Debate Night: Best quotes as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clash on major issues - Video

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head to head for the first time in a heated debate during the race to the White House.

Naturally, Hillary and Trump were hurling accusations at each other. Here are some of the key quotes covering major issues:

Economy

‘We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States,’ Donald Trump said on boosting US employment and the economy.

‘Donald, I know you live in your own reality’ – Hillary Clinton.

‘I call it Trumped-up trickle-down’ – Mrs Clinton on Mr Trump’s proposals to cut taxes for higher earners.

‘All talk, no action, sounds good, never going to work. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary Clinton’ – Mr Trump.

‘Maybe he’s not as rich as he says he is. Maybe he is not as charitable as he claims. We don’t know all his business dealings.’ – Mrs Clinton on Mr Trump’s choice to not disclose his tax affairs.

‘I’m relieved my late father never did business with you.’ Mrs Clinton after claiming a large number of Mr Trump’s business associates have gone unpaid.

Ability to serve as President

‘My strongest asset is my temperament. She does not have a temperament’ – Mr Trump in response to a question about his control of the United States’ nuclear weapons.

Mr Trump addressed Mrs Clinton as ‘Secretary Clinton’ before asking; ‘Is that okay? I want you to be very happy. It’s very important to me.’

On the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) Mr Trump said: ‘Your husband signed Nafta which is one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

‘Nafta is the worst trade deal, maybe ever signed anywhere but certainly ever signed in this country and now you want to approve trans-Pacific partnership.

‘You know if you did win you would approve that and that will be almost as bad as Nafta.’

On the record of previous Democratic governments Mrs Clinton hit back: ‘By the end of this evening I think I’ll be blamed for everything that has ever happened.’

Mr Trump prompted laughter from the audience when he replied: ‘Why not?’

Hillary responds to Trump's stamina hit, and it's a doozy pic.twitter.com/Kr0cBVOSKU

— Colin Jones (@colinjones) September 27, 2016

Mrs Clinton defended recently taking time off from the campaign trail and spending time preparing for the debate. ‘You know what else I did? I prepared to be president.’

Mr Trump repeated accusations that Mrs Clinton does not have the qualities to be president, including stamina.

Mrs Clinton said Mr Trump should not talk about stamina until he has tried out the busy schedule she kept up as secretary of state.

Women

Referring to the way Trump has disccused women, Hillary said: ‘This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs’.

She also recalled the time he labelled pregnancy ‘an inconvienience’ to businesses and employers.

Terrorism

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

Trump was quick to bring national security into the debate even when the question was on something completely different.

He first accused Mrs Clinton of leaking tactics to Islamic State on her campaign website and criticised the Obama administration for the ascendancy of the terror group.

The Democratic candidate said she is hopeful that IS will be eradicated by the end of the year – with taking out its leaders her top priority in office.

In the wake of several deadly terror-related incidents in the US, Mrs Clinton said her rival had ‘consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home’, while people from within the Muslim community would be key to fighting terror.

Defence and cyber attacks

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

Trump said he would not use the US’s nuclear arsenal unless the US was struck with warheads first.

However he also said he ‘can’t take anything off the table’ and referred to issues with Iran and North Korea.

The candidates were quizzed on their views on cyber security, with a focus on Russia.

Mrs Clinton said the US ‘is not going to sit idly by’ and let hostile nations attempt to hack public or private information.

Trump’s past praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin left him open to attack. He simply replied ‘wrong’ when the comments were raised.

Gun laws

On this subject, the candidates actually agreed.

Trump said he supported Mrs Clinton’s view that people on watch lists or no-fly lists should have restrictions on their ability to buy guns.

‘We have to look very strongly at no-fly lists and watch lists,’ the billionaire said.

Birtherism

Hillary also addressed birther lie – conspiracy theories that Barack Obama wasn’t actually born in the US.

Ahead of the presidential debates Donald Trump called a press conference to confirm what we all knew, that POTUS, Barack Obama, was in fact born on American soil despite his earlier comments.