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Democrats Need To Become A 50-state Party. You Can't Have A Great Party On The West Coast And The East Coast. You Need To Have A Party In All 50 States.

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Democrats Need To Become A 50-state Party. You Can't Have A Great Party On The West Coast And The East Coast. You Need To Have A Party In All 50 States.

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Medicare And Medicaid

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Assault Weapons

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You Know, Let Me Be Very Clear. I Supported Barack Obama Originally.

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It Costs A Hell Of A Lot More Money To Put Somebody In Jail Than Send Them To The University Of Virginia.

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I Happen To Believe That We Should Move To A Medicare-for-all Single-payer System, Similar To What Other Countries Around The World Have.

Everyone Can Have Health Care. Everyone Can Earn A Living Wage. We Can Educate All Our Kids - Well. But None Of That Happens Unless There's A Political Revolution. And It's Not Going To Happen Unless We Deal With Corporate Control Of The Media.

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I Think The American People In Many Cases Want To Transform Our Energy System.

Politically, As A Result Of Citizens United, Billionaires Are Now Able To Spend As Much Money As They Want On Campaigns, Which Means That You Have A Political System Which Is Heavily Dominated By Corporations And Wealthy Individuals.

Here's Something That I Believe We Have To Do As We Put Together An International Coalition, And That Is We Have To Understand That The Muslim Nations In The Region - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan - All Of These Nations, They're Going To Have To Get Their Hands Dirty, Their Boots On The Ground. They Are Going To Have To Take On Isis.

I Would Like To See Somebody Who Speaks For The Underdog, For The People Who Don`t Have This In Healthcare Benefits. So I Would Like To See A Candidate Who Has The Guts To Opposition That America Could Be A Land For All People, Not Just The Land Control By The Super Rich.

Student Debt Is Crushing The Lives Of Millions Of Americans. How Does It Happen That We Can Get A Home Mortgage Or Purchase A Car With Interest Rates Half Of That Being Paid For Student Loans? We Must Make Higher Education Affordable For All. We Must Substantially Lower Interest Rates On Student Loans. This Must Be A National Priority.

I Have Taken On Virtually Every Element Of The Big Money Establishment, Whether It's The Koch Brothers, And The Big Energy Companies, Whether It's The Industrial Complex, Whether It's Wall Street... I Have Taken On The Drug Companies. I Have Taken On The Insurance Companies.

So As A Nation, We Have A Right To Be Very Proud Of The Successes That We Have Seen Because Of The Struggle Of Millions Of People To Create A Less Discriminatory Society. That Is Something We Should Be Proud Of, But There Is One Struggle In Which Not Only Have We Not Succeeded But In Which We Are Losing Ground And That Is The Fundamental Struggle For Economic Justice.

I Was Not A Great Student At The University Of Chicago. I Think That Is - The Record Will Bare Me Out. But I Spent A Lot Of Time Reading History, Sociology, Psychology - Reading Everything Except What I Was Supposed To Read For Class The Next Day.

As A Nation, There Are Many Issues We Don`t Talk About, We Just Don`t Talk About, Push Them Under The Rug. Poverty Is One Of Those Issues.

If Trump Is Elected President... I Just Don't Know What America Looks Like Four Years After His Election, In Terms Of The Kind Of Bigotry That Will Be Erupting, In Terms Of The Kind Of Divisiveness That We Will See, The Kind Of Demagoguery That We Will See.

A Guy Named Adolf Hitler Won An Election In 1932 ... And 50 Million People Died As A Result ... What I Learned As A Little Kid Is That Politics Is, In Fact, Very Important.

Brothers And Sisters: Now Is Not The Time For Thinking Small, Now Is Not The Time For The Same-old, Same-old Establishment Politics And Stale Inside-the-beltway Ideas.

There Is Nobody That I Know Who Believes That Bank Of America Is A Human Being Who Should Be Entitled For The Same Constitutional Rights That The People Of Our Country Are.

Essentially What My Campaign Is About, It`s About Anything, This Is Saying We`ve Got Bring That Money Back Into The Middle Class And Working Families. We Have To Create Jobs, We Have To Raise, We Have To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free So Kids In That Community Who Are Studying Hard Understand That Some Day They Will Be Able To Go To College.

Look, If You Have Somebody Who Doesn't Have Health Insurance, Who Doesn't Have A Doctor Or Dentist, And In Order To Deal With Their Cold Or Flu Or Dental Problem, They Go To An Emergency Room - In General, That Visit Will Cost Ten Times More Than Walking Into A Community Health Center.

The Decision Is I'm Going To Do Everything I Can To Fight For The Working Class Of This Country, The Low-income People Against Income And Wealth Inequality, Do Everything We Can About Climate Change.

When People Get Out Of Jail, It Is Not Easy For Them To Find A Job. It Is Not Easy For Them To Return To Civil Society.

The American People Want To Raise The Minimum Wage. Every Poll Tells Us That. That Bill Will Not Get To The Floor Of The Senate. The American People Want To Ask The Rich To Pay More In Taxes. But The Legislation That Will Get To The Floor Is Tax Breaks For Billionaires.

We've Had A Number Of Economists Supporting Our Legislation. And Here's Where We Are. The American People Can Judge. Six Largest Financial Institutions In America Today Have Assets Of Roughly $10 Trillion; Equivalent To 58 Percent Of The Gdp Of The United States Of America.

I Think Katrina Is One More Indication Of How Inefficient And Corrupt This Administration Is, And Indicates The Absolute Lack Of Seriousness That [george W.] Bush Has In Making The Government Respond To The Needs Of The People. They Are So Separated From The Lives Of Normal, Low-income People That It Never Occurred To Them That If You're Poor And Have No Money, No Car, That You Can't Leave.

The United States Must Join The Rest Of The Industrialized World, Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right.

When I Was In The House For 16 Years, I Caucused With The Democrats.

Where America Has Got To Move Is Not Growth For The Sake Of Growth, But It`s Got To Move To A Society That Provides A High Quality Of Life For All Of Our People. In Other Words, If People Have Health Care As A Right, As Do The People Of Every Other Major Country, Then There's Less Worry About Growth. If People Have Educational Opportunity And Their Kids Can Go To College And They Have Child Care, Then There's Less Worry About Growth For The Sake Of Growth.

I Thought The Bush Economic Policy Was A Disaster. We Lost 500,000 Private Sector Jobs During His Tenure.

One In Four Corporations Doesn't Pay Any Taxes.

I Think, When The African-american Community Understands My Record On Criminal Justice, My Record On Economics, The Agenda We're Bringing Forth, Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour, Dealing With The Fact That We Have More People In Jail, Shamefully, Than Any Other Country On Earth, That I Am Against The Death Penalty, Secretary Clinton Is Not, I Think, As People Become Familiar With My Ideas, We Are Going To Do Better And Better.

If You Take Donations From Wall Street, You Can't Be Independent.

The American People Want To Know That When They Borrow A Book From The Library Or Buy A Book, The Government Won't Be Looking Over Their Shoulder. Everybody Wants To Fight Terrorism, But We Have To Do It In Away That Protects American Freedom.

Ceos Of Large Corporations Earn 400 Times What Their Workers Make. That Is Not What America Is Supposed To Be About.

To My Mind, If We Do Not Get A Handle On Money In Politics And The Degree To Which Big Money Controls The Political Process In This Country, Nobody Is Going To Bring About The Changes That Is Needed In This Country For The Middle Class And Working Families.

It Is Incomprehensible That Drug Companies Still Get Away With Charging Americans Twice As Much, Or More, Than Citizens Of Canada Or Europe For The Exact Same Drugs Manufactured By The Exact Same Companies.

For Some Reason, We Can't Go To Cuba, Businesses In American Can't Do Business In Cuba. I Think That That Is Stupid. So I Hope Very Much And Applaud The President For His Efforts In That Direction And Hope That In The Not-too-distant Future, That If I Have Anything To Say About It As President, We Will Work Aggressively To Develop Normal Relations In Every Respect With The People Of Cuba.

Please Don't Suggest That I Think We Normalize Relations With Tehran Tomorrow. We Don't. But I Would Like To See Us Move Forward, And Hopefully Some Day That Will Happen.

I Happen To Believe That One Of The Great Crises Facing The Planet Is Climate Change. Donald Trump Happens Not To Think That Climate Change Is Real. Hillary Clinton Takes It Seriously.

I Wanna End The International Embarrassment Of The United States Of America Being The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn't Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right, Not A Privilege.

Social Security Is The Most Successful Government Program In Our Nation's History. We Are Not Going To Cut Social Security! We Are Going To Expand Social Security!

I Think - You Know, I Can't Speak For 13 Million People, But I Think Most Of My Supporters Understand Trump Has Got To Be Defeated. We Need To Elect As Many Progressives As Possible. And We Need To Continue The Fight To Create An Agenda Which Works For Working Families And Not Just For Wealthy Campaign Contributors.

I Think People Have A Right To Speak. And You Have A Right If You're On A College Campus Not To Attend. You Have A Right To Ask Hard Questions About The Speaker If You Disagree With Him Or Her.

My Path To Victory Is To Talk About The Issues That Impact The Lives Of Millions Of Americans.

As A United States Senator, I've Got To Do Everything That I Can To Make Sure That Trump Does Not Become President.

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