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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.

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Bernie Sanders

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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.

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Freedom Of Speech

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Worth Fighting For

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Medicare And Medicaid

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Assault Weapons

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Peace And Security

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Your Story Is For - Voting For Every Disastrous Trade Agreement, And Voting For Corporate America. Did I Vote Against The Wall Street Bailout?

Prescription Drug Prices Are Skyrocketing And One-third Of All Seniors Depend On Social Security For At Least 90% Of Their Income.

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Message To The Billionaire Class: You Can't Have It All!

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

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If You Ask Me About My Views On The Environment, On Women's Rights, On Gay Rights, I Am Liberal. I Don't Have A Problem With That At All. Some Of My Best Friends Are Liberal.

We Can Combat Climate Change Effectively. What We Are Lacking Now Is Not The Brain Power, Not The Knowledge, Not The Technology. What We Are Lacking Is The Political Will Power, And We Need Your Help By The Millions To Tell Congress To Stop Worrying About Their Fossil Fuel Contributors To Their Campaigns And Worry About Their Kids And Grandchildren.

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.

In My View, One Of The Major Reasons That We Have So Many People In Jail Is That We Have Turned Our Backs On A Lot Young People.

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Political Revolution

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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.

I Have A Lifetime 100% Pro-choice Voting Record. I Understand That People Disagree On This Issue, But I Believe That It Is A Woman's Decision, It's A Difficult Decision, But It's A Decision Between Her And Her Physician. I Will Do Everything That I Can In 50 States Of This Country To Make Sure That Women Have A Choice.

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

It Reminds Me In Some Ways Of The Debate Taking Place In This Country And Around The World In The Late 1930s. There Were People, In This Congress, In The British Parliament Saying, 'don't Worry! Hitler's Not Real! It'll Disappear'.

I Would Have Put More Emphasis On Bringing Working Class People Together To Fight For A Government That Works For All Of Us.

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

African American

You've Got The Top 400 Americans Owning More Wealth Than The Bottom 150 Million Americans. Most Folks Do Not Think That Is Right.

I Think What You've Got Are Millions Of People Who Are In Trouble Today. They Really Are. They're Confused. They're Working Longer Hours For Lower Wages. They're Seeing Productivity Going Up But Their Kids Are Worse Off Economically Than They Are. They're Looking At A Campaign Finance System In Politics And They See Corruption, Big Money Buying Elections. Nobody In Congress Is Listening To Them.

The Trans-pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Is A Continuation Of Other Disastrous Trade Agreements, Like Nafta, Cafta, And Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China.

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.

I Think We Should Look To Countries Like Denmark, Like Sweden And Norway, And Learn From What They Have Accomplished For Their Working People.

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.

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

For Many, The American Dream Has Become A Nightmare.

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

The Political World Is Changing Rapidly. What The Establishment Has Learned, What The Democratic Establishment, The Republican Establishment, The Media Establishment, Is The World Is Not Quite What They Thought It Was. With The Middle Class Disappearing, With People Working Longer Hours For Lower Rages, With People Worried About The Future Of Their Children, What You Are Seeing Is A Lot Of Discontent At The Grassroots Level All Over This Country. And That's What's Going On Right Now.

You Can't Become A Billionaire Stepping Over Children Sleeping On The Street.

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.

Let Us Wage A Moral And Political War Against The Gross Wealth And Income Inequality... ...let Us Understand That When We Stand Together, We Will Always Win.

In America, We Have Struggled Too Much, Too Long As A Country Trying To Overcome Racism And Sexism And Homophobia. We Cannot Go Back To A More Discriminatory Society.

People Are Hurting And Angry, And They Want Something To Be Able To Stand Up And Fight For. That's What I Believe The Antidote Is To Trumpism.

In 2013 Citigroup Had Profits Of $6.4 Billion In The United States. They Paid No Federal Income Tax And, In Fact, Received A Rebate From The Irs Of $260 Million. That Same Year J.p. Morgan Had $17.2 Billion In Profits In The U.s. They Also Paid No Federal Income Tax. Do You Think It's Time For Tax Reform?

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.

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.

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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.

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.

A Job Should Lift Workers Out Of Poverty, Not Keep Them In It.

In Terms Of Media, We Did Not Get The Kind Of Media Attention That Somebody Like A Donald Trump Got, Because Media Is Not Necessarily Interested In The Issues Facing The Middle Class, More Interested In Attacks In Personality. So I Think There Were A Lot Of Reasons.

We Need To Change The Power Structure In America, We Need To End The Political Oligarchy.

I Want To Say Something, And It May Sound Harsh, Not To You, But To The American People. In A Sense, In My View, The Business Model Of Wall Street Is Fraud. It's Fraud. I Believe That Corruption Is Rampant, And The Fact That Major Bank After Major Bank Has Reached Multi Billion Dollar Settlements With The United States Government When We Have A Weak Regulator System Tells Me That Not Only Did We Have To Bail Them Out Once, If We Don't Start Breaking Them Up, We're Going To Have To Bail Them Out Again, And I Do Not Want To See That Happen.

Politics Does Not End The Day Of The Election.

On Many, Many Issues, Hillary Clinton's Views Are Progressive. In Many Areas, They Are Awesome. Where They're Not Progressive, We've Got To Push Her, And The Day After The Election, I Will Mobilize Millions Of People To Make Sure That We Make Her The Most Progressive President That She Can Be.

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.

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.

We Have To Transform Our Energy System.

I Believe What I Call Common Sense Gun Reform. Plus, A Revolution In Mental Health, Making Sure That If People Are Having A Nervous Breakdown, Or Are Suicidal, Or Homicidal, They Get The Care They Need When They Need It. I Think The Vast Majority Of The American People Can Support And Agenda Composed Of Those Features.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Am The Longest- Serving Independent In The History Of The United States Congress. People Of Vermont Sent Me To Washington As An Independent. That Is True.

I Will Challenge Anybody With Regard To My Record On Lgbt Issues.

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

I'm Not A Democrat, I'm An Independent, But I Caucus With The Democrats.

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.

How Do We Say, Why Do You Keep Voting For People Who Are Giving More Tax Breaks To Billionaires, Who Are Going To Send Your Jobs Abroad, Not Going To Let You Form A Union, Not Going To Allow Your Kids To Go To College? Why Do You Keep Voting For These Guys?

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.

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