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In Any Democratic, Civilized - Even Non-democratic Nations, If You Are A Nation, It Means To Say That In Our Case, If There's A Hurricane In Louisiana, The People Of Vermont Are There For Them. If There's A Tornado In The Midwest, We Are There For Them. If There's Flooding In The East Coast, The People In California Are There For Us.
-Bernie Sanders
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In Any Democratic, Civilized

Bernie Sanders
In Any Democratic, Civilized - Even Non-democratic Nations, If You Are A Nation, It Means To Say That In Our Case, If There's A Hurricane In Louisiana, The People Of Vermont Are There For Them. If There's A Tornado In The Midwest, We Are There For Them. If There's Flooding In The East Coast, The People In California Are There For Us.
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Together, Leading The World, The U.s.a. Will Rid Our Planet Of This Barbarous Organization Called Isis.
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I Think In Terms Of Who Can Be Trusted, I Think The Evidence Is Clear That There Has Been No Candidate That I Have Ever Seen Who Lies More Often Than Does Donald Trump. I Mean And That's Just Not Me Saying It, That's What Any Independent Media Analysis Has Shown. So In Terms Of Trust, You Really Can't Trust A Word, I Think, That Mr. Trump Has To Say.
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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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We Need A Growing Middle Class, Not One That Has Been Disappearing For 40 Years. We Need A Vibrant One Person-one Vote Democracy, Not One Which Is Dominated By Billionaire Campaign Contributors. It's Time For A Political Revolution. It's Time To Make Our Government Work For All Of Us, And Not Just The 1%.
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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.
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We Will Do Well When Young People, When Working-class People Come Out. We Do Not Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is Not Large. We Did Not Do As Good A Job As I Had Wanted To Bring Out A Large Turnout.
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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
I Think It Makes People In The Pentagon Kind Of Nervous To Know That Chemical Agents And Environmental Factors Could Cause So Much Damage In Terms Of What May Happen In The Future.
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People
Wall Street Is Greedy, Reckless And They Operate Illegally. That's Fine. But What Do You Do?
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Reckless
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.
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Health Care In America Must Be A Right, Not A Privilege.
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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.
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Media
Donald Trump's Language Has Been Atrocious, His Behavior Toward Women.
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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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When You Look At Somebody Like A Netanyahu, To Simply Not Understand That This Is A Right-wing Politician, A Guy Who Kind Of Crashed The United States Congress To Give His Speech There, Ignoring President Obama, Not Even Consulting With Him, Using It For Political Purposes Back Home, A Guy Who Has Supported The Youth - The Growth Of Settlement, I Think The - The Overreaction And The Destruction Of Gaza Went Too, Too Far. Israel Should Not Be Bombing Schools Or Homes, Just Terrible Damage There.
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Thinking
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.
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It's Very Easy To Make Fun Of George W.bush, But That Ain't Going To Do It. What We Have To Do Is Knock On Doors And Go Into Communities Where There Are People Who Disagree With Us On Certain Issues.and We Have To Talk To Them. They're Our Friends. They're Our Allies. They're Our Co-workers. We Can't See Them As Enemies.
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What Some Of Us Believe Is That It Is Possible That If Chemicals Are Related To Gulf War Illness That Some Of The More Severe Symptoms May Not Erupt Until 10 Or 20 Years Down The Line.
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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.
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Given The Fact That Poverty Is Growing, More And More Americans Are Losing Health Insurance, Health Care Costs Are Going Up, The Middle Class Is Shrinking, The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor Is Growing Wider. That Speaks To The Weakness Of The Opposition. People Do Not Like George W. Bush. But I Think It's Fair To Say That They Are Not Flocking To The Democratic Party, Or See The Democrats As A Real Alternative.
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Thinking
The Postal Service Is A Vitally Important Institution For The American People. It Must Be Saved.
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Institutions
I`m A Former Mayor. I Know That Being A Cop Is Not An Easy Job. But When Police Officers Misbehave, They`ve Got To Be Held Accountable.
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Cop
This Is What Income Inequality Means In America, And Why The Gap Between The Very Rich And Everyone Else Is Growing Wider. According To A Recent Study, Ceo Pay Is Now 295 Times More Than The Pay Of A Typical Worker. In 1965, The Differential Was 20 Times. We Must Create An Economy That Works For All, Not Just The Top 1%.
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At A Time When The Post Office Is Losing Substantial Revenue From The Instantaneous Flow Of Information By Email And On The Internet, Slowing Mail Service Is A Recipe For Disaster.
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Mail
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There Is Nobody That I Know Who Believes That Bank Of America Is A Human Being Who Should Be Entitled For The Same Constitutional Rights That The People Of Our Country Are.
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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.
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Fall
Israel's Right To Exist In Peace And Security Is Not In Debate.
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Education Should Be A Right, Not A Privilege. We Need A Revolution In The Way That The United States Funds Higher Education.
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United States
I Actually Think The Only Way That You Can Beat Trump Is Recognizing That He Is A One- Man Wrecking Machine Fueled By This Cult Personality. So You Have To Attack Him On Those Bases. None Of These Ideological Positioning Issues Matter For [donald] Trump.
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Israel Has An Absolute Right To Exist - Not Only To Exist - But To Exist In A Way That They're Not Under Threat Of Terrorism.
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I Am Proud Of The Campaign That We Ran. Obviously, I Wish We Could Have Done A Little Bit Better.
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Goldman Sachs Was One Of Those Companies Whose Illegal Activity Helped Destroy Our Economy And Ruin The Lives Of Millions Of Americans. But This Is What A Rigged Economy And A Corrupt Campaign Finance System And A Broken Criminal Justice Is About. These Guys Are So Powerful That Not One Of The Executives On Wall Street Has Been Charged With Anything After Paying, In This Case Of Goldman Sachs, A $5 Billion Fine.
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Defy The Pundits Again And Reach For A High Voter Turnout That'll Shock The Establishment.
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Pundits
I Would Love It If Everybody In America Agreed With Me On Every Issue. I Can't Get My Wife To Agree With Me On Every Issue, Let Alone The American People. It's Called Democracy. That's What It's About.
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Setting Aside Labels, I Am Somebody Who Believes That Government In A Democratic Society Should Be Representing The Needs Of The Vast Majority Of The People Who Are Middle-class And Working Families.
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Class
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.
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If Trump Is Elected President... I Just Don't Know What America Looks Like Four Years After His Election, In Terms Of The Kind Of Bigotry That Will Be Erupting, In Terms Of The Kind Of Divisiveness That We Will See, The Kind Of Demagoguery That We Will See.
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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.
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House
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The Democratic Party Has Been Very Strong In A Lot Of Areas, In Fighting To Make Our Country A Less Discriminatory Country. And That Is Enormously Important.
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I Think The War In The Mideast, How We Got Into It And How We're Going To Address The Current Problems, Are Issues That Every American Should Be Concerned About.
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Issues
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.
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What We Have Got To Do Immediately Is To Say That Racism And Xenophobia Is Totally Unacceptable And We Will Stand With The 1 Percent Of Our Population Who Are Muslims, For Undocumented People In This Country. Absolutely, We Will Stand.
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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.
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Cutting
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.
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Real Freedom Must Include Economic Security.
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Security
I Believe In Public Funding Of Elections, Absolutely. But This System Iscurrently Very Antiquated And No Longer Applies To Modern Day Politics.
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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.
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Assault Weapons
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.
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What I Would Say To The Establishment Is That There Is Far More Discontent Among The American People Than They Believe.
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People
Establishment
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.
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War
Effort
Politics In A Democratic Society Should Not Be Treated Like A Baseball Game, A Game Show Or A Soap Opera. The Times Are Too Serious For That.
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Soap
I Have One Of The Strongest Records In Fighting For Senior Citizens. I Led The Effort To Prevent Cuts To Social Security. But I Think For Some Seniors, They Remember The "evil Empire" Of The Soviet Union. They Conflated The Term "democratic Socialism" With Communism.
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Cutting
When I Was In The House For 16 Years, I Caucused With The Democrats.
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Essentially What My Campaign Is About, It`s About Anything, This Is Saying We`ve Got Bring That Money Back Into The Middle Class And Working Families. We Have To Create Jobs, We Have To Raise, We Have To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free So Kids In That Community Who Are Studying Hard Understand That Some Day They Will Be Able To Go To College.
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Kids
College
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.
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Isis
We Are Rapidly Moving Toward A Nation Of The Super-rich, By The Super-rich And For The Super-rich
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Rich
Nations
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.
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Majority
I Think Too Many Of My Republican Friends Are Into Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East. And That Scares The Bejesus Out Of Me.
Thinking
Scare
Middle East
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.
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People
Every Major Country On Earth, Whether It's The U.k., Whether It's France, Whether It's Canada, Has Managed To Provide Healthcare To All People As A Right And They Are Spending Significantly Less Per Capita On Health Care Than We Are. So I Do Not Accept The Belief That The United States Of America Can't Do That.
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America
People
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.
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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.
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Native American
I Do Not Accept The Belief That The United States Of America And Our Government Can't Stand Up To The Ripoffs Of The Pharmaceutical Industry Which Charge Us By Far The Highest Prices In The World For Prescription Drugs.
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Government
Drug
In 30 Years Of Public Service, I Have Had No Scandals. I Have High Ethical Standards. I Am Most Proud Of My Judgement, That Kind Of Judgement Is What We Want In A President Going Forward. I Want To Be A Peacemaker.
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Republicans Drove Us Into Debt With Two Wars And The Bush Tax Cuts. Now They Want To Pay For That Debt With Cuts To Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid. This Is Not Only Immoral It Is Bad Economics. Why Do Republicans Always Have Money For War But Not For Those In Need?
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Cutting
Medicare And Medicaid
I Happen To Believe That One Of The Great Crises Facing The Planet Is Climate Change. Donald Trump Happens Not To Think That Climate Change Is Real. Hillary Clinton Takes It Seriously.
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Believe
Thinking
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.
People
Mind
Information
We Have Two And Half Million Individual Campaign Contributions, More Than Any Campaign In History.
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Campaigns
Half
Any Idiot, Especially One Who Is Prepared To Die, Who Has A Gun, Can Start Shooting Up People.
Gun
People
Shooting Up
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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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.
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Doctors
People
I Think The People Want To Attack Israel For Their Policies, I Think That Is Fair Game. But Not To Appreciate That There Is Some Level Of Anti-semitism Around The World Involved In That, I Think, Would Be A Mistake.
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Thinking
People
I Think That The Needs Of The Va And The Needs Of The Veteran Community Are Very, Very Significant. Цe're Talking About A Va System In Which, In The Last Years A Million-and-a-half More People Have Come Into The System. You're Dealing With 500,000 People Have Come Home From Iraq An Afghanistan With Ptsd And Tbi. You're Dealing With An Older Veterans Population From World War Ii And Korea Who Need Some Difficult Medical Help. We Want To See It Be More Efficient. We Want To See Doctors Go To Where They're Needed.
War
Home
Thinking
This Is What I Would Ask Of The American People, And That Is, And The Media Does Not Do This Terribly Often - Put Things In Contact.
Media
People
Doe
What The American People Want To See In Their President Is Somebody Who Not Necessarily Can Win Every Fight, But They Want To See Him Stand Up And Fight For What He Believes, Take His Case To The American People.
Believe
Fighting
Winning
The Tpp Is Another Corporate-backed Agreement That Is The Latest In A Series Of Trade Policies Which Have Cost Us Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs, Pushed Down Wages For American Workers And Led To The Decline Of Our Middle Class. We Want American Companies To Create Decent-paying Jobs In America, Not Just Low-wage Countries Like Vietnam, Malaysia Or China. The Tpp Must Be Defeated.
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Jobs
America
If The Goal Of Health-care Reform Is To Provide Comprehensive, Universal Health Care In A Cost-effective Way, The Only Honest Approach Is A Single-payer Approach.
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Reform
Cost
I Have A Lot Of Respect For President Obama. I Consider Him A Friend. I Disagree With Him On Issues Like The Extension Of Tax Breaks That Bush Initiated. But I Think History Will Judge A President Obama A Lot Better Than Many Other Contemporaries, Given The Fact That He Came Into Office At A Time When This Country Was In Terrible, Terrible Shape.
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Thinking
Issues
We Have To Enforce The Individual Mandate. We're Losing A Lot Of Money That Is Not Coming Into The System.
Losing
Individual
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.
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I Do Believe That We Should Substantially Lower Student Debt In This Country, Which Is Crushing Millions Of People. We Pay For It, In My View, By A Tax On Wall Street Speculation. The Middle Class Bailed Out Wall Street In Their Time Of Need. Now, It Is Wall Street's Time To Help The Middle Class.
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Wall
I Am A Fierce Supporter Of Planned Parenthood, Naral, And Gay Rights In This Country.
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Gay
Rights
It's Not In The Interest Of The Corporations Who Own The Networks To Actually Be Educating The American People So That Are Debating The Real Issues. It's Much Better To Deflect Attention Away From Issues And Get Into The Story Of The Day.
Real
People
Attention
Instead Of Fighting Isis, (the Saudis) Have Focused More On A Campaign To Oust Iran-backed Houthi Rebels In Yemen.
Fighting
Isis
Iran
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.
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Support
Care
This Country Is Never Going To Move Forward Unless We End Republican Rule In The House And Senate.
Country
Moving
House
We Don`t Need To Drive Up The National Debt By Giving Tax Breaks To Millionaires And Billionaires.
Giving
Needs
Debt
The Republicans Are Many Things, But They're Not Dumb. And If Millions Of People Begin To Stand Up And Fight Back, They're Going To Be Thinking Twice About Doing Very Bad Things.
Fighting
Thinking
People
I've Lost Six Different Times. You Can't Say, 'well, He Lost, That's The End Of The World.' You Have To Say, 'okay, You Lost, What Did We Do Wrong?
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Six
What We Need To Do Is Lead An International Coalition Which Includes Very Significantly The Muslim Nations In That Region Who Are Going To Have To Fight And Defend Their Way Of Life.
Fighting
Needs
Way
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
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.
New York
School
College
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.
Moving Forward
Believe
Writing
For Better Or Worse, When Sen. Inhofe Speaks, The Republican Party Follows. And When The Republican Party Follows, It Is Impossible To Get Real Work Done In The Congress.
Real
Party
Done
The Bottom Line Is That When Senator Inhofe Says, 'global Warming Is A Hoax,' He Is Just Dead Wrong, According To The Vast Majority Of Climate Scientists.
Majority
Climate
Lines
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
In Fact, Climate Change Is Directly Related To The Growth Of Terrorism.
Growth
Climate
Facts
Most Republicans Are Not Prepared To Stand Up To The Fossil Fuel Industry Because They Get A Lot Of Their Campaign Funds From The Koch Brothers And Other People In The Fossil Fuel Industry. That Tells Me Why We Have To Reform Our Campaign Finance System.
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People
Campaign Finance
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
Obviously One Would Hope One Would Have As Much Support As Possible From All Walks Of Life, I Am A Great Fan Of Elizabeth And As For What People Do And Why They Don't Do It, I Am Not Going To Speculate.
Life
People
Support
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.
Support
Voting
Constitution Of The United States
As President, I Will Fight To Make Tuition In Public Colleges And Universities Free, As Well As Substantially Lower Interest Rates On Student Loans.
Fighting
College
President
I Think, You Know, That Trump Has Been Incredibly Divisive. I Think He's Insulted Almost Every Group In America. I Think His Policies Are Outrageous. But In America, People Have A Right To Hold Rallies. So I Think My Own Feeling Is It Is Absolutely Appropriate For Thousands Of People To Protest At A Trump Rally, But I Am Not Great Fan Of Disrupting Rallies.
Thinking
People
Feelings
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
...poverty In America Today Leads Not Only To Anxiety, Unhappiness, Discomfort And A Lack Of Material Goods. It Leads To Death. Poverty In America Today Is A Death Sentence For Tens And Tens Of Thousands Of Our People.
America
People
Anxiety
I Do Believe That Billionaires And Multi-millionaires Should Be Paying More In Taxes.
Believe
Should
Millionaire
I Am Very Proud To Be The Only Candidate Up Here Who Does Not Have A Super Pac, Who's Not Raising Huge Sums Of Money From Wall Street...
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Doe
Proud
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
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.
Country
America
Corporations
Even In South Carolina, As Badly As We Did, And We Did Very Badly, We Won The Votes Of People 29 Years Of Age Or Younger. The Future Of The Democratic Party, The Future Of This Country Is Involving Young People In The Political Process, Getting Them To Stand Up For Their Rights.
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Party
Years
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
Hillary Clinton Does Represent The Establishment. I Represent, I Hope, Ordinary Americans, And By The Way, Who Are Not All That Enamored With The Establishment, But I Am Very Proud To Have People Like Keith Ellison And Raul Grijalva In The House, The Co-chairmen Of The House Progressive Caucus.
People
House
Ordinary
Planned Parenthood And Human Rights Campaign Are Standing Up And Fighting The Important Fights That Have To Be Fought.
Fighting
Rights
Important
It Is Beyond My Comprehension Why Today In America, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Bright Young People Are Unable To Go To College - For One Reason: That Their Family Lacks The Funding. And Together We Are Going To Change That.
College
America
People
You Can't Become A Billionaire Stepping Over Children Sleeping On The Street.
Children
Sleep
Billionaire
In My View, One Of The Major Reasons That We Have So Many People In Jail Is That We Have Turned Our Backs On A Lot Young People.
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Jail
People
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
In America, We Have Lost Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs. That Has Got To End.
Together We Have Sent A Message That Will Echo From Wall Street To Washington, From Maine To California.
Wall
Echoes
California
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.
Cutting
Medicare And Medicaid
Talking
Do I Consider Myself A Part Of The Casino Capitalist Process? No I Don't. I Believe In A Society Where All People Do Well.
Believe
People
Casinos
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.
War
Giving
Facts
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
I Don't Believe Government Should Take Over, You Know, The Grocery Store Down The Street Or Own The Means Of Production.
Believe
Mean
Government
We Do Not Need To Have A President Who Insults Mexicans And Latinos And Muslims And Women And Veterans And African-americans, We Need A President Who Brings Us Together, Not Divides Us Up.
President
Together
Veteran
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
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.
People
Income
Wages
Where America Has Got To Move Is Not Growth For The Sake Of Growth, But It`s Got To Move To A Society That Provides A High Quality Of Life For All Of Our People. In Other Words, If People Have Health Care As A Right, As Do The People Of Every Other Major Country, Then There's Less Worry About Growth. If People Have Educational Opportunity And Their Kids Can Go To College And They Have Child Care, Then There's Less Worry About Growth For The Sake Of Growth.
Country
Children
Educational
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.
Childhood
United States
Salary
If People Envisage Me In The Senate They Might Think Of Me As Someone Who Would Emulate Paul Wellstone, Fighting For The Issues He Fought For. He Was A Good Friend Of Mine. We'll Be Trying To Do A Couple Of Things. One Is Fighting For National Health Care. Another Is Fighting To Raise The Minimum Wage To A Living Wage, And Changing Our Trade Policies.
Couple
Fighting
Good Friend
The Greed Of The Billionaire Class Has Got To End And We Are Going To End It For Them.
Class
Greed
Ends
When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight...they Win.
Fighting
Winning
People
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
We Are Spending Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Maintaining 5,000 Nuclear Weapons. I Think We Need Major Reform In The Military, Making It More Cost Effective, But Also Focusing On The Real Crisis That Faces America.
Military
Real
Thinking
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
I Think Donald Trump Understood That There Are Many Millions Of People In America, The Working Middle Class, Who Are Really Hurting. They Are In Pain.
Hurt
Pain
Thinking
We Still Have People In The Active Duty, And If People Are Feeling Ill, If They're Experiencing Various Symptoms And They're Still In The Active Duty, They're Less Likely To Come Forward Because That Could Result In Their Medical Discharge.
People
Feelings
Medical
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
If Elected President I Will Have A Litmus Test In Terms Of My Nominee To Be A Supreme Court Justice. And The Nominee Will Say, We Are Going To Overturn This Disastrous Decision On Citizens United Because That Decision Is Undermining American Democracy. I Do Not Believe That Billionaires Should Be Allowed To Buy Politicians.
Believe
Justice
Decision
Americans' Right To Free Speech Should Not Be Proportionate To Their Bank Accounts.
Media
Speech
Bank Accounts
We Have To Transform Our Energy System.
Energy
We Must Fundamentally Restructure Our Student Loan Program. It Makes No Sense That Students And Their Parents Are Forced To Pay Interest Rates For Higher Education Loans That Are Much Higher Than They Pay For Car Loans Or Housing Mortgages.
Car
Parent
Pay
You Need A Democratic Party Which Is A Grassroots Party, Which Makes Decisions From The Bottom On Up, Not Just From The Top On Down.
Party
Decision
Democratic
Vermont Is Such A Small State, And The Most Money That's Ever Been Spent In The History Of Political Campaigns There Is $2 Million. That Number Is Going To Be Surpassed Many Times. Vermont Remains A "cheap State" For The Republican National Committee. So Putting $5 Or $10 Million Into Vermont - Compared To New York Or California Or Illinois - That's Small Potatoes.
New York
Illinois
California
If We Can Create A Climate Among People That Says That Any Serious Candidate For President, Senate, Governor, [the] House Is Going To Have To Talk About Income Inequality, Raising Wages In America, Trade Policy - That's A Huge Success. It's Not Putting Pressure On A Candidate. It's Mobilizing People.
America
People
House
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
The Political World Is Changing Rapidly. What The Establishment Has Learned, What The Democratic Establishment, The Republican Establishment, The Media Establishment, Is The World Is Not Quite What They Thought It Was. With The Middle Class Disappearing, With People Working Longer Hours For Lower Rages, With People Worried About The Future Of Their Children, What You Are Seeing Is A Lot Of Discontent At The Grassroots Level All Over This Country. And That's What's Going On Right Now.
Country
Children
People
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
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.
Jobs
Fighting
Views
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
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.
Country
Thinking
Views
If You Take Donations From Wall Street, You Can't Be Independent.
Wall
Independent
Donation
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
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
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
The Goal Of Real Healthcare Reform Must Be High-quality, Universal Coverage In A Cost-effective Way.
Real
Healthcare Reform
Goal
The Disastrous Invasion Of Iraq, Something That I Strongly Opposed, Has Unraveled The Region.
Iraq
Invasion
Regions
Don't Stay In One Place For Eight Or Nine Hours.
Eight
Nine
Hours
I Have Spent The Better Part Of My Adult Life Standing Up And Fighting For Working Families.
Fighting
Adults
Standing
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.
Issues
Government
Complicated
I Move That Hillary Clinton Be Selected As The Nominee Of The Democratic Party For President Of The United States.
Party
Moving
President
I've Run For Statewide Office Plenty Of Times, And People Know Me.
Running
People
Office
I Went Back To A Small Town In Poland Where My Dad Grew Up. It Was A Very Traumatic Experience For Me As A Young Man To Know That My Father's Family Were Killed By Nazis, Killed By Hitler. And That Left, You Know, If Not Intellectually, At Least An Emotional Part Of Me Which Said, God, We Have Got To Do Everything We Can To End This Kind Of Horrific Racism Or Anti-semitism. And I Have Spent Much Of My Life Trying To Fight That.
Dad
Father
Fighting
It Means Joining With Allies To Deploy Renewable Energy Technologies -- Both At Home And Around The World -- To Confront The Very Real And Present Danger Of Potentially Irreversible Climate Change.
Change
Real
Mean
At A Time Of Massive Inequality, I Think We Can Raise Substantial Sums Of Revenue To Address The Needs Of Working Families, The Elderly, And The Children, By Asking Those People Who Are Doing Phenomenally Well To Start Paying Their Fair Share.
Children
Thinking
Elderly
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
Not Just For The U.s. Senate But It Also Means For School Board And City Council. We Need To Revitalize American Democracy. We Need To Have People At All - All Over This Country, Having The Courage To Take On Big Money And Demand A Set Of Policies That Work For All Of Us And Not Just For The Few.
Country
School
Mean
Our Ideas Need To Become Part Of Everyday Discussion.
Ideas
Everyday
Needs
If You Look At The Newspapers Here - The Washington Papers - Most Of The Discussion Deals With Campaign Gossip.
Gossip
Campaigns
Looks
When You Talk About Heroines And Heroes, At The Top Of The List Has Got To Be The Single Moms Of America.
Mom
Hero
America
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.
Wall
Real
Thinking
Who Said That Think We Should Normalize Relations With Iran Tomorrow? I Never Said That. I Think We Should Move Forward As Quickly As We Can.
Moving
Thinking
Iran
You Know, Let Me Be Very Clear. I Supported Barack Obama Originally.
Let Me
Clear
Barack
We Have Got To Mobilize People And Rethink Our Commitment In Terms Of What Our Role Is In The Political Process.
Commitment
People
Political
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
People Don't Trust Private Health Insurance Companies For All The Right Reasons.
People
Reason
Private Health Insurance
I Believe, Along With Pope Francis And Almost All Scientists, That Climate Change Is Threatening This Planet In Horrendous Ways, And That We Have To Be Aggressive In Transforming Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuel And Defeat The Keystone Pipeline.
Believe
Energy
Climate
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.
Fighting
Isis
Training
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.
Thinking
Effort
Guy
The Federal Reserve Needs To Provide Small Businesses In America With The Same Low-interest Loans It Gave To Foreign Banks.
America
Needs
Small Business
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.
Country
Baseball
Hurt
What Wall Street And Credit Card Companies Are Doing Is Really Not Much Different From What Gangsters And Loan Sharks Do Who Make Predatory Loans. While The Bankers Wear Three-piece Suits And Don't Break The Knee Caps Of Those Who Can't Pay Back, They Still Are Destroying People's Lives.
Wall
Sharks
People
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
The U.s. Constitution Is An Extraordinary Document. In My View, It Should Not Be Amended Often.
Views
Constitution
Should
A Job Should Lift Workers Out Of Poverty, Not Keep Them In It.
Jobs
Minimum Wage
Poverty
What We Need To Do Is Support Small And Medium-sized Businesses, The Backbone Of Our Economy, But We Have To Make Sure That Every Family In This Country Gets A Fair Shake... Not Just For Billionaires.
Country
Support
Needs
We Need To Change The Power Structure In America, We Need To End The Political Oligarchy.
America
Political
Needs
Message To The Billionaire Class: You Can't Have It All!
Class
Messages
Billionaire
The Truth Is We Have A Political System And An Economic System Controlled By A Few Extremely Wealthy People. Not Barack Obama, Not Bernie Sanders, No One Person Has The Influence By Himself Or Herself To Take On This Enormous Array Of Power Unless Millions Of People Begin To Work Together To Demand Changes.
People
Political
Together
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.
America
Needs
Campaigns
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.
Wall
Gambling
Years
Believe Me, Every American, Every Person In This Country, If I Have Anything To Say About It, Will Know Precisely What Is Going On With Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, Because They Are Beginning To Appoint People Who Are Typical Right-wing Republicans Who Want To Privatize And Cut Social Security.
Country
Believe
Cutting
We Need To Take A Hard Look At The War On Drugs And The Number Of Non-violent Offenders Who End Up Getting Their Lives Destroyed By Going To Prison. We Need To Look At Mandatory Minimum Sentencing And Give Judges More Flexibility When There Are Issues Of Drug Abuse Or Addiction.
War
Numbers
Issues
I Fully, Fully Concede That Secretary Hillary Clinton, Who Was Secretary Of State For Four Years, Has More Experience - Hat Is Not Arguable - In Foreign Affairs.
Years
Four
Hats
I Think It's Important That Members Of The United States Senate Spend Time Not Just On Capitol Hill But Making Contact With Ordinary People And Engaging Them In The Political Process.
Thinking
People
Political
I Love Music, I'm Very Eclectic. On My Ipad I Have The Complete Works Of Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Ipads
Music Love
I Love Music
You've Got The Top 400 Americans Owning More Wealth Than The Bottom 150 Million Americans. Most Folks Do Not Think That Is Right.
Thinking
Wealth
Folks
I Think, The Most Progress I Have Agenda, The Progressive Platform In The History Of The Democratic Party. So We Have Got To Continue Bringing People In, Fighting For An Agenda That Works For Working Families And Having The Courage To Take On The Big Money People Who Today Control Our Economic And Political Life.
Party
Fighting
Thinking
When A Mother Has A Baby, She Should Stay Home With That Baby.
Mother
Baby
Home
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.
Change
Real
Tired
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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