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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.

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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.

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Political Revolution

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The Republicans Are Many Things, But They're Not Dumb.

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.

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.

As A United States Senator, I've Got To Do Everything That I Can To Make Sure That Trump Does Not Become President.

I Do Believe That If Millions Of People Do Stand Up And Fight Back, We Can Stop Donald Trump From Doing Some Really Awful Things.

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.

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.

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

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.

In Germany, College Tuition Is Free. In America, College Tuition Is Increasingly Unaffordable. In A Highly Competitive Global Economy, Which Country Do You Think Will Have The Best Educated Work Force And A Competitive Advantage? We Must Make Tuition Free In Public Colleges And Universities And Substantially Reduce Interest Rates On Student Loans.

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.

Democratic Socialism

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

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.

Political Revolution

I Do Believe That In The Future, Not By Dismantling What We Have Here - I Helped Write That Bill - But By Moving Forward, Rallying The American People, I Do Believe We Should Have Health Care For All.

The Rich People Are Apparently Leaving America. They're Giving Up Their Citizenship. These Great Lovers Of America Who Made Their Money In This Country-when You Ask Them To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes They Run Abroad. We Have 19-year Old Kids Who Lost Their Lives In Iraq And Afghanistan Defending This Country. They Went Abroad. Not To Escape Taxes. They're Working Class Kids Who Died In Wars And Now Billionaires Want To Run Abroad To Avoid Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes. What Patriotism! What Love Of Country!

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

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

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.

We Have Two And Half Million Individual Campaign Contributions, More Than Any Campaign In History.

Corporations Can't Have It Both Ways. They Can't Tell Americans How Much They Want Us To Buy Their Products, But Then Run Abroad To Avoid Taxes Or Hire Cheap Labor. American Corporations Should Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes And Create Decent-paying Jobs Here - Not In China.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Very Strongly Disagreed With President Clinton On The Deregulation Of Wall Street. I Opposed That Strenuously.

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

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.

We Need A Movement That Says In A Highly Competitive Global Economy All Of Our Kids Who Have The Ability, The Qualifications And The Desire, Will Be Able To Get A College Education Regardless Of Income Because We Will Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free.

If You Want To Run For The United States Senate, You Hire A Consultant Who Will Do Polling For You, Who Will Tell You The Kinds Of Television Ads You Should Run, Who Will Tell You That Most Of The Money You Raise Has Got To Go Into Tv. Raising Money, And Then Putting That Money Into The Hands Of Consultants, Who Then Put On Tv Ads - That's More Or Less What Campaigns Are About. We've Got To Change That.

We Are Living In The Richest Country In The History Of The World, Yet We Have The Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty Of Almost Any Major Country And Millions Of People Are Struggling To Put Food On The Table. It Is My Absolute Conviction That Everyone In This Country Deserves A Minimum Standard Of Living And We've Got To Go Forward In The Fight To Make That Happen.

Freedom Of Speech, The Right To Dissent, The Right To Protest, That Is What America Is About. And Politically Every Leader In This Country And Every American Has Got To Stand Up Against Any Form Of Violence. That Is Unacceptable.

Freedom Of Speech

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.

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

Let Us Wage A Moral And Political War Against War Itself, So That We Can Cut Military Spending And Use That Money For Human Needs.

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.

If A Financial Institution Is Too Big To Fail, It Is Too Big To Exist.

In Any Democratic, Civilized - Even Non-democratic Nations, If You Are A Nation, It Means To Say That In Our Case, If There's A Hurricane In Louisiana, The People Of Vermont Are There For Them. If There's A Tornado In The Midwest, We Are There For Them. If There's Flooding In The East Coast, The People In California Are There For Us.

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

Government Work

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

Muslims Are Not Your Enemy.

Believe Me, Every American, Every Person In This Country, If I Have Anything To Say About It, Will Know Precisely What Is Going On With Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, Because They Are Beginning To Appoint People Who Are Typical Right-wing Republicans Who Want To Privatize And Cut Social Security.

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

The Message Is Resonating, Not Just In Wisconsin, But All Over America, The People Are Sick And Tired Of Establishment Politics, Establishment Economics. They Want Real Change.

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.

Do Not Tell Me That I Have Not Shown Courage In Standing Up To The Gun People, In Voting To Ban Assault Weapons, Voting For Instant Background Checks, Voting To End The Gun Show Loophole And Now In A Position To Create A Consensus In America On Gun Safety.

Assault Weapons

When Hillary Clinton Ran Against Senator [barack] Obama She Thought Him Naive Because He Thought It Was A Good Idea To Talk To Our Enemies. I Think Those Are Exactly The People You Have To Talk To And You Have To Negotiate With.

You All Remember How Many Years Ago, We Were Younger, It Was Uppity Women Who Are Trying To Take Our Jobs As Men. It Was Those Gay People Who Wanted To Make Everybody Homosexual In Our School System. It Was Blacks Wanted To Take White Jobs. That's What Demagoguery Is About. It Is To Obfuscate The Real Problems Facing Our Society And Find Somebody You Can Blame And Rally The American People.

In My View, One Of The Major Reasons That We Have So Many People In Jail Is That We Have Turned Our Backs On A Lot Young People.

Wish We Could, And Allow The Taliban Or Anybody Else To Reclaim That Country. But What We Must Do Is Some Progress In Iraq, Where Finally The Iraqi Army, Which Has Not Been A Particularly Effective Fighting Force, Retook Ramadi.

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.

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