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1. Former Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey (Clinton surrogate)
"Making the transcripts of the Goldman speeches public would have been devastating....[and] when the GOP gets done telling the Clinton Global Initiative fund-raising and expense story, Bernie supporters will wonder why he didn't do the same....[As for] the email story, it's not about emails. It is about [Hillary] wanting to avoid the reach of citizens using the Freedom of Information Act to find out what their government is doing, and then not telling the truth about why she did."
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2. Goldman Sachs Employee #1 (present at one of the speeches)
"[The speech] was pretty glowing about [Goldman Sachs]. It's so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now. It was like a 'rah-rah' speech. She sounded more like a Goldman Sachs managing director."
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3. Goldman Sachs Employee #2 (present at one of the speeches)
"In this environment, [what she said to us at Goldman Sachs] could be made to look really bad."
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4. Goldman Sachs Executive or Client #1 (present at one of the speeches)
"Mrs. Clinton didn't single out bankers or any other group for causing the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, she effectively said, 'We're all in this together, we've got to find our way out of it together.'"
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5. Paraphrase of Several Attendees' Accounts From The Wall Street Journal
"She didn't often talk about the financial crisis, but when she did, she almost always struck an amicable tone. In some cases, she thanked the audience for what they had done for the country. One attendee said the warmth with which Mrs. Clinton greeted guests bordered on 'gushy.' She spoke sympathetically about the financial industry."
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