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What You Don't See On Television Is People Dying Today Because They Can't Get To A Doctor And They Can't Afford Prescription Drugs. That's Why They Are Also Dying. They Are Dying In Iraq Because They Are Poor And They Have Gone Into The Military Because They Can't Afford To Go To College. They're Dying Because They're Living In Communities Where Asthma Rates Are Extremely High Because The Air Is Filthy. The Suffering Of The Poor And Working Class People Is A Virtual Nonissue For The Media. But That Is The Reality.

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What You Don't See On Television Is People Dying Today Because They Can't Get To A Doctor And They Can't Afford Prescription Drugs. That's Why They Are Also Dying. They Are Dying In Iraq Because They Are Poor And They Have Gone Into The Military Because They Can't Afford To Go To College. They're Dying Because They're Living In Communities Where Asthma Rates Are Extremely High Because The Air Is Filthy. The Suffering Of The Poor And Working Class People Is A Virtual Nonissue For The Media. But That Is The Reality.

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It Costs A Hell Of A Lot More Money To Put Somebody In Jail Than Send Them To The University Of Virginia.

One Of The Ongoing Crises In America Is Institutional Racism. We Have A Very Broken Criminal Justice System. We Live In A Country Where There Are More People In Jail Than Any Other Country On Earth. There Are Some 2.2 Million People Currently Incarcerated And They Are Disproportionally African American And Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans Have Been Abused And Sometimes Killed While In Police Custody. Clearly These Are Issues That Must Be Dealt With And Changed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A Job Should Lift Workers Out Of Poverty, Not Keep Them In It.

It's Very Easy To Make Fun Of George W.bush, But That Ain't Going To Do It. What We Have To Do Is Knock On Doors And Go Into Communities Where There Are People Who Disagree With Us On Certain Issues.and We Have To Talk To Them. They're Our Friends. They're Our Allies. They're Our Co-workers. We Can't See Them As Enemies.

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

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

You Want To Know The Way To Raise Money? Put A Transaction Fee On Wall Street, So Maybe We Can Curb Some Of The Speculation And Raise Some Money.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This Is What Oligarchy Looks Like: Today, The Top One-tenth Of 1 Percent Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. The Top One-hundredth Of 1 Percent Makes More Than 40 Percent Of All Campaign Contributions. The Billionaire Class Owns The Political System And Reaps The Benefits From It.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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Irreparable Harm

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

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Political Revolution

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Country Must Confront What He Called Institutional Racism. [we Should] Create A Country Which Provides Economic, Social And Environmental Justice For All.

Justice For All

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

I Would Not Ask Anyone To Vote For Me Based On My Last Name. I Am Certainly Not Campaigning To Be President Because My Last Name Is Clinton.

We Need To Change The Power Structure In America, We Need To End The Political Oligarchy.

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

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

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African American

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I Am The Longest- Serving Independent In The History Of The United States Congress. People Of Vermont Sent Me To Washington As An Independent. That Is True.

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

We Can Have Paid Family And Medical Leave. We Can Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition-free. These Are Not Revolutionary, Radical Ideas. They're Kind Of Common Sense.

What We Are Doing In This Campaign [2016], It Just Blows My Mind Every Day Because I See It Clearly, We're Taking On Not Only Wall Street And Economic Establishment, We're Taking On The Political Establishment.

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

In Community After Community, There Are Unemployment Rates Among Young African-americans Of 30 To 40 Percent. Thirty To 40 Percent! Kids Have No Jobs, They Have No Future. That Is An Issue That Has Got To Be Dealt With Simultaneously As We Deal With Police Brutality, Voter Suppression And The Other Attacks That Are Taking Place On The African-american Community.

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?

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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.

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

I Think Donald Trump Is Totally Unfit To Be President Of The United States. Let's Not Forget, This Guy Was One Of The Leaders Of The So-called Birther Movement, Which Was An Effort To Delegitimize The Presidency Of The First African-american President We Have Ever Had.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I Will Tell You Is The Antidote To [donald] Trump Is A Very Strong Progressive Agenda That Says, Yes, I Know You`re Angry. And You Know What? You Should Be Angry Because You`re Working Longer Hours For Low Wages. You Have A Right To Be Bitter And You Have A Right To Be That.

Essentially What My Campaign Is About, It`s About Anything, This Is Saying We`ve Got Bring That Money Back Into The Middle Class And Working Families. We Have To Create Jobs, We Have To Raise, We Have To Make Public Colleges And Universities Tuition Free So Kids In That Community Who Are Studying Hard Understand That Some Day They Will Be Able To Go To College.

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.

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

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.

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.

The American People Want To Raise The Minimum Wage. Every Poll Tells Us That. That Bill Will Not Get To The Floor Of The Senate. The American People Want To Ask The Rich To Pay More In Taxes. But The Legislation That Will Get To The Floor Is Tax Breaks For Billionaires.

Between 2013 And 2015, The Wealthiest 14 People Saw Their Wealth Increase By $157 Billion. This Is Their Wealth Increase, Got It? Not What They Are Worth. Increase. That $157 Billion Is More Wealth Than Is Owned By The Bottom 40 Percent Of The American People. One Family, The Walton Family, Owns More Wealth Than The Bottom 40 Percent.

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.

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.

I Happen To Believe That We Should Move To A Medicare-for-all Single-payer System, Similar To What Other Countries Around The World Have.

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 Must Never Allow Demagogues To Divide Us Up By Race, By Religion, By National Origin, By Gender, Or Sexual Orientation. Black And Whites, Latino, Asian-american, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, And Every Religion - Straight Or Gay, Male Or Female - We Must Stand Together. This Country Belongs To All Of Us.

Native American

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 We Are A Free Country, We Have The Right To Be Free.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Number Of Years Ago, People Were Saying Normal Relationship With Cuba, What A Bad And Silly Idea. They're Communists, They Are Our Enemy. Well Guess What? Change Has Come.

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.

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

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'm Very Proud That The State Of Vermont Banned Fracking. I Hope Communities All Over California, And All Over America Do The Same.

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 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.

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

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.

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?

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

African American

American Voters

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.

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

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.

I Was Not A Great Student At The University Of Chicago. I Think That Is - The Record Will Bare Me Out. But I Spent A Lot Of Time Reading History, Sociology, Psychology - Reading Everything Except What I Was Supposed To Read For Class The Next Day.

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

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

The Issue Is To Trying To Figure Out Why We End Up Spending So Much More Than Other Countries.

I Will Do My Best To Transform Our Trade Policy And Take On These Corporations Who Want To Invest In Low-income Countries Around The World Rather Than In The United States Of America.

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.

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.

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

When The Media Worries About What Hillary’s Hair Looks Like Or What My Hair Looks Like, That’s A Real Problem. We Have Millions Of People Who Are Struggling To Keep Their Heads Above Water, Who Want To Know What Candidates Can Do To Improve Their Lives, And The Media Will Very Often Spend More Time Worrying About Hair Than The Fact That We’re The Only Major Country On Earth That Doesn’t Guarantee Health Care To All People.

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.

The Struggle To Create A Nation And World Of Economic And Social Justice And Environmental Sanity Is Not An Easy One. The Struggle To Try And Create A More Peaceful World Will Be Extremely Difficult. But This I Know: Despair Is Not An Option If We Care About Our Kids And Grandchildren. Giving Up Is Not An Option If We Want To Prevent Irreparable Harm To Our Planet.

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

I Think It Is Important That Independent Government Agencies Be Put In Charge Of Investigating Misconduct So That Police Departments Are No Longer Allowed To Police Themselves. There Is A Conflict Of Interest There Which, I Believe, Allows Police To Excuse Their Own Behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The American People Understand That We Need Real Change In This Country, In My View, A Political Revolution, Which Says To The People On Top, "you Know What, You Guys Can't Have It All."

Political Revolution

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.

Do The Elected Officials In Washington Stand With Ordinary Americans - Working Families, Children, The Elderly, The Poor - Or Will The Extraordinary Power Of Billionaire Campaign Contributors And Big Money Prevail? The American People, By The Millions, Must Send Congress The Answer To That Question.

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 Have A Lot Of Respect For President Obama. I Consider Him A Friend. I Disagree With Him On Issues Like The Extension Of Tax Breaks That Bush Initiated. But I Think History Will Judge A President Obama A Lot Better Than Many Other Contemporaries, Given The Fact That He Came Into Office At A Time When This Country Was In Terrible, Terrible Shape.

Wall Street Has Enormous Power Over The Republican Party, Enormous Power Over The Democratic Party.

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

African American

I Prefer To Stay On The Important Issues Facing The American People.

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

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

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.

It's Better To Show Up Than To Give Up.

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.

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.

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.

Who Said That Think We Should Normalize Relations With Iran Tomorrow? I Never Said That. I Think We Should Move Forward As Quickly As We Can.

I`m A Former Mayor. I Know That Being A Cop Is Not An Easy Job. But When Police Officers Misbehave, They`ve Got To Be Held Accountable.

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.

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.

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.

The Affordable Care Act Has Clearly, As Secretary Clinton Made The Point, Done A Lot Of Good Things, But, What It Has Not Done Is Dealt With The Fact We Have 29 Million People Today Who Have Zero Health Insurance, We Have Even More Who Are Underinsured With Large Deductibles And Copayments And Prescription Drug Prices Are Off The Wall.

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.

I've Lost Six Different Times. You Can't Say, 'well, He Lost, That's The End Of The World.' You Have To Say, 'okay, You Lost, What Did We Do Wrong?

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.

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.

In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin Has Given Years Of Service To Our State After Becoming The State's First Female Governor In 1985. She Is An Inspiration To Girls Throughout Vermont And The Country In Allowing Them To Know That The Opportunities They Have Are Unlimited.

When We Talk About Power, We Talk About Wall Street.

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.

I Want Trump To Send Out A Tweet Saying That He's Going To Keep His Campaign Promises. He's Not Going To Cut Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid.

Medicare And Medicaid

Donald Trump's Language Has Been Atrocious, His Behavior Toward Women.

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 Have Spent The Better Part Of My Adult Life Standing Up And Fighting For Working Families.

The American People In Congress Have Got To Ask Themselves A Very Simple Question. Why Are We The Only Major Country On Earth Not To Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right?

When I Was In The House For 16 Years, I Caucused With The Democrats.

If Trump Is Elected President... I Just Don't Know What America Looks Like Four Years After His Election, In Terms Of The Kind Of Bigotry That Will Be Erupting, In Terms Of The Kind Of Divisiveness That We Will See, The Kind Of Demagoguery That We Will See.

I'm Not Much Into Speculation.

Experience Is Not The Only Point, Judgment Is. And Once Again, Back In 2002, When We Both [with Hillary Clinton] Looked At The Same Evidence About The Wisdom Of The War In Iraq, One Of Us Voted The Right Way And One Of Us Didn't.

Nobody Who Works 40 Hours A Week Should Be Living In Poverty.

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.

I Don't Think Everybody In Vermont Loves Me.

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.

The Republicans Are Many Things, But They're Not Dumb. And If Millions Of People Begin To Stand Up And Fight Back, They're Going To Be Thinking Twice About Doing Very Bad Things.

We Have More People In Jail Than Any Other Country In Earth, Disproportionately Latino And African-american.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

We Can Combat Climate Change Effectively. What We Are Lacking Now Is Not The Brain Power, Not The Knowledge, Not The Technology. What We Are Lacking Is The Political Will Power, And We Need Your Help By The Millions To Tell Congress To Stop Worrying About Their Fossil Fuel Contributors To Their Campaigns And Worry About Their Kids And Grandchildren.

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.

Fifty Years Ago, Great Schools Like The University Of California And The City University Of New York - As Well As Many State Colleges - Were Tuition Free. Today College Is Unaffordable For Many Working Class Families. For The Sake Of Our Economy And Millions Of Americans, We Must Make Higher Education More Affordable.

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.

Rich Get Richer. Everyone Else Gets Poorer. And All These Guys Can Talk About Is War And Defunding Planned Parenthood.

There Is Nobody That I Know Who Believes That Bank Of America Is A Human Being Who Should Be Entitled For The Same Constitutional Rights That The People Of Our Country Are.

The Decision Is I'm Going To Do Everything I Can To Fight For The Working Class Of This Country, The Low-income People Against Income And Wealth Inequality, Do Everything We Can About Climate Change.

It's Absurd We Remain The Only Major Country On Earth Not To Guarantee Health Care To All People And Paid Family And Medical Leave.

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.

The Fed Has Got To Become A More Democratic Institution That Is Responsive To The Needs Of The Middle Class, Not Just Wall Street Ceos.

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