Meeting with Black Leaders, Clinton Hits Sanders: ‘I’m Not a Single Issue Candidate’

"I want to start by thanking each of you, your organizations, and in particular your staffs, for the extraordinary advice that they had given to my team at the campaign. We've reached out and we've always found an open door and [indecipherable] to help us forge the kind of policies that we think can directly address many of the issues that were touched on in the introductory remarks. 

My campaign is really about breaking every barrier because I believe absolutely that America can't live up to its potentials unless every single person has the chance to live up to theirs. I've followed the belief and mantra that I want to see every child has a chance to live up to his or her God given potentials since my days with the Children's Defense Fund. I still believe that has to be a core of our mission as a nation and the work that each and every one of your organizations do in furtherance of civil rights, economic justice and social justice, and political participation. 

So, I'm grateful for what you all have done for so many years. If we were to add up hundredths and hundredths of years, represented by the organizations here today, it would stretch back before the founding of our country because it's been such a core commitment by those who came before that you are now continuing. 

I look forward to talking about the agenda that each of you have put forth, giving you my ideas about what we can do to be effective and  making clear that I'm not a single issue candidate. We don't live in a single issue country and we have work to do. That work can only be done in partnership with one another to advance the cause of civil and human rights and to, as you said, live up to ideals of our country, which is exactly what our goal must be. So, thank you, Mark."