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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.

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The American People Want

Bernie Sanders

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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.

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Ethical Standards

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Freedom Of Speech

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Donald Trump Is Toast.

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The Hardest Thing About Going To College Should Not Be Paying For It.

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African American

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Political Revolution

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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 Don't Consider Myself A Pariah.

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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.

You've Got The Top 400 Americans Owning More Wealth Than The Bottom 150 Million Americans. Most Folks Do Not Think That Is Right.

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Countering Violent Extremism And Destroying Isis Must Be Done Primarily By Muslim Nations With The Strong Support Of Their Global Partners.

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.

Debating, Doubting, Or Rejecting The Basic Scientific Facts About Climate Change In The Face Of The Overwhelming Evidence And Overwhelming Scientific Opinion Will Not Change Those Facts.

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.

I Worry Very Much About Kids Growing Up In A Society Where They Think: "i'm Not Going To Talk About This Issue, Read This Book Or Explore This Idea Because Someone May Think I'm A Terrorist." That's Not The Kind Of Free Society I Want For Our Children.

Hillary Clinton And I Have Worked Together On A Higher Education Proposal Which Will Guarantee Free Tuition In Public Colleges And Universities For Every Family In This Country Making $125,000 A Year Or Less. We're Going To Fight For Paid Family And Medical Leave. Those Are The Issues That The American People Want To Hear Discussed, And I'm Going To Go Around The Country Discussing Them And Making Sure That Hillary Clinton Is Elected President.

I Am Very Proud Of The Campaign We Ran And The Supporters That Came On Board.

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.

The Postal Service Is A Vitally Important Institution For The American People. It Must Be Saved.

We`re Not Going To Let The United States Continue To Have One Of The Highest Rates Of Childhood Poverty In The Industrialized World In - At A Time When We`re Seeing A Proliferation Of Millionaires And Billionaires.

The Fed Has Got To Become A More Democratic Institution That Is Responsive To The Needs Of The Middle Class, Not Just Wall Street Ceos.

I Think, When The African-american Community Understands My Record On Criminal Justice, My Record On Economics, The Agenda We're Bringing Forth, Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour, Dealing With The Fact That We Have More People In Jail, Shamefully, Than Any Other Country On Earth, That I Am Against The Death Penalty, Secretary Clinton Is Not, I Think, As People Become Familiar With My Ideas, We Are Going To Do Better And Better.

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.

I Am Not A Great Fan Of The Payroll Tax Holiday Because I'm Nervous About What It Does To The Future Of Social Security.

I'm Not That Much Of A Socialist Compared To Eisenhower.

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Political Revolution

When You Have Kids That Have No Jobs And Are Not In School, Too Often They Get Themselves Into Trouble. So What We Have Got To Do Is Invest In Education And In Jobs, Something Which I Have Fought For, Rather Than More Jails And Incarceration.

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I Think Too Many Of My Republican Friends Are Into Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East. And That Scares The Bejesus Out Of Me.

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.

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.

Assault Weapons

We Have To Say To The Billionaire Class, Enough Is Enough. You Cannot Have It All. You Are Going To Pay More In Taxes.

As A Nation, There Are Many Issues We Don`t Talk About, We Just Don`t Talk About, Push Them Under The Rug. Poverty Is One Of Those Issues.

I've Run For Statewide Office Plenty Of Times, And People Know Me.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Millions Are Unemployed And Our Roads Are Falling Apart. If We Can Spend $6 Trillion Sending People To War, We Can Spend $1 Trillion To Put Americans To Work Fixing Our Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure. Let's Rebuild America And Create Jobs.

Wall Street Is Greedy, Reckless And They Operate Illegally. That's Fine. But What Do You Do?

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.

I Am Sure That There Are Some Single Payer Advocates Who Think The Only Thing Worth Fighting For Is Single Payer.

Worth Fighting For

We Did Really, Really Badly With Older African-american Voters. I Mean We Got Decimated.

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American Voters

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

Ben Carson And I Don`t Have Much In Common Politically. But The Fact Is When You Have Kids Getting Involved In The Political Process, Doing Their Best To Elect The Candidates Of Their Choice, That`s What The American Democracy Is About.

If We Do Not Get Our Act Together And Transform Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuel, There Is A Real Question As To The Quality Of The Planet That We Are Going To Be Leaving Our Children And Our Grandchildren.

I Don't Think Any Sensible Person Would Disagree That The Invasion Of Iraq Led To The Massive Level Of Instability That We're Seeing Right Now. I Think That Was One Of The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders In The Modern History Of The United States.

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.

Brothers And Sisters: Now Is Not The Time For Thinking Small, Now Is Not The Time For The Same-old, Same-old Establishment Politics And Stale Inside-the-beltway Ideas.

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.

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.

It's Better To Show Up Than To Give Up.

Here Is What The Practical Impact Of Citizens United Means. What Citizens United Means Is That Corporations Call Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Television Ads, Radio Ads, And Other Forms Of Advertising To Defeat Those Candidates Who Stand Up And Take Them On.

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.

When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight...they Win.

I Come From A Rural State. People Drive 50, 100 Miles To And From Work Every Single Day. That Is True All Over America.

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.

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.

We're Not Going To Give Tax Breaks To Billionaires And Then Cut Back On The Needs Of Our Elderly Or Poor Or Kids Or Education. We're Not Going To Privatize Social Security - In Fact, We're Going To Strengthen It. We're Going To Provide Quality Education For Every Kid In America, From Preschool Through College. We Have To Take On These Corporate Leaders Who Are Selling Out The American People, Whose Allegiance Is Now Much More To China Than It Is To The United States. If We Have The Courage To Take These People On, I Think We Can Overwhelm George W. Bush And His Friends.

There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong About The Way We [americans] Are Moving As A Country, When Billionaires Are Able To Buy Elections As A Result Of Citizens United. There`s Something Fundamentally Wrong When 99 Percent Of All New Income Goes To The Top 1 Percent.

The Greed Of The Billionaire Class Has Got To End And We Are Going To End It For Them.

We Are Looking At A Lot Of Dishonest News That Comes Across Where People Are Lying Outrageously About Other People. And I Hope That Folks On All Sides Could Say, "look, I Disagree With Him Or Her, But That Is An Outrageous Lie."

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.

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.

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.

I Think What The Secretary Hillary Clinton Has Recognized Is The American People Are Extremely Angry About The Power Of Wall Street, The Greed, The Illegal Behavior Of Wall Street.

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

In Many Respects, This Country Is Becoming An Oligarchy, With A Tiny Percentage Of America Owning The Media, Owning The Country.

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.

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

Democrats Need To Become A 50-state Party. You Can't Have A Great Party On The West Coast And The East Coast. You Need To Have A Party In All 50 States.

Together, Leading The World, The U.s.a. Will Rid Our Planet Of This Barbarous Organization Called Isis.

We Need Real Tax Reform Which Makes The Rich And Profitable Corporations Begin To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes. We Need A Tax System Which Is Fair And Progressive. Children Should Not Go Hungry In This Country While Profitable Corporations And The Wealthy Avoid Their Tax Responsibilities By Stashing Their Money In The Cayman Islands.

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

This Is What Oligarchy Looks Like: Today, The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. The Top One-hundredth Of 1 Percent Makes More Than 40 Percent Of All Campaign Contributions. The Billionaire Class Owns The Political System And Reaps The Benefits From It.

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.

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.

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

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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