Hillary Clinton Defends High-Dollar Speaking Fees

Far be it from me to decry somebody getting rich in the private sector from voluntary transactions, but at what point does paying a politician an enormous fee to give a boring stump speech start to look like bribery?



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Hillary Clinton's individual speaking fees reportedly average $200,000 per appearance. "Let me put it this way," Clinton told Sawyer. "I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company as so many people who leave public life do."