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Every Candidate Running For President Has Got To Answer The Following Very Simple Question: At A Time When We Need To Address The Planetary Crisis Of Climate Change, And Transform Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuels And Into Energy Efficiency And Sustainability, Should We Continue To Give $135 Billion In Tax Breaks And Subsidies Over The Next Decade To Fossil Fuel Companies?

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Bernie Sanders

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Every Candidate Running For President Has Got To Answer The Following Very Simple Question: At A Time When We Need To Address The Planetary Crisis Of Climate Change, And Transform Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuels And Into Energy Efficiency And Sustainability, Should We Continue To Give $135 Billion In Tax Breaks And Subsidies Over The Next Decade To Fossil Fuel Companies?

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The American People In My View Will Never Support A Candidate Whose Major Theme Is Bigotry.

I Have One Of The Strongest Records In Fighting For Senior Citizens. I Led The Effort To Prevent Cuts To Social Security. But I Think For Some Seniors, They Remember The "evil Empire" Of The Soviet Union. They Conflated The Term "democratic Socialism" With Communism.

It Is A Public Financing System That Everybody Knows Is Antiquated. It No Longer Works. Nobody Can Become President Based On That System.

In My View, We Need A Massive Federal Jobs Program Which Puts Millions Of Our People Back To Work. We Must End Our Disastrous Trade Policies. We Need To Raise The Minimum Wage To A Living Wage. And We Have To Fight For Pay Equity For Women.

Should A Small Business Or A Large Business Be Able To Pollute The Water Or The Air Or The Food? No, I Hope You Don't Believe That.

I Very Strongly Disagreed With President Clinton On The Deregulation Of Wall Street. I Opposed That Strenuously.

We Can Have Paid Family And Medical Leave. We Can Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free. These Are Not Revolutionary, Radical Ideas. They're Kind Of Common Sense.

The Democratic Party Has Been Very Strong In A Lot Of Areas, In Fighting To Make Our Country A Less Discriminatory Country. And That Is Enormously Important.

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.

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 Think There Are Many People In The Working Class Who Say, You Know What? Yes, Maybe We Are Better Off Than We Were Eight Years Ago, But I Am Still Working Two Or Three Jobs, My Kid Can't Afford To Go To College, I Can't Afford Child Care, My Real Wages Have Been Going Down For 40 Years. The Middle Class Is Shrinking. Who's Standing Up For Me?

Obviously In The Next Few Months We Have Got To Do Everything That We Can To Make Sure That Donald Trump, Who In My View Is The Worst, Least-prepared Candidate For President In My Lifetime. Number Two, We've Got To Obviously Elect Hillary Clinton.

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.

If You Look At Virtually All Of The Issues Of Importance To The People Of America - Issues Like Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free - Hillary Clinton Is Now On Record For Doing That For People Making $125,000 A Year Or Less. You Know What? That Is Pretty Revolutionary. That Will Transform The Lives Of Millions Of Families In This Country. That's What Clinton Stands For.

There Are A Lot Of Smart Honest, Progressive People Who I Think Can Be Good Presidents.

The Fossil Fuel Industry For Too Long Has Shifted Enormous Costs Of Carbon Pollution Onto The Public.

I Think, With Trump, The Major Point Is This Guy Has Business Enterprises All Over The World. And You're Looking Just At Immense, Immense Conflict Of Interest.

I'm A United States Senator, And I Have A Responsibility To The People Of My State - Also To The People Of This Country.

I Think If We're Looking At Lasting Peace In The Middle East, The United States Has Got To Respect The Needs Of The Palestinian People. They Cannot Be Pushed Aside.

Finally, Let Understand That When We Stand Together, We Will Always Win. When Men And Women Stand Together For Justice, We Win. When Black, White And Hispanic People Stand Together For Justice, We Win.

Not Only Did I Vote Against That War, I Helped Lead The Opposition, And If You Go To My Website, Berniesanders.com, You Will See The Statement That I Made In 2002. And It Gives Me No Pleasure To Tell You That Much Of What I Feared Would Happen The Day After Saddam Hussein Was Overthrown, In Fact, Did Happen.

I Went Back To A Small Town In Poland Where My Dad Grew Up. It Was A Very Traumatic Experience For Me As A Young Man To Know That My Father's Family Were Killed By Nazis, Killed By Hitler. And That Left, You Know, If Not Intellectually, At Least An Emotional Part Of Me Which Said, God, We Have Got To Do Everything We Can To End This Kind Of Horrific Racism Or Anti-semitism. And I Have Spent Much Of My Life Trying To Fight That.

Trickle Down Economics Is A Fraud. Giving Tax Breaks To The Rich And Large Corporations Does Not Create Jobs. It Simply Makes The Rich Richer, Enlarges The Deficit And Increases Income And Wealth Inequality. We Need Economic Policies Which Benefit Working Families, Not The Billionaire Class.

I Think That The Needs Of The Va And The Needs Of The Veteran Community Are Very, Very Significant. Цe're Talking About A Va System In Which, In The Last Years A Million-and-a-half More People Have Come Into The System. You're Dealing With 500,000 People Have Come Home From Iraq An Afghanistan With Ptsd And Tbi. You're Dealing With An Older Veterans Population From World War Ii And Korea Who Need Some Difficult Medical Help. We Want To See It Be More Efficient. We Want To See Doctors Go To Where They're Needed.

When We Are Fighting For Huge Stakes - We're Fighting For The Future - Future Of The Planet In Terms Of Climate Change. We're Fighting For The Future Of American Democracy.

Approximately 82% Of The American People Believe Labeling Should Take Place With Regard To Genetically Engineered Ingredients. All Over This Country People Are Increasingly Concerned About The Quality Of The Food They Are Ingesting And The Food They Are Giving To Their Kids. People Want To Know What Is In Their Food, And I Believe That Is A Very Reasonable Request.

To Be Honest With You, I Worry About Concentration Of Ownership In Media, Where You Have A Handful Of Media Conglomerates Largely Controlling What We See, Hear And Read.

After All, Wall Street Is Clearly The Most Powerful Lobbying Force On Capitol Hill. From 1998 Through 2008, The Financial Sector Spent Over $5 Billion In Lobbying And Campaign Contributions To Deregulate Wall Street.

The Good News Is That We've Seen In Recent Years Significant Reductions In The Cost Of Solar Panels And Wind Production. We Know How Significant An Impact We Can Have By Moving Towards Energy Efficiency And Transforming Our Transportation System. So We Know What Has To Be Done. We Have To Develop The Political Will To Do It, And, As President, This Would Be An Issue Of Huge Concern To Me.

Today, The Top One-tenth Of 1% Owns Nearly As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90%. The Economic Game Is Rigged, And This Level Of Inequality Is Unsustainable. We Need An Economy That Works For All, Not Just The Powerful.

Of Course Their [cuba's] Economy Is Terrible, But They Have Health Care And Education.

I Love Music, I'm Very Eclectic. On My Ipad I Have The Complete Works Of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

I Surely Remember Being In The Administration Building Sitting In Long Sleepless Nights And Working With Young People To Do The Right Thing. And That Is To Tell Our University, At That Time, The University Of Chicago, That It Was Wrong To Own And Maintain Segregated Housing. I Remember It Very Well.

What You Don't See On Television Is People Dying Today Because They Can't Get To A Doctor And They Can't Afford Prescription Drugs. That's Why They Are Also Dying. They Are Dying In Iraq Because They Are Poor And They Have Gone Into The Military Because They Can't Afford To Go To College. They're Dying Because They're Living In Communities Where Asthma Rates Are Extremely High Because The Air Is Filthy. The Suffering Of The Poor And Working Class People Is A Virtual Nonissue For The Media. But That Is The Reality.

Big Business Is Willing To Destroy The Planet For Short-term Profits

Here's What Income And Wealth Inequality Is About. Last Year, The Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers Made More Than 24 Billion, Enough To Pay The Salaries Of 425,000 Public School Teachers. This Level Of Inequality Is Neither Moral Or Sustainable

I Know Media Is Not Necessarily Focused On These Things. But What A Campaign Is About Is Not Hillary Clinton, It's Not Donald Trump. It Is The People Of This Country, People Who Are Working Longer Hours For Lower Wages, People Who Do Not Have Health Care Or Are Underinsured.

I Think It Is Now Widely Understood That The So-called "war On Drugs" Has Largely Been A Failure. Too Many People Have Developed Criminal Records For Smoking Marijuana. Too Many People Have Gone To Jail For Nonviolent Crimes. So I Think It's Important For Us To Rethink The War On Drugs.

I Did A Lot Of Reading. I Read About Democratic Socialism. And I Read About The Efforts Of People For Such A Long Time Trying To Create A Society In Which All People Can Live With Dignity. And That's Kind Of What I Believe.

Democratic Socialism

During The Debate Over Nafta President Clinton Said, 'i Believe That Nafta Will Create A Million Jobs In The First Five Years Of Its Impact.' Wrong. According To The Economic Policy Institute, Nafta Has Led To The Loss Of More Than 680,000 U.s. Jobs. I Voted Against Nafta And Other Bad Trade Agreements And Am Fighting To Stop The Tpp.

We Do Not Need To Have A President Who Insults Mexicans And Latinos And Muslims And Women And Veterans And African-americans, We Need A President Who Brings Us Together, Not Divides Us Up.

At The End Of The Day, If Millions Of People Come Together And Say, We Are Not Going To Be A Xenophobic Society, We Are Not Going To Be Throwing Millions Of Latinos Out Of This Country, We Are Not Going To Be A Racist Society, We're Not Going To Be A Sexist Society, We Will Prevail.

The End Of The Day

What I Do Believe Absolutely Is That In The Middle Of A Recession, The American Middle Class And Working Class Needs A Tax Relief.

We Have Got To Change The Political Culture In America. We Need A Political Revolution. That Means We Are Working On Politics Not Just Three Weeks Before An Election But 365 Days A Year.

Political Revolution

The U.s. Constitution Is An Extraordinary Document. In My View, It Should Not Be Amended Often.

I Think It's Important That Members Of The United States Senate Spend Time Not Just On Capitol Hill But Making Contact With Ordinary People And Engaging Them In The Political Process.

Republicans Win When People Are Demoralized And You Have A Small Voter Turnout, Which By The Way Is Why They Love Voter Suppression. I Believe That Our Campaign Up To Now Has Shown That We Can Create An Enormous Amount Of Enthusiasm From Working People, From Young People, Who Will Get Involved In The Political Process And Which Will Drive Us To A Very Large Voter Turnout.

During The Last Two Years The Wealthiest 14 Americans Saw Their Wealth Increase By $157 Billion. This Is Truly Unbelievable. This $157 Billion Increase In Wealth Among 14 Individuals Is More Wealth That Is Owned, Collectively, By 130 Million Americans. This Country Does Not Survive Morally, Economically Or Politically When So Few Have So Much, And So Many Have So Little.

The Focus, To My Mind, Is To Make Sure That Donald Trump Does Not Become President Of The United States. I Think By Temperament He Is Unqualified To Be President. I Think His Views - You Have A Guy Who's Running For President Who Rejects Science, Doesn't Even Believe Climate Change Is Real, Let Alone Wants To Do Something About It, Wants To Give Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Tax Breaks To The Top Two-tenths Of One Percent.

It's Immoral And Wrong That The Top 1 Percent Of The Usa Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. We Should Look At Countries Like Denmark And Sweden And Norway And Look At What They've Accomplished For Their Working People.

I Think The Issue Of Income And Wealth Inequality Is In Fact A Moral Issue.

People Are Hungry, And They're Hurting And They're Very, Very Worried About Their Children. Will Their Kids Ever Pay Off Their Student Debt? Will Their Kids Ever Get A Decent-paying Job? I Think Democrats Have Got To Be Running A Grass-roots Campaign - Mobilizing People And Being Prepared To Take On The 1 Percent With An Agenda That Speaks To The Needs Of Ordinary Workers.

The Basic Issue Of An American Society Which Is Fair, Which Is Providing Opportunity For All, Is Nowadays Being Replaced By The Correct Perception That We're Living In A Rigged Economy - Where It Doesn't Matter How Hard You Worked, The Result Will Be All The Income Goes To The People At The Very Top. It's Leading To A Lot Of Frustration And Anger, And People Want Some Fundamental Changes To The Way We Do Economics And Growth.

I Have A Long History In Fighting For Civil Rights. I Understand That Many People In The African-american Community May Not Understand That.

Israel's Right To Exist In Peace And Security Is Not In Debate.

Peace And Security

Here Is What The Practical Impact Of Citizens United Means. What Citizens United Means Is That Corporations Call Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Television Ads, Radio Ads, And Other Forms Of Advertising To Defeat Those Candidates Who Stand Up And Take Them On.

Let Us Wage A Moral And Political War Against The Billionaires And Corporate Leaders, On Wall Street And Elsewhere, Whose Policies And Greed Are Destroying The Middle Class Of America.

For Many, The American Dream Has Become A Nightmare.

I Am Proud Of The Campaign That We Ran. Obviously, I Wish We Could Have Done A Little Bit Better.

Between 2013 And 2015, The Wealthiest 14 People Saw Their Wealth Increase By $157 Billion. This Is Their Wealth Increase, Got It? Not What They Are Worth. Increase. That $157 Billion Is More Wealth Than Is Owned By The Bottom 40 Percent Of The American People. One Family, The Walton Family, Owns More Wealth Than The Bottom 40 Percent.

What Kind Of Nation Are We When We Give Tax Breaks To Billionaires, But We Can't Take Care Of The Elderly And The Children.

The Votes Elected Officials Make Should Be Based On The Best Interests Of The American People, Not The Fear Of Retribution When Shadowy Groups Spend Millions Of Dollars On Negative Advertisements.

Planned Parenthood And Human Rights Campaign Are Standing Up And Fighting The Important Fights That Have To Be Fought.

In The 1980s And 1990s, Jack Welch, The Ceo Of General Electric, Laid Off Over 100,000 Employees. His Reward? When He Retired From Ge, He Received A Golden Parachute Of Over $400 Million Dollars. This Is The Kind Of Corporate Greed And Irresponsibility That Is Destroying The Middle Class And Must Be Ended.

Campaigns And Elections Are Not A Game. They're Not A Game. They're About Trying To Change America. We're The Wealthiest Country In The History Of The World. We Should Not Be Having Flint, Michigan, Or African-american Communities All Over This Country Where Schools Are Failing. Those Are The Issue We Got To Pay Attention To And Not At This As Come Kind Of Silly Game. And That Is The Critique That Bothers Me. That's What Bothers Me About Media Coverage.

We Are Imprisoning Or Giving Jail Sentences To Young People Who Are Smoking Marijuana.

We're Going To Stand With Working People. We're Going To Take On The Billionaire Class. We're Going The Take On The Drug Companies And The Insurance Companies. We're Going The Take On Wall Street. That's Where I Think The Future Of The Democratic Party Lies.

I Am Not Supportive Of Large Multi-national Corporations That Made Billions A Year In Profit And Don't Pay A Nickel In Taxes, Nor Am I Supportive Of Those Corporations Who Throw American Workers Out On The Street And Then Move To China Or Mexico.

I Very Strongly Supported The Agreement Which Makes Certain That Iran Does Not Get A Nuclear Weapon.

This Is A Very Important Issue That The Corporate Media Chooses Not To Talk About A Whole Lot, That We Have An Economic System Which Is Rigged, Which Means That At The Same Time As The Middle Class Of This Country Is Disappearing, Almost All Of The New Income And Wealth In America Is Going To The Top 1 Percent. You Have The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent Owning Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent - 58 Percent Of All New Income Is Going To The Top 1 Percent.

We Have Got To Make Sure That Every Qualified American In This Country Who Wants To Go To College Can Go To College -- Regardless Of Income.

What Wall Street And Credit Card Companies Are Doing Is Really Not Much Different From What Gangsters And Loan Sharks Do Who Make Predatory Loans. While The Bankers Wear Three-piece Suits And Don't Break The Knee Caps Of Those Who Can't Pay Back, They Still Are Destroying People's Lives.

If We Invest In Jobs For Our Kids And Do Our Best To Keep Them In School, We Will End Up Saving A Whole Lot Of Lives And Whole Lot Of Money.

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.

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.

Debating, Doubting, Or Rejecting The Basic Scientific Facts About Climate Change In The Face Of The Overwhelming Evidence And Overwhelming Scientific Opinion Will Not Change Those Facts.

I Think Donald Trump Understood That There Are Many Millions Of People In America, The Working Middle Class, Who Are Really Hurting. They Are In Pain.

This Country Is Never Going To Move Forward Unless We End Republican Rule In The House And Senate.

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.

The American People Must Make A Fundamental Decision. Do We Continue The 40-year Decline Of Our Middle Class And The Growing Gap Between The Very Rich And Everyone Else, Or Do We Fight For A Progressive Economic Agenda That Creates Jobs, Raises Wages, Protects The Environment And Provides Health Care For All?

I Think The Media And The Candidates Have Got To Talk About Why The Middle Class Is In Decline And Why We Have Massive Levels Of Income And Wealth Inequality.

Americans' Right To Free Speech Should Not Be Proportionate To Their Bank Accounts.

We Need An Energy Revolution By Breaking Our Dependence On Fossil Fuels, Polluting Fuels... I Am Very, Very Confident Our Small State Will Lead This. We Will Be Noticed By The Country And The World.

The Right Wing In This Country Is Waging A War Against Women, And Let Me Be Very Clear, It Is Not A War That We Are Going To Allow Them To Win.

People Are Tired Of Working Longer Hours For Lower Wages, Of Seeing Decent Paying Jobs Go To China And Other Low-wage Countries, Of Billionaires Not Paying Any Federal Income Taxes And Of Not Being Able To Afford A College Education For Their Kids - All While The Very Rich Become Much Richer.

We Have To Enforce The Individual Mandate. We're Losing A Lot Of Money That Is Not Coming Into The System.

I Don't Go Around Every Other Day Calling For Governors To Resign. I Don't Think I Ever Have.

I'm Very, Very Worried About The Invasion Of Privacy Rights That We're Seeing Not Only From The N.s.a. And The Government But From Corporate America, As Well. We're Losing Our Privacy Rights. It's A Huge Issue.

We Did Phenomenally Well With Young People. I Think We Did Well With Working Class People.

The Federal Reserve Needs To Provide Small Businesses In America With The Same Low-interest Loans It Gave To Foreign Banks.

Being Jewish And Having Lost Relatives In The Holocaust, I've Always Been Aware Of The Meaning Of Prejudice. These Are Things That Have Remained With Me Throughout My Political Career.

Country Must Confront What He Called Institutional Racism. [we Should] Create A Country Which Provides Economic, Social And Environmental Justice For All.

Justice For All

Hillary Clinton Is On Record Supporting A Doubling Of Community Health Centers In This Country, Which Will Mean That Tens Of Millions Of People - Poor People - Will Have Access To Health Care That Do Not Have It Today. Is That Significant? It Is Very Significant.

I Want To Know In This Day And Age, Whether It Is Possible For Any Candidate Who Is Not A Billionaire Or Who Is Not Beholden To The Billionaire Class, To Be Able To Run Successful Campaigns.

Obviously One Would Hope One Would Have As Much Support As Possible From All Walks Of Life, I Am A Great Fan Of Elizabeth And As For What People Do And Why They Don't Do It, I Am Not Going To Speculate.

People Understand That The Economy Is Rigged. They're Working Longer Hours For Low Wages. All New Income And Wealth, Almost All, Is Going To The People On Top.

It's Better To Show Up Than To Give Up.

In Germany, College Tuition Is Free. In America, College Tuition Is Increasingly Unaffordable. In A Highly Competitive Global Economy, Which Country Do You Think Will Have The Best Educated Work Force And A Competitive Advantage? We Must Make Tuition Free In Public Colleges And Universities And Substantially Reduce Interest Rates On Student Loans.

The Billionaires And Their Super Pacs Increasingly Control The American Political Process. This Is Not Democracy. This Is Not What Brave Americans Fought And Died To Defend. This Is Oligarchy. This Is Government Of The Few, By The Few And For The Few. We Must Overturn Citizen United And Move To Public Funding Of Elections.

We Are The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn't Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right And Yet We End Up Spending Much More Than They Do, So I Do Believe That We Have To Move Toward A Medicare For All, Single-payer System.

I Took An Oath To Support And Defend The Constitution Of The United States, And I'm Concerned That Voting For This [anti-terrorism] Legislation Fundamentally Violates That Oath.

Constitution Of The United States

I Have Been In The Democratic Caucus In The Senate For Over 24 Years.

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.

Things Are Getting Worse. You Know, When You Look At This Campaign, And You Realize The Enormously Serious Issues This Country Faces, Right, We Got A Collapsing Middle Class. We Have More Wealth And Income Inequality Today Than We've Had Since The 1920s. We Have All Of These Enormous Issues.

If You Looked At Jeb Bush's Campaign, It's More Than Just Money. It's The Nature Of The Candidate And The Message And All That Stuff.

When You Talk About Heroines And Heroes, At The Top Of The List Has Got To Be The Single Moms Of America.

There Is A Reason Why These People [from Wall Street] Are Putting Huge Amounts Of Money Into Our Political System. And In My View, It Is Undermining American Democracy And It Is Allowing Congress To Represent Wealthy Campaign Contributors And Not The Working Families Of This Country.

In The Economy Today, Everybody Understands That We Need A Well Educated Workforce. This Is 2016. When We Talk About Public Education, It Can No Longer Be K Through 12th Grade. I Do Believe That Public Colleges And Universities Should Be Tuition Free.

We Will Do Well When Young People, When Working-class People Come Out. We Do Not Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is Not Large. We Did Not Do As Good A Job As I Had Wanted To Bring Out A Large Turnout.

I Worry Very, Very Much About An Isolated Country. That's What Makes Me Nervous. Russia Lives In The World. China Lives In The World. North Korea Is A Very, Very Strange Country Because It Is So Isolated, And I Do Feel That A Nation With Nuclear Weapons, They Have Got To Be Dealt With. Dealt With Effectively.

I Was Elected By The Democrats To Be Chair Of The Veterans Committee, Which I'm Very Proud Of. And Now Am The Rankings Member On The Budget Committee, Leader Of The Democrats In Opposition To The Majority Republicans.

Hillary Clinton And I Have Worked Together On A Higher Education Proposal Which Will Guarantee Free Tuition In Public Colleges And Universities For Every Family In This Country Making $125,000 A Year Or Less. We're Going To Fight For Paid Family And Medical Leave. Those Are The Issues That The American People Want To Hear Discussed, And I'm Going To Go Around The Country Discussing Them And Making Sure That Hillary Clinton Is Elected President.

I Think My Main Concern Is Because I Worry About Demagoguery. It`s Real. You See The People Standing Up There And Applauding.

It Is Beyond My Comprehension Why Today In America, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Bright Young People Are Unable To Go To College - For One Reason: That Their Family Lacks The Funding. And Together We Are Going To Change That.

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.

We Must Fundamentally Restructure Our Student Loan Program. It Makes No Sense That Students And Their Parents Are Forced To Pay Interest Rates For Higher Education Loans That Are Much Higher Than They Pay For Car Loans Or Housing Mortgages.

I Want Trump To Send Out A Tweet Saying That He's Going To Keep His Campaign Promises. He's Not Going To Cut Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid.

Medicare And Medicaid

Politics Does Not End The Day Of The Election.

When I Talked About Boeing And I Talked About General Electric, What I Was Referring To Is An Outrage... Right Now You Have A Loophole Such That These Guys Are Putting Their Profits, Multi-billion Dollar Profitable Corporations Putting Billions Of Dollars Into The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, And Other Tax Havens.

You Need A Democratic Party Which Is A Grassroots Party, Which Makes Decisions From The Bottom On Up, Not Just From The Top On Down.

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.

What This [presidency] Campaign Is About This Bringing Millions Of People Jobs In This Country.

The Cuban Economy Is A Disaster. No, I Do Not Praise Fidel Castro.

I Think We Should Support Entrepreneurialship.

When We Talk About The Healthcare Crisis In America We've Got To Also Be Talking About The Dental Crisis And How To Address It.

Don't Underestimate Me.

Underestimate Me

I Don't Think Everybody In Vermont Loves Me.

Rich Get Richer. Everyone Else Gets Poorer. And All These Guys Can Talk About Is War And Defunding Planned Parenthood.

This Is A War For The Soul Of Islam. And Those Countries Who Are Opposed To Islam, They Are Going To Have To Get Deeply Involved In A Way That Is Not The Case Today. We Should Be Supportive Of That Effort.

I Do Believe That If Millions Of People Do Stand Up And Fight Back, We Can Stop Donald Trump From Doing Some Really Awful Things.

There Is Far Too Little Discussion In Washington About The Collapse Of The Middle Class , Almost No Discussion At All About The Incredible Income Inequality And Wealth Inequality In This Country, And The Fact That We're Moving Toward An Oligarch Form Of Society.

I Think The Immediate Thing Is We Stand Up To Protect Those People Who Are In Trouble.

I Am Disappointed That After All Of The Struggles That We Have Had In This Country For Such A Long Time, Trying To Get Through And Beyond Racism And Bigotry And Discrimination - I Think It Is Sad. It Just Tells Us The Kind Of Work That We Have To Do As - As America, As A Nation.

I Think The People Want To Attack Israel For Their Policies, I Think That Is Fair Game. But Not To Appreciate That There Is Some Level Of Anti-semitism Around The World Involved In That, I Think, Would Be A Mistake.

We Have To Develop A Strong Economic Message Which Says Every American Is Entitled To Health Care Through A National Health Care Program. And We're Not Going To Allow These Large Corporations To Push Through Trade Agreements Which Allow Them To Throw Americans Out On The Street And Run To China.

I Know That Virtually Every Member Of The Senate Understands We Just Cannot Turn Our Back On Men And Women Who Have Put Their Lives On The Line To Defend Us And Who Are Hurting Today.

I Think, In My Own State, I Can Tell You That People Do Want To Hear A Serious Discussion On Serious Issues.

I'm Very Proud That The State Of Vermont Banned Fracking. I Hope Communities All Over California, And All Over America Do The Same.

If You Want To Run For The United States Senate, You Hire A Consultant Who Will Do Polling For You, Who Will Tell You The Kinds Of Television Ads You Should Run, Who Will Tell You That Most Of The Money You Raise Has Got To Go Into Tv. Raising Money, And Then Putting That Money Into The Hands Of Consultants, Who Then Put On Tv Ads - That's More Or Less What Campaigns Are About. We've Got To Change That.

I Believe That Climate Change Is The Great Global Crisis That We Face, Environmental Crisis. I Believe That If You're Serious About Climate Change, You Don't Encourage The Excavation And Transportation Of Very Dirty Oil.

I Am Very Glad, Anderson, That Secretary Clinton Discovered Religion On This Issue But It's A Little Bit Too Late. Secretary Clinton Supported Virtually Every One Of The Disastrous Trade Agreements Written By Corporate America.

In And Out Of Government, I've Always Been Willing To Take On Complicated, Sometimes Unpopular, Issues And Work Them Through To Have A Solution.

Whether It Is Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, Books Or The Internet, A Few Giant Conglomerates Are Determining What We See, Hear And Read.

I Want To See Working People And Young People Come Into The Party In A Way That Doesn't Exist Now. And You Know What, I Want A 50-state Strategy So The Democratic Party Is Not Just The Party Of 25 States.

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.

Because Of A Mass Media More Interested In Gossip And Sensationalism Than Real Issues, I Would Say A Vast Majority Of The American Public Doesn't Have A Clue About How The Congress Functions And What Goes On.

I Have Known Secretary [hillary] Clinton For 25 Years And Respect Her Very Much.

All That I Can Say Is That We Are Spending Far More Per Capita Than People In Any Other Country, And Our Health Care Outcomes Are In Many Cases Worse In Terms Of Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality And So Forth.

We Have To Transform Our Energy System.

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.

The Middle Class In America Is At A Tipping Point. It Will Not Last Another Generation If We Don't Boldly Change Course Now.

Israel Has An Absolute Right To Exist - Not Only To Exist - But To Exist In A Way That They're Not Under Threat Of Terrorism.

Don`t Go To The Dark Side. Don`t Go Bashing Immigrants Or Muslims.

Charles Kernaghan Is A Legitimate American Hero... Through His Determination He Has Forced The Leadership In Our Country And Many Other Countries Around The World To Pay Attention. Kernaghan Has Done More To Expose Child Labor Than Has The Whole Department Of Labor That Has A Budget Of Hundreds And Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars, Because He Has The Guts And Determination To Do It.

I Don't Consider Myself A Pariah.

What We Need To Do Is To Stand Up To The Big Money Interests, And The Campaign Contributors. When We Do That, We Can, In Fact, Transform America.

I Think, While It Is True That The Hillary Clinton And I Voted Differently On The War In Iraq, What Is Important Is That We Learn The Lesson Of The War In Iraq. And That Lesson Is Intrinsic To My Foreign Policy If Elected President, Is The United States Cannot Do It Alone. We Cannot Be The Policeman Of The World. We Are Now Spending More I Believe Than The Next Eight Countries On Defense. We Have Got To Work In Strong Coalition With The Major Powers Of The World And With Those Muslim Countries That Are Prepared To Stand Up And Take On Terrorism.

I Am Extraordinarily Proud Of The Campaign That We Ran. The Issues That We Raised, The Fact That We Got 13 Million Americans To Vote For A Political Revolution.

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I Don't Believe There's A Red State In America Where People Believe You Should Cut Medicare, Social Security And Veterans' Benefits Rather Than Doing Away With Corporate Tax Loopholes.

One Of The Issues I'm Really Happy About Is That Recently, Secretary Clinton And I Worked Out An Agreement On Higher Education, Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free For Every Family In America Earning Less Than 125,000 Bucks. Didn't Go As Far As I Wanted. But That's 83 Percent Of The Population In This Country.

Ben Carson And I Don`t Have Much In Common Politically. But The Fact Is When You Have Kids Getting Involved In The Political Process, Doing Their Best To Elect The Candidates Of Their Choice, That`s What The American Democracy Is About.

In The Last Presidential Election Obama And Romney Raised About $1 Billion Each. The Koch Brothers, The Second Wealthiest Family In America, Now Say They Will Raise Nearly $1 Billion For The 2016 Elections. When One Family Can Raise As Much As An Entire Party, The System Is Broken. This Is Oligarchy, Not Democracy. We Must Overturn Citizens United.

Defy The Pundits Again And Reach For A High Voter Turnout That'll Shock The Establishment.

We Can`t Allow Racism And Xenophobia To Gain Traction.

Every Person In This Country Who Has The Desire And Ability Should Be Able To Get All The Education They Need Regardless Of The Income Of Their Family. This Is Not A Radical Idea. In Germany, Scandinavia And Many Other Countries, Higher Education Is Either Free Or Very Inexpensive. We Must Do The Same.

We Need A Movement That Says In A Highly Competitive Global Economy All Of Our Kids Who Have The Ability, The Qualifications And The Desire, Will Be Able To Get A College Education Regardless Of Income Because We Will Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free.

In America, We Have Lost Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs. That Has Got To End.

Wall Street Is Perhaps The Most Powerful Economic And Political Force In This Country. You Have Companies Like Goldman Sachs, Who Just Recently Paid A Settlement Fine With The Federal Government For $5 Billion For Defrauding Investors.

I Don't Believe Government Should Take Over, You Know, The Grocery Store Down The Street Or Own The Means Of Production.

The Cold War Is Over. And Our Focus Has Got To Be On Intelligence, Increased Manpower, Fighting Internationally Targets.

The Disastrous Invasion Of Iraq, Something That I Strongly Opposed, Has Unraveled The Region.

Low-income People, Racial Or Ethnic Minorities, Pregnant Women, Seniors, People With Special Needs, People In Rural Areas - They All Have A Much Harder Time Accessing A Dentist Than Other Groups Of Americans.

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

Believe Me, Every American, Every Person In This Country, If I Have Anything To Say About It, Will Know Precisely What Is Going On With Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, Because They Are Beginning To Appoint People Who Are Typical Right-wing Republicans Who Want To Privatize And Cut Social Security.

What Some Of Us Believe Is That It Is Possible That If Chemicals Are Related To Gulf War Illness That Some Of The More Severe Symptoms May Not Erupt Until 10 Or 20 Years Down The Line.

Rescind The Appointment Of [steve] Bannon. We Will Not Be Involved In The Expansion Of Bigotry, Of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.

The Goal Of Real Healthcare Reform Must Be High-quality, Universal Coverage In A Cost-effective Way.

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When The Media Worries About What Hillary’s Hair Looks Like Or What My Hair Looks Like, That’s A Real Problem. We Have Millions Of People Who Are Struggling To Keep Their Heads Above Water, Who Want To Know What Candidates Can Do To Improve Their Lives, And The Media Will Very Often Spend More Time Worrying About Hair Than The Fact That We’re The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn’t Guarantee Health Care To All People.

I've Lost Six Different Times. You Can't Say, 'well, He Lost, That's The End Of The World.' You Have To Say, 'okay, You Lost, What Did We Do Wrong?

I Do Not Believe That We Must Maintain A Bloated Military Budget Which Spends Almost As Much As The Rest Of The World Combined And May Lead Us To Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.

I Think That The Media Spends Far Too Much Time [on Personalities].

We Have To Say To The Billionaire Class, Enough Is Enough. You Cannot Have It All. You Are Going To Pay More In Taxes.

I Believe, Along With Pope Francis And Almost All Scientists, That Climate Change Is Threatening This Planet In Horrendous Ways, And That We Have To Be Aggressive In Transforming Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuel And Defeat The Keystone Pipeline.

I'm Interested In - In That His Power, If That Is The Word, Is Such That He Has Actually Been Able To Be In A Way A One-man Wrecking Crew In The Area Of Deportment And How One Proceeds Politically On The Stump. Marco Rubio Is - Is Attempting, As You Know, To A - To Give [donald] Trump A Fight In Trump's Own Style. I'm Not Sure How That Works, But - But Certainly The Indices Are Good.

We Live In A Country Where A Small Number Of People Have Incredible Wealth And Power. America Has More Income And Wealth Inequality Than Any Other Major Country.

Every Person In America Will Know What Donald Trump Said And What He Is Doing.

In America, We Are Living In A Society Which Is Moving More And More Toward An Oligarchic Form Of Society Where Government Is Dominated Heavily By Big-money Interests.

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

One Can't Predict The Future, That Maybe Our Training And Their Fighting Capabilities Are Improving And We Are Going To Make Some Progress In Destroying Isis.

The Republicans Are Many Things, But They're Not Dumb.

I Have Not Heard Almost Anybody Suggest That Raising The Minimum Wage To The Level We Have In Vermont Has Been An Impediment To Our Economy Which Is Doing Reasonably Well ... If Somebody Is Going To Work That Person Has Got To Receive At Least A Wage That They Can Go Out And Live With Dignity On. That's An Extremely Important Point.

Every Candidate Running For President Has Got To Answer The Following Very Simple Question: At A Time When We Need To Address The Planetary Crisis Of Climate Change, And Transform Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuels And Into Energy Efficiency And Sustainability, Should We Continue To Give $135 Billion In Tax Breaks And Subsidies Over The Next Decade To Fossil Fuel Companies?

No President, Not The Smartest, Best Human Being In The World Can Do It Alone. You Cannot Take On This, The Power That Is In Washington, To Billionaires And Lobbyist, The Military Industrial Complex, All Of This Money And Power, You Can`t Do It. You Need A Mass Movement Of American Who Are Looking In Congress And We Say Directly.

It's Not Something Where You Can Say, One Time You Said This And Now You Said This. That Doesn't Peel Off Any Of His People. The Only Way That You Can Do It Is By Out Alphaing [doanld] Trump, And I Think That's What Marco Rubio's Attempting To Do.

What We Are Doing In This Campaign [2016], It Just Blows My Mind Every Day Because I See It Clearly, We're Taking On Not Only Wall Street And Economic Establishment, We're Taking On The Political Establishment.

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

Instead Of Talking About Cuts In Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, We Must End The Absurdity Of Corporations Not Paying A Nickel In Federal Income Taxes.

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I Am Deeply Concerned - About Virtually Everything That Trump Is Talking About And Has Talked About In His Campaign And The Kind Of People That He Is Appointing.

There Are Three Major Political Organizations In This Country: The Republican Party, The Democratic Party And The Koch Brothers Party. With Billions To Spend On Campaigns. Think Tanks And 'educational' Organizations, The Koch Brothers Are The Most Powerful. We Must Overturn Citizens United, Move To Public Funding Of Elections And Pass Real Tax Reform.

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.

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