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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.

-Bernie Sanders

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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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During The Debate Over Nafta President Clinton Said, 'i Believe That Nafta Will Create A Million Jobs In The First Five Years Of Its Impact.' Wrong. According To The Economic Policy Institute, Nafta Has Led To The Loss Of More Than 680,000 U.s. Jobs. I Voted Against Nafta And Other Bad Trade Agreements And Am Fighting To Stop The Tpp.

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.

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.

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Congress Doesn't Regulate Wall Street. Wall Street Regulates Congress.

It's Time For The Supreme Court To Catch Up To The American People And Legalize Gay Marriage.

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I Think We Should Support Entrepreneurialship.

The Federal Reserve Has A Responsibility To Ensure The Safety And Soundness Of Financial Institutions And To Contain Systemic Risks In Financial Markets.

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I Understood That These Trade Agreements Were Going To Destroy The Middle Class Of This Country. I Led The Fight Against Us. That Is One Of The Major Differences That We Have.

If We Greatly Expanded Primary Health Care, Lower The Cost Of Prescription Drugs, We Take A Giant Step Forward In Lowering Health Care Costs In America.

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.

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.

It Is Incomprehensible That Drug Companies Still Get Away With Charging Americans Twice As Much, Or More, Than Citizens Of Canada Or Europe For The Exact Same Drugs Manufactured By The Exact Same Companies.

Low-income People, Racial Or Ethnic Minorities, Pregnant Women, Seniors, People With Special Needs, People In Rural Areas - They All Have A Much Harder Time Accessing A Dentist Than Other Groups Of Americans.

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

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We Are Rapidly Moving Toward A Nation Of The Super-rich, By The Super-rich And For The Super-rich

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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.

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We Are Imprisoning Or Giving Jail Sentences To Young People Who Are Smoking Marijuana.

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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.

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An America Where Every Person, No Matter Their Race, Their Disability Or Their Sexual Orientation Realizes The Full Promise Of Equality That Is Our Birthright As Americans.

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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I Don't Believe There's A Red State In America Where People Believe You Should Cut Medicare, Social Security And Veterans' Benefits Rather Than Doing Away With Corporate Tax Loopholes.

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.

Hillary Clinton Is On Record Supporting A Doubling Of Community Health Centers In This Country, Which Will Mean That Tens Of Millions Of People - Poor People - Will Have Access To Health Care That Do Not Have It Today. Is That Significant? It Is Very Significant.

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.

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.

I Don't Consider Myself A Pariah.

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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.

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In The Economy Today, Everybody Understands That We Need A Well Educated Workforce. This Is 2016. When We Talk About Public Education, It Can No Longer Be K Through 12th Grade. I Do Believe That Public Colleges And Universities Should Be Tuition Free.

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The American People Want To Know That When They Borrow A Book From The Library Or Buy A Book, The Government Won't Be Looking Over Their Shoulder. Everybody Wants To Fight Terrorism, But We Have To Do It In Away That Protects American Freedom.

Donald Trump Believes That Climate Change Is A Hoax. Now, This Is Not Just A Stupid Expression, But It Is Incredibly Dangerous.

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Medicare And Medicaid

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I Have Known Secretary [hillary] Clinton For 25 Years And Respect Her Very Much.

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.

All That I Can Say Is That We Are Spending Far More Per Capita Than People In Any Other Country, And Our Health Care Outcomes Are In Many Cases Worse In Terms Of Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality And So Forth.

I Think That The Media Spends Far Too Much Time [on Personalities].

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Political Revolution

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For Democrats To Win, They're Going To Have To Address The Needs Of Working People. They're Going To Have To Address The Needs Of The Middle Class. And That Means Standing Up To Wall Street, Standing Up To The Greed Of Corporate America. Even Now And Then, Standing Up To The Media. And That Means Having A Candidate Who Can Excite Working Families, Excite Young People, Bring Them Into The Political Process, Create A Large Voter Turnout.

Today, Over Half Of American Workers Have Less Than $10,000 In Savings And Have No Idea How They Will Be Able To Retire With Any Shred Of Dignity.

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.

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Prescription Drug Prices Are Skyrocketing And One-third Of All Seniors Depend On Social Security For At Least 90% Of Their Income.

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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All Over This Country You Have Progressive Communities Like Madison And Burlington, But We've Got To Go Well, Well, Well Outside Of Those Communities. We've Got To Go To The Rural Areas. We've Got To Go Where A Lot Of Working People Are Voting Republican.

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Political Revolution

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The Next Time You Do A Filibuster, Keep Walking Around.

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.

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

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Politically, As A Result Of Citizens United, Billionaires Are Now Able To Spend As Much Money As They Want On Campaigns, Which Means That You Have A Political System Which Is Heavily Dominated By Corporations And Wealthy Individuals.

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.

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.

If You`re A Republican Politician And You`re Seeing This Guy [donald Trump] Saying Crazy Stuff And Going Up In The Polls, What Are You Going To Say, You`re Going To Say Equally Crazy Or Maybe A Little Less Crazy Stuff.

The Right Wing In This Country Is Waging A War Against Women, And Let Me Be Very Clear, It Is Not A War That We Are Going To Allow Them To Win.

I Think, Clearly, We Got To Work Closely With China To Resolve The Serious Problems We Have, And I Worry About Putin And His Military Adventurism In The Crimea And The Ukraine.

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Worth Fighting For

What This [presidency] Campaign Is About This Bringing Millions Of People Jobs In This Country.

You Want To Know The Way To Raise Money? Put A Transaction Fee On Wall Street, So Maybe We Can Curb Some Of The Speculation And Raise Some Money.

I Don't Think Everybody In Vermont Loves Me.

One Of The Ongoing Crises In America Is Institutional Racism. We Have A Very Broken Criminal Justice System. We Live In A Country Where There Are More People In Jail Than Any Other Country On Earth. There Are Some 2.2 Million People Currently Incarcerated And They Are Disproportionally African American And Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans Have Been Abused And Sometimes Killed While In Police Custody. Clearly These Are Issues That Must Be Dealt With And Changed.

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.

I Don't Want To See Kids In America Being Scared Because They're Hearing People On Television And The Radio Saying Really Ugly Xenophobic And Racist Things.

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

Sometimes The Media Says, Well, This State Had An Election, It's The End Of The Campaign. It Is Not. We Have Dozens Of More States To Go. We're Feeling Good About The Future.

I'm Not Going To Get Establishment Support. I'm Not Going To Get The Support Of The Governors And The Senators, With Few Exceptions, And Many Of The Major Organizations.

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.

Politics Is Not About A Person. We Transform America Not By Electing Some Guy Or Woman To Be President; We Transform This Country When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight Back. That Will Result In Good Leadership On Top. So The Goal Right Now Is Not To Worry About Who's Going To Be Running In 2020 Or 2080. The Goal Now Is To Mobilize Millions Of People Around A Progressive Agenda.

I'm A United States Senator, And I Have A Responsibility To The People Of My State - Also To The People Of This Country.

I Move That Hillary Clinton Be Selected As The Nominee Of The Democratic Party For President Of The United States.

[iranians] Are A Sponsor Of Terrorism Around The World And We Have To Address That.

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.

I Will Challenge Anybody With Regard To My Record On Lgbt Issues.

I Think - You Know, I Can't Speak For 13 Million People, But I Think Most Of My Supporters Understand Trump Has Got To Be Defeated. We Need To Elect As Many Progressives As Possible. And We Need To Continue The Fight To Create An Agenda Which Works For Working Families And Not Just For Wealthy Campaign Contributors.

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.

I Am Proud Of The Campaign That We Ran. Obviously, I Wish We Could Have Done A Little Bit Better.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm Not Quite Sure,this Is The Issue That Is On The Minds Of The American People Right Now, Who Basically Want To Make Sure That Donald Trump Keeps The Promises That He Made When He Said He Was Not Going To Cut Social Security And Medicare.

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.

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Donald Trump's Language Has Been Atrocious, His Behavior Toward Women.

The Palestinian People's Needs Must Be Respected.

Giving Up Is Not An Option If We Want To Prevent Irreparable Harm To Our Planet.

Irreparable Harm

The Only Way Change Happens Is When People Become More Significantly Involved In The Political Process.

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.

Climate Change Is Real, Caused By Human Activity And Already Devastating Our Nation And Planet. The United States Must Lead The World In Combating Climate Change And Transforming Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuels And Toward Energy Efficiency And Sustainability.

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.

The Votes Elected Officials Make Should Be Based On The Best Interests Of The American People, Not The Fear Of Retribution When Shadowy Groups Spend Millions Of Dollars On Negative Advertisements.

I Would Love To Have The Endorsement Of Every Progressive Organization In America. We're Very Proud To Have Received Recently The Endorsement Of Moveon.org. We've Received The Endorsement Democracy For America. These Are Grassroots Organizations Representing Millions Of Workers.

The American People In My View Will Never Support A Candidate Whose Major Theme Is Bigotry.

At A Young Age, I Became Very Aware That Not Only Did My Family Have To Struggle But That Families Around The Country Were Struggling As Well. Also, Being Jewish And Having Lost Relatives In The Holocaust, I've Always Been Aware Of The Meaning Of Prejudice. These Are Things That Have Remained With Me Throughout My Political Career.

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.

Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Don`t Take It Out On Latinos. Try To Help Us Work Together To Create A Country Where Your Kids And You Can Have A Decent Standard Of Living. It Has To Be A Bold And Radical Agenda.

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To My Mind, What Is Most Important Now Is The Defeating Of The Worst Candidate For President That I Have Seen In My Lifetime, Donald Trump, Who Is Not Qualified To Be President By Temperament, Not Qualified To Be President By The Ideas That He Has Brought Forth.

The Republican I Ran Against, At The End Of The Campaign, Had Decided That I Was "a Friend Of Terrorists" And "a Friend Of Pedophiles." That's The Kind Of Crap They Came Out With. I Expect That's The Kind Of Crap They'll Come Out With Again.

The United States Has More People Living In Poverty Than At Almost Any Time In The Modern History Of Our Country. I Believe That In A Democratic, Civilized Society None Of Our People Should Be Hungry Or Living In Desperation. We Need To Expand Social Security, Not Cut It. We Need To Increase Funding For Nutrition Programs, Not Cut Them.

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.

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.

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.

What I Saw In Baltimore Was Distressing And It Tells Me We Need Stronger Policies In This Country.

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.

Clearly North Korea Is A Very Strange Situation Because It Is Such An Isolated Country Run By A Handful Of Dictators, Or Maybe Just One, Who Seems To Be Somewhat Paranoid. And, Who Had Nuclear Weapons.

I Think The Immediate Thing Is We Stand Up To Protect Those People Who Are In Trouble.

No. It Is Not Acceptable That The 6 Largest Financial Institutions In This Country Have Assets Of Almost 10 Trillion Dollars, And Issue Half Of The Mortgages And Two-thirds Of The Credit Cards. That Is Too Much Wealth And Power In The Hands Of A Few. If Teddy Roosevelt Were Alive Today He'd Tell Us To 'break Them Up.' And He'd Be Right. These Huge Banks Must Be Broken Up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Am Going To Do My Best To Try To Create A Country In Which Children Are Not Living In Poverty, In Which Kids Can Go To College, In Which Old People Have Health Care. Will I Succeed? I Can't Guarantee You That, But I Can Tell You That From A Human Point Of View It Is Better To Show Up Than To Give Up.

I Call Upon Donald Trump To Rescind The Appointment That He Made Of Stephen Bannon. A President Of The United States Should Not Have A Racist At His Side, Unacceptable.

Student Debt Is Crushing The Lives Of Millions Of Americans. How Does It Happen That We Can Get A Home Mortgage Or Purchase A Car With Interest Rates Half Of That Being Paid For Student Loans? We Must Make Higher Education Affordable For All. We Must Substantially Lower Interest Rates On Student Loans. This Must Be A National Priority.

I Have Taken On Virtually Every Element Of The Big Money Establishment, Whether It's The Koch Brothers, And The Big Energy Companies, Whether It's The Industrial Complex, Whether It's Wall Street... I Have Taken On The Drug Companies. I Have Taken On The Insurance Companies.

In The Last Presidential Election Obama And Romney Raised About $1 Billion Each. The Koch Brothers, The Second Wealthiest Family In America, Now Say They Will Raise Nearly $1 Billion For The 2016 Elections. When One Family Can Raise As Much As An Entire Party, The System Is Broken. This Is Oligarchy, Not Democracy. We Must Overturn Citizens United.

If We Are A Free Country, We Have The Right To Be Free.

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.

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.

I Love Music, I'm Very Eclectic. On My Ipad I Have The Complete Works Of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

We Live In A Country Where A Small Number Of People Have Incredible Wealth And Power. America Has More Income And Wealth Inequality Than Any Other Major Country.

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.

All Of You Are Aware Of The Tragic History Of Racism In America, But For A Very Long Time, African-americans And Their White Allies Came Together And They Struggled And They Stood Up For Justice And They Stood Up To Lynching And They Stood Up To Segregation And The Stood Up To A Nation Where African-americans Couldn't Even Vote In America.

The American People Want To Raise The Minimum Wage. Every Poll Tells Us That. That Bill Will Not Get To The Floor Of The Senate. The American People Want To Ask The Rich To Pay More In Taxes. But The Legislation That Will Get To The Floor Is Tax Breaks For Billionaires.

People 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 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.

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.

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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