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Republicans Talk A Good Game About Veterans, But When It Came To Put Money On The Line To Protect Our Veterans, Frankly, They Were Not There.
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Republicans Talk A Good Game About Veterans, But When It Came To Put Money On The Line To Protect Our Veterans, Frankly, They Were Not There.

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Way
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?
War
Cutting
Medicare And Medicaid
We Are Going To Do Everything That We Can To Protect Working Families In This Country.
Country
Protect
What We Are Doing In This Campaign [2016], It Just Blows My Mind Every Day Because I See It Clearly, We're Taking On Not Only Wall Street And Economic Establishment, We're Taking On The Political Establishment.
Wall
Blow
Political
We Cannot Go Back To A Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic Type Of Society.
Racist
Sexist
Type
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.
Kids
America
People
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
This Country Is Never Going To Move Forward Unless We End Republican Rule In The House And Senate.
Country
Moving
House
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.
Thinking
Media
Class
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
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.
Pride
Opportunity
People
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.
Oil
Climate
Needs
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
I Do Not Want To See Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.
Middle East
Warfare
Want
People All Over This Country Are Shouting At Each Other. And What We Need To Do Is Bring People Together To Work On The Agreement Where There Is Broad Consensus And That's What I Intend To Do.
Country
Agreement
People
Giving Up Is Not An Option If We Want To Prevent Irreparable Harm To Our Planet.
Giving Up
Irreparable Harm
Want
I'm Very, Very Worried About The Invasion Of Privacy Rights That We're Seeing Not Only From The N.s.a. And The Government But From Corporate America, As Well. We're Losing Our Privacy Rights. It's A Huge Issue.
Rights
Government
America
I Supported Barack Obama Originally. I Supported Him For Reelection And The Alternative Of A Mitt Romney Is Very, Very Clear To Everybody. And I Think The President Has Done A Good Job In A Number Of Areas. But One Area That Has Concerned Me From Day One Has Been His Reliance On Wall Street Type People In Terms Of Financial Matters.
Jobs
Wall
Thinking
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.
Men
Thinking
Issues
The Democrats Have Got To Open The Door To Young People. Welcome Them In And Understand That It Will Be Messy, That Many Young People Are Not Professional Politicians. The Democratic Party Is Going To Have To Adjust Itself To Their Reality, Rather Than Force Young People To Be Adjusted To The Democratic Leadership's Reality.
Party
Reality
Doors
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.
War
Believe
Years
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.
Real
Believe
Thinking
I Have Supported Candidates Whose Views Are Very Different Than Mine On The Need The Break Up Wall Street Banks, On The War In Iraq, On Trade Issues. Of Course I Have Supported Those People. My Hope Is That We're Going To See - And I Believe It Is The Case - We're Going To See More And More Strong Progressives Running For Office. That's My Hope. That's My Desire. But That Is Up To - That Decision Is Going To Be Made By People In 50 States And 435 Congressional Districts.
Running
Strong
Wall
The Issue Is To Trying To Figure Out Why We End Up Spending So Much More Than Other Countries.
Country
Trying
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.
Struggle
Doctors
People
During The 1999 Debate Over Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China President Bill Clinton Said, 'in Opening The Economy Of China, The Agreement Will Create Unprecedented Opportunities For American Farmers, Workers And Companies To Compete Successfully In China's Market. Wrong: Our Trade Deficit With China Has Increased From $83 Billion In 2001 To A Record Breaking $342 Billion In 2014.
Opportunity
Agreement
Records Breaking
A Woman Has The Right To Make Decisions Regarding Her Own Body, Not The United States Government.
Government
Decision
United States
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?
Class
Political
Oligarchy
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.
Office
Mail
Information
I Think, In My Own State, I Can Tell You That People Do Want To Hear A Serious Discussion On Serious Issues.
Thinking
Issues
People
It Reminds Me In Some Ways Of The Debate Taking Place In This Country And Around The World In The Late 1930s. There Were People, In This Congress, In The British Parliament Saying, 'don't Worry! Hitler's Not Real! It'll Disappear'.
Country
Real
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.
Boys
Numbers
People
We Can Combat Climate Change Effectively. What We Are Lacking Now Is Not The Brain Power, Not The Knowledge, Not The Technology. What We Are Lacking Is The Political Will Power, And We Need Your Help By The Millions To Tell Congress To Stop Worrying About Their Fossil Fuel Contributors To Their Campaigns And Worry About Their Kids And Grandchildren.
Kids
Grandchildren
Technology
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.
Mind
Important
President
We're Going To Stand With Working People. We're Going To Take On The Billionaire Class. We're Going The Take On The Drug Companies And The Insurance Companies. We're Going The Take On Wall Street. That's Where I Think The Future Of The Democratic Party Lies.
Wall
Lying
Party
I Think The Democratic Party Has Got To Make Fundamental Choices.
Party
Thinking
Choices
Of Course Their [cuba's] Economy Is Terrible, But They Have Health Care And Education.
Cuba
Care
Economy
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
In America, We Are Living In A Society Which Is Moving More And More Toward An Oligarchic Form Of Society Where Government Is Dominated Heavily By Big-money Interests.
Moving
Government
America
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.
Country
Xenophobia
Racism
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
I Have A Long History In Fighting For Civil Rights. I Understand That Many People In The African-american Community May Not Understand That.
Fighting
Rights
Long
I Prefer To Stay On The Important Issues Facing The American People.
Issues
People
Important
I Move That Hillary Clinton Be Selected As The Nominee Of The Democratic Party For President Of The United States.
Party
Moving
President
I Know That Virtually Every Member Of The Senate Understands We Just Cannot Turn Our Back On Men And Women Who Have Put Their Lives On The Line To Defend Us And Who Are Hurting Today.
Hurt
Men
Today
I Am Running For President As A Democrat. And If Elected, Not Only Do I Hope To Bring Forth A Major Change In National Priorities, But Let Me Be Frank, I Do Want To See Major Changes In The Democratic Party.
Running
Party
Priorities
The Cold War Is Over. And Our Focus Has Got To Be On Intelligence, Increased Manpower, Fighting Internationally Targets.
War
Fighting
Focus
In Community After Community, There Are Unemployment Rates Among Young African-americans Of 30 To 40 Percent. Thirty To 40 Percent! Kids Have No Jobs, They Have No Future. That Is An Issue That Has Got To Be Dealt With Simultaneously As We Deal With Police Brutality, Voter Suppression And The Other Attacks That Are Taking Place On The African-american Community.
Jobs
Kids
Issues
Many White People Are Not Sensitive To The Kind Of Abuse That African Americans, Especially Younger African Americans, Receive At The Hands Of Police Officers And Police Departments. I Think For Most Whites Their Experience With The Police Has Been Good Or Neutral Because They Don't Interact With The Police As Much As Those In The Black Community.
Thinking
White
Hands
If You Ask Me About My Views On The Environment, On Women's Rights, On Gay Rights, I Am Liberal. I Don't Have A Problem With That At All. Some Of My Best Friends Are Liberal.
Gay
Rights
Views
We Have Two And Half Million Individual Campaign Contributions, More Than Any Campaign In History.
Two
Campaigns
Half
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'm Not That Much Of A Socialist Compared To Eisenhower.
Socialist
In The United States Today We Have The Most Unequal Wealth And Income Distribution Of Any Major Country On Earth - Worse Than At Any Time Since The 1920s. This Is An Economy That Must Be Changed In Fundamental Ways.
Country
Income Distribution
United States
Trickle Down Economics Is A Fraud. Giving Tax Breaks To The Rich And Large Corporations Does Not Create Jobs. It Simply Makes The Rich Richer, Enlarges The Deficit And Increases Income And Wealth Inequality. We Need Economic Policies Which Benefit Working Families, Not The Billionaire Class.
Jobs
Class
Giving
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.
Country
America
Jail
Every Person In America Will Know What Donald Trump Said And What He Is Doing.
America
Trump
Said
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
I Think If We're Looking At Lasting Peace In The Middle East, The United States Has Got To Respect The Needs Of The Palestinian People. They Cannot Be Pushed Aside.
Thinking
People
United States
What I Saw In Baltimore Was Distressing And It Tells Me We Need Stronger Policies In This Country.
Country
Stronger
Needs
If You Look At Our Records, I Stood Up To Corporate America Time And Time Again. I Went To Mexico. I Saw The Lives Of People Who Were Working In American Factories And Making $0.25 An Hour.
America
People
Looks
The Greed Of The Billionaire Class Has Got To End And We Are Going To End It For Them.
Class
Greed
Ends
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 Believe That Climate Change Is The Great Global Crisis That We Face, Environmental Crisis. I Believe That If You're Serious About Climate Change, You Don't Encourage The Excavation And Transportation Of Very Dirty Oil.
Believe
Dirty
Oil
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.
Country
Children
Giving Up
I Did A Lot Of Reading. I Read About Democratic Socialism. And I Read About The Efforts Of People For Such A Long Time Trying To Create A Society In Which All People Can Live With Dignity. And That's Kind Of What I Believe.
Believe
Reading
Democratic Socialism
I Think What The American People Are Saying Is Enough Is Enough. This Country, This Great Country, Belongs To All Of Us. It Cannot Continue To Be Controlled By A Handful Of Billionaires Who Apparently Want It All.
Country
Thinking
People
I Think The Immediate Thing Is We Stand Up To Protect Those People Who Are In Trouble.
Thinking
People
Trouble
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
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
My Path To Victory Is To Talk About The Issues That Impact The Lives Of Millions Of Americans.
Impact
Issues
Victory
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.
Country
Hurt
Light
I Want Some Help On This. I'm Being Very Honest, I Want Some Ideas, As Somebody Who Was Arrested 50 Years Ago Fighting For Civil Rights Trying To Desegregate Schools In Chicago, Who Spent His Whole Life Fighting Against Racism, I Want Your Ideas. What Do You Think We Can Do? What Can We Do?
Life
School
Fighting
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.
Moving
Years
Supportive
The Police Killings Of Unarmed African Americans Has Got To Stop.
African American
Police
Killing
I'm Not Going To Tell You I Know George W. Bush Intimately. I'm Not Going To Tell You We're Best Friends. I'll Tell You I Met Him On A Number Of Occasions. You Know What? George W. Bush Is A Very Nice Guy. Very Funny Guy. His Wife Is A Very Nice Woman; I Thought She Was A Great First Lady. George [w.] Bush Was The Worst President In The History Of The United States Of America... The Issue Is Not Bernie Sanders. The Issue Is The Koch Brothers. The Issue Is Who Owns America.
Brother
Nice
Numbers
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.
Change
Struggle
People
Social Security Has Nothing To Do With The Deficit.
Social
Deficit
Security
I Think People Cast Their Votes For A Number Of Reasons. I Think If You Look At Your Polls, You'll Probably Find That Many, Many People Think That Our Views Are Closer To What They Believe The Future Of America Should Be. That Our Views Are Closer On Economic Issues. And A Lot Of Those Polls Come Down To Demographics, To Age, To How Much Money You Are Making.
Believe
Thinking
Views
Our Ideas Need To Become Part Of Everyday Discussion.
Ideas
Everyday
Needs
If Jazz Education In Our Colleges Were Free To All It Would Provide Thousands Of Good Jobs In The Music Industry Which Has Been Taken Over By Corrupt Millionaires And Billionaires.
Jobs
Taken
College
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