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High-speed Trains In Japan Can Now Reach 375 Mph - Twice As Fast As Any Public Transit Train In The United States. America's Railroads Were Once The Envy Of The World. Today They Are In Disrepair And We Are Falling Further And Further Behind The Rest Of The World. We Need To Rebuild Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Including Rail. When We Do That We Not Only Make Our Country More Productive And Efficient, We Create Millions Of New Jobs.

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High-speed Trains In Japan Can Now Reach 375 Mph - Twice As Fast As Any Public Transit Train In The United States. America's Railroads Were Once The Envy Of The World. Today They Are In Disrepair And We Are Falling Further And Further Behind The Rest Of The World. We Need To Rebuild Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Including Rail. When We Do That We Not Only Make Our Country More Productive And Efficient, We Create Millions Of New Jobs.

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

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Not Good Enough

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Underestimate Me

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I Have Friends And Supporters In The Human Rights Fund And Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton Has Been Around There For A Very, Very Long Time. Some Of These Groups Are, In Fact, Part Of The Establishment.

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.

I Am Very Proud To Be The Only Candidate Up Here Who Does Not Have A Super Pac, Who's Not Raising Huge Sums Of Money From Wall Street...

You Want Your Kids To Have An Opportunity. We`re Going To Fight To Give You That.

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.

We Don`t Need To Drive Up The National Debt By Giving Tax Breaks To Millionaires And Billionaires.

In A World Of Massive Wealth And Income Inequality, Europe Must Support Greece’s Efforts To Build An Economy Which Creates More Jobs And Income, Not More Unemployment And Suffering.

A Woman Has The Right To Make Decisions Regarding Her Own Body, Not The United States Government.

As A Single-payer Advocate, I Believe That At The End Of The Day, If A State Goes Forward And Passed An Effective Single-payer Program, It Will Demonstrate That You Can Provide Quality Health Care To Every Man, Woman And Child In A More Cost-effective Way.

Politics Is Not About A Person. We Transform America Not By Electing Some Guy Or Woman To Be President; We Transform This Country When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight Back. That Will Result In Good Leadership On Top. So The Goal Right Now Is Not To Worry About Who's Going To Be Running In 2020 Or 2080. The Goal Now Is To Mobilize Millions Of People Around A Progressive Agenda.

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.

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

I Think, The Most Progress I Have Agenda, The Progressive Platform In The History Of The Democratic Party. So We Have Got To Continue Bringing People In, Fighting For An Agenda That Works For Working Families And Having The Courage To Take On The Big Money People Who Today Control Our Economic And Political Life.

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.

It's No Great Secret, Number One, In My View, And I Think The View Of Most Americans, That Congress Itself Is Pretty Dysfunctional. We Are Not Addressing The Real Needs Of The American People. And Second Of All, Philosophically, There Is A Huge Division Between The House And The Senate.

The United States Has Got To Join The Rest Of The Industrialized World In Making Sure That Working Families Of The Middle Class Have Benefits That They Absolutely Need. We Are The Only Major Country On Earth That Does Not Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right. We Are The Only Major Country On Earth That Does Not Provide Paid Family And Medical Leave. There Are Many Countries Around The World Which Make Sure That Public Colleges And Universities Are Tuition-free. In Our Country, It's Becoming Increasingly Difficult To Afford To Go To College.

And The Reason That I Was One Of The First, Not One Of The Last To Be In Opposition To The Tpp Is That American Workers Should Not Be Forced To Compete Against People In Vietnam Today Making A Minimum Wage Of $0.65 An Hour. Look, What We Have Got To Do Is Tell Corporate America That They Cannot Continue To Shut Down. We've Lost 60,000 Factories Since 2001. They're Going To Start Having To, If I'm President, Invest In This Country - Not In China, Not In Mexico.

Any Idiot, Especially One Who Is Prepared To Die, Who Has A Gun, Can Start Shooting Up People.

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

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.

I Think What The Secretary Hillary Clinton Has Recognized Is The American People Are Extremely Angry About The Power Of Wall Street, The Greed, The Illegal Behavior Of Wall Street.

Together, Leading The World, The U.s.a. Will Rid Our Planet Of This Barbarous Organization Called Isis.

If You Look At Our Records, I Stood Up To Corporate America Time And Time Again. I Went To Mexico. I Saw The Lives Of People Who Were Working In American Factories And Making $0.25 An Hour.

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.

Many People Can Talk For A Long Period Of Time. But Controlling, You Know, Your Urinary Tract Is Maybe The More Difficult Issue.

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.

The Light Bulb Going Off In My Head Was A Fear That In This Pivotal Moment In History, When America Faces So Many Serious Problems, When The Middle Class And Working Class Of This Country Are Being Decimated, That There Were Not Voices Out There Representing The Tens Of Millions Of People Who Needed A Voice. And The Idea Of Going Through A Campaign Where There Is Not A Serious Discussion About The Most Important Issues Facing America, Where There Are Not Voices Out There Representing People Who Are Hurting - That Seemed To Me Unacceptable.

The First Thing That I've Got To Think About Is: What Does A Donald Trump Presidency Mean For The People Of My State And For The People Of This Country? And For The People Of The World? I Think It Would Be An Absolute Disaster. It Would Be Beyond A Disaster.

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.

I Supported Barack Obama Originally. I Supported Him For Reelection And The Alternative Of A Mitt Romney Is Very, Very Clear To Everybody. And I Think The President Has Done A Good Job In A Number Of Areas. But One Area That Has Concerned Me From Day One Has Been His Reliance On Wall Street Type People In Terms Of Financial Matters.

What I Believe Is That The United States Is Going To Be Playing On A Level Playing Field In Dealing With Israel And The Palestinian People. I Am 100 Percent Pro Israel In The Sense Of Israel's Right To Exist, I Lived In Israel, I Have Family In Israel, Israel Has The Right To Live Not Only In Peace And Security, But To Know That Their Very Existence Will Be Protected By The United States Government.

I Am Running For President As A Democrat. And If Elected, Not Only Do I Hope To Bring Forth A Major Change In National Priorities, But Let Me Be Frank, I Do Want To See Major Changes In The Democratic Party.

I Think We've Got A Number Of States Coming Up That We're Going To Do Extremely Well And Possibly Winning, Including California And New York State.so I Think We Do Have A Path To Victory.

Setting Aside Labels, I Am Somebody Who Believes That Government In A Democratic Society Should Be Representing The Needs Of The Vast Majority Of The People Who Are Middle-class And Working Families.

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.

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.

I Think The War In The Mideast, How We Got Into It And How We're Going To Address The Current Problems, Are Issues That Every American Should Be Concerned About.

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.

You Have A Right To Protest. But I Don't Quite Understand Why Anybody Thinks It's A Good Idea To Deny Somebody Else The Right To Express His Or Her Point Of View.

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?

We Need A Growing Middle Class, Not One That Has Been Disappearing For 40 Years. We Need A Vibrant One Person-one Vote Democracy, Not One Which Is Dominated By Billionaire Campaign Contributors. It's Time For A Political Revolution. It's Time To Make Our Government Work For All Of Us, And Not Just The 1%.

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The Police Killings Of Unarmed African Americans Has Got To Stop.

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

If A Financial Institution Is Too Big To Fail, It Is Too Big To Exist.

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

I Believe What Martin Luther King Jr. Believed. You Remember What The Title Of The March On Washington Was? "jobs And Freedom." What King Understood Is That You Have To Deal With The Economic Issues As Well As The Political Issues And The Civil Rights Issues.

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