Programmatically trigger a copy or paste in c#

I have a program that I'm working on that register global hotkeys I would like to use that ability to trigger highlighted text or data to be copied to the clipboard and then read from the clipboard into a variable in my program which i will later use in reverse to paste it back out. (example ctrl+1 copys to quque #1 and alt+1 pasts what is in quque 1) thanks so much.