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It Is A Dictatorship. They Did Have A Good Health - Do Have A Decent Health Care System And A Decent Educational System. A Lot Of People Have Left Cuba For Better Dreams, To Fulfill Their Aspirations.

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It Is A Dictatorship.

Bernie Sanders

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It Is A Dictatorship. They Did Have A Good Health - Do Have A Decent Health Care System And A Decent Educational System. A Lot Of People Have Left Cuba For Better Dreams, To Fulfill Their Aspirations.

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Income Distribution

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African American

American Voters

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Political Revolution

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

The Middle Class Is Collapsing And We Are Moving Toward An Oligarchic Form Of Society, Where The Billionaires Will Control The Economy And The Political Life Of The Country.

The Reality Is That We Have One Of Lowest Voter Turnouts Of Any Major Country On Earth Because So Many People Have Given Up On The Political Process. The Reality Is That There Has Been Trillions Of Dollars Of Wealth Going From The Middle Class In The Last 30 Years To The Top 1/10th Of 1 Percent.

If You Want To Talk About Somebody Who's Actually Been Tough On Russia, Look At President Trump. He Wants More Fracking, More Coal, More Energy, A Stronger Military, A Stronger Defense. Those Things Aren't Good For Russia.

The American People Are Growing Extremely Unhappy With Establishment Politics, With Establishment Economics, And You Know What Else? Even With Establishment Media.

Look, If You Have Somebody Who Doesn't Have Health Insurance, Who Doesn't Have A Doctor Or Dentist, And In Order To Deal With Their Cold Or Flu Or Dental Problem, They Go To An Emergency Room - In General, That Visit Will Cost Ten Times More Than Walking Into A Community Health Center.

You All Remember How Many Years Ago, We Were Younger, It Was Uppity Women Who Are Trying To Take Our Jobs As Men. It Was Those Gay People Who Wanted To Make Everybody Homosexual In Our School System. It Was Blacks Wanted To Take White Jobs. That's What Demagoguery Is About. It Is To Obfuscate The Real Problems Facing Our Society And Find Somebody You Can Blame And Rally The American People.

When I Was A Young Boy, I Can Remember In The Community That I Grew Up In, Seeing People In The Community Who Had Numbers That Were On Their Arms.

Do The Elected Officials In Washington Stand With Ordinary Americans - Working Families, Children, The Elderly, The Poor - Or Will The Extraordinary Power Of Billionaire Campaign Contributors And Big Money Prevail? The American People, By The Millions, Must Send Congress The Answer To That Question.

It Is A Public Financing System That Everybody Knows Is Antiquated. It No Longer Works. Nobody Can Become President Based On That System.

I Very Strongly Supported The Agreement Which Makes Certain That Iran Does Not Get A Nuclear Weapon.

The Billionaires And Their Super Pacs Increasingly Control The American Political Process. This Is Not Democracy. This Is Not What Brave Americans Fought And Died To Defend. This Is Oligarchy. This Is Government Of The Few, By The Few And For The Few. We Must Overturn Citizen United And Move To Public Funding Of Elections.

Wall Street Has Enormous Power Over The Republican Party, Enormous Power Over The Democratic Party.

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.

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.

I Think The Way For [marco] Rubio To Say To [donald] Trump Supporters, Hey, Essentially He's Conned You. He's A Con Man. That's What They Do. You Pour Gold People.my Goodness, That's Not The Way To Bring Them In.

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

The Debate Is Over. The Scientific Community Has Spoken In A Virtually Unanimous Voice. Climate Change Is Real. It Is Caused By Human Activity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Goal Of Real Healthcare Reform Must Be High-quality, Universal Coverage In A Cost-effective Way.

Healthcare Reform

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.

I Happen To Believe That We Should Move To A Medicare-for-all Single-payer System, Similar To What Other Countries Around The World Have.

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

[hillary] Clinton Is Too Much Into Regime Change And A Little Bit Too Aggressive Without Knowing What The Unintended Consequences Might Be. Yes, We Could Get Rid Of Assad Tomorrow, But That Would Create Another Political Vacuum That Would Benefit Isis.

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.

We Can Have Paid Family And Medical Leave. We Can Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free. These Are Not Revolutionary, Radical Ideas. They're Kind Of Common Sense.

Please Don't Suggest That I Think We Normalize Relations With Tehran Tomorrow. We Don't. But I Would Like To See Us Move Forward, And Hopefully Some Day That Will Happen.

As A United States Senator, I've Got To Do Everything That I Can To Make Sure That Trump Does Not Become President.

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 Talked To A Lot Of Black Lives Activists In Various States. What I Learned Is That The Relationship Of Police Departments Around The Country With The Black Community Is Far, Far More Severe And Awful Than I Had Originally Known.

You Cannot Be A Party Which Takes Money From Wall Street, Which Is Not Strong On The Pharmaceutical Industry, Which Is Ripping Us Off Every Day, Which Is Not Strong On Health Care In Taking On The Insurance Companies, Which Has Not Shown A Desire To Stand Up And Fight The Economic Establishment, And Then Tell Working Families That You Are On Their Side. People See Through That.

We Are Going To Do Everything That We Can To Protect Working Families In This Country.

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

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

I Think We've Got A Number Of States Coming Up That We're Going To Do Extremely Well And Possibly Winning, Including California And New York State.so I Think We Do Have A Path To Victory.

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

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?

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.

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.

I Know A Great Country That Needs To Be Rebuilt In Terms Of Roads, Bridges, Schools. That Is Called The United States Of America.

In Terms Of Media, We Did Not Get The Kind Of Media Attention That Somebody Like A Donald Trump Got, Because Media Is Not Necessarily Interested In The Issues Facing The Middle Class, More Interested In Attacks In Personality. So I Think There Were A Lot Of Reasons.

When The Media Worries About What Hillary’s Hair Looks Like Or What My Hair Looks Like, That’s A Real Problem. We Have Millions Of People Who Are Struggling To Keep Their Heads Above Water, Who Want To Know What Candidates Can Do To Improve Their Lives, And The Media Will Very Often Spend More Time Worrying About Hair Than The Fact That We’re The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn’t Guarantee Health Care To All People.

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

Social Security Has Nothing To Do With The Deficit.

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

Assault Weapons

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.

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