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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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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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The End Of The Day

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The Billionaires Pay An Effective Tax Rate Lower Than Nurses Or Truck Drivers. That Makes No Sense At All. There Has To Be Real Tax Reform, And The Wealthiest And Large Corporations Will Pay.

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The Combat [with Isis] On The Ground Must Be Done By Muslim Troops With Our Support. We Must Not Get Involved In Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.

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Wall Street Is Greedy, Reckless And They Operate Illegally. That's Fine. But What Do You Do?

We Know The Legislation That Passed The House. It Was The Worst Piece Of Legislation Frankly Against Working Class People That I Can Remember In My Political Life In The Congress.

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.

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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.

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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.

If You Want To Talk Further About A Relationship With Russia, Look No Further Than The Clintons. As We've Said Time And Time Again, Bill Clinton Was Paid Half A Million Dollars To Give A Speech To A Russian Bank, And Was Personally Thanked By Putin For It. Hillary Clinton Allowed One-fifth Of America's Uranium To - Reserve To Be Sold To A Russian Firm Whose Investors Were Clinton Foundation Donors. And The Clinton Campaign Chairman's Brother Lobbied Against Sanctions On Russia's Largest Bank And Failed To Report It. If You Want To Talk About Having Relations, Look No Further Than There.

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.

I'm Not Really Opposed To People Changing Their Minds. I'm Much More Concerned With People Who Never Change Their Minds No Matter What New Information Is Available.

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.

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

The Next Time You Do A Filibuster, Keep Walking Around.

Donald Trump Is A Pathological Liar. We Have Never - Our Campaign Does Not Believe And Never Will Encourage Anybody To Disrupt Anything. I Would Hope That Mr. Trump Tones It Down Big Time.

When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight...they Win.

I Think We Need To Take On The Greed Of The Billionaire Class, A Disastrous Campaign Finance System.

Together We Have Sent A Message That Will Echo From Wall Street To Washington, From Maine To California.

I Worry Very Much About Kids Growing Up In A Society Where They Think: "i'm Not Going To Talk About This Issue, Read This Book Or Explore This Idea Because Someone May Think I'm A Terrorist." That's Not The Kind Of Free Society I Want For Our Children.

Now All Of The Ideas That I'm Talking About, They Are Not Radical Ideas. Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free, That Exists In Countries All Over The World, Used To Exist In The United States. Rebuilding Our Crumbling Infrastructure, And Creating 13 Million Jobs By Doing Away With Tax Loopholes That Large Corporations Now Enjoy By Putting Their Money Into The Cayman Islands And Other Tax Havens. That Is Not A Radical Idea.

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.

There Are Many Major Crises Facing Our Country. At The Top Of The List Is The Need To Overturn Citizens United. If Billionaires Are Able To Buy Elections And Elect Right-wing Candidates, There Is No Way We Will Ever Address Climate Change, College Education, Affordability, Job Creation, Raising The Minimum Wage And Taking On Wall Street.

One Of The Ongoing Crises In America Is Institutional Racism. We Have A Very Broken Criminal Justice System. We Live In A Country Where There Are More People In Jail Than Any Other Country On Earth. There Are Some 2.2 Million People Currently Incarcerated And They Are Disproportionally African American And Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans Have Been Abused And Sometimes Killed While In Police Custody. Clearly These Are Issues That Must Be Dealt With And Changed.

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.

Kid Gets Caught With Marijuana, That Kid Has A Police Record. A Wall Street Executive Destroys The Economy, $5 Billion Settlement With The Government, No Criminal Record. That Is What Power Is About. That Is What Corruption Is About. And That Is What Has To Change In The United States Of America.

I'm Not Going To Tell You I Know George W. Bush Intimately. I'm Not Going To Tell You We're Best Friends. I'll Tell You I Met Him On A Number Of Occasions. You Know What? George W. Bush Is A Very Nice Guy. Very Funny Guy. His Wife Is A Very Nice Woman; I Thought She Was A Great First Lady. George [w.] Bush Was The Worst President In The History Of The United States Of America... The Issue Is Not Bernie Sanders. The Issue Is The Koch Brothers. The Issue Is Who Owns America.

Now Is The Time To Alter Our Government. Now Is The Time To Stop The Movement Toward Oligarchy. Now Is The Time To Create A Government Which Represents All Americans And Not Just The 1%... No More Excuses. We Must All Become Involved In The Political Process.

I Do Not Want To See Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.

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

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?

What I Think People Should Realize Is That Programs Like Social Security, Programs Like Medicare, Programs Like The Veterans Administration, Programs Like Your Local Park And Your Local Library - Those Are, If You Like, Socialist Programs; They're Run By [and] For The Public, Not To Make Money. I Think In Many Ways We Should Expand That Concept So That The American People Can Enjoy The Same Benefits That People All Over The World Are Currently Enjoying.

Subsidies For The Oil, Gas And Coal Industries Are Projected To Cost Taxpayers More Than $135 Billion In The Coming Decade. At A Time When Scientists Tell Us We Need To Reduce Carbon Pollution To Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, It Is Absurd To Provide Massive Subsidies That Pad Fossil-fuel Companies' Already Enormous Profits.

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.

We Need To Recognize The Incredible Challenges That So Many Parents Face, Especially Working Moms. We Need To Join The Rest Of The Advanced World.

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.

Our Ideas Need To Become Part Of Everyday Discussion.

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.

Politics Is Not A Baseball Game With Winners Or Losers. What Politics Is About Is Whether We Protect The Needs Of Millions Of People In This Country Who Are Hurting.

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.

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.

The United States Has More People Living In Poverty Than At Almost Any Time In The Modern History Of Our Country. I Believe That In A Democratic, Civilized Society None Of Our People Should Be Hungry Or Living In Desperation. We Need To Expand Social Security, Not Cut It. We Need To Increase Funding For Nutrition Programs, Not Cut Them.

We Must Never Allow Demagogues To Divide Us Up By Race, By Religion, By National Origin, By Gender, Or Sexual Orientation. Black And Whites, Latino, Asian-american, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, And Every Religion - Straight Or Gay, Male Or Female - We Must Stand Together. This Country Belongs To All Of Us.

Native American

I Will Do My Best To Transform Our Trade Policy And Take On These Corporations Who Want To Invest In Low-income Countries Around The World Rather Than In The United States Of America.

What I Would Say To The Establishment Is That There Is Far More Discontent Among The American People Than They Believe.

The Point Is Change Can Come About, But It Only Comes About When Millions Of People Are Actively Involved In Political Struggle, The Billionaires May Have The Money, But We Have The 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.

I Think We Bring Together That Broad Coalition Including Russia To Help Us Destroy Isis And Work On A Timetable To Get Rid Of Assad, Hopefully Through Democratic Elections. First Priority, Destroy Isis.

I Do Believe That In The Future, Not By Dismantling What We Have Here - I Helped Write That Bill - But By Moving Forward, Rallying The American People, I Do Believe We Should Have Health Care For All.

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 Can`t Allow Racism And Xenophobia To Gain Traction.

If You Can't Afford To Take Care Of Your #‎ Veterans , Then Don't Go To War.

It's Time To Make Our Government Work For All Of Us... And Not Just The 1%.

Government Work

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.

Ever Since [donald]trump Has Been Opening His Big Mouth, You`re Seeing All These Bitter People, Latent Racists Who Are Becoming Emboldened. You`re Seeing Some Ugly Stuff Happening Around This Country.

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

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

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 Will Tell You Is The Antidote To [donald] Trump Is A Very Strong Progressive Agenda That Says, Yes, I Know You`re Angry. And You Know What? You Should Be Angry Because You`re Working Longer Hours For Low Wages. You Have A Right To Be Bitter And You Have A Right To Be That.

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.

I Think We Should Support Entrepreneurialship.

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

Two-thirds Of The Directors At The New York Fed Are Hand-picked By The Same Bankers That The Fed Is In Charge Of Regulating.

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.

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.

20 Million People Thrown Off Of Health Insurance, Prescription Drug Prices Raising For Seniors, Privatization Of Medicare: Devastation. And We've Got To Fight Back Against That.

The Truth Is That Political Consciousness In This Country Is Pretty Low... To The Degree That We Can Help Educate And Organize People Around The Most Important Issues Facing Their Lives And Show That There Is Support For Fundamental Changes In The Way We Do Business In The United States Of America In Terms Of Income Inequality, In Terms Of Low Wages, In Terms Of Disastrous Trade Policies, In Terms Of Being The Only Major Country Not To Have A National Healthcare Program - That's Success.

The Republican I Ran Against, At The End Of The Campaign, Had Decided That I Was "a Friend Of Terrorists" And "a Friend Of Pedophiles." That's The Kind Of Crap They Came Out With. I Expect That's The Kind Of Crap They'll Come Out With Again.

If There Is A Large Voter Turnout, Not Only Do We Retain The White House, But I Think We Regain The Senate. We Win Governors' Chairs Up And Down The Line. So I Believe If You Want To Retain The White House, If You Want To See Democrats Do Well Across The Board, I Think Our Campaign Is The One That Creates The Large Voter Turnout And Helps Us Win.

You Know, I Think Many People Have The Mistaken Impression That Congress Regulates Wall Street. In Truth That's Not The Case. The Real Truth Is That Wall Street Regulates The Congress.

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

I Think, Clearly, We Got To Work Closely With China To Resolve The Serious Problems We Have, And I Worry About Putin And His Military Adventurism In The Crimea And The Ukraine.

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.

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

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?

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

The Federal Reserve Has A Responsibility To Ensure The Safety And Soundness Of Financial Institutions And To Contain Systemic Risks In Financial Markets.

What The People Here Have Said Is That Given The Enormous Crises Facing Our Country, It Is Just Too Late For The Same Old, Same Old Establishment Politics And Establishment Economics.

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'.

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.

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.

Medicare And Medicaid

I'm Running For President, Because As I Go Around This Nation, I Talk To A Lot Of People. And What I Hear Is People's Concern That The Economy We Have Is A Rigged Economy.

I Would Love To Have The Endorsement Of Every Progressive Organization In America. We're Very Proud To Have Received Recently The Endorsement Of Moveon.org. We've Received The Endorsement Democracy For America. These Are Grassroots Organizations Representing Millions Of Workers.

The Message Is Resonating, Not Just In Wisconsin, But All Over America, The People Are Sick And Tired Of Establishment Politics, Establishment Economics. They Want Real Change.

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.

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.

Freedom Of Speech, The Right To Dissent, The Right To Protest, That Is What America Is About. And Politically Every Leader In This Country And Every American Has Got To Stand Up Against Any Form Of Violence. That Is Unacceptable.

Freedom Of Speech

At A Time When Our Planet Is Warming Due To Climate Change, The Last Thing Our Environment Needs Is More Drilling. What We Need Is For Congress And The White House To Move Toward Clean Energy Such As Solar, Wind And Geothermal.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I Happen To Believe That Certain Types Of Assault Weapons, Which Are Manufactured And Designed For Military Purposes To Kill People Very Quickly Should Not Be Used In Civilian Society.

Assault Weapons

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

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.

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