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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.

-Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders

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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.

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As President, I Will Fight To Make Tuition In Public Colleges And Universities Free, As Well As Substantially Lower Interest Rates On Student Loans.

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We Need To Recognize The Incredible Challenges That So Many Parents Face, Especially Working Moms. We Need To Join The Rest Of The Advanced World.

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

Now Is The Time To Alter Our Government. Now Is The Time To Stop The Movement Toward Oligarchy. Now Is The Time To Create A Government Which Represents All Americans And Not Just The 1%... No More Excuses. We Must All Become Involved In The Political Process.

I Took An Oath To Support And Defend The Constitution Of The United States, And I'm Concerned That Voting For This [anti-terrorism] Legislation Fundamentally Violates That Oath.

Constitution Of The United States

We Must Fundamentally Restructure Our Student Loan Program. It Makes No Sense That Students And Their Parents Are Forced To Pay Interest Rates For Higher Education Loans That Are Much Higher Than They Pay For Car Loans Or Housing Mortgages.

I 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

The Occupy Wall Street Protests Are Shining A National Spotlight On The Most Powerful, Dangerous And Secretive Economic And Political Force In America.

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.

I Believe In Public Funding Of Elections, Absolutely. But This System Iscurrently Very Antiquated And No Longer Applies To Modern Day Politics.

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?

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.

We've Had A Number Of Economists Supporting Our Legislation. And Here's Where We Are. The American People Can Judge. Six Largest Financial Institutions In America Today Have Assets Of Roughly $10 Trillion; Equivalent To 58 Percent Of The Gdp Of The United States Of America.

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

I Think Everybody Is In Agreement That America Is A Great Entrepreneurial Nation. We Have Got To Encourage That. Of Course, We Have To Support Small And Medium-sized Businesses. But You Can Have All Of The Growth That You Want And It Doesn't Mean Anything If All Of The New Income And Wealth Is Going To The Top 1 Percent.

I Think We Need To Take On The Greed Of The Billionaire Class, A Disastrous Campaign Finance System.

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.

On Many, Many Issues, Hillary Clinton's Views Are Progressive. In Many Areas, They Are Awesome. Where They're Not Progressive, We've Got To Push Her, And The Day After The Election, I Will Mobilize Millions Of People To Make Sure That We Make Her The Most Progressive President That She Can Be.

97 Percent Of The Scientists Who Wrote Articles In Peer-reviewed Journals Believe That Human Activity Is The Fundamental Reason We Are Seeing Climate Change.

I Think, In My Own State, I Can Tell You That People Do Want To Hear A Serious Discussion On Serious Issues.

During The Last Two Years The Wealthiest 14 Americans Saw Their Wealth Increase By $157 Billion. This Is Truly Unbelievable. This $157 Billion Increase In Wealth Among 14 Individuals Is More Wealth That Is Owned, Collectively, By 130 Million Americans. This Country Does Not Survive Morally, Economically Or Politically When So Few Have So Much, And So Many Have So Little.

You Asked Marco Rubio If It Was Too Little Too Late. I Think There's A Little Bit Of Too Much Too Late, Which Is, He Is Just Getting Down In The Muck With Donald Trump. And When You Get Down In The Muck, You Get Up With Muck On You.

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.

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.

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.

When I Talked About Boeing And I Talked About General Electric, What I Was Referring To Is An Outrage... Right Now You Have A Loophole Such That These Guys Are Putting Their Profits, Multi-billion Dollar Profitable Corporations Putting Billions Of Dollars Into The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, And Other Tax Havens.

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

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.

I'm Interested In - In That His Power, If That Is The Word, Is Such That He Has Actually Been Able To Be In A Way A One-man Wrecking Crew In The Area Of Deportment And How One Proceeds Politically On The Stump. Marco Rubio Is - Is Attempting, As You Know, To A - To Give [donald] Trump A Fight In Trump's Own Style. I'm Not Sure How That Works, But - But Certainly The Indices Are Good.

The Bottom Line Is That When Senator Inhofe Says, 'global Warming Is A Hoax,' He Is Just Dead Wrong, According To The Vast Majority Of Climate Scientists.

We Need A Democratic Party Open, That Is Bringing Working People Into The Party, That Is Bringing Young People, That Bringing All Of The People Of This Country Who Are Sick And Tired Of An Economy That Works Well For The 1 Percent While The Middle Class Struggles.

Americans' Right To Free Speech Should Not Be Proportionate To Their Bank Accounts.

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

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

Of Course The Republicans Have Long Wanted To Privatize Social Security And Destroy It. But Social Security Has Been The Most Important And Valuable Social Program In The History Of The United States.

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.

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 Have Got To Mobilize People And Rethink Our Commitment In Terms Of What Our Role Is In The Political Process.

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

I Am Very Proud To Be The Only Candidate Up Here Who Does Not Have A Super Pac, Who's Not Raising Huge Sums Of Money From Wall Street...

What I Do Believe Absolutely Is That In The Middle Of A Recession, The American Middle Class And Working Class Needs A Tax Relief.

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

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.

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.

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.

People Who Know The Economy Is Rigged In Favor Of Big Money, People Who Know That Our Middle Class Continues To Decline And We Have To Go Outside Of Establishment Politics And Economics, People Who Know That We Need To Reform A Broken Criminal Justice System And We Need Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

I Don't Represent Large Corporations And I Don't Want Their Money.

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

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.

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.

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.

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

We Need An Energy Revolution By Breaking Our Dependence On Fossil Fuels, Polluting Fuels... I Am Very, Very Confident Our Small State Will Lead This. We Will Be Noticed By The Country And The World.

The Cold War Is Over. And Our Focus Has Got To Be On Intelligence, Increased Manpower, Fighting Internationally Targets.

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.

We Know The Legislation That Passed The House. It Was The Worst Piece Of Legislation Frankly Against Working Class People That I Can Remember In My Political Life In The Congress.

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 Middle Class Is Collapsing And We Are Moving Toward An Oligarchic Form Of Society, Where The Billionaires Will Control The Economy And The Political Life Of The Country.

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