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You Cannot Be A Party Which Takes Money From Wall Street, Which Is Not Strong On The Pharmaceutical Industry, Which Is Ripping Us Off Every Day, Which Is Not Strong On Health Care In Taking On The Insurance Companies, Which Has Not Shown A Desire To Stand Up And Fight The Economic Establishment, And Then Tell Working Families That You Are On Their Side. People See Through That.

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Bernie Sanders

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You Cannot Be A Party Which Takes Money From Wall Street, Which Is Not Strong On The Pharmaceutical Industry, Which Is Ripping Us Off Every Day, Which Is Not Strong On Health Care In Taking On The Insurance Companies, Which Has Not Shown A Desire To Stand Up And Fight The Economic Establishment, And Then Tell Working Families That You Are On Their Side. People See Through That.

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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.

It Would, I Think, Be Hard For Anyone To Make The Case That The United States Is A Just Society Or Anything Close To A Just Society. In America Today, There Is Massive Injustice In Terms Of Income And Wealth Inequality. Injustice Is Rampant.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A Nation Will Not Survive Morally Or Economically When So Few Have So Much And So Many Have So Little.

Economic Inequality

We Have To Develop A Strong Economic Message Which Says Every American Is Entitled To Health Care Through A National Health Care Program. And We're Not Going To Allow These Large Corporations To Push Through Trade Agreements Which Allow Them To Throw Americans Out On The Street And Run To China.

What We Need To Do Is Lead An International Coalition Which Includes Very Significantly The Muslim Nations In That Region Who Are Going To Have To Fight And Defend Their Way Of Life.

You Want Your Kids To Have An Opportunity. We`re Going To Fight To Give You That.

In My View, We Need A Massive Federal Jobs Program Which Puts Millions Of Our People Back To Work. We Must End Our Disastrous Trade Policies. We Need To Raise The Minimum Wage To A Living Wage. And We Have To Fight For Pay Equity For Women.

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

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.

We Don`t Need To Drive Up The National Debt By Giving Tax Breaks To Millionaires And Billionaires.

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.

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.

I Want Some Help On This. I'm Being Very Honest, I Want Some Ideas, As Somebody Who Was Arrested 50 Years Ago Fighting For Civil Rights Trying To Desegregate Schools In Chicago, Who Spent His Whole Life Fighting Against Racism, I Want Your Ideas. What Do You Think We Can Do? What Can We Do?

If Elected President I Will Have A Litmus Test In Terms Of My Nominee To Be A Supreme Court Justice. And The Nominee Will Say, We Are Going To Overturn This Disastrous Decision On Citizens United Because That Decision Is Undermining American Democracy. I Do Not Believe That Billionaires Should Be Allowed To Buy Politicians.

I Think There Are Many People In The Working Class Who Say, You Know What? Yes, Maybe We Are Better Off Than We Were Eight Years Ago, But I Am Still Working Two Or Three Jobs, My Kid Can't Afford To Go To College, I Can't Afford Child Care, My Real Wages Have Been Going Down For 40 Years. The Middle Class Is Shrinking. Who's Standing Up For Me?

The Billionaires Pay An Effective Tax Rate Lower Than Nurses Or Truck Drivers. That Makes No Sense At All. There Has To Be Real Tax Reform, And The Wealthiest And Large Corporations Will Pay.

I Am Not A Great Fan Of The Payroll Tax Holiday Because I'm Nervous About What It Does To The Future Of Social Security.

I Would Like To See Somebody Who Speaks For The Underdog, For The People Who Don`t Have This In Healthcare Benefits. So I Would Like To See A Candidate Who Has The Guts To Opposition That America Could Be A Land For All People, Not Just The Land Control By The Super Rich.

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.

But On The Other Hand, There Are Many Corporations Who Have Turned Their Backs On The American Worker, Who Have Said, If I Can Make Another Nickel In Profit By Going To China And Shutting Down In The United States Of America, That's What I Will Do.

I Think You Have An Enormous Amount Of Fear And Uncertainty In This Country. And It`s Not Just From San Bernardino Or From Paris.

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

Donald Trump Believes That Climate Change Is A Hoax. Now, This Is Not Just A Stupid Expression, But It Is Incredibly Dangerous.

I Intend To Introduce Legislation That Will Make Police Accountable For Their Actions And Limit Uses Of Force In Cases Where It Is Unnecessary.

I Did Work With John Mccain. I Did Work With Jeff Miller Over In The House. And We Put Together Not The Bill That I Wanted, But Probably The Most Comprehensive V.a. Health Care Bill In The Modern History Of This Country.

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.

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

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

As A Result Of The Digital Age And The Decline Of First-class Mail, There Is No Question That The Postal Service Must Change And Develop A New Business Model.

The Basic Issue Of An American Society Which Is Fair, Which Is Providing Opportunity For All, Is Nowadays Being Replaced By The Correct Perception That We're Living In A Rigged Economy - Where It Doesn't Matter How Hard You Worked, The Result Will Be All The Income Goes To The People At The Very Top. It's Leading To A Lot Of Frustration And Anger, And People Want Some Fundamental Changes To The Way We Do Economics And Growth.

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.

Washington Is Dominated By Big Money.

I Have One Of The Strongest Records In Fighting For Senior Citizens. I Led The Effort To Prevent Cuts To Social Security. But I Think For Some Seniors, They Remember The "evil Empire" Of The Soviet Union. They Conflated The Term "democratic Socialism" With Communism.

I Want To See Working People And Young People Come Into The Party In A Way That Doesn't Exist Now. And You Know What, I Want A 50-state Strategy So The Democratic Party Is Not Just The Party Of 25 States.

If The Goal Of Health-care Reform Is To Provide Comprehensive, Universal Health Care In A Cost-effective Way, The Only Honest Approach Is A Single-payer Approach.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

Clearly We Must Do Everything We Can To Protect Our Country From The Serious Potential Of Another Terrorist Attack, But We Can And Must Do So In A Way That Also Protects The Constitutional Rights Of The American People And Maintains Our Free Society. We Can Do That Without Living In An Orwellian World Where The Government And Private Corporations Know Every Telephone Call That We Make, Every Website We Visit, Everyplace We Go.

Vermont Is Such A Small State, And The Most Money That's Ever Been Spent In The History Of Political Campaigns There Is $2 Million. That Number Is Going To Be Surpassed Many Times. Vermont Remains A "cheap State" For The Republican National Committee. So Putting $5 Or $10 Million Into Vermont - Compared To New York Or California Or Illinois - That's Small Potatoes.

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

I Actually Think The Only Way That You Can Beat Trump Is Recognizing That He Is A One- Man Wrecking Machine Fueled By This Cult Personality. So You Have To Attack Him On Those Bases. None Of These Ideological Positioning Issues Matter For [donald] Trump.

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.

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

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.

When My Republican Colleagues Talk About Family Values, They Mean That A Woman Should Not Be Able To Have The Right To Control Her Own Body; That Women Should Not Be Able To Purchase The Contraceptives That They Want. Those Are Their Family Values, Not Our Family Values.

The American People Understand That It Is Grotesquely Unfair - We Are A Society That Prides Itself On Fairness, That Prides Itself On Equal Opportunity, And People Are Looking Out And Seeing, Since The Great Recession Of 2008, 99 Percent Of All New Income Going To The Top 1 Percent.

I'm Running For President, Because As I Go Around This Nation, I Talk To A Lot Of People. And What I Hear Is People's Concern That The Economy We Have Is A Rigged Economy.

There Are Three Major Political Organizations In This Country: The Republican Party, The Democratic Party And The Koch Brothers Party. With Billions To Spend On Campaigns. Think Tanks And 'educational' Organizations, The Koch Brothers Are The Most Powerful. We Must Overturn Citizens United, Move To Public Funding Of Elections And Pass Real Tax Reform.

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

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

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

All That I Can Say Is That We Are Spending Far More Per Capita Than People In Any Other Country, And Our Health Care Outcomes Are In Many Cases Worse In Terms Of Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality And So Forth.

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.

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.

You Have A Right To Protest. But I Don't Quite Understand Why Anybody Thinks It's A Good Idea To Deny Somebody Else The Right To Express His Or Her Point Of View.

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.

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.

I Think My Experience At The University Of Chicago, Working In The Civil Rights Movement, Working In The Peace Movement, Working With Community Organizations, Did A Lot To Influence The Politics That I Have.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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