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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.

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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.

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

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African American

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Ethical Standards

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We Are Living In The Richest Country In The History Of The World, Yet We Have The Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty Of Almost Any Major Country And Millions Of People Are Struggling To Put Food On The Table. It Is My Absolute Conviction That Everyone In This Country Deserves A Minimum Standard Of Living And We've Got To Go Forward In The Fight To Make That Happen.

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.

The Main Problem Of America Is That You're Seeing People Working All Over This Country Two Jobs, They're Working Three Jobs, And They're Getting Nowhere In A Hurry. They're Working Hard. They Can't Afford To Send Their Kids To College In Many Instances. They Can't Afford Child Care For Their Little Babies. They're Worried To Death About Retirement.

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.

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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.

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I Understood That These Trade Agreements Were Going To Destroy The Middle Class Of This Country. I Led The Fight Against Us. That Is One Of The Major Differences That We Have.

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

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.

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.

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

African American

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

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

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

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.

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.

We Had The Opposition Of Virtually The Entire Democratic Leadership In Every State In This Country.

We Have To Fundamentally Rethink Our Trade Policy And Make It Work Not For The Ceos Of Large Corporations, But For Working People. So, If Trump Wants To Develop A Rational Trade Policy Which Demands Corporations Start Investing In This Country, Rather Than China, That's Something That We Can Work On.

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I Don't Want To See Kids In America Being Scared Because They're Hearing People On Television And The Radio Saying Really Ugly Xenophobic And Racist Things.

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

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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'm Not Much Into Speculation.

Are We Prepared To Take On The Enormous Political Power Of The Billionaire Class Or Do We Continue To Slide Into Economic And Political Oligarchy?

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.

If You`re A Republican Politician And You`re Seeing This Guy [donald Trump] Saying Crazy Stuff And Going Up In The Polls, What Are You Going To Say, You`re Going To Say Equally Crazy Or Maybe A Little Less Crazy Stuff.

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

I Think We Should Support Entrepreneurialship.

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

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 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.

I Think The Democratic Party Has Got To Make Fundamental Choices.

In The United States Today We Have The Most Unequal Wealth And Income Distribution Of Any Major Country On Earth - Worse Than At Any Time Since The 1920s. This Is An Economy That Must Be Changed In Fundamental Ways.

Income Distribution

The Occupy Wall Street Protests Are Shining A National Spotlight On The Most Powerful, Dangerous And Secretive Economic And Political Force In America.

Countering Violent Extremism And Destroying Isis Must Be Done Primarily By Muslim Nations With The Strong Support Of Their Global Partners.

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.

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.

Our Goal There, In My View, Is To Work And Lean Strongly On China To Put As Much Pressure. China Is One Of The Few Major Countries In The World That Has Significant Support For North Korea, And I Think We Got To Do Everything We Can To Put Pressure On China. I Worry Very Much About An Isolated, Paranoid Country With Atomic Bombs.

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.

What Democratic Socialism Is About Is Saying That It Is Immoral And Wrong That The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent In This Country Own Almost 90 Percent - Almost - Own Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. That It Is Wrong, Today, In A Rigged Economy, That 57 Percent Of All New Income Is Going To The Top 1 Percent. That When You Look Around The World, You See Every Other Major Country Providing Health Care To All People As A Right, Except The United States.

Democratic Socialism

We`ve Got To Stand With Those People Who Are Being Attacked Today, But At The Same Time, It`s Not Good Enough To Say That Racism And Xenophobia Is Bad. We`ve Got To Reach Those People Today Who Are So Angry, Who Are So Hateful And Say, Yes, You Have A Right To Be Angry, Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Work With Us To Create An Agenda And Political Movement That Will Make Your Life Better, Not Just Other People`s Life Worse.

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

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.

A Nation Will Not Survive Morally Or Economically When So Few Have So Much And So Many Have So Little.

Economic Inequality

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

We Don't Need A President Like A Trump Who Doesn't Actually, George, Doesn't Even Believe In Climate Change, Let Alone Wants To Do Anything About It, Rejecting Science.

We Have Got To Mobilize People And Rethink Our Commitment In Terms Of What Our Role Is In The Political Process.

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

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.

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

We Have More People In Jail Than Any Other Country In Earth, Disproportionately Latino And African-american.

It Is Not Good Enough To Say, "well, Hey, I Vote Every Two Years. I Vote Every Four Years." That's Fine, But That Is Not Good Enough.

Not Good Enough

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

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

Donald Trump Said: I, Donald Trump, Yes, I Am Going To Take On The Entire Establishment. I'm Going To Take On The Political Establishment. I Am Going To Take On The Economic Establishment. I'm Going To Take On The Media Establishment. And I Think A Lot Of People Responded Positively To That Message.

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

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.

I Am Going To Do My Best To Try To Create A Country In Which Children Are Not Living In Poverty, In Which Kids Can Go To College, In Which Old People Have Health Care. Will I Succeed? I Can't Guarantee You That, But I Can Tell You That From A Human Point Of View It Is Better To Show Up Than To Give Up.

To The Degree That Mr. Trump Is Serious About Pursuing Policies That Improve The Lives Of Working Families In America, I And Other Progressives Are Prepared To Work With Him. To The Degree That He Pursues Racist, Sexist, Xenophobic And Anti-environment Policies, We Will Vigorously Oppose Him.

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.

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.

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

When We Talk About Power, We Talk About Wall Street.

If We Greatly Expanded Primary Health Care, Lower The Cost Of Prescription Drugs, We Take A Giant Step Forward In Lowering Health Care Costs In America.

In My View, It Is Not A Question Of Trump Having Won The Election, It's A Question Of Democrats Having Lost The Election. Democrats Need A Strong Progressive Agenda Which Says To The Working Class Of This Country, We Are Going The Stand And Fight For You, We're Going To Raise The Minimum Wage, Pay Equity For Women, We're Going To Rebuild The Infrastructure, And We're Going To Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right. We're Going To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free.

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

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.

What I Do Know Is That Drones Are A Modern Weapon. When Used Effectively, When Taking Out Isis Or Terrorist Leaders, That's Pretty Impressive. When Bombing Wedding Parties Of Innocent People And Killing Dozens Of Them, That Is, Needless To Say, Not Effective And Enormously Counterproductive. So Whatever The Mechanism, Whoever Is In Control Of That Policy, It Has To Be Refined So That We Are Killing The People We Want To Kill And Not Innocent Collateral Damage.

I Think We're Going To Win A Very Good Share Of Those Delegates. I Think You've Got Major States Coming Up. And I Think The Important Point Is That People Throughout This Country Are Resonating To Our Message.

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.

We Are Moving In Exactly The Wrong Direction In Higher Education. Forty Years Ago, Tuition In Some Of The Great American Public Universities And Colleges Was Virtually Free. Today, The Cost Is Unaffordable For Many Working Class Families. Higher Education Must Be A Right For All - Not Just Wealthy Families.

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

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.

Fifty Years Ago, Great Schools Like The University Of California And The City University Of New York - As Well As Many State Colleges - Were Tuition Free. Today College Is Unaffordable For Many Working Class Families. For The Sake Of Our Economy And Millions Of Americans, We Must Make Higher Education More Affordable.

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.

Political Revolution

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

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