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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.
-Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders
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 Love Music
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Fighting
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Class
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Jobs
Believe
Fighting
The American People Want To Know That When They Borrow A Book From The Library Or Buy A Book, The Government Won't Be Looking Over Their Shoulder. Everybody Wants To Fight Terrorism, But We Have To Do It In Away That Protects American Freedom.
Book
Fighting
Government
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.
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New York
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College
The Occupy Wall Street Protests Are Shining A National Spotlight On The Most Powerful, Dangerous And Secretive Economic And Political Force In America.
Wall
Powerful
America
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Dark
Sides
Dark Side
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Education
Jobs
People
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Wall
Party
Republican
Muslims Are Not Your Enemy.
Enemy
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Careers
Clinton
Enormous
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Powerful
Wall
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Jobs
School
Gay
When Hillary Clinton Ran Against Senator [barack] Obama She Thought Him Naive Because He Thought It Was A Good Idea To Talk To Our Enemies. I Think Those Are Exactly The People You Have To Talk To And You Have To Negotiate With.
Thinking
Ideas
People
We Have Two And Half Million Individual Campaign Contributions, More Than Any Campaign In History.
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Campaigns
Half
I Am Not A Great Fan Of The Payroll Tax Holiday Because I'm Nervous About What It Does To The Future Of Social Security.
Holiday
Payroll Tax
Fans
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.
Country
War
Effort
The American People Understand That We Need Real Change In This Country, In My View, A Political Revolution, Which Says To The People On Top, "you Know What, You Guys Can't Have It All."
Country
Real
Political Revolution
I Fear Very Much For Our Kids, For Low Income People And For Seniors.
Senior
Kids
People
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Education
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College
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Corporations Can't Have It Both Ways. They Can't Tell Americans How Much They Want Us To Buy Their Products, But Then Run Abroad To Avoid Taxes Or Hire Cheap Labor. American Corporations Should Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes And Create Decent-paying Jobs Here - Not In China.
Running
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Want
I Come From A Rural State. People Drive 50, 100 Miles To And From Work Every Single Day. That Is True All Over America.
America
People
States
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People
Income
Wages
We Have To Transform Our Energy System.
Energy
97 Percent Of The Scientists Who Wrote Articles In Peer-reviewed Journals Believe That Human Activity Is The Fundamental Reason We Are Seeing Climate Change.
Climate
Fundamentals
Reason
A Job Should Lift Workers Out Of Poverty, Not Keep Them In It.
Jobs
Minimum Wage
Poverty
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.
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Guy
Littles
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Pay
Enough
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Jobs
Wall
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Underestimate Me
When We Talk About Power, We Talk About Wall Street.
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Streets
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House
Democrat
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People
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Fighting
Good Friend
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Kids
College
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People
Political
Every Person In America Will Know What Donald Trump Said And What He Is Doing.
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Said
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.
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America
Long
People Don't Trust Private Health Insurance Companies For All The Right Reasons.
People
Reason
Private Health Insurance
We Need The Best Educated Workforce In The World. Hundreds Of Thousands Of Bright, Young, Qualified People Who Want To Go To College Or Get A Higher Education Are Unable To Do So, Not Because They Lack The Ability But Because They Lack The Money.
College
People
Needs
We`re Not Going To Let The United States Continue To Have One Of The Highest Rates Of Childhood Poverty In The Industrialized World In - At A Time When We`re Seeing A Proliferation Of Millionaires And Billionaires.
Childhood
United States
World
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Home
Car
Income And Wealth Inequality Have Reached Obscene Levels, The Threat Of Climate Change Is More Frightening Than Ever, And The Billionaire Class Is Now Allowed To Spend Unlimited Amounts Of Money To Buy The Candidate They Want. And It Is Up To Us To Stand Up And Fight Back. If We Stand Together, There Is No Limit To What We Can Accomplish.
Fighting
Class
Together
My Path To Victory Is To Talk About The Issues That Impact The Lives Of Millions Of Americans.
Impact
Issues
Victory
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Poverty
Nations
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Jobs
People
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Baby
Kids
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Ethical Standards
Years
Judgement
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.
Moving
Government
America
I Think We Need To Take On The Greed Of The Billionaire Class, A Disastrous Campaign Finance System.
Thinking
Class
Greed
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Men
Thinking
Issues
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Jobs
Kings
Believe
The Federal Reserve Has A Responsibility To Ensure The Safety And Soundness Of Financial Institutions And To Contain Systemic Risks In Financial Markets.
Responsibility
Safety
Risk
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.
Country
Mean
Thinking
We Have More People In Jail Than Any Other Country In Earth, Disproportionately Latino And African-american.
Country
Jail
People
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.
Thinking
Point Of View
Protest
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.
Powerful
Games
Needs
If We Do Not Get Our Act Together And Transform Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuel, There Is A Real Question As To The Quality Of The Planet That We Are Going To Be Leaving Our Children And Our Grandchildren.
Children
Real
Leaving
A Woman Has The Right To Make Decisions Regarding Her Own Body, Not The United States Government.
Government
Decision
United States
I Have Been In The Democratic Caucus In The Senate For Over 24 Years.
Years
Caucus
Democratic
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.
Country
Democratic Socialism
People
Donald Trump Is Toast.
Trump
Toasts
The Rich People Are Apparently Leaving America. They're Giving Up Their Citizenship. These Great Lovers Of America Who Made Their Money In This Country-when You Ask Them To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes They Run Abroad. We Have 19-year Old Kids Who Lost Their Lives In Iraq And Afghanistan Defending This Country. They Went Abroad. Not To Escape Taxes. They're Working Class Kids Who Died In Wars And Now Billionaires Want To Run Abroad To Avoid Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes. What Patriotism! What Love Of Country!
Running
Country
Giving Up
Of Course The Republicans Have Long Wanted To Privatize Social Security And Destroy It. But Social Security Has Been The Most Important And Valuable Social Program In The History Of The United States.
Long
Important
United States
Climate Change Is Real, It Is Caused By Human Activity, And It Is Already Causing Devastating Problems In America And Around The World.
Real
America
Climate
I Think People Cast Their Votes For A Number Of Reasons. I Think If You Look At Your Polls, You'll Probably Find That Many, Many People Think That Our Views Are Closer To What They Believe The Future Of America Should Be. That Our Views Are Closer On Economic Issues. And A Lot Of Those Polls Come Down To Demographics, To Age, To How Much Money You Are Making.
Believe
Thinking
Views
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.
Numbers
Views
Two
I Believe In Public Funding Of Elections, Absolutely. But This System Iscurrently Very Antiquated And No Longer Applies To Modern Day Politics.
Believe
Election
Modern
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.
Wall
War
America
I Have Introduced A Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United And Make It Clear That The Congress And State Legislatures Do Have The Ability And The Power To Regulate And Get Corporate Funding Out Of Political Campaigns.
Political
Citizens United
Campaigns
I Think My Main Concern Is Because I Worry About Demagoguery. It`s Real. You See The People Standing Up There And Applauding.
Real
Thinking
People
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.
Country
Strong
Fighting
I Will Challenge Anybody With Regard To My Record On Lgbt Issues.
Issues
Challenges
Records
When You Have Kids That Have No Jobs And Are Not In School, Too Often They Get Themselves Into Trouble. So What We Have Got To Do Is Invest In Education And In Jobs, Something Which I Have Fought For, Rather Than More Jails And Incarceration.
Jobs
School
Kids
You Asked Marco Rubio If It Was Too Little Too Late. I Think There's A Little Bit Of Too Much Too Late, Which Is, He Is Just Getting Down In The Muck With Donald Trump. And When You Get Down In The Muck, You Get Up With Muck On You.
Thinking
Too Late
Littles
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.
Running
Hurt
Jobs
What I Do Believe Absolutely Is That In The Middle Of A Recession, The American Middle Class And Working Class Needs A Tax Relief.
Believe
Class
Relief
Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Don`t Take It Out On Latinos. Try To Help Us Work Together To Create A Country Where Your Kids And You Can Have A Decent Standard Of Living. It Has To Be A Bold And Radical Agenda.
Country
Kids
Working Together
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.
Class
Greed
Rewards
Politics Does Not End The Day Of The Election.
Doe
Election
Ends
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?
Thinking
Years
United States
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.
War
Winning
Political
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.
Cutting
Medicare And Medicaid
Promise
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.
Country
Fighting
Agreement
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.
Views
Issues
People
I Am Sure That There Are Some Single Payer Advocates Who Think The Only Thing Worth Fighting For Is Single Payer.
Fighting
Thinking
Worth Fighting For
We Are Not Going Back. We Are Not Returning To The Days Of Back-room Abortions, When Countless Women Died Or Were Maimed. The Decision About Abortion Must Remain A Decision For The Woman, Her Family And A Physician To Make, Not The Government.
Government
Abortion
Decision
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.
Country
Determination
Children
Rich Get Richer. Everyone Else Gets Poorer. And All These Guys Can Talk About Is War And Defunding Planned Parenthood.
War
Guy
Parenthood
Now, Why Would My Supporters Be Supporting Somebody Who Doesn't Want To Raise The Federal Minimum Wage Of $7.25 An Hour, A Starvation Wage, Doesn't Want To Do That. Why Would Anybody That Supports Me Support A Candidate Like Trump Who Wants To Throw Millions And Millions Of People Off Of Health Insurance? We Need To Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right, Not Throw Millions Of People Off Health Insurance As Trump Wants To Do.
People
Support
Care
But On The Other Hand, There Are Many Corporations Who Have Turned Their Backs On The American Worker, Who Have Said, If I Can Make Another Nickel In Profit By Going To China And Shutting Down In The United States Of America, That's What I Will Do.
America
Hands
Corporations
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.
Believe
Air
Water
Why Is It That Two-thirds Of White, Rural Men Voted Republican? Why? That's What We Have To Address. That's Crazy. These People Are Working Longer And Longer Hours.
Crazy
Men
Two
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.
Important
Minimum Wage
Levels
In My View, There Is No Justice When The 15 Wealthiest People In This Country In The Last Two Years, Saw Their Wealth Increase By $170 Billion. That Is More Wealth Acquired In A Two Year Period Than Is Owned By The Bottom 130 Million Americans.
Country
Views
Years
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.
Gay
Rights
Views
The American People Understand That It Is Grotesquely Unfair - We Are A Society That Prides Itself On Fairness, That Prides Itself On Equal Opportunity, And People Are Looking Out And Seeing, Since The Great Recession Of 2008, 99 Percent Of All New Income Going To The Top 1 Percent.
Pride
Opportunity
People
I Voted Against The War In Iraq. I Voted Against The First Gulf War. I Think War Is The Last Resort - The Last Option Of A Great Military Power Like Us. I Think That We Need To Focus On Building Coalitions. Yes, Isis Must Be Destroyed. But It Should Be Destroyed By A Coalition Of Muslim Nations On The Ground With The Support Of The United States And The Other Major Powers In The Air And In Training The Troops There.
Military
War
Thinking
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.
Country
Believe
Issues
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.
Country
People
Care
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.
Country
Believe
Moving
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.
Winning
Men
White
I Come From A State That Has Virtually No Gun Control. And Yet, At Political Peril, I Voted For An Instant Background Check, Which I Want To See Strengthened And Expanded. I Voted To Ban Certain Types Of Assault Weapons Which Are Designed Only To Kill People.
Gun
Assault Weapons
People
I Prefer To Stay On The Important Issues Facing The American People.
Issues
People
Important
The Billionaire Class Fully Understands What Is At Stake. That's Why A Handful Of Them Are Pouring Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into The Current Elections. Their Goal Is Not To Strengthen The Middle Class, But Continue The Trend In Which The Rich Are Getting Richer At The Expense Of Everyone Else.
Class
Goal
Dollars
I Think Our Trade Policies, For Many, Many Years, Have Been A Disaster. They Have Benefited Corporate America At The Expense Of Working People.
Thinking
Years
America
I Think Everybody Is In Agreement That America Is A Great Entrepreneurial Nation. We Have Got To Encourage That. Of Course, We Have To Support Small And Medium-sized Businesses. But You Can Have All Of The Growth That You Want And It Doesn't Mean Anything If All Of The New Income And Wealth Is Going To The Top 1 Percent.
Mean
Thinking
Agreement
What Every American Should Know Is That We Have More People In Jail Today Than Any Other Country On Earth, More Than China. We Have Some 2.2 Million People In Jail. What That Means Is That A Lot Of Lives Are Being Destroyed.
Country
Mean
Jail
I Think You Have An Enormous Amount Of Fear And Uncertainty In This Country. And It`s Not Just From San Bernardino Or From Paris.
Country
Thinking
Paris
We Must Fight To Carry Out His Radical And Bold Vision For America.
Fighting
America
Vision
The Reality Is We That Have A Corrupt Campaign Finance System Which Separates The American People's Needs And Desires From What Congress Is Doing. So To My Mind, What We Have Got To Do Is Wage A Political Revolution Where Millions Of People Have Given Up On The Political Process, Stand Up And Fight Back, Demand The Government That Represents Us And Not Just A Handful Of Campaign Contribution - Contributors.
Fighting
Reality
Government
We Cannot Go Back To A Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic Type Of Society.
Racist
Sexist
Type
When People Get Out Of Jail, It Is Not Easy For Them To Find A Job. It Is Not Easy For Them To Return To Civil Society.
Jobs
Jail
People
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
Teacher
School
Years
When The Average Social Security Benefit Is $1328 A Month, And More Than One-third Of Our Senior Citizens Rely On Social Security For Virtually All Of Their Income, Our Job Is To Expand Benefits, Not Cut Them.
Senior
Jobs
Cutting
I Move That Hillary Clinton Be Selected As The Nominee Of The Democratic Party For President Of The United States.
Party
Moving
President
Your Story Is For - Voting For Every Disastrous Trade Agreement, And Voting For Corporate America. Did I Vote Against The Wall Street Bailout?
Wall
Agreement
America
Defy The Pundits Again And Reach For A High Voter Turnout That'll Shock The Establishment.
Voter Turnout
Voters
Pundits
Rescind The Appointment Of [steve] Bannon. We Will Not Be Involved In The Expansion Of Bigotry, Of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.
Racism
Expansion
Sexism
The Greed Of The Billionaire Class Has Got To End And We Are Going To End It For Them.
Class
Greed
Ends
I Did Work With John Mccain. I Did Work With Jeff Miller Over In The House. And We Put Together Not The Bill That I Wanted, But Probably The Most Comprehensive V.a. Health Care Bill In The Modern History Of This Country.
Country
House
Together
In My View, A Corporation Is Not A Person. A Corporation Does Not Have First Amendment Rights To Spend As Much Money As It Wants, Without Disclosure, On A Political Campaign.
Rights
Views
Political
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.
Country
Russia
Korea
At A Young Age, I Became Very Aware That Not Only Did My Family Have To Struggle But That Families Around The Country Were Struggling As Well. Also, 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
Struggle
Careers
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.
Jobs
Class
Giving
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'.
Country
Real
People
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.
Moving
College
Years
Democracy Is One Person, One Vote And A Full Discussion Of The Issues That Affect Us. Oligarchy Is Billionaires Buying Elections, Voter Suppression And A Concentrated Corporate Media Determining What We See, Hear And Read.
Media
Issues
Democracy
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.
Thinking
Russia
Isis
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.
Talking
People
Campaigns
We're Not Going To Give Tax Breaks To Billionaires And Then Cut Back On The Needs Of Our Elderly Or Poor Or Kids Or Education. We're Not Going To Privatize Social Security - In Fact, We're Going To Strengthen It. We're Going To Provide Quality Education For Every Kid In America, From Preschool Through College. We Have To Take On These Corporate Leaders Who Are Selling Out The American People, Whose Allegiance Is Now Much More To China Than It Is To The United States. If We Have The Courage To Take These People On, I Think We Can Overwhelm George W. Bush And His Friends.
Kids
Cutting
Thinking
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.
Education
Country
College
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.
Brother
Party
America
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.
People
Saws
Wealth
This Is What Class Warfare Looks Like: The Business Roundtable - Representing Goldman Sachs, Bank Of America, Jp Morgan Chase And Others - Has Called On Congress To Raise The Eligibility Age Of Social Security And Medicare To 70, Cut Social Security And Veterans' Colas, Raise Taxes On Working Families And Cut Taxes For The Largest Corporations In America.
Cutting
Class
America
This Is America, And We Are Not Going To Throw Out 11 Million People In This Country Who Are Undocumented. We`re Not Going To Turn Against One Of The Largest Religions In The World, People Who Are Muslim. I Do Not Want To See Muslim Kids, Who Feel Intimidated In The Country And Frightened, Living In The Country Where They Grew Up. That Is Not America. We Do Not Want To Continue The Attacks Against The Women.
Country
Kids
People
What The Supreme Court Did In Citizens United Is To Say To These Same Billionaires And The Corporations They Control: 'you Own And Control The Economy, You Own Wall Street, You Own The Coal Companies, You Own The Oil Companies. Now, For A Very Small Percentage Of Your Wealth, We're Going To Give You The Opportunity To Own The United States Government.' This Is The Essence Of What Citizens United Is All About - And That's Why It Must Be Overturned.
Wall
Opportunity
Government
I Think, When The African-american Community Understands My Record On Criminal Justice, My Record On Economics, The Agenda We're Bringing Forth, Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour, Dealing With The Fact That We Have More People In Jail, Shamefully, Than Any Other Country On Earth, That I Am Against The Death Penalty, Secretary Clinton Is Not, I Think, As People Become Familiar With My Ideas, We Are Going To Do Better And Better.
Country
Thinking
Ideas
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.
Mean
Impact
Dollars
People Who Know The Economy Is Rigged In Favor Of Big Money, People Who Know That Our Middle Class Continues To Decline And We Have To Go Outside Of Establishment Politics And Economics, People Who Know That We Need To Reform A Broken Criminal Justice System And We Need Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
Class
People
Broken
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.
Mom
Parent
Challenges
Donald Trump's Language Has Been Atrocious, His Behavior Toward Women.
Language
Behavior
Trump
My Mission Is To Raise Incomes For Hard Working Middle Class Families. If You Work Hard And Do Your Part You Should Be Able To Get Ahead And Stay Ahead.
Hard Work
Class
Able
Country Must Confront What He Called Institutional Racism. [we Should] Create A Country Which Provides Economic, Social And Environmental Justice For All.
Country
Justice For All
Racism
Many People Can Talk For A Long Period Of Time. But Controlling, You Know, Your Urinary Tract Is Maybe The More Difficult Issue.
Issues
Long
People
People Have A Right To Give A Speech. And People Have A Right To Protest. But I'm Not A Great Fan Of Disrupting People's Speeches.
People
Giving
Protest
Interestingly, A Lot Of The Polling That I See Is Not Along Racial Lines, But Along Generational Lines. We Are Doing Better And Better Among Younger People, Not So Well Among Older People, Whether They're African-american, Whether They're White Or Whether They're Latino.
White
People
African American
I Have Known Secretary [hillary] Clinton For 25 Years And Respect Her Very Much.
Years
Clinton
Respect Her
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.
War
Thinking
Marijuana
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.
Country
College
Class
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.
Brother
Giving
Clinton
I Would Say That The Key Doctrine Of The Sanders Administration Would Be No, We Cannot Continue To Do It Alone; We Need To Work In Coalition.
Keys
Would Be
Needs
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.
Kids
Choices
Political
We Are Living At A Time Where A Handful Of People Have Wealth Beyond Comprehension - Huge Yachts, Jet Planes, Tens Of Billions Of Dollars, More Money Than They Could Spend In A Thousand Lifetimes. But At The Same Time, Millions Of People Are Struggling To Feed Their Families Or Put A Roof Over Their Heads Or Find The Money To Go To A Doctor.
Struggle
Doctors
People
Black Lives, Of Course, Matter. I Spent 50 Years Of My Life Fighting For Civil Rights And For Dignity, But If You Don't Want Me To Be Here, That's Ok. I Don't Want To Out-scream People.
Life
Fighting
Rights
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.
Country
Baby
Retirement
If You Can't Afford To Take Care Of Your #‎ Veterans , Then Don't Go To War.
War
Care
Veteran
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.
Leader
Ranking
Majority
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.
Country
Struggle
Fighting
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.
Wall
Thinking
People
I Don't Consider Myself A Pariah.
Pariahs
I Think It Is Important That Independent Government Agencies Be Put In Charge Of Investigating Misconduct So That Police Departments Are No Longer Allowed To Police Themselves. There Is A Conflict Of Interest There Which, I Believe, Allows Police To Excuse Their Own Behavior.
Believe
Independent
Thinking
These Are The Same People Who Believe, In Some Cases, The Federal Government Should Not Play Any Role In Providing Health Care To Our People Or Protecting The Environment.
Believe
Government
Play
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.
Country
Energy
Needs
Clearly North Korea Is A Very Strange Situation Because It Is Such An Isolated Country Run By A Handful Of Dictators, Or Maybe Just One, Who Seems To Be Somewhat Paranoid. And, Who Had Nuclear Weapons.
Running
Country
Korea
We Don`t Need To Drive Up The National Debt By Giving Tax Breaks To Millionaires And Billionaires.
Giving
Needs
Debt
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.
Country
Jobs
College
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.
Brother
Wall
Taken
I Want Some Help On This. I'm Being Very Honest, I Want Some Ideas, As Somebody Who Was Arrested 50 Years Ago Fighting For Civil Rights Trying To Desegregate Schools In Chicago, Who Spent His Whole Life Fighting Against Racism, I Want Your Ideas. What Do You Think We Can Do? What Can We Do?
Life
School
Fighting
What A Grassroots Party Is About Is People Getting Excited, Getting Involved In The Local Political Process, Saying, We Want Our Candidate To Run For Office, We Want Him To Run For Office, And We're Going To Get Involved And Make Sure That He Or She Wins.
Running
Party
Winning
The Cold War Is Over. And Our Focus Has Got To Be On Intelligence, Increased Manpower, Fighting Internationally Targets.
War
Fighting
Focus
I Want To Applaud Those Workers Rallying To Raise The Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour. I Believe Strongly That A Great Nation Will Not Survive When So Few Have So Much And So Many Have So Little. Every Worker In America Should Be Given Respect, Dignity And The Wages And Benefits They Need To Take Care Of Their Family.
Believe
America
Minimum Wage
There Are A Lot Of Smart Honest, Progressive People Who I Think Can Be Good Presidents.
Smart
Thinking
People
I Intend To Introduce Legislation That Will Make Police Accountable For Their Actions And Limit Uses Of Force In Cases Where It Is Unnecessary.
Police
Limits
Use
Our Ideas Need To Become Part Of Everyday Discussion.
Ideas
Everyday
Needs
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.
Strong
Wages
Agendas
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?
Running
Simple
Giving
Everyone Can Have Health Care. Everyone Can Earn A Living Wage. We Can Educate All Our Kids - Well. But None Of That Happens Unless There's A Political Revolution. And It's Not Going To Happen Unless We Deal With Corporate Control Of The Media.
Kids
Political Revolution
Media
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.
Country
Moving
Class
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.
Country
Silly
School
I Think The American People In Many Cases Want To Transform Our Energy System.
Thinking
People
Energy
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.
Believe
College
Economy Today
It Costs A Hell Of A Lot More Money To Put Somebody In Jail Than Send Them To The University Of Virginia.
Virginia
Jail
Cost
Do Not Tell Me That I Have Not Shown Courage In Standing Up To The Gun People, In Voting To Ban Assault Weapons, Voting For Instant Background Checks, Voting To End The Gun Show Loophole And Now In A Position To Create A Consensus In America On Gun Safety.
Gun
Assault Weapons
America
The American People Want To Raise The Minimum Wage. Every Poll Tells Us That. That Bill Will Not Get To The Floor Of The Senate. The American People Want To Ask The Rich To Pay More In Taxes. But The Legislation That Will Get To The Floor Is Tax Breaks For Billionaires.
People
Minimum Wage
Want
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

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