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We`ve Got To Stand With Those People Who Are Being Attacked Today, But At The Same Time, It`s Not Good Enough To Say That Racism And Xenophobia Is Bad. We`ve Got To Reach Those People Today Who Are So Angry, Who Are So Hateful And Say, Yes, You Have A Right To Be Angry, Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Work With Us To Create An Agenda And Political Movement That Will Make Your Life Better, Not Just Other People`s Life Worse.

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We`ve Got To Stand

Bernie Sanders

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We`ve Got To Stand With Those People Who Are Being Attacked Today, But At The Same Time, It`s Not Good Enough To Say That Racism And Xenophobia Is Bad. We`ve Got To Reach Those People Today Who Are So Angry, Who Are So Hateful And Say, Yes, You Have A Right To Be Angry, Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Work With Us To Create An Agenda And Political Movement That Will Make Your Life Better, Not Just Other People`s Life Worse.

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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.

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

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.

Instead Of Cutting Social Security, We're Going To Expand Social Security Benefits.

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 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.

If You Look At Virtually All Of The Issues Of Importance To The People Of America - Issues Like Making Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free - Hillary Clinton Is Now On Record For Doing That For People Making $125,000 A Year Or Less. You Know What? That Is Pretty Revolutionary. That Will Transform The Lives Of Millions Of Families In This Country. That's What Clinton Stands For.

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

The American People, Whether You Are Democrat, Independent, Republican, Progressive, Conservative, Do Not Believe Corporations Are People Or That Corporations Should Be Able To Buy Elections.

Two-thirds Of The Directors At The New York Fed Are Hand-picked By The Same Bankers That The Fed Is In Charge Of Regulating.

What We Need To Do Is To Stand Up To The Big Money Interests, And The Campaign Contributors. When We Do That, We Can, In Fact, Transform America.

The Debate Is Over. The Scientific Community Has Spoken In A Virtually Unanimous Voice. Climate Change Is Real. It Is Caused By Human Activity.

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

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.

We Are Spending Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Maintaining 5,000 Nuclear Weapons. I Think We Need Major Reform In The Military, Making It More Cost Effective, But Also Focusing On The Real Crisis That Faces America.

We`ve Got To Stand With Those People Who Are Being Attacked Today, But At The Same Time, It`s Not Good Enough To Say That Racism And Xenophobia Is Bad. We`ve Got To Reach Those People Today Who Are So Angry, Who Are So Hateful And Say, Yes, You Have A Right To Be Angry, Don`t Take It Out On The Muslims. Work With Us To Create An Agenda And Political Movement That Will Make Your Life Better, Not Just Other People`s Life Worse.

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.

The Light Bulb Going Off In My Head Was A Fear That In This Pivotal Moment In History, When America Faces So Many Serious Problems, When The Middle Class And Working Class Of This Country Are Being Decimated, That There Were Not Voices Out There Representing The Tens Of Millions Of People Who Needed A Voice. And The Idea Of Going Through A Campaign Where There Is Not A Serious Discussion About The Most Important Issues Facing America, Where There Are Not Voices Out There Representing People Who Are Hurting - That Seemed To Me Unacceptable.

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 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

A Guy Named Adolf Hitler Won An Election In 1932 ... And 50 Million People Died As A Result ... What I Learned As A Little Kid Is That Politics Is, In Fact, Very Important.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Think The Way For [marco] Rubio To Say To [donald] Trump Supporters, Hey, Essentially He's Conned You. He's A Con Man. That's What They Do. You Pour Gold People.my Goodness, That's Not The Way To Bring Them In.

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.

What Every American Should Know Is That We Have More People In Jail Today Than Any Other Country On Earth, More Than China. We Have Some 2.2 Million People In Jail. What That Means Is That A Lot Of Lives Are Being Destroyed.

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.

I Think The Democratic Party Has Got To Make Fundamental Choices.

I Talked To A Lot Of Black Lives Activists In Various States. What I Learned Is That The Relationship Of Police Departments Around The Country With The Black Community Is Far, Far More Severe And Awful Than I Had Originally Known.

Instead Of Talking About Cuts In Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, We Must End The Absurdity Of Corporations Not Paying A Nickel In Federal Income Taxes.

Medicare And Medicaid

I Think, Clearly, We Got To Work Closely With China To Resolve The Serious Problems We Have, And I Worry About Putin And His Military Adventurism In The Crimea And The Ukraine.

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.

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

Our Goal There, In My View, Is To Work And Lean Strongly On China To Put As Much Pressure. China Is One Of The Few Major Countries In The World That Has Significant Support For North Korea, And I Think We Got To Do Everything We Can To Put Pressure On China. I Worry Very Much About An Isolated, Paranoid Country With Atomic Bombs.

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

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.

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.

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.

We Have To Transform Our Energy System.

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.

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

African American

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 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.

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 The Best Educated Workforce In The World. Hundreds Of Thousands Of Bright, Young, Qualified People Who Want To Go To College Or Get A Higher Education Are Unable To Do So, Not Because They Lack The Ability But Because They Lack The Money.

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.

Black People Are Dying In This Country Because We Have A Criminal Justice System Which Is Out Of Control, A System In Which Over 50% Of Young African American Kids Are Unemployed. It Is Estimated That A Black Baby Born Today Has A One In Four Chance Of Ending Up In The Criminal Justice System.

Look, If You Have Somebody Who Doesn't Have Health Insurance, Who Doesn't Have A Doctor Or Dentist, And In Order To Deal With Their Cold Or Flu Or Dental Problem, They Go To An Emergency Room - In General, That Visit Will Cost Ten Times More Than Walking Into A Community Health Center.

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.

I'm Not A Democrat, I'm An Independent, But I Caucus With The Democrats.

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