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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.

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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.

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All Of You Are Aware Of The Tragic History Of Racism In America, But For A Very Long Time, African-americans And Their White Allies Came Together And They Struggled And They Stood Up For Justice And They Stood Up To Lynching And They Stood Up To Segregation And The Stood Up To A Nation Where African-americans Couldn't Even Vote In America.

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Approximately 82% Of The American People Believe Labeling Should Take Place With Regard To Genetically Engineered Ingredients. All Over This Country People Are Increasingly Concerned About The Quality Of The Food They Are Ingesting And The Food They Are Giving To Their Kids. People Want To Know What Is In Their Food, And I Believe That Is A Very Reasonable Request.

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.

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.

A Woman Has The Right To Make Decisions Regarding Her Own Body, Not The United States Government.

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.

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.

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.

I Am Proud Of The Campaign That We Ran. Obviously, I Wish We Could Have Done A Little Bit Better.

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.

As The Nation At Last Confronts Global Warming, It Is No Time For Denial, Greed, Cynicism Or Pessimism.

I Think Our Trade Policies, For Many, Many Years, Have Been A Disaster. They Have Benefited Corporate America At The Expense Of Working People.

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.

I Would Have Put More Emphasis On Bringing Working Class People Together To Fight For A Government That Works For All Of Us.

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.

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.

People Have A Right To Give A Speech. And People Have A Right To Protest. But I'm Not A Great Fan Of Disrupting People's Speeches.

In Germany, Many Other Countries, College Tuition Is Free. Why Isn`t Free In America? Why Do We Have The Highest Rate Of Childhood Poverty When Other Countries Have Rates Much Lower Than We Have? Why Don`t We Have Pay Equity For Women Workers? Why Aren`t We Leading The World In Transforming Our Energy System In Terms Of Climate Change? We Can Do That. Are We Dumb? Are We Lazy? Not The Case.

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.

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

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.

It's Not In The Interest Of The Corporations Who Own The Networks To Actually Be Educating The American People So That Are Debating The Real Issues. It's Much Better To Deflect Attention Away From Issues And Get Into The Story Of The Day.

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.

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.

Donald Trump Said: I, Donald Trump, Yes, I Am Going To Take On The Entire Establishment. I'm Going To Take On The Political Establishment. I Am Going To Take On The Economic Establishment. I'm Going To Take On The Media Establishment. And I Think A Lot Of People Responded Positively To That Message.

One Of The Issues I'm Really Happy About Is That Recently, Secretary Clinton And I Worked Out An Agreement On Higher Education, Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free For Every Family In America Earning Less Than 125,000 Bucks. Didn't Go As Far As I Wanted. But That's 83 Percent Of The Population In This Country.

Obviously In The Next Few Months We Have Got To Do Everything That We Can To Make Sure That Donald Trump, Who In My View Is The Worst, Least-prepared Candidate For President In My Lifetime. Number Two, We've Got To Obviously Elect Hillary Clinton.

I Think Katrina Is One More Indication Of How Inefficient And Corrupt This Administration Is, And Indicates The Absolute Lack Of Seriousness That [george W.] Bush Has In Making The Government Respond To The Needs Of The People. They Are So Separated From The Lives Of Normal, Low-income People That It Never Occurred To Them That If You're Poor And Have No Money, No Car, That You Can't Leave.

If You Look At The Newspapers Here - The Washington Papers - Most Of The Discussion Deals With Campaign Gossip.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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Records Breaking

Finally, Let Understand That When We Stand Together, We Will Always Win. When Men And Women Stand Together For Justice, We Win. When Black, White And Hispanic People Stand Together For Justice, We Win.

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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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Medicare And Medicaid

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If You Can't Afford To Take Care Of Your #‎ Veterans , Then Don't Go To War.

It Is Not Good Enough To Say, "well, Hey, I Vote Every Two Years. I Vote Every Four Years." That's Fine, But That Is Not Good Enough.

Not Good Enough

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As An Independent, My Views, In Fact, Are A Little Bit Different Than Many Of My Democratic Colleagues.

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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.

In America, We Have Lost Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs. That Has Got To End.

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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.

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What Are The Moral Implications? What Do These People Do When They Have Tremendous Amounts Of Money? They Use That Money To Perpetuate Their Own Wealth And Their Own Power. Every Day, Congress Works On Behalf Of Big-money Interests.

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.

I'm Not Going To Get Establishment Support. I'm Not Going To Get The Support Of The Governors And The Senators, With Few Exceptions, And Many Of The Major Organizations.

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.

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?

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.

The Palestinian People's Needs Must Be Respected.

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.

As A Result Of The Citizens United Supreme Court Decision, American Democracy Is Being Undermined By The Ability Of The Koch Brothers And Other Billionaire Families. These Wealthy Contributors Can Literally Buy Politicians And Elections By Spending Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Support Of The Candidates Of Their Choice. We Need To Overturn Citizens United And Move Toward Public Funding Of Elections So That All Candidates Can Run For Office Without Being Beholden To The Wealthy And Powerful.

Charles Kernaghan Is A Legitimate American Hero... Through His Determination He Has Forced The Leadership In Our Country And Many Other Countries Around The World To Pay Attention. Kernaghan Has Done More To Expose Child Labor Than Has The Whole Department Of Labor That Has A Budget Of Hundreds And Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars, Because He Has The Guts And Determination To Do It.

I Am Very Glad, Anderson, That Secretary Clinton Discovered Religion On This Issue But It's A Little Bit Too Late. Secretary Clinton Supported Virtually Every One Of The Disastrous Trade Agreements Written By Corporate America.

We Have To Invest In Our Kids, We Have To Invest In Our Communities, We Have To Create Jobs. We Have To Make Certain That Kids Are Not Dropping Out Of School And Hanging Out On Street Corners.

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

I Know A Great Country That Needs To Be Rebuilt In Terms Of Roads, Bridges, Schools. That Is Called The United States Of America.

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.

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.

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 What Class Warfare Looks Like: The Business Roundtable - Representing Goldman Sachs, Bank Of America, Jp Morgan Chase And Others - Has Called On Congress To Raise The Eligibility Age Of Social Security And Medicare To 70, Cut Social Security And Veterans' Colas, Raise Taxes On Working Families And Cut Taxes For The Largest Corporations In America.

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.

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.

For Some Reason, We Can't Go To Cuba, Businesses In American Can't Do Business In Cuba. I Think That That Is Stupid. So I Hope Very Much And Applaud The President For His Efforts In That Direction And Hope That In The Not-too-distant Future, That If I Have Anything To Say About It As President, We Will Work Aggressively To Develop Normal Relations In Every Respect With The People Of Cuba.

Politics Is Not About A Person. We Transform America Not By Electing Some Guy Or Woman To Be President; We Transform This Country When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight Back. That Will Result In Good Leadership On Top. So The Goal Right Now Is Not To Worry About Who's Going To Be Running In 2020 Or 2080. The Goal Now Is To Mobilize Millions Of People Around A Progressive Agenda.

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 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.

And The Reason That I Was One Of The First, Not One Of The Last To Be In Opposition To The Tpp Is That American Workers Should Not Be Forced To Compete Against People In Vietnam Today Making A Minimum Wage Of $0.65 An Hour. Look, What We Have Got To Do Is Tell Corporate America That They Cannot Continue To Shut Down. We've Lost 60,000 Factories Since 2001. They're Going To Start Having To, If I'm President, Invest In This Country - Not In China, Not In Mexico.

Things Are Getting Worse. You Know, When You Look At This Campaign, And You Realize The Enormously Serious Issues This Country Faces, Right, We Got A Collapsing Middle Class. We Have More Wealth And Income Inequality Today Than We've Had Since The 1920s. We Have All Of These Enormous Issues.

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 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.

How Do We Say, Why Do You Keep Voting For People Who Are Giving More Tax Breaks To Billionaires, Who Are Going To Send Your Jobs Abroad, Not Going To Let You Form A Union, Not Going To Allow Your Kids To Go To College? Why Do You Keep Voting For These Guys?

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

Many People Can Talk For A Long Period Of Time. But Controlling, You Know, Your Urinary Tract Is Maybe The More Difficult Issue.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If You Take Donations From Wall Street, You Can't Be Independent.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Today, The United States Is No. 1 In Corporate Profits, No. 1 In Ceo Salaries, No. 1 In Childhood Poverty And No. 1 In Income And Wealth Inequality In The Industrialized World.

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.

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.

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

I Think Our Message,the Clinton Campaign Was Very Strong. Remember, This Is Their Fourth Campaign In South Carolina. Two For Bill Clinton. Two For Hillary Clinton. They Had It Well Organized. They Did Well. And Icongratulate Them. We Came Into That State At Something Like 7 Or 8 Percent In The Polls. It Was A Tough Road For Us To Hoe. But I Want To Thank All Of Our Supporters, The Members Of The South Carolina State Legislature.

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.

I Want To Say Something, And It May Sound Harsh, Not To You, But To The American People. In A Sense, In My View, The Business Model Of Wall Street Is Fraud. It's Fraud. I Believe That Corruption Is Rampant, And The Fact That Major Bank After Major Bank Has Reached Multi Billion Dollar Settlements With The United States Government When We Have A Weak Regulator System Tells Me That Not Only Did We Have To Bail Them Out Once, If We Don't Start Breaking Them Up, We're Going To Have To Bail Them Out Again, And I Do Not Want To See That Happen.

I Think We've Got A Number Of States Coming Up That We're Going To Do Extremely Well And Possibly Winning, Including California And New York State.so I Think We Do Have A Path To Victory.

If You Want To Talk Further About A Relationship With Russia, Look No Further Than The Clintons. As We've Said Time And Time Again, Bill Clinton Was Paid Half A Million Dollars To Give A Speech To A Russian Bank, And Was Personally Thanked By Putin For It. Hillary Clinton Allowed One-fifth Of America's Uranium To - Reserve To Be Sold To A Russian Firm Whose Investors Were Clinton Foundation Donors. And The Clinton Campaign Chairman's Brother Lobbied Against Sanctions On Russia's Largest Bank And Failed To Report It. If You Want To Talk About Having Relations, Look No Further Than There.

I Don't Run Against Hillary Clinton. I Run On The Most Important Issues Facing America.

What We Need To Do Is Support Small And Medium-sized Businesses, The Backbone Of Our Economy, But We Have To Make Sure That Every Family In This Country Gets A Fair Shake... Not Just For Billionaires.

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.

What I Think People Should Realize Is That Programs Like Social Security, Programs Like Medicare, Programs Like The Veterans Administration, Programs Like Your Local Park And Your Local Library - Those Are, If You Like, Socialist Programs; They're Run By [and] For The Public, Not To Make Money. I Think In Many Ways We Should Expand That Concept So That The American People Can Enjoy The Same Benefits That People All Over The World Are Currently Enjoying.

Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Don`t Take It Out On Latinos. Try To Help Us Work Together To Create A Country Where Your Kids And You Can Have A Decent Standard Of Living. It Has To Be A Bold And Radical Agenda.

Working Together

People Are Hurting And Angry, And They Want Something To Be Able To Stand Up And Fight For. That's What I Believe The Antidote Is To Trumpism.

If We Invest In Jobs For Our Kids And Do Our Best To Keep Them In School, We Will End Up Saving A Whole Lot Of Lives And Whole Lot Of Money.

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'.

What The Des Moines Register Said - You Know, There Were Coin - I Think There Were Half A Dozen Coin Flips - A Fairly Chaotic Type Situation. At The End Of The Day, No Matter How It's Recounted, It Will Break Roughly Even. I Love And Respect The Caucus Process In Iowa. See, And I Don't Have To Say It, Because They Voted Already.

The End Of The Day

The Disastrous Invasion Of Iraq, Something That I Strongly Opposed, Has Unraveled The Region.

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

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 Move That Hillary Clinton Be Selected As The Nominee Of The Democratic Party For President Of The United States.

Politically, As A Result Of Citizens United, Billionaires Are Now Able To Spend As Much Money As They Want On Campaigns, Which Means That You Have A Political System Which Is Heavily Dominated By Corporations And Wealthy Individuals.

Rescind The Appointment Of [steve] Bannon. We Will Not Be Involved In The Expansion Of Bigotry, Of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia.

We Must Fight To Carry Out His Radical And Bold Vision For America.

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.

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.

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.

The Tpp Is Another Corporate-backed Agreement That Is The Latest In A Series Of Trade Policies Which Have Cost Us Millions Of Decent-paying Jobs, Pushed Down Wages For American Workers And Led To The Decline Of Our Middle Class. We Want American Companies To Create Decent-paying Jobs In America, Not Just Low-wage Countries Like Vietnam, Malaysia Or China. The Tpp Must Be Defeated.

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

If We Can Create A Climate Among People That Says That Any Serious Candidate For President, Senate, Governor, [the] House Is Going To Have To Talk About Income Inequality, Raising Wages In America, Trade Policy - That's A Huge Success. It's Not Putting Pressure On A Candidate. It's Mobilizing People.

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

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.

The U.s. Constitution Is An Extraordinary Document. In My View, It Should Not Be Amended Often.

If There Is A Large Voter Turnout, Not Only Do We Retain The White House, But I Think We Regain The Senate. We Win Governors' Chairs Up And Down The Line. So I Believe If You Want To Retain The White House, If You Want To See Democrats Do Well Across The Board, I Think Our Campaign Is The One That Creates The Large Voter Turnout And Helps Us Win.

I Don't Want To Get People Nervous Falling Off Their Chairs, But Social Security Is A Socialist Program. It's A Program By Which The United States Government Has Said That When You Get Old You Should Have A Steady Source Of Income.

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.

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.

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.

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

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.

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.

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.

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

In Terms Of The Nature Of The Continuation Of The Cold War, Which Has Gone On So Long Between Cuba And The United States, I Applaud The President For Aggressively Trying To End It And I Hope We Will Have Not Only Full Diplomatic Relations, But That The Trade Embargo Will End.

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.

Donald Trump Is A Pathological Liar. We Have Never - Our Campaign Does Not Believe And Never Will Encourage Anybody To Disrupt Anything. I Would Hope That Mr. Trump Tones It Down Big Time.

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.

The Votes Elected Officials Make Should Be Based On The Best Interests Of The American People, Not The Fear Of Retribution When Shadowy Groups Spend Millions Of Dollars On Negative Advertisements.

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

All I Can Say Is If You Check My Record Going Back A Long Time, I Have Stood With Those Who Are Hurting. I Have Stood With Those Who Have No Money.

For Many, The American Dream Has Become A Nightmare.

No. It Is Not Acceptable That The 6 Largest Financial Institutions In This Country Have Assets Of Almost 10 Trillion Dollars, And Issue Half Of The Mortgages And Two-thirds Of The Credit Cards. That Is Too Much Wealth And Power In The Hands Of A Few. If Teddy Roosevelt Were Alive Today He'd Tell Us To 'break Them Up.' And He'd Be Right. These Huge Banks Must Be Broken Up.

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."

People Are Hungry, And They're Hurting And They're Very, Very Worried About Their Children. Will Their Kids Ever Pay Off Their Student Debt? Will Their Kids Ever Get A Decent-paying Job? I Think Democrats Have Got To Be Running A Grass-roots Campaign - Mobilizing People And Being Prepared To Take On The 1 Percent With An Agenda That Speaks To The Needs Of Ordinary Workers.

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

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.

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

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.

It Is Incomprehensible That Drug Companies Still Get Away With Charging Americans Twice As Much, Or More, Than Citizens Of Canada Or Europe For The Exact Same Drugs Manufactured By The Exact Same Companies.

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.

The American People Must Make A Fundamental Decision. Do We Continue The 40-year Decline Of Our Middle Class And The Growing Gap Between The Very Rich And Everyone Else, Or Do We Fight For A Progressive Economic Agenda That Creates Jobs, Raises Wages, Protects The Environment And Provides Health Care For All?

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.

The Billionaires And Their Super Pacs Increasingly Control The American Political Process. This Is Not Democracy. This Is Not What Brave Americans Fought And Died To Defend. This Is Oligarchy. This Is Government Of The Few, By The Few And For The Few. We Must Overturn Citizen United And Move To Public Funding Of Elections.

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 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.

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.

I Believe The Democratic Party Has Got To Be Firmly On The Side Of Working Families, Taking On The Big Money Interests, Who Today, To A Very Significant Degree, Control Our Economic And Political Life.

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

Your Story Is For - Voting For Every Disastrous Trade Agreement, And Voting For Corporate America. Did I Vote Against The Wall Street Bailout?

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

The Last Point That I'd Make. I Had A Hearing. I Had All Of The Veterans Groups In Front Of Me. And I Said To Them, Tell Me When A Veteran Gets In To The V.a., Understanding There Are Waiting Lines And Real Problems, When A Veteran Gets Into The System, Is The Quality Of Care Good?

You Go To Scandinavia, And You Will Find That People Have A Much Higher Standard Of Living, In Terms Of Education, Health Care And Decent Paying Jobs.

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.

Politics Does Not End The Day Of The Election.

You Need A Democratic Party Which Is A Grassroots Party, Which Makes Decisions From The Bottom On Up, Not Just From The Top On Down.

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 And Out Of Government, I've Always Been Willing To Take On Complicated, Sometimes Unpopular, Issues And Work Them Through To Have A Solution.

I Am Deeply Concerned - About Virtually Everything That Trump Is Talking About And Has Talked About In His Campaign And The Kind Of People That He Is Appointing.

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.

There Are Many Major Crises Facing Our Country. At The Top Of The List Is The Need To Overturn Citizens United. If Billionaires Are Able To Buy Elections And Elect Right-wing Candidates, There Is No Way We Will Ever Address Climate Change, College Education, Affordability, Job Creation, Raising The Minimum Wage And Taking On Wall Street.

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

At A Time When Our Planet Is Warming Due To Climate Change, The Last Thing Our Environment Needs Is More Drilling. What We Need Is For Congress And The White House To Move Toward Clean Energy Such As Solar, Wind And Geothermal.

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.

This Is America, And We Are Not Going To Throw Out 11 Million People In This Country Who Are Undocumented. We`re Not Going To Turn Against One Of The Largest Religions In The World, People Who Are Muslim. I Do Not Want To See Muslim Kids, Who Feel Intimidated In The Country And Frightened, Living In The Country Where They Grew Up. That Is Not America. We Do Not Want To Continue The Attacks Against The Women.

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

I Think It Is Now Widely Understood That The So-called "war On Drugs" Has Largely Been A Failure. Too Many People Have Developed Criminal Records For Smoking Marijuana. Too Many People Have Gone To Jail For Nonviolent Crimes. So I Think It's Important For Us To Rethink The War On Drugs.

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.

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