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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.

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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.

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

Worth Fighting For

As A Result Of The Digital Age And The Decline Of First-class Mail, There Is No Question That The Postal Service Must Change And Develop A New Business Model.

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.

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.

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.

Don't Underestimate Me.

Underestimate Me

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

Real Change Never Occurs From The Top On Down, [but] Always From The Bottom On Up.

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.

Now All Of The Ideas That I'm Talking About, They Are Not Radical Ideas. Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free, That Exists In Countries All Over The World, Used To Exist In The United States. Rebuilding Our Crumbling Infrastructure, And Creating 13 Million Jobs By Doing Away With Tax Loopholes That Large Corporations Now Enjoy By Putting Their Money Into The Cayman Islands And Other Tax Havens. That Is Not A Radical Idea.

We Are The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn't Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right And Yet We End Up Spending Much More Than They Do, So I Do Believe That We Have To Move Toward A Medicare For All, Single-payer System.

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.

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.

If You Looked At Jeb Bush's Campaign, It's More Than Just Money. It's The Nature Of The Candidate And The Message And All That Stuff.

In 30 Years Of Public Service, I Have Had No Scandals. I Have High Ethical Standards. I Am Most Proud Of My Judgement, That Kind Of Judgement Is What We Want In A President Going Forward. I Want To Be A Peacemaker.

Ethical Standards

We Are Moving In Exactly The Wrong Direction In Higher Education. Forty Years Ago, Tuition In Some Of The Great American Public Universities And Colleges Was Virtually Free. Today, The Cost Is Unaffordable For Many Working Class Families. Higher Education Must Be A Right For All - Not Just Wealthy Families.

Now, Why Would My Supporters Be Supporting Somebody Who Doesn't Want To Raise The Federal Minimum Wage Of $7.25 An Hour, A Starvation Wage, Doesn't Want To Do That. Why Would Anybody That Supports Me Support A Candidate Like Trump Who Wants To Throw Millions And Millions Of People Off Of Health Insurance? We Need To Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right, Not Throw Millions Of People Off Health Insurance As Trump Wants To Do.

Establishing A 0.03 Percent Wall Street Speculation Fee, Similar To What We Had From 1914-1966, Would Dampen The Dangerous Level Of Speculation And Gambling On Wall Street, Encourage The Financial Sector To Invest In The Productive Economy And Reduce The Deficit By More Than $350 Billion Over 10 Years.

I Think What You've Got Are Millions Of People Who Are In Trouble Today. They Really Are. They're Confused. They're Working Longer Hours For Lower Wages. They're Seeing Productivity Going Up But Their Kids Are Worse Off Economically Than They Are. They're Looking At A Campaign Finance System In Politics And They See Corruption, Big Money Buying Elections. Nobody In Congress Is Listening To Them.

I Am On The Health Education Labor Committee. That Committee Wrote The Affordable Care Act. The Idea I Would Dismantle Health Care In America While We're Waiting To Pass A Medicare For All Is Just Not Accurate.

Health Education

When We Talk About The Healthcare Crisis In America We've Got To Also Be Talking About The Dental Crisis And How To Address It.

I Believe What I Call Common Sense Gun Reform. Plus, A Revolution In Mental Health, Making Sure That If People Are Having A Nervous Breakdown, Or Are Suicidal, Or Homicidal, They Get The Care They Need When They Need It. I Think The Vast Majority Of The American People Can Support And Agenda Composed Of Those Features.

It's Immoral And Wrong That The Top 1 Percent Of The Usa Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. We Should Look At Countries Like Denmark And Sweden And Norway And Look At What They've Accomplished For Their Working People.

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

Healthcare Reform

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

The United States Must Join The Rest Of The Industrialized World, Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right.

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 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.

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.

We Are Going To Fight To Pass The Long Over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

Most Republicans Are Not Prepared To Stand Up To The Fossil Fuel Industry Because They Get A Lot Of Their Campaign Funds From The Koch Brothers And Other People In The Fossil Fuel Industry. That Tells Me Why We Have To Reform Our Campaign Finance System.

Campaign Finance

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.

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.

Records Breaking

The Cuban Economy Is A Disaster. No, I Do Not Praise Fidel Castro.

Everyone Can Have Health Care. Everyone Can Earn A Living Wage. We Can Educate All Our Kids - Well. But None Of That Happens Unless There's A Political Revolution. And It's Not Going To Happen Unless We Deal With Corporate Control Of The Media.

Political Revolution

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.

How Can The United States Be Competitive Globally If Higher Education Is Unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland And Sweden Have No Tuition For College. Other Countries Have Low Tuition. We Need The Best Educated Workforce In The World. Instead Of Spending Endless Amounts On The Military, We Need To Invest In Our Young People.

But Because Media Is What Media Is Today, Any Stupid, Absurd Remark Made By Donald Trump Becomes The Story Of The Week. Maybe, Just Maybe, We Might Want To Have A Serious Discussion About The Serious Issues Facing America. Donald Trump Will Not Look Quite So Interesting In That Context.

I Think It Makes People In The Pentagon Kind Of Nervous To Know That Chemical Agents And Environmental Factors Could Cause So Much Damage In Terms Of What May Happen In The Future.

Environmental Factors

I Wanna End The International Embarrassment Of The United States Of America Being The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn't Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right, Not A Privilege.

As A Single-payer Advocate, I Believe That At The End Of The Day, If A State Goes Forward And Passed An Effective Single-payer Program, It Will Demonstrate That You Can Provide Quality Health Care To Every Man, Woman And Child In A More Cost-effective Way.

I Want To See Working People And Young People Come Into The Party In A Way That Doesn't Exist Now. And You Know What, I Want A 50-state Strategy So The Democratic Party Is Not Just The Party Of 25 States.

I Have A Long History In Fighting For Civil Rights. I Understand That Many People In The African-american Community May Not Understand That.

What The People Here Have Said Is That Given The Enormous Crises Facing Our Country, It Is Just Too Late For The Same Old, Same Old Establishment Politics And Establishment Economics.

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

Do I Consider Myself A Part Of The Casino Capitalist Process? No I Don't. I Believe In A Society Where All People Do Well.

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.

I Was Elected By The Democrats To Be Chair Of The Veterans Committee, Which I'm Very Proud Of. And Now Am The Rankings Member On The Budget Committee, Leader Of The Democrats In Opposition To The Majority Republicans.

Democrats And Progressives Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is High. Republicans Do Well When The Voter Turnout Is Low.

Bernie Sanders Did Not Wake Up Last Night With This Great Idea That We Should Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right. Actually, It Exists In Every Other Major Country On Earth. You Don't Know That, Because The Media Has Forgotten To Tell You That. But It Does Exist. In Denmark, Because Of Union Negotiations, The Minimum Wage Is About $20 An Hour. In Germany, You Go To College Tuition-free. In Finland, They Actually Pay You To Go To College. Now, You Don't Know That In America Because Cbs Forgot To Tell You. But That Is The Reality.

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.

I Think We Should Support Entrepreneurialship.

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 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.

Who Do You Think Controls The Republican Party? Big Money Controls The Republican Party. This Is Where Their Campaign Contributions Come From.

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

African American

American Voters

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.

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.

Climate Change Is Real, It Is Caused By Human Activity, And It Is Already Causing Devastating Problems In America And Around The World.

The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Hearing About Your [hillary Clinton] Damn E-mails!

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.

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

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

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.

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

High-speed Trains In Japan Can Now Reach 375 Mph - Twice As Fast As Any Public Transit Train In The United States. America's Railroads Were Once The Envy Of The World. Today They Are In Disrepair And We Are Falling Further And Further Behind The Rest Of The World. We Need To Rebuild Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Including Rail. When We Do That We Not Only Make Our Country More Productive And Efficient, We Create Millions Of New Jobs.

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?

This Country Is Never Going To Move Forward Unless We End Republican Rule In The House And Senate.

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.

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.

I Thought The Bush Economic Policy Was A Disaster. We Lost 500,000 Private Sector Jobs During His Tenure.

Goldman Sachs Was One Of Those Companies Whose Illegal Activity Helped Destroy Our Economy And Ruin The Lives Of Millions Of Americans. But This Is What A Rigged Economy And A Corrupt Campaign Finance System And A Broken Criminal Justice Is About. These Guys Are So Powerful That Not One Of The Executives On Wall Street Has Been Charged With Anything After Paying, In This Case Of Goldman Sachs, A $5 Billion Fine.

Illegal Activities

I Think We Are Making Progress, But We Have Long Way To Go. People Also Have Got To Understand The Agenda That We Are Fighting For. This Is A Senator Who Has Taken On Every Powerful Special Interest, Whether It's Wall Street, Whether It's Drug Companies Who Are Ripping Off The American People, The Military Industrial Complex.

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.

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.

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 Need A Very Progressive And Strong Agenda To Bring People Into The Political Process Because I Worry Very Much About The Future Of The American Democracy Where So Many People Are Giving Up.

Don't Stay In One Place For Eight Or Nine Hours.

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.

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.

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 Do Not Believe That We Must Maintain A Bloated Military Budget Which Spends Almost As Much As The Rest Of The World Combined And May Lead Us To Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East.

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.

Social Security Is The Most Successful Government Program In Our Nation's History. We Are Not Going To Cut Social Security! We Are Going To Expand Social Security!

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'm Not Really Opposed To People Changing Their Minds. I'm Much More Concerned With People Who Never Change Their Minds No Matter What New Information Is Available.

I Would Say That, You Know, Being Jewish, What Has Been Most Significant In My Life Is Understanding What A Hitler - What Horrible Politics Can Mean To People And I Think That's Been One Of The Motivating Factors In My Life In Fighting Against Racism And Bigotry Of All Kinds Because When It Gets Out Of Hand, As We Have Seen And We Are, You Know - It's Obviously Has Unbelievable Repercussions.

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

The Case To Be Made Is That We Have Got To Get People Involved - Continue To Get People Involved In The Political Process At Every Level.

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.

What A Grassroots Party Is About Is People Getting Excited, Getting Involved In The Local Political Process, Saying, We Want Our Candidate To Run For Office, We Want Him To Run For Office, And We're Going To Get Involved And Make Sure That He Or She Wins.

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.

Will I Criticize Hillary Clinton On Her Position Of Tpp, Or The Lack Of Position? Will I Criticize Her On Her Views Of Wall Street? Will I Criticize Her On Foreign Policy? That's What Democracy Is About, But Taking Cheap Shots At People, Making It Personal, I Don't Think That's What Politics Should Be About.

Ceos Of Large Corporations Earn 400 Times What Their Workers Make. That Is Not What America Is Supposed To Be About.

I Don't Go Around Every Other Day Calling For Governors To Resign. I Don't Think I Ever Have.

We Have Got To Make Sure That Every Qualified American In This Country Who Wants To Go To College Can Go To College -- Regardless Of Income.

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

Nafta, Supported By The Secretary Cost, Us 800,000 Jobs Nationwide, Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs In The Midwest. Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China Cost Us Millions Of Jobs. Look, I Was On A Picket Line In Early 1990's Against Nfata Because You Didn't Need A Phd In Economics To Understand That American Workers Should Not Be Forced To Compete Against People In Mexico Making 25 Cents An Hour.

After All, Wall Street Is Clearly The Most Powerful Lobbying Force On Capitol Hill. From 1998 Through 2008, The Financial Sector Spent Over $5 Billion In Lobbying And Campaign Contributions To Deregulate Wall Street.

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.

The Truth Is That Political Consciousness In This Country Is Pretty Low... To The Degree That We Can Help Educate And Organize People Around The Most Important Issues Facing Their Lives And Show That There Is Support For Fundamental Changes In The Way We Do Business In The United States Of America In Terms Of Income Inequality, In Terms Of Low Wages, In Terms Of Disastrous Trade Policies, In Terms Of Being The Only Major Country Not To Have A National Healthcare Program - That's Success.

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

Peace And Security

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

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.

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.

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 Think It's Important That Members Of The United States Senate Spend Time Not Just On Capitol Hill But Making Contact With Ordinary People And Engaging Them In The Political Process.

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.

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.

What Democratic Socialism Is About Is Saying That It Is Immoral And Wrong That The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent In This Country Own Almost 90 Percent - Almost - Own Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. That It Is Wrong, Today, In A Rigged Economy, That 57 Percent Of All New Income Is Going To The Top 1 Percent. That When You Look Around The World, You See Every Other Major Country Providing Health Care To All People As A Right, Except The United States.

Democratic Socialism

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.

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.

Any Idiot, Especially One Who Is Prepared To Die, Who Has A Gun, Can Start Shooting Up People.

I Believe What Martin Luther King Jr. Believed. You Remember What The Title Of The March On Washington Was? "jobs And Freedom." What King Understood Is That You Have To Deal With The Economic Issues As Well As The Political Issues And The Civil Rights Issues.

So What I Have Said With Regard To Boeing And Ge And Other Multinationals That Pay Zero Taxes, You Know What We're Going To Do? We're Going To End That Loophole. They Are Going To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes.

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.

They Talk About Class Warfare -- The Fact Of The Matter Is There Has Been Class Warfare For The Last Thirty Years. It's A Handful Of Billionaires Taking On The Entire Middle-class And Working-class Of This Country. And The Result Is You Now Have In America The Most Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Income Of Any Major Country On Earth And The Worst Inequality In America Since 1928. How Could Anybody Defend The Top 400 Richest People In This Country Owning More Wealth Than The Bottom Half Of America, 150 Million People?

There Is Far Too Little Discussion In Washington About The Collapse Of The Middle Class , Almost No Discussion At All About The Incredible Income Inequality And Wealth Inequality In This Country, And The Fact That We're Moving Toward An Oligarch Form Of Society.

At A Time When The Average Student Is Graduating From A Four-year College $27,000 In Debt, When Hundreds Of Thousands Of Capable Young People No Longer See College As An Option Because Of High Costs And When The U.s. Is Falling Further And Further Behind Our Economic Competitors In Terms Of The Percentage Of Young People Graduating From College, No Agreement Should Be Passed Which, Over A Period Of Years, Makes A Bad Situation Worse And Will Make College Even Less Affordable Than It Is Today.

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

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.

Politics In A Democratic Society Should Not Be Treated Like A Baseball Game, A Game Show Or A Soap Opera. The Times Are Too Serious For That.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My Mission Is To Raise Incomes For Hard Working Middle Class Families. If You Work Hard And Do Your Part You Should Be Able To Get Ahead And Stay Ahead.

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.

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.

Because Of A Mass Media More Interested In Gossip And Sensationalism Than Real Issues, I Would Say A Vast Majority Of The American Public Doesn't Have A Clue About How The Congress Functions And What Goes On.

In My View, It Is Not A Question Of Trump Having Won The Election, It's A Question Of Democrats Having Lost The Election. Democrats Need A Strong Progressive Agenda Which Says To The Working Class Of This Country, We Are Going The Stand And Fight For You, We're Going To Raise The Minimum Wage, Pay Equity For Women, We're Going To Rebuild The Infrastructure, And We're Going To Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right. We're Going To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free.

I'm Running For President, Because As I Go Around This Nation, I Talk To A Lot Of People. And What I Hear Is People's Concern That The Economy We Have Is A Rigged Economy.

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

When The Average Social Security Benefit Is $1328 A Month, And More Than One-third Of Our Senior Citizens Rely On Social Security For Virtually All Of Their Income, Our Job Is To Expand Benefits, Not Cut Them.

Donald Trump Is Toast.

What Kind Of Nation Are We When We Give Tax Breaks To Billionaires, But We Can't Take Care Of The Elderly And The Children.

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.

Income Distribution

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.

At The End Of The Day, If Millions Of People Come Together And Say, We Are Not Going To Be A Xenophobic Society, We Are Not Going To Be Throwing Millions Of Latinos Out Of This Country, We Are Not Going To Be A Racist Society, We're Not Going To Be A Sexist Society, We Will Prevail.

The End Of The Day

Every Three Weeks Before An Election The Tv Ads Expressing Great Concern About Our Trade Policy And The Loss Of Jobs To China And Other Low-wage Countries. And Then It's Forgotten About The Day After The Election.

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.

It's Not Something Where You Can Say, One Time You Said This And Now You Said This. That Doesn't Peel Off Any Of His People. The Only Way That You Can Do It Is By Out Alphaing [doanld] Trump, And I Think That's What Marco Rubio's Attempting To Do.

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

Given The Fact That Poverty Is Growing, More And More Americans Are Losing Health Insurance, Health Care Costs Are Going Up, The Middle Class Is Shrinking, The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor Is Growing Wider. That Speaks To The Weakness Of The Opposition. People Do Not Like George W. Bush. But I Think It's Fair To Say That They Are Not Flocking To The Democratic Party, Or See The Democrats As A Real Alternative.

We Are Not Going Back. We Are Not Returning To The Days Of Back-room Abortions, When Countless Women Died Or Were Maimed. The Decision About Abortion Must Remain A Decision For The Woman, Her Family And A Physician To Make, Not The Government.

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

It Would, I Think, Be Hard For Anyone To Make The Case That The United States Is A Just Society Or Anything Close To A Just Society. In America Today, There Is Massive Injustice In Terms Of Income And Wealth Inequality. Injustice Is Rampant.

I Am A Fierce Supporter Of Planned Parenthood, Naral, And Gay Rights In This Country.

In My View, A Corporation Is Not A Person. A Corporation Does Not Have First Amendment Rights To Spend As Much Money As It Wants, Without Disclosure, On A Political Campaign.

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'm Not Much Into Speculation.

Even In South Carolina, As Badly As We Did, And We Did Very Badly, We Won The Votes Of People 29 Years Of Age Or Younger. The Future Of The Democratic Party, The Future Of This Country Is Involving Young People In The Political Process, Getting Them To Stand Up For Their Rights.

We Can`t Allow Racism And Xenophobia To Gain Traction.

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?

I Have Friends And Supporters In The Human Rights Fund And Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton Has Been Around There For A Very, Very Long Time. Some Of These Groups Are, In Fact, Part Of The Establishment.

Education Should Be A Right, Not A Privilege. We Need A Revolution In The Way That The United States Funds Higher Education.

Not Only Did I Vote Against That War, I Helped Lead The Opposition, And If You Go To My Website, Berniesanders.com, You Will See The Statement That I Made In 2002. And It Gives Me No Pleasure To Tell You That Much Of What I Feared Would Happen The Day After Saddam Hussein Was Overthrown, In Fact, Did Happen.

Black Lives, Of Course, Matter. I Spent 50 Years Of My Life Fighting For Civil Rights And For Dignity, But If You Don't Want Me To Be Here, That's Ok. I Don't Want To Out-scream People.

There Are Three Major Political Organizations In This Country: The Republican Party, The Democratic Party And The Koch Brothers Party. With Billions To Spend On Campaigns. Think Tanks And 'educational' Organizations, The Koch Brothers Are The Most Powerful. We Must Overturn Citizens United, Move To Public Funding Of Elections And Pass Real Tax Reform.

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

We Have Organizations, Whether It Is Isis Or Al Qaida, Who Do Believe We Should Go Back Several Thousand Years. We Should Make Women Third-class Citizens, That We Should Allow Children To Be Sexually Assaulted. They Are A Danger To Modern Society.

These Are The Same People Who Believe, In Some Cases, The Federal Government Should Not Play Any Role In Providing Health Care To Our People Or Protecting The Environment.

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.

I Voted Against The War In Iraq. I Voted Against The First Gulf War. I Think War Is The Last Resort - The Last Option Of A Great Military Power Like Us. I Think That We Need To Focus On Building Coalitions. Yes, Isis Must Be Destroyed. But It Should Be Destroyed By A Coalition Of Muslim Nations On The Ground With The Support Of The United States And The Other Major Powers In The Air And In Training The Troops There.

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

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.

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.

To Be Honest With You, I Worry About Concentration Of Ownership In Media, Where You Have A Handful Of Media Conglomerates Largely Controlling What We See, Hear And Read.

We Have Got To Change The Political Culture In America. We Need A Political Revolution. That Means We Are Working On Politics Not Just Three Weeks Before An Election But 365 Days A Year.

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Let Us Wage A Moral And Political War Against The Billionaires And Corporate Leaders, On Wall Street And Elsewhere, Whose Policies And Greed Are Destroying The Middle Class Of America.

We Have To Fundamentally Rethink Our Trade Policy And Make It Work Not For The Ceos Of Large Corporations, But For Working People. So, If Trump Wants To Develop A Rational Trade Policy Which Demands Corporations Start Investing In This Country, Rather Than China, That's Something That We Can Work On.

This Is A Very Important Issue That The Corporate Media Chooses Not To Talk About A Whole Lot, That We Have An Economic System Which Is Rigged, Which Means That At The Same Time As The Middle Class Of This Country Is Disappearing, Almost All Of The New Income And Wealth In America Is Going To The Top 1 Percent. You Have The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent Owning Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent - 58 Percent Of All New Income Is Going To The Top 1 Percent.

Planned Parenthood And Human Rights Campaign Are Standing Up And Fighting The Important Fights That Have To Be Fought.

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.

We Don't Need A President Like A Trump Who Doesn't Actually, George, Doesn't Even Believe In Climate Change, Let Alone Wants To Do Anything About It, Rejecting Science.

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.

We Did Phenomenally Well With Young People. I Think We Did Well With Working Class People.

Let's Ask Why It Is That We Pay, By Far, The Highest Prices In The World For Prescription Drugs, And Your Medicine Can Be Doubled Tomorrow, And There's Nothing That The Government Can Do To Stop It.

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

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

I Want To Know In This Day And Age, Whether It Is Possible For Any Candidate Who Is Not A Billionaire Or Who Is Not Beholden To The Billionaire Class, To Be Able To Run Successful Campaigns.

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.

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I Am Disappointed That After All Of The Struggles That We Have Had In This Country For Such A Long Time, Trying To Get Through And Beyond Racism And Bigotry And Discrimination - I Think It Is Sad. It Just Tells Us The Kind Of Work That We Have To Do As - As America, As A Nation.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Think We Should Look To Countries Like Denmark, Like Sweden And Norway, And Learn From What They Have Accomplished For Their Working People.

This Is A War For The Soul Of Islam. And Those Countries Who Are Opposed To Islam, They Are Going To Have To Get Deeply Involved In A Way That Is Not The Case Today. We Should Be Supportive Of That Effort.

The Police Killings Of Unarmed African Americans Has Got To Stop.

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We Need A Growing Middle Class, Not One That Has Been Disappearing For 40 Years. We Need A Vibrant One Person-one Vote Democracy, Not One Which Is Dominated By Billionaire Campaign Contributors. It's Time For A Political Revolution. It's Time To Make Our Government Work For All Of Us, And Not Just The 1%.

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Obviously One Would Hope One Would Have As Much Support As Possible From All Walks Of Life, I Am A Great Fan Of Elizabeth And As For What People Do And Why They Don't Do It, I Am Not Going To Speculate.

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."

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