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The State Department’s senior advisor Philippe Reines released a transcript to reporters Thursday evening with the quote:

AYELET WALDMAN:  My daughter was reading Catcher in the Rye, and I said, “Oh, don’t you love that book?”  And she said, “What is his problem?  He’s unhappy?  He should go volunteer.”

SECRETARY CLINTON:  Good for her.  I like your daughter without even meeting her.  I mean, I think there’s so much to that, because I mean, God, I can’t stand whining.  I can’t stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they are not happy with choices they made.  You live in a time when there are endless choices, and you don’t have to have money for them.  Money certainly helps.  I mean, having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don’t even have to have money for it.  But you have to – even, like, work on yourself, learn to play a sport, do something.   

AYELET WALDMAN:  I’m going to tell Sophie that you agree with her.

“It’s outlandish and misleading for Marie Clare to imply anything else from sympathizing with reporter’s daughter Sophie,” Reines said.