Hillary: ‘I Am Not Asking People to Support Me Because I’m a Woman’

IFILL: "Senator, do you worry at all that you will be the instrument of thwarting history, as Senator Clinton keeps claiming, that she may be the first woman president?" 
SANDERS: "Well, you know, I think from an historical point of view, somebody with my background, somebody with my views, somebody who has spent his entire life taking on the big money interests, I think a Sanders victory would be of some historical accomplishment as well." 
CLINTON: "You know, I have said -- I have said many times I am not asking people to support me because I'm a woman. I am asking people to support me because I think I am the most qualified, experienced, and ready person to be the president and the commander-in-chief. And I appreciate greatly Senator Sanders' voting record, and I was very proud to get the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund because I have been a leader on these issues. I have gone time and time again to take on the vested interests who would -- women's health care decisions, the province of the government instead of women ourselves. I'm very proud that NARAL endorsed me because when it comes to it, we need a leader on women's issues. Somebody who, yes, votes right but much more than that, leads the efforts to protect the hard-fought gains that women have made that, make no mistake about it, are under tremendous attack, not just by the Republican presidential candidates, but by a whole national effort to try to set back women's rights. So I am asking women, I'm asking men, to support me because I am ready to go into the White House on January 20th, 2017, and get to work on both domestic and foreign policy challenges."