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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.

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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.

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Native American

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I Don't Want To Get People Nervous Falling Off Their Chairs, But Social Security Is A Socialist Program. It's A Program By Which The United States Government Has Said That When You Get Old You Should Have A Steady Source Of Income.

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.

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

I Intend To Introduce Legislation That Will Make Police Accountable For Their Actions And Limit Uses Of Force In Cases Where It Is Unnecessary.

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.

We Have Got To Make Sure That Every Qualified American In This Country Who Wants To Go To College Can Go To College -- Regardless Of Income.

I Fear Very Much For Our Kids, For Low Income People And For Seniors.

Today, The United States Is No. 1 In Corporate Profits, No. 1 In Ceo Salaries, No. 1 In Childhood Poverty And No. 1 In Income And Wealth Inequality In The Industrialized World.

We Have To Invest In Our Kids, We Have To Invest In Our Communities, We Have To Create Jobs. We Have To Make Certain That Kids Are Not Dropping Out Of School And Hanging Out On Street Corners.

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

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

I Think Donald Trump Is Totally Unfit To Be President Of The United States. Let's Not Forget, This Guy Was One Of The Leaders Of The So-called Birther Movement, Which Was An Effort To Delegitimize The Presidency Of The First African-american President We Have Ever Had.

Not Only Did I Vote Against That War, I Helped Lead The Opposition, And If You Go To My Website, Berniesanders.com, You Will See The Statement That I Made In 2002. And It Gives Me No Pleasure To Tell You That Much Of What I Feared Would Happen The Day After Saddam Hussein Was Overthrown, In Fact, Did Happen.

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.

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.

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

Social Security Is The Most Successful Government Program In Our Nation's History. We Are Not Going To Cut Social Security! We Are Going To Expand Social Security!

Establishing A 0.03 Percent Wall Street Speculation Fee, Similar To What We Had From 1914-1966, Would Dampen The Dangerous Level Of Speculation And Gambling On Wall Street, Encourage The Financial Sector To Invest In The Productive Economy And Reduce The Deficit By More Than $350 Billion Over 10 Years.

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.

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

Hillary Clinton Is A Person Who Has Enormous - I Have Enormous Respect For, Has A Very Distinguished Career.

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.

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.

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

My Path To Victory Is To Talk About The Issues That Impact The Lives Of Millions Of Americans.

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.

We Did Really, Really Badly With Older African-american Voters. I Mean We Got Decimated.

African American

American Voters

At The End Of The Day, If Millions Of People Come Together And Say, We Are Not Going To Be A Xenophobic Society, We Are Not Going To Be Throwing Millions Of Latinos Out Of This Country, We Are Not Going To Be A Racist Society, We're Not Going To Be A Sexist Society, We Will Prevail.

The End Of The Day

I'm Very Proud That The State Of Vermont Banned Fracking. I Hope Communities All Over California, And All Over America Do The Same.

I Think The Issue Of Income And Wealth Inequality Is In Fact A Moral Issue.

What We Are Doing In This Campaign [2016], It Just Blows My Mind Every Day Because I See It Clearly, We're Taking On Not Only Wall Street And Economic Establishment, We're Taking On The Political Establishment.

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

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

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

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.

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.

The Struggle To Create A Nation And World Of Economic And Social Justice And Environmental Sanity Is Not An Easy One. The Struggle To Try And Create A More Peaceful World Will Be Extremely Difficult. But This I Know: Despair Is Not An Option If We Care About Our Kids And Grandchildren. Giving Up Is Not An Option If We Want To Prevent Irreparable Harm To Our Planet.

Democrats And Progressives Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is High. Republicans Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is Low.

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.

I Am A Fierce Supporter Of Planned Parenthood, Naral, And Gay Rights In This Country.

Education Should Be A Right, Not A Privilege. We Need A Revolution In The Way That The United States Funds Higher Education.

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.

Assault Weapons

In America, We Have Lost Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs. That Has Got To End.

If We Invest In Jobs For Our Kids And Do Our Best To Keep Them In School, We Will End Up Saving A Whole Lot Of Lives And Whole Lot Of Money.

The Fossil Fuel Industry For Too Long Has Shifted Enormous Costs Of Carbon Pollution Onto The Public.

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.

The Last Point That I'd Make. I Had A Hearing. I Had All Of The Veterans Groups In Front Of Me. And I Said To Them, Tell Me When A Veteran Gets In To The V.a., Understanding There Are Waiting Lines And Real Problems, When A Veteran Gets Into The System, Is The Quality Of Care Good?

I Thought The Bush Economic Policy Was A Disaster. We Lost 500,000 Private Sector Jobs During His Tenure.

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.

Corporations Are Not Going To Stash Their Money In The Cayman Islands. We Are Going To Reinvest In America, Create Jobs, Make Education Available To All.

In Fact, Climate Change Is Directly Related To The Growth Of Terrorism.

So What I Have Said With Regard To Boeing And Ge And Other Multinationals That Pay Zero Taxes, You Know What We're Going To Do? We're Going To End That Loophole. They Are Going To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes.

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