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When You Look At Somebody Like A Netanyahu, To Simply Not Understand That This Is A Right-wing Politician, A Guy Who Kind Of Crashed The United States Congress To Give His Speech There, Ignoring President Obama, Not Even Consulting With Him, Using It For Political Purposes Back Home, A Guy Who Has Supported The Youth - The Growth Of Settlement, I Think The - The Overreaction And The Destruction Of Gaza Went Too, Too Far. Israel Should Not Be Bombing Schools Or Homes, Just Terrible Damage There.

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When You Look At Somebody Like A Netanyahu, To Simply Not Understand That This Is A Right-wing Politician, A Guy Who Kind Of Crashed The United States Congress To Give His Speech There, Ignoring President Obama, Not Even Consulting With Him, Using It For Political Purposes Back Home, A Guy Who Has Supported The Youth - The Growth Of Settlement, I Think The - The Overreaction And The Destruction Of Gaza Went Too, Too Far. Israel Should Not Be Bombing Schools Or Homes, Just Terrible Damage There.

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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.

I Think It's Important That Members Of The United States Senate Spend Time Not Just On Capitol Hill But Making Contact With Ordinary People And Engaging Them In The Political Process.

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.

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.

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

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.

[hillary] Clinton Is Too Much Into Regime Change And A Little Bit Too Aggressive Without Knowing What The Unintended Consequences Might Be. Yes, We Could Get Rid Of Assad Tomorrow, But That Would Create Another Political Vacuum That Would Benefit Isis.

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

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.

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

If You Look At Our Records, I Stood Up To Corporate America Time And Time Again. I Went To Mexico. I Saw The Lives Of People Who Were Working In American Factories And Making $0.25 An Hour.

I Have Supported Candidates Whose Views Are Very Different Than Mine On The Need The Break Up Wall Street Banks, On The War In Iraq, On Trade Issues. Of Course I Have Supported Those People. My Hope Is That We're Going To See - And I Believe It Is The Case - We're Going To See More And More Strong Progressives Running For Office. That's My Hope. That's My Desire. But That Is Up To - That Decision Is Going To Be Made By People In 50 States And 435 Congressional Districts.

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

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We Have To Enforce The Individual Mandate. We're Losing A Lot Of Money That Is Not Coming Into The System.

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."

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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.

I Want To Break Up The Wall Street Banks. Hillary Clinton Doesn't. I Want To Raise The Minimum Wage To 15 Bucks An Hour. She Wants $12 An Hour. I Voted Against The War In Iraq. She Voted For The War In Iraq. I Believe We Should Ban Fracking. She Does Not. I Believe We Should Have Tax On Carbon And Deal Aggressively With Climate Change. That Is Not Her Position.

When I Was A Young Boy, I Can Remember In The Community That I Grew Up In, Seeing People In The Community Who Had Numbers That Were On Their Arms.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

At A Young Age, I Became Very Aware That Not Only Did My Family Have To Struggle But That Families Around The Country Were Struggling As Well. Also, Being Jewish And Having Lost Relatives In The Holocaust, I've Always Been Aware Of The Meaning Of Prejudice. These Are Things That Have Remained With Me Throughout My Political Career.

20 Million People Thrown Off Of Health Insurance, Prescription Drug Prices Raising For Seniors, Privatization Of Medicare: Devastation. And We've Got To Fight Back Against That.

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

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

Health Care In America Must Be A Right, Not A Privilege.

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.

Our Ideas Need To Become Part Of Everyday Discussion.

Democrats Need To Become A 50-state Party. You Can't Have A Great Party On The West Coast And The East Coast. You Need To Have A Party In All 50 States.

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.

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

Will I Criticize Hillary Clinton On Her Position Of Tpp, Or The Lack Of Position? Will I Criticize Her On Her Views Of Wall Street? Will I Criticize Her On Foreign Policy? That's What Democracy Is About, But Taking Cheap Shots At People, Making It Personal, I Don't Think That's What Politics Should Be About.

When You Talk About Heroines And Heroes, At The Top Of The List Has Got To Be The Single Moms Of America.

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.

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

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

Together We Have Sent A Message That Will Echo From Wall Street To Washington, From Maine To California.

What Does A Political Revolution Look Like? It Means That 80 Percent Of The People Vote In National Elections, Not 40 Percent. It Means That Billionaires Can't Make Unlimited Campaign Contributions And Buy And Sell Politicians. It Means That The U.s. Government Represents The Needs Of All The People, Not Just The 1 Percent And Their Lobbyists.

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We Cannot Go Back To A Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Islamophobic Type Of Society.

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."

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.

One Can't Predict The Future, That Maybe Our Training And Their Fighting Capabilities Are Improving And We Are Going To Make Some Progress In Destroying Isis.

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.

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

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

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.

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.

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