. We need to figure this out together. We need a collaborative approach. We need new leadership.
    -Gov. O'Malley
  17. methodology
    the techniques followed in a particular discipline
    We got into a bad habit of creating big bureaucracies, old methodologies, to undermine regimes that were not friendly to the United States.
    -Gov. O'Malley
  18. dislodge
    remove or force from a position previously occupied
    Now the Libyans are turning their attention to try to dislodge ISIS from its foothold and begin to try to move together to have a unified nation.
    -Sec. Clinton
  19. amorphous
    having no definite form or distinct shape
    So David, the conclusion of all of those things is this; they weren't hopes, they weren't dreams, they weren't amorphous goals out there.
    -Gov. O'Malley
  20. tempo
    the rate of some repeating event
    I believe that what's happened here is that the president had us on the right course, but it's a lack of battle tempo
    -Gov. O 'Malley
Created on Sun Dec 20 08:00:27 EST 2015 (updated Mon Dec 21 08:11:46 EST 2015)

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