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It's No Great Secret, Number One, In My View, And I Think The View Of Most Americans, That Congress Itself Is Pretty Dysfunctional. We Are Not Addressing The Real Needs Of The American People. And Second Of All, Philosophically, There Is A Huge Division Between The House And The Senate.

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It's No Great Secret,

Bernie Sanders

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It's No Great Secret, Number One, In My View, And I Think The View Of Most Americans, That Congress Itself Is Pretty Dysfunctional. We Are Not Addressing The Real Needs Of The American People. And Second Of All, Philosophically, There Is A Huge Division Between The House And The Senate.

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Families Are Struggling To Put Bread On The Table, Send Their Kids To College And Take Care Of Their Basic Needs. America Needs A Political Revolution.

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.

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.

It's Time To Make Our Government Work For All Of Us... And Not Just The 1%.

Government Work

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.

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Justice For All

I Would Like To See Somebody Who Speaks For The Underdog, For The People Who Don`t Have This In Healthcare Benefits. So I Would Like To See A Candidate Who Has The Guts To Opposition That America Could Be A Land For All People, Not Just The Land Control By The Super Rich.

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

Economic Inequality

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.

We Have To Develop A Strong Economic Message Which Says Every American Is Entitled To Health Care Through A National Health Care Program. And We're Not Going To Allow These Large Corporations To Push Through Trade Agreements Which Allow Them To Throw Americans Out On The Street And Run To China.

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.

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

Here's Something That I Believe We Have To Do As We Put Together An International Coalition, And That Is We Have To Understand That The Muslim Nations In The Region - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan - All Of These Nations, They're Going To Have To Get Their Hands Dirty, Their Boots On The Ground. They Are Going To Have To Take On Isis.

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As The Longest Serving Independent In The History Of The United States Congress, As Somebody Who Came Into Office By Defeating An Incumbent Democratic Mayor In Burlington, Vermont, I Know Something About Third Party Politics. And I Respect Jill [stein].

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I Think People Have A Right To Speak. And You Have A Right If You're On A College Campus Not To Attend. You Have A Right To Ask Hard Questions About The Speaker If You Disagree With Him Or Her.

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The Disastrous Invasion Of Iraq, Something That I Strongly Opposed, Has Unraveled The Region.

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.

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

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

Americans' Right To Free Speech Should Not Be Proportionate To Their Bank Accounts.

A Guy Named Adolf Hitler Won An Election In 1932 ... And 50 Million People Died As A Result ... What I Learned As A Little Kid Is That Politics Is, In Fact, Very Important.

I Have Spent The Better Part Of My Adult Life Standing Up And Fighting For Working Families.

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?

When We Are Fighting For Huge Stakes - We're Fighting For The Future - Future Of The Planet In Terms Of Climate Change. We're Fighting For The Future Of American Democracy.

When My Republican Colleagues Talk About Family Values, They Mean That A Woman Should Not Be Able To Have The Right To Control Her Own Body; That Women Should Not Be Able To Purchase The Contraceptives That They Want. Those Are Their Family Values, Not Our Family Values.

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

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.

I Think The Media And The Candidates Have Got To Talk About Why The Middle Class Is In Decline And Why We Have Massive Levels Of Income And Wealth Inequality.

What We Have Seen For A Very Long Time Is Large Corporations Shutting Down Plants In This Country, Plants That Are Often Profitable, In Order To Get Cheap Labor All Over The World. And That Is One Of The Reasons Why The Middle Class In This Country Is Disappearing.we Have Lost Our Manufacturing Base, And That's An Issue That Has Got To Be Dealt With.

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!

People Are Tired Of Working Longer Hours For Lower Wages, Of Seeing Decent Paying Jobs Go To China And Other Low-wage Countries, Of Billionaires Not Paying Any Federal Income Taxes And Of Not Being Able To Afford A College Education For Their Kids - All While The Very Rich Become Much Richer.

Of Course Their [cuba's] Economy Is Terrible, But They Have Health Care And Education.

If There Is A Large Voter Turnout, Not Only Do We Retain The White House, But I Think We Regain The Senate. We Win Governors' Chairs Up And Down The Line. So I Believe If You Want To Retain The White House, If You Want To See Democrats Do Well Across The Board, I Think Our Campaign Is The One That Creates The Large Voter Turnout And Helps Us Win.

I Am Not Supportive Of Large Multi-national Corporations That Made Billions A Year In Profit And Don't Pay A Nickel In Taxes, Nor Am I Supportive Of Those Corporations Who Throw American Workers Out On The Street And Then Move To China Or Mexico.

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?

Medicare And Medicaid

Israel's Right To Exist In Peace And Security Is Not In Debate.

Peace And Security

The Billionaires Pay An Effective Tax Rate Lower Than Nurses Or Truck Drivers. That Makes No Sense At All. There Has To Be Real Tax Reform, And The Wealthiest And Large Corporations Will Pay.

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.

The Combat [with Isis] On The Ground Must Be Done By Muslim Troops With Our Support. We Must Not Get Involved In Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.

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.

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.

I Prefer To Stay On The Important Issues Facing The American People.

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.

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

It's Absurd We Remain The Only Major Country On Earth Not To Guarantee Health Care To All People And Paid Family And Medical Leave.

Wall Street Is Perhaps The Most Powerful Economic And Political Force In This Country. You Have Companies Like Goldman Sachs, Who Just Recently Paid A Settlement Fine With The Federal Government For $5 Billion For Defrauding Investors.

No President, Not The Smartest, Best Human Being In The World Can Do It Alone. You Cannot Take On This, The Power That Is In Washington, To Billionaires And Lobbyist, The Military Industrial Complex, All Of This Money And Power, You Can`t Do It. You Need A Mass Movement Of American Who Are Looking In Congress And We Say Directly.

Nobody Who Works 40 Hours A Week Should Be Living In Poverty.

The Palestinian People's Needs Must Be Respected.

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.

There's Issue Of A Corrupt Campaign Finance System, Where Big Money Interests And Wall Street Are Trying To Buy Elections.those Are The Issues That Are Resonating.

The Trans-pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Is A Continuation Of Other Disastrous Trade Agreements, Like Nafta, Cafta, And Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China.

Instead Of Fighting Isis, (the Saudis) Have Focused More On A Campaign To Oust Iran-backed Houthi Rebels In Yemen.

The Government Of Our Great Country Belongs To All Of The People And Not Just A Handful Of The Wealthy.

Rescind The Appointment Of [steve] Bannon. We Will Not Be Involved In The Expansion Of Bigotry, Of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.

At The Current $5.15 An Hour, The Federal Minimum Wage Has Become A Poverty Wage. A Full-time Worker With One Child Lives Below The Official Poverty Line.

Clearly We Must Do Everything We Can To Protect Our Country From The Serious Potential Of Another Terrorist Attack, But We Can And Must Do So In A Way That Also Protects The Constitutional Rights Of The American People And Maintains Our Free Society. We Can Do That Without Living In An Orwellian World Where The Government And Private Corporations Know Every Telephone Call That We Make, Every Website We Visit, Everyplace We Go.

When You Talk About Heroines And Heroes, At The Top Of The List Has Got To Be The Single Moms Of America.

I Think, With Trump, The Major Point Is This Guy Has Business Enterprises All Over The World. And You're Looking Just At Immense, Immense Conflict Of Interest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ever Since [donald]trump Has Been Opening His Big Mouth, You`re Seeing All These Bitter People, Latent Racists Who Are Becoming Emboldened. You`re Seeing Some Ugly Stuff Happening Around This Country.

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