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What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks’ anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall, what Starbucks is doing is not only trying to break unions, but even worse. They are trying to break the spirit of workers who are struggling to improve their lives. And that is unforgivable.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
In America, workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining for higher wages and better working conditions, unfortunately Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything possible to prevent that from happening.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am not, because Starbucks coffee company did not break the law.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
And here is the thank you that the taxpayers of this country received from Moderna for that huge investment: They are thanking the taxpayers of the United States by proposing to quadruple the price of the Covid vaccine to as much as $130 once the government stockpile runs out – at a time when it costs less than $3 to manufacture the vaccine.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are fighting racism. We’re fighting sexism. We’re fighting homophobia. I think we should also be fighting ageism. Trust people, look at people, and say, ‘You know, this person is competent. This person’s incompetent.’ There are a lot of 40-year-olds out there who ain’t particularly competent.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The workers received a 24 percent increase in their wages. That sounds like a lot of money, they have not received a pay increase in the last 3 years. And if you average it out, that pay increase is less than inflation today.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I got to say that as a politician who wants to see that no Republican is elected to the White House in 2024, from that perspective, his candidacy is probably a good thing.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Look, I think there are some extreme right-wing voters who are racists, who are sexist, who are homophobes, xenophobes, no, and I don't think you're going to ever get them.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of working-class people out there voted for Trump, in a sense, because they gave up on the political establishment. Well, I, long time ago, gave up on the political establishment, and I think the agenda that we are offering people is an agenda that is going to resonate with them. They want a Congress, they want a government, they want an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent, i am prepared to take on the political establishment, to take on the corporate establishment, and stand up for the working class of this country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I wonder if the CEOs and top executives of the railroads would get fired if they got sick or had a medical emergency in their families, i doubt it very much.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm gratified to see that many dozens of them understand that the world's on fire, i hope very much in one way or another that provision is removed.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This bill, as currently written, includes a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry, it's a slap in the face to the communities fighting to protect themselves from filthy fossil fuels.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This reconciliation bill goes nowhere near far enough in addressing the problems facing struggling working families. But it is a step forward and I was happy to support it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Thousands of flight disruptions have left passengers and crew members stranded at crowded airports from one end of the country to the other forcing them to miss weddings, funerals, and business meetings and ruining family vacations that have been planned for months in advance.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Why are these corporate Democratic interests spending so much to defeat these women ? Because they know that in Congress, Summer Lee, Jessica Cisneros and Nida Allam will fight for an agenda that represents the needs of workers and not large corporations and billionaires.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Starbucks can afford to spend $ 20 billion on stock buybacks and dividends... it can afford a unionized workforce.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This proposal will make it possible for every person in America to get a college education no matter what their financial situation, we will make a full and complete education a fundamental right.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I only ask my friend from Illinois to put himself into the mindset of Russians.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're voting for an assistant secretary of something today, the American people are not staying up nights worrying about that. They're worried about prescription drugs. They're worried about climate. They are worried about home health care. They're worried about a million issues. We've got to bring those issues to the American people.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What I believe we have to do now is take the components of Build Back Better, starting with prescription drugs, bring it to the floor, start debate, and we'll see where we go.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, that's a long way coming, they're not up until 2024, but if there were strong candidates in those states who were prepared to stand up for working families, who understand that the Democratic Party has got to be the party of working people, taking on big money interests. If those candidates were there in Arizona, in West Virginia, yes, I would be happy to support them.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Well, I'm not Joe Biden, i like Joe Biden. But I'm not Joe Biden. I'm a progressive who believes that the Democratic Party should make it clear that we are prepared to take on powerful special interests, like the drug companies, like the insurance companies, like the fossil fuel industry, that we have to demand that the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Absolutely it was. On that particular vote that she and( West Virginia Sen. Joe) Manchin cast, we were trying to address the reality that you got 19 Republicans states all over this country who are undermining the foundations of American democracy. Trying to make it harder for people of color, young people, people with disabilities to vote.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Democrats will not win in 2022 with a demoralized base. There must be energy and excitement. Today, in these difficult times, the American people want to know that their elected officials have the courage to take on the powerful special interests and fight for their needs.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These are people who I think have undermined the President of the United States.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They have forced us to have five months of discussions that have gone absolutely nowhere.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As the voting rights bill finally comes to the floor of the Senate, there is only one vote which will really matter, will 50 Democrats vote to override the filibuster, protect American democracy and pass the bill, or will Manchin and Sinema vote with the GOP and let the bill die?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our companies deal individually with their own labor and personnel decisions( except for the selection of Berkshire Hathaway CEO), i'm passing along your letter to the CEO of Precision Castparts, but making no recommendations to him as to any action. He is responsible for his business.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The fact that we were willing to be critical of the United States … I think that made them maybe more appreciative of our criticisms we made of their own society.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
[ West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is ] gon na have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Dejected Democrats's going to have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia to tell them why Dejected Democrats doesn't have the guts to take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs ; why Dejected Democrats is not prepared to expand home health care.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've been dealing with Mr. Manchin for month after month after month, but if he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of West Virginia and America, let him vote no in front of the whole world.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I hope that we will bring a strong bill to the floor of the Senate as soon as we can and let Mr. Manchin explain to the people of West Virginia why he doesn't have the guts to stand up to the powerful special interests.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's no great secret out there, Joe Biden, that you and I have our differences, and we're not going to paper them over. That's real, but I hope that these task forces will come together utilizing the best minds and people in Joe Biden campaign and in my campaign to work out real solutions to these very, very important problems.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm asking every Democrat, I'm asking every independent, I'm asking a lot of Republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think that what went right is that for all intents and purposes, Judy, I think we have won the ideological battle.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This current, horrific crisis we are now in has exposed for all to see how absurd our current, employer-based health insurance system is, the current economic downturn we are experiencing has not only led to a massive loss of jobs but has also resulted in millions of Americans losing their health insurance.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I mean, right now, under normal times, I wouldn't be talking to you from my home so yes, the calculus has absolutely changed. And you know, we're talking to a lot of people, and trying to figure out the best way forward.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think it is not inappropriate to be trying to ask ourselves, how did we get to where we are today, and maybe where we want to go when all this is behind us, and I think some of the questions that we have to ask ourselves, and you have heard me say this a million times, is how does it happen that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Take a look around you and find someone you don't know. Maybe somebody that doesn't look kinda like you, maybe somebody who might be of a different religion than you, maybe they come from a different country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My question now to you is are you willing to fight for that person, who you don't even know.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was not long ago that people considered these ideas radical and fringe. Today they are mainstream ideas, and many of them are already being implemented in cities and states across the country. That is what we have accomplished together.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
First of all, the dysfunctionality of the current health care system is obviously apparent, as I said earlier, there are people who hesitategoing to the doctor. ... Clearly we are not prepared, and Trump only exacerbates the crisis. When we spend twice as much per capita as any other nation, one might expect were gonna have enough doctors all over this country. One might expect were gonna have affordable prescription drugs.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Going into Wisconsin, key battleground states — all states that have been devastated by these terrible trade agreements I fear very much if Joe Biden is Joe Biden, believe me, President Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are losing the debate over electability, i can not tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to, who have said, and I quote,' I like what your campaign stands for ; I agree with what your campaign stands for, but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden, because I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat President Trump.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everybody knows that there are limited amounts of time ; we did three rallies yesterday.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
During a crisis we must make sure that we care for the communities most vulnerable to health and economic pain.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
On Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections and the three wealthiest Americans owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability. I can not tell you how many people our campaign has spoke to and said, and I quote,' I like what your campaign stands for, I agree with what your campaign stands for, but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden because I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump,' we have heard that statement all over this country. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with that assertion, but that is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Joe Biden, what are you going to end the absurdity of the United States of America being the only major country on earth where health care is not a human right ? are you really going to veto a' Medicare for All' bill if it is passed in Congress ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Last night obviously was not a good night for our campaign from a delegate point of view.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country and you must speak to the issues of concern to them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Donald Trump must be defeated, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen, on Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal. ... I very much look forward to the debate in Arizona with my friend, Joe Biden.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There's been a lot of vitriol and misogyny, i think that probably hasn't helped him.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have over 10.6 million people on Twitter, and 99.9 percent of them are decent human beings.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Sanders have both shaped the ideological terrain on which this campaign is being waged, senator Warren and Senator Sanders have proven an effective team on debate stages and in the polls, and we hope that partnership continues. We're proud to call both of Senator Warren and Senator Sanders allies in the fight for a more just America.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We'll have tremendous rallies, we're doing very well. We've done a fantastic job, with respect to that subject, on the virus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm looking to the CDC for advice on that, we're going to follow the recommendations of the experts... and if they conclude that there shouldn't be big indoor rallies, then we'll stop big indoor rallies. We're going to do whatever they say.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm running for president of the The President and that requires a lot of work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think that every organization in America is taking a hard look at what the coronavirus will mean to their operations, and, yes, that is true of our campaign as well.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Democratic Socialists must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights, democratic Socialists is what I mean by democratic socialism.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have used more hand sanitizer in the last two weeks than I've used in my entire life.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But, what I would say on a good day, is my wife likes me, but also, if you guys look at some of the polling they do for United States senators, in most cases I turn out to be the most popular senator in the country.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
What happened in the Soviet Union was not socialism, it was authoritarian communism, im not an expert on the current economy in Sweden.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Sadly, we have an administration in Washington that has shown the world that it does not believe in science, when you appoint Vice President Pence, an individual who also doesnt much believe in science, what youre telling the whole world is that youre politicizing this issue.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
You listen to the scientists; you dont say stupid things, you dont suggest to people they can go to work.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They have gone a long way to eliminate poverty, to make sure that all of their people have the basic needs that they need to live good lives.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I will not become president until January, and the economic situation will be different then.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It is something -- I got to tell you, I never expected in my life, as an American, to see a swastika at a major political rally. It's horrible.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He was behind me. And I was speaking to the crowd and I saw crowds booing and I turned around, I didn't quite see what it was. I learned about it right after I left the stage, the idea that there was a swastika, a symbol of everything that this country stands against -- we lost 400,000 people fighting that symbol, fighting Nazism. Six million Jews were killed, other people were killed. The most devastating war in the history of humanity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was there on the right side of history, and my friend Joe Biden was not.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Tonight, I tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the Democratic nomination.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm proud of the grassroots organizations that we have. Look, we are taking on the establishment. And I fully understand, no great surprise to me that establishment politicians are not going to endorse us, the establishment will rally around establishment candidates. That's the simple reality.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When they look at rallies like this in St. Paul and say,' What's going on here ?' .
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The establishment is getting very nervous about our campaign, tonight, theyre going to turn on the TV and find the 10,000 people who came out to the Boston Commons and theyre going to become even more nervous.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am here to ask you to bring out your friends and your family and your co-workers so that we have the largest voter turnout in the history of Massachusetts.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
In order to defeat Trump we are going to need the largest voter turnout in the history of this country, in order to beat Trump, what we are going to have to do is speak to millions of working-class people who are today, working two or three jobs. Theyre worried about their kids. Theyre worried about retirement. They cant afford health care.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We will end the so-called war on drugs, turns out, who knew this, but it turns out, through executive order a president can legalize marijuana in every state in this country.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Why is he here? He's here to try and disrupt the Democratic primary.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Here's the message to Russia : stay out of American elections.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He's running in the reddest of states, maybe it should have a color of its own, because red isn't enough.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is not a radical idea that when you get sick you should be able to go to the doctor no matter what your income is.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Trump has called the press the 'enemy of the people,' and now - taking a page from his dictator friends around the world - is trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate. Joe Biden `` Everyone formed the literacy brigade.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that American Samoa has overthrown governments all over the world -- in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran, and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have cast thousands of votes, including bad votes. That was a bad vote, if Im elected, NRA [the National Rifle Association], Im coming for you and gun manufacturers, Im gonna take you on and Im gonna beat you.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Truth is truth, if you want to disagree with me, if somebody wants to say -- and by the way, all of those congresspeople that you mention, just so happen to be supporting other candidates -- accidentally no doubt, coincidentally. But, you know, the truth is the truth. And thats what happened in the first years of the Castro regime.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Together we will defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If on Super Tuesday we can bring out working people, and young people, people who have given up on the political process, people of all shades who believe in economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice -- if we can create a large voter turnout -- we're going to win Democratic primary a week from Super Tuesday.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I say to Mr. Russian President Vladimir Putin, if elected president, trust me, you are not going to be interfering in American elections.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We were told that Russia, maybe other countries, are going to get involved in this campaign, and look, here's the message to Russia : Stay out of American elections.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As the son of an immigrant...I will not tolerate the continued demonization of the undocumented in this country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We were told that Russia, maybe other countries, are going to get involved in this campaign, look, here is the message: To Russia, stay out of American elections.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What they are doing, by the way, the ugly thing that they are doing - and I've seen some of their tweets and stuff - is they try to divide us up, they are trying to cause chaos. They're trying to cause hatred in America.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign, right now, in 2020. And what I say to Mr. Putin, if elected president, trust me you are not going to be interfering in American elections.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that, other countries tried - it was called communism and just didn't work.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I can't speak for all billionaires, all I know is I've been very lucky, made a lot of money and I'm giving it all away to make this country better. And a good chunk of it goes to the Democratic party as well.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When Donald Trump , wow gets $ 800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, that's socialism for the rich, we have to subsidize Walmart's workers on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages. That's socialism for the rich. I believe in democratic socialism for working people. Not billionaires. Health care for all. Educational opportunity for all.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Maybe we can talk -- maybe we can talk about a billionaire saying that we should not raise the minimum wage or that we should cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If that's a way to beat Donald Trump, wow, I would be very surprised.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What Bernie Sanders need to do to deal with this grotesque level of wealth and income inequality is make sure that those people who are working -- you know what, Mr. Michael Bloomberg, it wasn't you who made all that money, maybe your workers played some role in that as well.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can't think of a way that would make it easier for Donald Trump , wow to get reelected than listening to this conversation. It's ridiculous. Bernie Sanders're not going throw out capitalism. Bernie Sanders tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism. It just didn't work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans, that's wrong, that's immoral, that should not be the case when we got a half a million people sleeping out on the streets, when we kids who can not afford to go to college, when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop-and-frisk that went after African American and Latino people in an outrageous way, i dont think theres any chance of the senator beating President Trump.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The idea that anybody who works with me would make a vicious attack against a union leader just because we disagree on an issue is incomprehensible to me, and you know what, I'm just not sure that that's true.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Talk to the people in my campaign, often the African American women in this campaign, talk to my wife, about the kind of ugly attacks that have come in to us.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mr. Bloomberg, like anyone else has a right to run for president. He does not have a right to buy the presidency!
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Imagine a multi-billionaire opposing a raise in the minimum wage. Imagine a multi-billionaire asking for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And I'm not so sure, to be honest with you, that they are necessarily part of our movement.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I know not everybody agrees with everything I say, but I think what we can agree about is that we cannot continue having a president who is a pathological liar.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're not going to ask for recanvass of the whole state, that we're certainly not going to do, but I think there were some precincts, where there were some pretty apparent irregularities... I think we will ask Iowa Democratic Party to take a look at those precincts.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whatever ones political view may be, the American people understand that that is the kind of human being who should not be in the White House, and we intend to make him a one-term president.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think all of us probably could have done a better job in bringing out our supporters, but if there is a good spot, a good aspect about that campaign, is that young people came out in higher numbers than they did during Obama's historic 2008 campaign. And if that happens nationally, we're going win and defeat President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have something that I believe I need to say. And I believe that that message will succeed or fail based on its values. But my question about how much do I care about this ? I don't think there's a limit to how much I care about this.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Weve got enough of Iowa, i think we should move onto New Hampshire.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The reason we're going to win here in Iowa, the reason we're going to win the Democratic nomination, is because we are a campaign of us, not me.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have spoken to tens and thousands of people, and we have put together an unprecedentedly strong grassroots, this is a moment I want to thank people of Iowa for their hospitality, and thank them for seriousness of purpose, we look forward to a victory tomorrow night... It's not just our agenda, as strong and powerful as that agenda is, it is grassroots movement.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The schedule we had planned for Iowa is now in the garbage can.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think anyone who looks at the vice president's record understands that time after time after time, Joe has talked about the need to cut Social Security, that's in the congressional record. He has said that many, many times. I don't think that's disputable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not going to go there yet. We're still in a very vigorous primary season, well, right now my job is to win in Iowa. It's to win in New Hampshire, do everything we can. But what Secretary Clinton did indicate -- I was glad to hear this -- is that Secretary Clinton would support the Democratic nominee. And if that's me, I look forward to Secretary Clinton support.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way. And I'm sorry that that op-ed appeared.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, right now my job is to win in Iowa. It's to win in New Hampshire, do everything we can. But what Secretary Clinton did indicate -- I was glad to hear this -- is that Secretary Clinton would support the Democratic nominee. And if that's me, I look forward to Secretary Clinton support.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history : the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Women do not need 80 cents on the dollar. They need the whole damn dollar.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's not good enough for someone to say,' I'm a woman ! Vote for me !'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened. What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever Donald Trump could, do I believe a woman can win in 2020 ? Of course ! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The way you defeat Trump is talk to working people in this country who are so exasperated, so tired of working longer hours for lower wages, so tired of working for 10, 11, 12 bucks an hour and not being able to afford to maintain their family with a dignity that family deserves.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I say to those who are delaying action on climate change: look at the blood-red sky and unbreathable air in Australia because of raging forest fires.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We must invest in the needs of the American people, not spend trillions more on endless wars.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think we'll find out when we come back in session where we are.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is not going to stop corporations going to Mexico, what we need is a trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
And maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $ 1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president -- i.e. Bernie Sanders -- can lead the world. Instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
So, Pete Buttigieg, we look forward to you -- I know you are an energetic guy and a competitive guy -- to see if you can take on Joe on that issue, but what is not -- what is not a laughing matter, my friends : This is why three people own more wealth than the bottom half.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think there is not going to be a debate so long as there remains a labor dispute, i hope and expect the DNC will resolve that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am delighted that in Congress we actually have done something in a bipartisan way. Doesnt happen very often nowadays. But, on this issue, youve got Democrats and youve got Republicans from all over this country saying to Major League Baseball, do not take away minor league baseball from 42 communities all over this country. Aint going to happen, if it does happen, youre going to have to deal with a number of us in Congress who will respond accordingly.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Its not just another business where you can pay people low wages and then shut down your enterprises in communities where this means so much to the kids and the families.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The ballplayers from the team made it into the majors. They ended up winning three Eastern League titles. What was most important to me as the mayor of the city at that time is seeing what Minor League Baseball did for our community. It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Major League Baseball has gotta understand that baseball is more than just a bottom line for a group of billionaires. It is these communities where the kids come out, where young ballplayers.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We must live our values and there is nothing more core to the Democratic Party than the fight for working people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections, that is why multi-billionaires like Michael Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am the son of an immigrant, i have some sense of an immigrant experience. I will stand with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
They have lied and lied and lied when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet and maybe.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He is likely the most corrupt President in the modern history of America. But we can not simply be consumed by President Donald Trump. Because if we are, we are going to lose the election.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You're not going to get elected president by avoiding Iowa, by avoiding New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. You're not going to buy this election by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on media in California. Those days are gone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What it means is, what Cardi B does, not only is she an enormously popular entertainer, what she is doing is speaking to young people about the important issues that are on their minds and I applaud that very much.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
They're going to go up significantly for the wealthy, and for virtually everybody, the tax increase they pay will be substantially less -- substantially less than what they were paying for premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You're asking me to come up with an exact detailed plan of how every American -- how much you're going to pay more in taxes, how much I'm going to pay. I don't think I have to do that right now.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Weneed a new vision for American and thats what our campaign is about, the most important and significant opposition we face is the limitation to our imaginations. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib address the audience during a Sanders campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan. ( REUTERS/Rebecca Cook) Sanders also took the time to praise Tlaib for her role in representing the partys progressive wing.
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We're going to legalize marijuana and end the horrifically destructive war on drugs, it has disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans.
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The truth is we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality and we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families in this country for 45 years.
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We are going to be mounting a vigorous campaign all around this country.
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As somebody who wrote the damn bill, let's be clear : Under the Medicare for All bill I wrote, premiums are gone, copayments are gone, deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Ilhan is a leader of strength and courage, she will not back down from a fight with billionaires and the world's most powerful corporations to transform our country so it works for all of us. I'm proud of what we've done in Congress, and together we will build a multiracial working class coalition to win the White House.
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The American people have had enough. They are sick and tired of profitable corporations like Amazon, General Motors, Eli Lilly, Chevron, Halliburton, Netflix and Delta making billions in profits, but paying nothing in federal income taxes.
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Here is the story. We live in an unprecedented moment in American history and by that I mean only that we have the most dangerous president in the history of this country somebody who is a pathological liar a racist a sexist, a homophone xenophobe and a religious bigot.....Wehave a corrupt political system in which billionaires are able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy elections undermining the whole thrust of what American democracy is supposed to be about.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We were doing( in) some cases five or six meetings today, three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people. I don't think I'm going to do that, but I certainly intend to be actively campaigning. I think we can change the nature of the campaign a bit. Make sure I have the strength to do what needs to be done.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Everything that happens every day, weigh on how people feels about you, and my own view is that it's the voters who view you look at the totality of who the candidate is, you look at what that candidate stands for the integrity of that candidate, the history of our candidates, I've been fighting for working families, for my entire adult life.
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I must confess, I was dumb, during this campaign, I've been doing, in some cases three or four rallies a day, running all over the state -- Iowa, New Hampshire, wherever. And yet I, in the last month of two, just was more fatigued than I usually have been.
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If there's anything that this event kind of tell us, it is the importance of the what our message is in this campaign, and our message is' us, not me.' This has never been about me. It's been about millions of people, including certainly our campaign staff, working together to bring about the kind of fundamental changes this nation absolutely needs.
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The very concept of medical debt should not exist, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one illness or disease should not ruin a family's financial life and future.
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It is immoral and unconscionable that families across the country are finding themselves nearly broke or bankrupt because of crippling medical debt while the health care industry made more than $100 billion in profits last year.
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Here you have a situation with United Auto Workers is out on strike. 49,000 workers. I am sure that in that 49,000 there are family members who are seriously ill, and yet the greed of General Motors -- which has the amount of money to pay their CEO something like $ 21 million a year -- they cut off the health care benefits for those 49,000 workers, under Medicare for All, every American -- whether you're working, whether you're not working, when you are going from one job to another job -- it's there with you.
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Our message to General Motors is a simple one : End the greed, sit down with the The UAW and work out an agreement that treats your workers with the respect and the dignity they deserve.
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I don't think she needs to put out her own plan or anything like that, in fact, putting out her own plan would be seen as competing with the existing bills that people have been rallying around and worked really hard on.
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Hold it. John, stop it. You're not gon na kill yourself. Stop it, i can't do this.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What I wanted to make sure is that I got the correct information because what I did not want to happen is just him talking about his story but not being able to follow up with him, he told me he doesn't answer his phone very much because there are bill collectors calling him up every day.
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Here is somebody who put his life on the line to defend this country, a veteran, dealing with a terrible, terrible illness, and what was obviously very unsettling is when he used the word suicide, nevada Congressional was the most dramatic and painful moment of the whole town meeting.
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This should not be going on in America, not for a veteran, not for any person in this country, and it is beyond comprehension that under the current healthcare system, somewhere like a half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical bills, clearly we are not doing what we should be doing to make sure that every veteran in this country gets all of the quality healthcare they need when they need it.
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Alright, let's chat later at the end of the meeting, okay ?
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He told me he doesn't answer his phone very much because there are bill collectors calling him up every day.
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Every study done shows that Medicare for All is the most cost-effective approach to providing healthcare to every man, woman and child in this country.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Americans don't want to pay twice as much as other countries, and they guarantee health care for all people.
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500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they can not pay their outrageous medical bills.
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If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure.
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In terms of your legacy, Ady Barkan, I think it will be very clear that even with the terrible illness that you're struggling with right now, that you didn't give up, that you understood that, especially given your illness, that you could play a significant in rallying the American people toward a sane and humane health care system, and I think you will be remembered in very, very wonderful ways as a man of great courage in doing that.
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I hope that people will remember me as somebody who had the courage to take on virtually all of the powerful special interests in this country, in the fight for economic, social, racial, environmental justice.
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In the United States of America, your financial life and future should not be destroyed because you or a member of your family gets sick, that is unacceptable. I am sick and tired of seeing over 500,000 Americans declare bankruptcy each year because they cannot pay off the outrageous cost of a medical emergency or a hospital stay.
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It also trapped families with medical debt in long-term poverty, mandated that they pay for credit counseling before filing for bankruptcy, and increased the need for expensive legal services when filing a case for medical bankruptcy.
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In the midst of a dysfunctional health care system, what we have got to do is say that you can not go bankrupt. You can not end up in financial distress, because you're terribly sick. That's cruel, and that is something we've got to end.
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Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny.
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News outlets owned by Disney and Jeff Bezos may happily tout Disney films and Bezos's plans for space exploration, but we cannot count on them to consistently and aggressively cover workers' fight for better wages at Disney- or Bezos-controlled companies.
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I say to Sen. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have the courage to stand with the working people of Kentucky and America, not your wealthy campaign contributors.
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We cannot turn our backs on this crisis, we have got to lead the entire world in a new energy direction.
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We are going to invest massively in wind, solar and other sustainable energies.
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Corporate America and the billionaire class have been waging a 40-year war against the trade union movement in America that has caused devastating harm to the middle class in terms of lower wages, fewer benefits and frozen pensions, that war will come to an end when I am president. If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class in America, we have got to rebuild, strengthen and expand the trade union movement in America.
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This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families.
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I want to thank the Finnish people not just for what they are doing but for giving us a vision, and a model that we in this country can attain to as well.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I talk about( Amazon's taxes) all of the time, and then I wonder why The Washington Post, which is owned by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn't write particularly good articles about me. I don't know why.
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I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas.
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Well, I would just say Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls, too.
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She is really smart. And she is deeply concerned about what's happening in this country, she wants to make sure we improve life for working people in this country, and I'm delighted that she is a supporter.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Prices go up and up and up at the same level for the same companies, so what you do is you throw these people in jail if they engage in price-fixing.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You're getting lettuce and tomatoes coming from Mexico. You're getting the shoes you're wearing, coming from China. You've got poultry coming from all over the world. Yet somehow or another, we have not been able to reimport from Diabetes Canada into the United States the products being sold in this pharmacy with FDA approval, and the drug companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign contributions, bribing members of the Congress, in essence, who spent billions on lobbying, have been able to prevent us from having prescription drug distributors or pharmacists buying products here in Canada that are a fraction of the price.
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It's an embarrassment for those of Read MoreSanders who are Americans, Read MoreSanders love Read MoreSanders Canadian neighbors and Read MoreSanders thank them so much, but Read MoreSanders should not have to come to Diabetes Canada to get the medicine Read MoreSanders need for Read MoreSanders kids to stay alive, Read MoreSanders can do that in America.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Joe is a friend of mine and he has different points of view on health care than I do, that's great. We'll debate those issues. But we should not have a distortion of what Medicare for All stands for.
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And its not just Amazon, i think we need vigorous antitrust legislation in this country because you are seeing you name the area, whether its pharmaceuticals, whether it is Wall Street, whether it is high tech fewer and fewer gigantic corporations owning those sectors. He would appoint an attorney general.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I will be very soon introducing legislation in the Senate to establish a $ 20 billion emergency trust fund to help states and local communities purchase hospitals that are in financial distress, in my view, any time a hospital is put up for sale in America, the local community or the state must have the right to buy it first with emergency financial assistance.
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At the end of the day, you've either got to be on the side of the people or the side of the health insurance companies. I know what side I'm on. Others will have to make their own choice, we must pass Medicare for All.
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It's not based on a system of profiteering, whether it's real estate speculators, whether it's insurance companies, or whether it's drug companies. Health care is a human right.
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I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare, but I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
At a time when Donald Trump and the health insurance industry are lying every day about Medicare-for-all, I would hope that my fellow Democrats would not resort to misinformation about my legislation.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It is preposterous to argue that as we expand Medicare for All that people with cancer and other illnesses will not get the care that they need, in fact, under Medicare for All, the good news is that we will end the horror of millions of people going into bankruptcy and financial distress simply because they need hospital care for serious conditions.
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At a time when Donald Trump and the health insurance industry are lying every day about Democrats Medicare for all, I would hope that my fellow Democrats would not resort to misinformation about my legislation.
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It should come as no surprise that corporate CEOs and billionaires have united against our movement. These people have a vested interest in preserving the status quo so they can keep their grip on power and continue to exploit working people across America, we welcome their hatred.
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The homes just became dilapidated. The grass was dying. Palm trees were dumped over, it was just dead, dead, dead, dead, all the way down. At least 10 houses down, every other home was just gone. Empty.
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And by the way : Medicare today is the most popular health insurance program in the country. Private health insurance is not particularly popular.
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The last poll I saw had us 10 points ahead of Donald Trump, because the American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.
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People who have healthcare under Medicare for all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in healthcare for what they get.
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The American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.
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People who have health care under Medicare for all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no copayments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in healthcare for what they get.
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We have a new vision for America, at a time when we have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America while 500,000 people are sleeping on the streets today. We think it is time for change.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Working families need support and need to be lifted up and frankly, this economy is not working for working people, for too long, the rules have been written in favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The polls have us 10 points ahead of Donald Trump because the American people understand that Donald Trump is a phony ; Donald Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and Donald Trump lied to the American people during Donald Trump campaign, president Trump you are not standing up for working families when you try to throw 32 million people off their health care that they have ; and 83 % of your tax benefits go to the top 1 %. That is how we beat Donald Trump. We expose Donald Trump for the fraud that Donald Trump is.
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Weve got to look at the root causes. And you have a situation whereHonduras among other things is afailing state -- massive corruption.Youve got gangs who aretelling families that if a10-year-old does not join thatgang, thatfamily is going to be killed, what we have got to do on day one, isinvite the presidents and theleadership of Central Americaand Mexico together.This is a hemispheric problem.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We are studying the issues. We are trying to figure out who is up there on the stage with me and we are going to be contrasting out views with other people, i am proud of the record that we have and we will be contrasting it with others.
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This proposal completely eliminates student debt in this country and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime of debt.
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The American people bailed out Wall Street. Now, it is time for Wall Street to come to the aid of the middle class of this country.
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Let me be clear. I do understand that I and other progressives will face massive attacks from those who attempt to use the socialism as a slur. But I should also tell Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that I have faced and overcome these attacks for decades and I am not the only one.
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When President Donald Trump screams socialism, all of his hypocrisy will not be lost on the American people.
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It is my very strong belief that the United States must reject that path of hatred and divisiveness -- and instead find the moral conviction to choose a different path, a higher path, a path of compassion, justice and love, it is the path that I call democratic socialism.
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What I mean by democratic socialism is creating a government that works for everybody, not controlled either legislatively or politically by a handful of very wealthy people.
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We must take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman and child in our country basic economic rights, this is what I mean by democratic socialism.
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Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion.
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I understand that there are some well-intentioned Democrats and candidates who believe that the best way forward is a middle ground strategy that antagonizes no one, that stands out to nobody and that changes nothing, in my view, that approach is not just bad public policy, but it is a failed political strategy that I feel could end up with the reelection of Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I understand there are some well-intentioned Democrats and candidates who believe the best way forward is a middle-ground strategy that antagonizes no one, that stands up to nobody and that changes nothing, in my view, that approach is not just bad public policy, but it is a failed political strategy that I fear would end up with the re-election of Donald Trump.
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And let me thank everybody in this room for your determination to defeat the worst president in the history of this country. A president who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe and a religious bigot, together we are going to defeat a president who has the most corrupt administration in history and a president who knows nothing about real American values.
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If Donald Trump and Donald Trump family could get more than $ 880 million in special tax breaks to build a real estate empire, we can damn well make sure every kid in America gets a good education, even if Donald Trump and his family don't live in one of Mr. Trump's luxury apartment buildings, it's time for Donald Trump and the top 1 % to pay a hell of a lot more in taxes than they are today.
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Every child has a right to a quality K-12 education, regardless of your race, regardless of your income, and regardless of your zip code, for too long, we have seen devastating education funding cuts used to pay for massive tax breaks for a handful of corporations and billionaires. When we are in the White House, that greed is going to end.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
A lesson that we should have learned a long time ago is the unintended consequences of war. That is you think something is going to happen but the result is very, very different, we should have learned the lesson of Iraq and apparently at least John Bolton has not.
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When you're dealing with the future of the planet and making sure that our kids and our grandchildren have a healthy and habitable world in which to live, I don't know how you go too far, this is an existential threat, not just to the United States, but to the entire planet.
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This week marks a victory for patients with LEMS and American taxpayers, and a blow to the greed of Big Pharma, suffering patients used to receive life-saving medication for free from Jacobus Pharmaceuticals -- until a competitor, Catalyst, bought the rights to the drug, received market exclusivity, and started charging $ 375,000 a year to those in desperate need.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It strikes me as incredible that politicians think that they have the right to tell a woman what she can or can not do with her body, this is especially true in Vermont, where we have a legislature which is almost completely dominated by men.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If the banks and corporations feel that they can better exploit the people of Mississippi, New Hampshire, Hong Kong or Puerto Rico in order to make their blood profits -- let them go there, in the Dominican Republic, American companies pay native workers $ 2 a day for a full day's work. Vermont is not going to compete with that kind of slavery.
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America is supposed to be a democracy, not an oligarchy. Our leaders are supposed to come from the ranks of the people and represent the needs of the people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This President is the first President in the modern history of our country who is trying to divide our people up based on the color of their skin, the country they were born in, their sexual orientation, their gender, their religion.
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It says a great deal about our country that the richer our country gets, the more of us there are behind prison bars and that an overwhelming number of those who are in jail are poor, nonwhites.
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No fundamental change can come about in the country until the wealth and power are broken up and the people themselves direct the economy and government.
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We cannot create an economy that works for all Americans if we continue to neglect the needs of rural America, in rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.
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Factory farms are a threat to the air we breathe, the water we drink and the communities we live in.
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The Biden rebootAs Biden and I have very different pasts, in terms of how we have voted, and a very different vision for the future, and that is something we should be discussing.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think when people take a look at my record versus Vice President Biden's record -- I helped lead the fight against NAFTA ; Vice President Biden voted for NAFTA, i helped lead the fight against( permanent normal trade relations) with China ; Vice President Biden voted for it. I strongly opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership ; Vice President Biden supported it. I voted against the war in Iraq ; Vice President Biden voted for it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I thank my friend @JoeBiden for joining our effort to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, which, over four years of war, has experienced the world's worst humanitarian crisis, we must override @realDonaldTrump's veto.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You will see in this campaign a lot of spontaneous activity that doesn't come from our national headquarters, people in Memphis, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California, they're going to come up with an idea, they're going to use local artists and musicians. So this is our effort to build a political movement, which will help us win the primary, help us win the general election and, in my view, it is the only way we bring about the kind of fundamental reforms we need in this country.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is always the difficulty you have, so if somebody in some city or some state says something that's dumb, we can be sure that the local media will pick up on it. But I think everybody understands that when you have over a million people involved in the political process, you know, people will say what they say.
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If somebody commits a serious crime -- sexual assault, murder -- they are going to be punished. They may be in jail for 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives. That is what happens when you commit a serious crime, but I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, so, I believe that people commit crimes, they pay the price. When they got out of jail, I believe they certainly should have the right to vote. But I do believe, even if they are in jail, they are paying their price to society, but [also] that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy and I believe every single person does have the right to vote.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Unfortunately, the idea of Medicare for All on top of the problems that were facing right now is kind of the typical government answer: more centralized governance from Washington. Thats the whole problem in the first place, massively.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say,' Well, that guy committed a terrible crime, not going to let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not going to let that person vote,' you're running down a slippery slope.
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You raise the issue I am a millionaire. Well, actually this year we had $560,000 income, thats a lot of money, and in my case, my wifes case, it came from a book that I wrote. A pretty good book, you might want to read it. Its a best-seller, sold all over the world, and we made money. So, if anyone thinks that I should apologize for writing a best-selling book, Im sorry, Im not going to do it.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It comes from a book I wrote, pretty good book, if anyone thinks that I should apologize for writing a best-selling book, I'm sorry, I'm not going to do it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, certainly not violence towards anyone.
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But the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her, not only one-time, but history of anti-Semitic comments.
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I think it's a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments and the big question is why aren't the Democrats doing it.
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If you write a best-selling book, you can be House Democrats, too.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Like many of you here, I have been fighting for economic, social and racial justice. As this presidential campaign begins, I believe that is the defining difference between President Trump and me, donald Trump is a man who has said he believes Nazis and white supremacists are 'very fine people,'.
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Donald Trump is a man who has said he believes Nazis and white supremacists are 'very fine people,'.
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I have no reason not to believe Lucy, and I think what this speaks to is the need to fundamentally change the culture of this country.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't want a summary of Robert Mueller report, i want the whole damn report because nobody, especially this President, is above the law.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Donald Trump told working people that Donald Trump was going to be on their side. Donald Trump is not on their side, and Donald Trump record proves that quite clearly, and we're going to make that very clear. And I think by the end of this campaign, I suspect that a number of people who voted for Donald Trump will understand that Donald Trump is not Donald Trump and that the agenda that we have, which is prepared to take on the billionaire class, is the agenda that they will support.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can not just support unions with words, we must back it up with actions, on this campaign and when we are in the White House, we are going to make it easier for people to join unions, not harder.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I will be campaigning in support of the Liberty Union utility proposal which calls for the public ownership of Vermont's private electric companies without compensation to the banks and wealthy stockholders who own the vast majority of stock in these companies, i will also be calling for public ownership of New England Telephone company -- which is probably the single greatest rip-off company in America.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries. In Vermont we have some $ 2 billion of deposits in our banks, in Vermont, as well as nationally, it is not tolerable to me that the control of capital would remain in the hands of the richest two or three percent of the population to do with it as they like.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I believe in socialized medicine, public ownership of the drug companies and placing doctors on salaries. The idea that millionaires can make money by selling poor people drugs that they desperately need for highly inflated prices disgusts me.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Too many lives are being destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people get criminal records. You know why? Because they have smoked marijuana.
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Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology, which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world, we must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel. Rather, we must develop an evenhanded Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace.
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And not only do we end voter suppression, but we make it easier for people to vote, not harder.
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It's our turn to demand that we end all voter suppression in this country. And not only do we end voter suppression, but we make it easier for people to vote, not harder.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My experience as a kid, living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values, unlike Donald Trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay the bills, I know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck.
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As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from — because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults, today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies.
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I did not come from a family that taught me to build a corporate empire through housing discrimination, i protested housing discrimination.
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Unlike Donald Trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay the bills, I know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck.
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Today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies.
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It's fair to say the last election was undemocratic, but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country, what I am calling for right now is internationally supervised free elections.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, i am very fearful of the United States continuing to do what it has done in past -- the United States overthrew a democratically elected government in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala.
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We need an international movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security and dignity for all people, and that addresses the massive global inequality that exists, not only in wealth but in political power.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The only way we will win this election and create a government and economy that work for all is with a grassroots movement -- the likes of which has never been seen in American history, they may have the money and power. We have the people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Instead of answering my questions or lowering the price of this drug, they've hired a lobbying firm, it is now clear that some patients are rationing their supply of Firdapse because they cannot afford to cover the outrageous cost of the drug, which they used to receive at no cost.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can tell you very happily, and I think any objective observer would confirm what I'm saying, is that in the last year and half or so, the Democratic party has moved in a far more progressive direction than they were before I ran for president.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I will take a look at it, i really can't speak to it until I study it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I must tell you, today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism, and I must tell you : It gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Racial equality must be central to combatting economic inequalityif we are going to create a government that works for all of us, and not just the 1 percent.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Security at our nations airports could be threatened if TSA employees and air traffic controllers are not getting paid, you want a national emergency? 30 million Americans have no health insurance and many more are under-insured.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I'm concerned that the concept of PAYGO will make it harder for Congress to address the many crises facing our working families.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We put forward the strongest set of principles in terms of mandatory training, in terms of women, if they felt harassed, having an independent firm that they can go to, and I think that that's kind of the gold standard of what we should be doing.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
As a white person in America, you would've been the master, the slave owner. ... It was mostly black women who were enslaved in the house, who were raped, who were beaten daily, day in and day out, they endured physical and mental abuse. For a lot of people in America, that was like slap in the face to the black community, particularly to black women.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What we did today is basically say that the United States Congress is sick and tired of abdicating its responsibility -- constitutional responsibility -- on matters of war.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think one of the strong things that we can do is not only stop military sales, not only put sanctions on Saudi Arabia, but most importantly, get out of this terrible, terrible war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think that there is an understanding there is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about a nation in which we have three people who own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people. That does not make sense.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This decision will ensure that delegates elected by voters in primaries and caucuses will have the primary role in selecting the Democratic Party's nominee at the 2020 convention, this is a major step forward in making Democratic Party more open and transparent, and I applaud their action.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You had superdelegates voting for Hillary Clinton in states that I won pretty handsomely, and now there is agreement among Tom Perez and our people, and a lot of the Hillary Clinton people, to say we should reduce the number of superdelegates.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Too much attention is given to sensational issues like Stormy Daniels, or who President Donald Trump fired yesterday, or the latest tweet that Stormy Daniels sent out today, and they are not talking about the broad issues that impact tens of millions of Americans.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Too much attention is given to sensational issues like Stormy Daniels, or who Donald Trump fired yesterday, or the latest tweet that Stormy Daniels sent out today, and they are not talking about the broad issues that impact tens of millions of Americans.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We certainly hope that Republicans will continue to remain in the House, particularly those that support the President's agenda.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Three years is a long time in national politics, i don’t think it’s that unusual for Democrats with 2020 aspirations to get on board with that vote.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I will keep working with my colleagues to find a long-term solution that supports members of our military, funds CHIP and community health centers, provides resources for those recovering from disasters guarantees a future for young immigrants who are as American as all of us.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The president was puttingpressure and standing firm onexactly what he was willing todo and what he wasn't, and it very clearly worked.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The way we treat women in our country has been abysmal in almost every way. We are finally addressing the issue of sexual harassment, and we need to get it right, but the conversation we are having now is only the tip of the iceberg. It needs to be an ongoing movement of women and men that includes a national discussion about sexism, sexual harassment, objectification, inequality and abuse of power.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We have a better idea: guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare for All, single-payer health care program.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I’m not sure, i would think that he’s pretty well-versed on what happened.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
While this incident is alarming, it is not surprising, hate crimes and shows of hostility toward minorities have recently been surging.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We got to see what they get to tonight, we haven’t seen a final piece of legislation. We’re continuing to work with the Senate to make sure we get the best health care we can.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?' my answer is that Trump didn't win the election -- the Democratic Party lost the election.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Your greed is destroying this country, and you know what? We're going to take you on.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Syria's Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against the men, women and children of his country makes him a war criminal.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There’s a strong possibility he’d overturn Roe v. Wade, and I do not want to be a party to what happens.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
How in God's name do they win elections ? and the reason is, in my view, that the time is long overdue for fundamental restructuring of the Democratic Party. We need a Democratic Party which is not the party of the liberal elite but a party of the working class of this country.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
On every major point facing this country, the American people do not believe in a right-wing agenda ; they believe in a progressive agenda, we've got to take that agenda to the people.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Throwing 24 million Americans off of health insurance, raising premiums for older low-income Americans, while giving $285 billion in tax breaks to the top 2% is a disgusting and immoral proposal, thousands of Americans will die if this legislation is passed and we have to do everything that we can to see that is defeated.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It’s taking place. The Green Party has the legal right to do The Green Party.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We cannot allow our drinking water to be poisoned so that a handful of fossil fuel companies can make even more in profits.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We welcome all voters who want to fix our rigged system and bring back our jobs.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I understand that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am, but to all of our supporters – here and around the country – I hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with Hillary Clinton tonight.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Wasserman Schultz ' has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party. While Wasserman Schultz ' deserves thanks for Wasserman Schultz ' years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working peopleand young people. The party leadership must also always remain impartial in the presidential nominating process, something which did not occur in the 2016 race.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party. While Debbie Wasserman Schultz deserves thanks for Debbie Wasserman Schultz years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working peopleand young people. The party leadership must also always remain impartial in the presidential nominating process, something which did not occur in the 2016 race.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Tim is a very, very smart guy. He’s a very nice guy, his political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
His political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have made enormous strides, thanks to the millions of people across the country who got involved in the political process – many for the first time – we now have the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When parents go to the store and purchase food, they have the right to know what is in the food their kids are going to be eating.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The American people have a right to know what they are eating.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What ordinary people are saying is 'hey, give us an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top,' and I think that is to a significant degree what this Brexit vote was about.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s not about me. It is about people at the grassroots level.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What the political revolution means is that you are the revolutioners.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia where we will have more than 1,900 delegates.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
For a lot of these folks, the campaign is as much as social calling as it is a movement.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is morally reprehensible that Wall Street vulture funds are demanding that Puerto Rico fire even more teachers, close more schools, cut pensions and slash the minimum wage so that they can reap huge profits off the misery of the people of Puerto Rico.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Democratic Party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. It can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Working people are hurting, we need an economy that works for all of us, not just the one percent.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We intend to fight for every vote and every delegate remaining.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In other words, the convention will be a contested contest.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This campaign is doing as well as it is with the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm Donald Trump are generating across the country.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This campaign is doing as well as it is with the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm we are generating across the country.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We need a progressive tax system in this country that is based on the ability to pay, if we are serious about reforming the tax code and rebuilding the middle class, we have got to demand that the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I mean, that’s just a fact, that’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So many people have given up on the political process, including a whole lot of low-income people where the voting rates are low, young people who are not voting in large numbers. Our job is to bring people into the political process, to create a government that represents all of us, not just the one percent.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think that a lot of superdelegates are going to be looking around them.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You'll get them, yes, they are very boring tax returns. No big money from speeches, no major investments. Unfortunately - unfortunately - I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Does Secretary Clinton have the intelligence, the experience to be president? Of course she does but I do question her judgment, i question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don’t believe that that is the kind of judgment we need.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There is something profoundly wrong in America when one out of five profitable corporations pay nothing in federal income taxes.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe that we have the momentum. We believe that the polling is showing that we're closing the gap.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If neither candidate ends up, you know, having the kind of votes they need, yes, I think there will be some discussion.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The pope's schedule is determined by the Vatican but I would certainly be enthusiastic about that, ... I think there is a possibility but that has not been scheduled.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are people who think that Bernie Sanders is radical, read what the pope is writing.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And we have won almost all of them with overwhelming, landslide numbers.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Broadband access is a necessity, not a luxury. I urge The FCC to expand Lifeline and help millions of working families get online.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The United States government should use every tool available to lower outrageously high prescription drug prices, nIH has the power to stop this blatant profiteering and put the pharmaceutical industry on notice that the era of charging unconscionable prices must end.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have a lot of respect for George Clooney. George Clooney’s George Clooney. I like George Clooney, but this is the problem with American politics … big money is dominating our political system. And we are trying to move as far away from that as we can.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
But this is the problem with American politics … big money is dominating our political system. And we are trying to move as far away from that as we can.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It’s a criticism of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests, and it’s not Amal Clooney, it’s the people coming to this event, have undue influence on the political process.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The super-delegates are going to have to make a very difficult decision.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are the strongest candidate. … We’re going to work together to get the nomination, we are gaining a lot of momentum. Just in the last week, we have closed the gap with Secretary Clinton.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think it would be just extraordinary for this country if what is perceived to be a conservative state like Idaho stood up and said, 'We are part of the political revolution,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What I learned . . . is that you could have a community in which the people themselves actually owned the community, seeing that type of relationship exist, and the fact that these units in the kibbutz were working well economically, made a strong impact on me.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I remain unwavering in my support for the Jewish state and the partnership between the United States and Israel.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are obligated to speak the truth as we see it. This is what real friendship demands, especially in difficult times, if elected president, I will work tirelessly to advance the cause of peace as a partner and as a friend to Israel. But to be successful, we have to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If elected president, I will work tirelessly to advance the cause of peace as a partner and as a friend to Israel. But to be successful, we have to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is absurd for elements within the Netanyahu government to suggest that building more settlements in the West Bank is the appropriate response to the most recent violence. It is also not acceptable that the Netanyahu government decided to withhold hundreds of millions of Shekels in tax revenue from the Palestinians, which it is supposed to collect on their behalf.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Peace will require strict adherence by both sides to the tenets of international humanitarian law. This includes Israeli ending disproportionate responses to being attacked, even though any attack on Israel is unacceptable.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think I'm 100% prepared to support Judge Garland, i think he's clearly very knowledgeable and can serve ably on the Supreme Court. But between you and me I think there are some more progressive judges out there.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I worry very much about an isolated, paranoid country with atomic bombs, i do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons, they have got to be dealt with. Dealt with effectively.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
To suggest we don't fight this out to the end would be, I think, a very bad mistake. People want to become engaged in the political process by having vigorous primary and caucus process. I think we open up the possibility of having a large voter turnout in November. That is exactly what we need, a low voter turnout, somebody like a Trump can win. High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The bottom line is that when only half of the American people have participated in the political process ... I think it is absurd for anybody to suggest that those people not have a right to cast a vote.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A low voter turnout, somebody like a Trump can win. High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have lost, since 2001, almost 60,000 factories. Can you imagine that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I hear Secretary Clinton is in Ohio tonight talking about how concerned she is about the auto industry -- an industry decimated by the North American Free Trade Agreement and normalized trade with China. She supported those bad deals. I opposed them, now she says she wants to make it tougher for automobiles to be imported to this country under the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership. That's the deal she called the 'gold standard' when she was secretary of state.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have a message for Secretary Clinton: We shouldn't re-negotiate the Pacific trade proposal, we should kill this unfettered free trade agreement which would cost us nearly half a million jobs.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The facts are that Hillary Clinton has vigorously supported almost every piece of disastrous trade legislation, i have opposed those pieces of legislation, helped lead the opposition to them, because I understood that American workers should not be forced to compete with people in Mexico, people in China that are making pennies on the dollar.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think she understands that the momentum in this campaign and the energy is with us, and that we have a good chance to win a number of states on Tuesday.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe, as I've said throughout this campaign, that health care is a right of all people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not quite sure where Secretary Clinton got her information. I'm glad she apologized. But the truth is it wasn't President Reagan and Nancy Reagan who were leaders in talking about this issue.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think our supporters are inciting. What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways, encouraged violence, when he talks about ... 'I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.' What do you think that says to his supporters?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
So the issue now is Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can make that promise, i do not want to see them deported. I want to see them on a path to citizenship. That is exactly what I will do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
At a time when nearly 14% of Americans do not have a full-time job and when the middle class is working longer hours for lower wages, I oppose a massive increase in temporary guest worker programs that will allow large corporations to import hundreds of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar workers from overseas.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We look forward to going to Illinois, Ohio, Missouri and the other states.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What tonight means is that the Bernie Sanders campaign, the people's revolution that we're talking about, the political revolution that we're talking about, is strong in every part of the country, and, frankly, we believe our strongest areas are yet to happen.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
First thing you do is say, people are not paying a water bill for poison water. And that is retroactive, you are playing three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vermont, for clean water.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, we're going to rebuild the pipe system, the water system here in Flint, we're going to make sure that all of those people affected have the health care that they need and that those that were affected also get the educational opportunities that they need.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What I meant by that is I think many white people are not aware of the kinds of pressures and the kind of police oppression that sometimes takes place within the African-American community, i don't want to be lectured about talking about poverty whether it's white, black, Latino. Nobody in this campaign has talked about it more, nobody in this campaign cycle has proposed more specific ideas on how to address poverty.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Senator Sanders, on a personal front, what racial blind spots do you have?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am, look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am very proud of being Jewish, and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are, if elected president, going to invest a lot of money into mental health, and when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are, if elected president, going to invest a lot of money in mental health, and when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in mental health.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Do you know what the other name of the Export-Import Bank is and what it's called in Washington? It's called the Bank of Boeing because Boeing itself gets 40% of the money discharged by the Export-Import Bank. Seventy-five percent of the funds going for the federal government and the Export-Import Bank goes to large profitable corporations.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Excuse me, I'm talking, if you're going to talk, tell the whole story.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No matter your party or political ideology, this is a sad day for America. Nancy Reagan was an exemplary first lady, a devoted partner, she was her husband's most trusted adviser and, as such, served our country well. Even after her time in the White House, she was an outspoken advocate for stem-cell research to find a cure for Alzheimer's. Nancy Reagan had a good heart, and she will be dearly missed.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But I am absolutely certain that our numbers will continue to get better.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bottom line is, when you left that meeting, you thought, 'What country am I living in? Is this the United States of America?' I fear that Flint is the canary in the coal mine here.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
(The) Middle class in this country is disappearing, we have massive income and wealth inequality.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
All of that may be fantasy to the ruling class and the big money interests in this country. I don't think that's fantasy to the working people in this country who have worked longer hours for lower wages, who are tired of establishment politics and establishment economics, every proposal that we have brought forward, we've paid for ... Maybe the drug companies don't like it and the insurance companies don't like it. I think the American people do like it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You are speculating -- I don't think that's going to happen, we think we have momentum and we think we're going to do just fine.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every proposal that we have brought forward, we've paid for ... Maybe the drug companies don't like it and the insurance companies don't like it. I think the American people do like it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have the momentum. We have a path toward victory. Our campaign is just getting started.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain, and let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are not going to let the Donald Trumps of the world divide us.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This campaign is not just about electing a president. It is about transforming America.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Americans don’t need crumbs, they need the whole loaf.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think we got a real shot at Minnesota. I think we got a shot at Colorado, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, tonight we lost. I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her very strong victory. Tuesday, over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many, many of them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This campaign is just beginning. We won a decisive victory in New Hampshire. She won a decisive victory in South Carolina. Now it's on to Super Tuesday, our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won't stop now.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have so much ugliness and so much violence that I don't think the government should be involved in that violence and killing people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I do not receive many millions of dollars from Wall Street or the pharmaceutical industry or other powerful, wealthy interests in this country, and have not given speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars to Wall Street.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am happy to release all of my paid speeches to Wall Street -- here it is, there ain't none.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have been dealing in the last seven years with an unprecedented level of obstructionism against President Obama.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
To answer your question, Thurgood Marshall was a damn good Supreme Court justice.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They are the longest, most boring discussions in the history of politics.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What I am fighting for right now is a political revolution in which government starts working for working people and for the middle class, and that's a revolution that is prepared to take on the billionaire class today which has enormous power.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have been dealing, in the last seven years, with an unprecedented level of obstructionism against President Obama, literally -- literally it turns out on the day that Obama was inaugurated, Republicans came together and said 'What are we going to do?' And what they concluded is we're going to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, make it as difficult as he could to do anything.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am encouraged to see that the President is sending Congress a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. As I have said for years, the prison at Guantanamo must be closed as quickly as possible.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am encouraged to see that the President is sending Congress a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison, as I have said for years, the prison at Guantanamo must be closed as quickly as possible. Others, including my opponent, have not always agreed with me.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are a lot of differences of opinion between Secretary Clinton and myself on major, major major issues, but at the end of the day, this is the main one -- what we are seeing is more and more power going into the hands of the few. Who's life work is about standing up to the billionaire class, standing up to Wall Street?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The answer is, sadly, there are elements of the Democratic Party, historically, that have worked too closely with the big money interests that have made the agreements that were really not in the best interest of the constituents who supported them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton is trying to embrace the president as closely as she possibly can. Everything the president does is wonderful. She loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff, and we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the president is enormously popular.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Not only did I vote against it, but I spoke out strongly against it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The truth is that for a campaign that started out as a fringe campaign at 3% in the polls we have enormous momentum.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe we won the Latino vote, which is a huge, huge way forward for us. We did badly with the African-American vote.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the more the African-American community hears our message on a broken criminal justice system -- which has more people in jail today than any country on earth, largely African-American and Latino -- when they hear our message of an economy that represents all of us, not just the 1%. I think you're going to see us making progress there as well.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think he has done a great job in many respects, but you know what? Like any other human being, he is wrong on certain issues.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Hillary Clinton now is trying to embrace the President as closely as she possibly can. Everything the president does is wonderful. She loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the President is enormously popular.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is absolutely incomprehensible that we have Republicans in the U.S. Senate - my colleagues in the Senate - who refuse to honor the Constitution of the United States, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Constitution of the United States is pretty clear - that the President of the United States nominates individuals to the U.S. Supreme Court -- not a whole lot of ambiguity, is there?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I understand the African-American community has been harder hit than any other community in America. I understand that it is unacceptable that 35% of black children in America are living in poverty.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA, i support what President Obama is doing in terms of trying to close the gun show loopholes.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We've seen, across the board, across the country, that the rank-and-file membership of these different groups are overwhelmingly with Bernie.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some of us believe that what God teaches us what this world is about is that we do not turn our backs on our brothers or our sisters, essentially, we are in this together.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Over the last seven years in this country, we have made enormous progress under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden, no state in America knows more about the impact of the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street than the state of Nevada. This state was decimated. We have made great progress but much more needs to be done.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I just don't think it looks good that, for very overtly political reasons, that the Republicans would deny this president the right to express his constitutional responsibility.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of us ran against Barack Obama -- I was not that candidate.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tonight, many of us are going to give our support to a candidate for president who has done more than any other candidate in living memory to bring together the disenfranchised, the hungry, the poor, the workers who are being thrown out of their decent-paying jobs and the farmers who are being thrown off of their land, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have a moral obligation to provide for the wounded and ensure that all veterans receive every benefit they have earned and deserve.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What criminal justice is supposed to be about is you do the crime, you are found guilty, you pay the price. I'm not aware that paying the price includes taking away your rights to vote in a Democratic society. You paid the price right? You're a citizen of the United States, correct? You have the right to vote. you have large numbers of African-American men and women not being able to vote. Somebody benefits from that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Because what we will do is say, instead of giving tax breaks to millionaires, we are going to create millions of jobs for low-income kids so they're not hanging out on street corners, we're going to make sure that those kids stay in school or are able get a college education. So I think that when you give low-income kids, African-American, white, Latino kids, the opportunities to get their lives together, they are not going to end up in jail. They're going to end up in the productive economy, which is where we want them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
She talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger, now, I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. Count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era who talked about the domino theory. Not everybody remembers that. You do. I do. The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We can talk about it as a race issue, but it's a general economic issue.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let's not insult the intelligence of the American people. People aren't dumb. Why in God's name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of us ran against Barack Obama, I was not that candidate.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We had a decision to make early on. Do we do a super PAC?... we said no. We don't represent Wall Street. We don't represent the billionaire class, i'm the only candidate up here of the many candidates, who has no super PAC.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Who denies that African-American youth unemployment, real, is over 50%.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people. People aren’t dumb, why in God’s name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions? I guess just for the fun of it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
That is absolutely inaccurate, in my view, health care is a right of all people … and I will fight for that.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In my view, health care is a right of all people … and I will fight for that.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What the American people understand is that our great country was based on a simple principal, and that principle is fairness, let me be very clear, it is not fair when we have more income and wealth inequality today than almost any major country on Earth. And, when the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that's not fair.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When we talk about transforming America, it means ending the disgrace of this country having more people in jail than any other country in the world, disproportionately African-American, and Latino, not only are we going to fight to end institutional racism, and a broken criminal justice system, we are going to provide jobs and education for our young people, not jails and incarceration.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Don't tell me we do not need to invest heavily in the African-American community and create decent-paying jobs.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Mmm, it’s really good. This is the first time I’ve tasted it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I was disappointed by Bill Clinton… let’s keep it on the issues and not [make it personal].
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I believe that, as a human being, the pain that one person feels, if we have children who are hungry in America, if we have elderly people who can't afford their prescription drugs, you know what, that impacts you, that impacts me, so my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
So my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not going to New York City to host a fundraiser on Wall Street. Instead I'm going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America. My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The online campaign is, 'anybody who doesn't agree with me is a tool of the establishment,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It bothers me to be in an election where debate is impossible because if you disagree you are just part of the establishment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's disgusting, we don't want that crap. The Clinton campaign has confronted the Sanders campaign over the rhetoric. Former President Bill Clinton said Sunday at a New Hampshire campaign event that online supporters.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The political revolution continues next Tuesday here in New Hampshire.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
No idea, i have no idea what she said and I think the decision as to whether or not to release it is her decision.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I happen to like Hillary Clinton, but I am astounded by some of the people that she has hired, including David Brock.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We think it's gonna be a close election, we're working really hard.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am not a pacifist: I supported the war in Afghanistan, I supported President Clinton's effort to deal with ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I support air strikes in Syria, i happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I fully, fully concede that Secretary Clinton, who was secretary of state for four years, has more experience -- that is not arguable -- in foreign affairs, but experience is not the only point; judgment is.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Maybe I shouldn't have combined the two in the same speech, because the foreign policy part of it didn't get much attention.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Wealthy and powerful Muslim nations in the region can no longer sit on the sidelines and expect the United States to do their work for them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That's what they do. And not only should members who are elected be working for the people, not raising money -- if you think you could simply divide your brain in half, if you're working on unemployment or health care and think, now I've gotta go out and raise money, it affects your entire being.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The way it is structured right now, if you make it all the way to California, you could do pretty well. But in terms of the early states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, the other states -- it just doesn't work.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
To my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people who have given up on the political process stand up and fight back, demand a government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contributions, contributors.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I do not know any progressive who has a super PAC and takes $15 million from Wall Street, that's just not progressive.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Everybody practices religion in a different way. To me, I would not be here tonight, I would not be running for president of the United States, if I did not have very strong religious and spiritual feelings.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe that, as a human being, the pain that one person feels, if we have children who are hungry in America, if we have elderly people who can't afford their prescription drugs, you know what, that impacts you, that impacts me, and I worry very much about a society where some people spiritually say, it doesn't matter to me, I got it, I don't care about other people. So my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me. That's my very strong spiritual feeling.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well, a fair question. And I think you know the answer is that we have worked on many, many issues, Anderson. And your point is fair that we should've acted sooner, we should've known what was going on in Phoenix, those long waiting lines and the lies that some administrators were telling us.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Like in any school you see big kids picking on little kids, you know, and I resented that. I always did.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some of my best friends are moderates, but you ca n’t be a progressive and a moderate at the same time.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We take nothing for granted, and some of the polls I've been seeing are completely inaccurate, i think this is going to be a very hard fought race in the next week, we are going to be holding as many rallies, and meeting as many people as we can ... We really think we can win.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe we are the stronger campaign to defeat that right wing Republican, the way Democrats win elections is when there is a large voter turnout ... I think our campaign has the capability to bring out a lot of working people, a lot of young people who in the past have not been involved in politics.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can be a moderate, that's fine. You can be a progressive. But you can't be a moderate and a progressive.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Iowa caucus is so complicated -- it’s not 100 percent sure that we didn’t win it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're going to fight really hard in New Hampshire and then we're going to Nevada, to South Carolina, we're doing well around the country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Nine months ago, we came to this beautiful state, we had no political organization, we had no money, we had no name recognition and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We lost (the nonwhite vote), but that gap is growing slimmer and slimmer between the secretary and myself. I think you'll find as we get to South Carolina and other states, that when the African-American community, the Latino community, looks at our record, looks at our agenda, we're going to get more and more support.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The man is out there like an open book, i want to tell you what I like about him: His honesty, his integrity.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think I am a different, and perhaps a better, candidate (than in 2008), i hope that also shows.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have a very substantial lead in New Hampshire, but I think it would be really good to win Iowa. I'd like to win Iowa.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The voters of Iowa and this nation deserve a serious discussion of the issues facing them, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We started out organizing in Iowa a lot later than Senator Clinton did. She was here in 2008; has the experience we didn't have. She's done this before, we didn't. She has a very strong organization. And I applaud her for that, but I will tell you that the last couple of months we have gained a whole lot of ground and again I think we stand a real chance to create a large voter turnout.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of the myths of the Iowa caucuses is that Hillary Clinton didn't run a good campaign in 2008.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't want my integrity and honesty to be impugned, this is a lie, an absolute lie. Okay? We will win, or we'll lose -- we do it honestly. I really dislike people suggesting, what? We're going to bring in students from out of state, who are going to perjure themselves by saying they live in Iowa?
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It really reminds me very much of what happened here eight years ago. Remember that? eight years ago, Obama was being attacked for being pie in the sky, he did not have the experience. People of Iowa saw through those attacks then and they're going to see through those attacks again.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is also no secret that we have, as is the case in a democratic society, we have differences of opinion, i was on the floor of the Senate for eight and half hours, in disagreement with him over taxes. We disagree over the (Trans-Pacific Partnership). But by and large over the last seven years, on major issue after major issue, I have stood by his side.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Obama in 2008 ran a campaign which is really going to stay in the history books. It was an unbelievable campaign, do I think that in this campaign that we're going to match that? I would love to see us do that. I hope we do. But frankly I don't think we will. What happened in 2008 was extraordinary.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the American people, working people, young people, want to see real movement in this country, and I think we are tapping into that energy.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well, count me in as one person -- you know, if Secretary Clinton and Gov. O'Malley want to do it, I'm there, i love debates. I think they are a way to inform the American people of our positions and our differences. So, I think that is a great idea. So, I'm in. If the other candidates are in, you count me in.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I thought it was a very positive and constructive meeting.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Likewise, Bernie Sanders said Bernie Sanders campaigned for President Obama in 2008 and 2012( though Sanders in 2011 casually discussed the possibility of President Obama getting a challenger, Bernie Sanders did not ultimately recruit one). We have got to do a lot better to protect the middle class, but it's important to remember how far we've come under President President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
My God, what a turnout! our campaign has the energy, we can see it here tonight.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our campaign has the momentum because people are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Obama in 2008 ran a campaign which is really going to stay in the history books. It was an unbelievable campaign. In places they ran out of ballots, as I understand, the turnout was so extraordinary, nobody expected it. Do I think in this campaign that we are going to match that? I would love to see us do that, I hope we can.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Experience is important. But judgment is also important, i think I have the background, I think I have the judgment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
On Day 1, I said the Keystone pipeline is a dumb idea, why did it take Hillary Clinton such a long time before she came into opposition to the Keystone pipeline?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have understood from Day 1 that our trade policies have cost us -- NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China, millions of decent-paying jobs, i didn't have to think hard about opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What I said on a television program, and I did not say it well, is that sometimes the base of an organization looks at the world a little bit differently than the leadership.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy, but I believe we need to lift our vision above the obstacles in place -- and look to the American horizon.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Eight years ago, Obama was attacked for everything. He was unrealistic. His ideas were pie in the sky. He did not have the experience that was needed. But you know what, the people of Iowa saw through those attacks then and they're going to see through those attacks again.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The reason that I am laughing is that I fully admit to having a big ego, like many other politicians, but the idea that Bernie Sanders' candidacy, because that it has growing support all over this country, is unsettling world markets, is absolutely absurd.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But the idea that Bernie Sanders' candidacy, because that it has growing support all over this country, is unsettling world markets, is absolutely absurd.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Wall Street's greed and recklessness and illegal behavior drove this economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their homes, their life savings, and their jobs. And, yes, I believe that we have to break up the major financial institutions. We have to re-establish Glass-Stegall.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are taking on the entire establishment. We are taking on the economic establishment, we're taking on the political establishment, and all due respect, we are taking the media establishment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I expect that Secretary Clinton will get a lot of the endorsements from mainstream media, but I have the endorsement, and I'm very proud to say, of 2.5 million individual contributions to my campaign.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can tell when a campaign gets nervous -- like the Clinton campaign -- and I think they're getting a little nervous, what do you think? when candidates and campaigns get nervous, they start throwing out a bunch of stuff.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We can't wait to help Ellen with her exorbitant prices. We can't wait to help the minimum wage workers I meet who are working one, two jobs and still can't figure out how they are going to gather enough money to make any progress. We can't wait to deal with the student debt that so many young Iowans tell me they are struggling under. it really reminds me what happens here in Iowa eight years ago.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Will Iowa be the first state in the union to embark upon a political revolution to lead this country in a very different direction? you know what? I think that's exactly what you will be doing.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It really reminds me what happens here in Iowa eight years ago.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What Roe v. Wade was about is that women and their male allies were saying, 'You know what, on these issues, it should be with the individual, the woman, the family, the doctor, to make these decisions and not the government. That's a choice for a woman,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite as inevitable as she did eight and a half months ago! if you want somebody who is going to beat Trump and going to beat other Republicans, I think Bernie Sanders is that candidate.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As many of you know, we began this campaign about nine months ago. And when we began, we were 50 points behind. We were 50 points behind the inevitable, the inevitable Democratic nominee! well, guess what, that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What would he say about a nation where 29 million people don't have health insurance?
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A recent study showed on ABC evening news, Trump over a period of time got 81 minutes of time. Bernie Sanders got 20 seconds, now, you tell me why.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let me talk about polling. ... In terms of polling, guess what, we are running ahead of Secretary Clinton in terms of taking on my good friend Donald Trump, we have the momentum. We're on a path to a victory.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What a Medicare-for-all program does is finally provide in this country health care for every man, woman and child as a right, the truth is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Trump ... they believed that health care should be available to all of our people.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You've received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Secretary Clinton was right and what I did, which I think is also right, is demanded the resignation of the governor. A man who acts that irresponsibly should not stay in power.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In Iowa, New Hampshire, the race is very, very close.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Universal health care is an idea that has been supported in the United States by Democratic presidents going back to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, it is time for our country to join every other major industrialized nation on earth and guarantee health care to all citizens as a right, not a privilege.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was a little disappointed that what Chelsea said was simply not accurate.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What this plan does, of course, is end private insurance payments for the American people, so instead of making a private insurance premium payment, you're now going to make a Medicare premium payment. And what all of the studies indicate is that payment under a Medicare-for-all single-payer system will be significantly less than what middle class families today are paying for health insurance.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I pledge to you that every day I will fight for the public interest, not the corporate interest. I will not abandon any segment of American society -- whether you're gay or black or Latino or poor, or working class -- just because it is politically expedient at a given time.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Absolutely, if I said we're going to do it that's what we're going to do.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are some parts of that bill are right, and there are some parts of that bill that are wrong, and I am, as I said several months ago, willing to re-look that, secretary Clinton, obviously now, sees herself in trouble.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As much as I admire Chelsea, she didn't read the plan, and where she is absolutely wrong: This is a plan that works in 50 states in this country, whether you have conservative Republicans or progressive Democrats. It's a national program.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Secretary Clinton, obviously now, sees herself in trouble.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As I mentioned to you earlier, my father was born in Poland. Like Obama, I am the son of an immigrant father. Nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate. Maybe it's because of the color of my skin being different than Obama's.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will vote to revise that bill. There are parts of it that made sense to me, look George, if you have a small gun shop owner in Northern Vermont who sells a gun legally to somebody and then, you know, something happens to that guy, he goes nuts or something, and he kills somebody, should the gun shop owner be held liable? I think not.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're doing much better with independents. We even draw a little bit better with Republicans, so I believe, quite honestly, that with the enthusiasm that we are generating, with the kind of voter turnout that I think we can bring out -- look, Republicans win when people are demoralized and the voter turnout is low.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Look George, if you have a small gun shop owner in Northern Vermont who sells a gun legally to somebody and then, you know, something happens to that guy, he goes nuts or something, and he kills somebody, should the gun shop owner be held liable? I think not.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
On the other hand, if you have a manufacturer that is sending guns into an area and really knows that those guns are not being used by the people or bought by the people in that area but are being sold to criminals, should we hold that manufacturer liable? Absolutely.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If people are concerned about electability, and Democrats should be very concerned, because we certainly do not want to see some right-wing extremist in the White House, I think Bernie Sanders is the candidate.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So I believe, quite honestly, that with the enthusiasm that we are generating, with the kind of voter turnout that I think we can bring out -- look, Republicans win when people are demoralized and the voter turnout is low.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When you look at the major issues facing our country today ... I think if you look at those issues, what you conclude is that at this moment in our history, it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Look, Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton, but what Bill Clinton did was totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable. But I am running against Hillary Clinton, not Bill Clinton.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And I believe and I gotta say this, and I thank you for your question, in this sense, I think what we need to do as a nation, certainly something the Republicans are not doing, is focus on the bloody issues facing this country -- the disappearance of the middle class income and wealth inequality.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The reality is that fraud is the business model on Wall Street, it is not the exception to the rule. It is the rule.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To those on Wall Street who may be listening today, let me be very clear: Greed is not good, in fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation. And here is a New Year's resolution that I will keep if elected president -- and that is if Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My opponent says that, as a senator, she told bankers to 'cut it out' and end their destructive behavior. But in my view, establishment politicians are the ones who need to cut it out, the reality is that Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street, its lobbyists and their billions of dollars regulate Congress.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation. And here is a New Year's resolution that I will keep if elected president -- and that is if Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The reality is that Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street, its lobbyists and their billions of dollars regulate Congress.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks will not be represented in my administration.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have been very specific. We have more to do, and we will be doing that in the very near future.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The bottom line, what the Wall Street Journal forgot to tell the American people in that article is people will not have to pay for private health insurance and the cost of prescription drugs is going down.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have had our differences of opinions with the DNC, but at the end of the day, the DNC, Hillary Clinton and myself -- we want to defeat right-wing extremism in this country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I'm suggesting is that what Trump has done with some success has taken that anger, taken those fears -- which are legitimate -- and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am very disturbed by reports that the government may commence raids to deport families who have fled here to escape violence in Central America, we need to take steps to protect children and families seeking refuge here, not cast them out. O’Malley said the plan would be.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Now much has changed over the decades, but unfortunately, some things have not. Institutional racism existed then. Institutional racism exist today, the criminal justice system was broken then. The criminal justice system remains broken today. And that's the sad reality of where we are as a country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Like any other public official, when a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The criminal justice system was broken then. The criminal justice system remains broken today. And that's the sad reality of where we are as a country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As we spend time with our families this holiday season, we who are parents should ask ourselves what we would do if our children faced the danger and violence these children do? How far would we go to protect them? we need to take steps to protect children and families seeking refuge here, not cast them out.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There's no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African-Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are doing very badly among older people and I want to change that, we will change that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Not only will I oppose any efforts to cut Social Security benefits, what we are going to do is expand Social Security benefits.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The greed of the billionaire class, the greed of Wall street is destroying this economy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Regime change is easy ... but you have to think about what happens the day after.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What the DNC did, arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our information, crippling our campaign.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Gaddafi, terrible dictator, gotten rid of, right now, ISIS is gaining ground in Libya because of all of the destabilization in the region and all of the turmoil.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton ... I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the type of campaign that we run.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our differences are fairly deep on this issue, i worry too much that Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let’s calm down a little bit, Martin, let’s tell the truth.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They called me fairly quickly after the breach was closed to inform me that there was something weird going on and that portions of the system were shut down.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What's scary about Trump is you open -- there are a lot of people out there who feel certain ways and you see somebody who is running for president say these things, 'Whoa! Trump said that! I can say that! I can beat up the Muslim in my community! I can be a racist on a college campus now, because that's the climate.' So you're right, it is scary.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It strikes me that if you don't take part in the political process, you're really crapping on people who gave their lives to defend this country, WWII and elsewhere, obviously, this country faces enormous problems ... but that doesn't mean you walk away from it. But it means you engage and fight back.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, I'll talk to some old people, i, myself, as a young person, I respect old people myself.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Of course ISIS is a major threat to our country and to the world and of course it has to be crushed, but it is not the only issue.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The problem is that a lot of these issue are more complicated than a six-second sound byte and a lot of the issues we choose to raise end up in conflict with corporate America and the corporate media, but you know what, we are going to talk about those issues anyhow.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The planet is in crisis. We need bold action in the very near future and this does not provide that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have said is that obviously ISIS and terrorism are a huge national issue that we have got to address, but so is poverty, so is unemployment, so is education, so is healthcare, so is the need to protect working families.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I just don't believe that Republicans are going to buy into this language that guarantees that Hillary Clinton has a far better chance of winning.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What somebody like a Trump is trying to do is to divide us up -- a few months ago, we're supposed to hate Mexicans, now we're supposed to hate Muslims. That kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you are in a wealthy nation, you would think you are in a third world country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It probably costs more to eat here, what are you supposed to feed your kids? Potato chips?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am running for president because, in these difficult times, against vitriolic Republican rhetoric, we must protect a woman's right to choose and we must defend Planned Parenthood.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And I think public leaders need to try to figure out ways to unite people around common purposes again, rather than divide us up. all Americans should be sickened by the video of Laquan McDonald's murder. As a nation we must do more than just echo the phrase Black Lives Matter.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All Americans should be sickened by the video of Laquan McDonald's murder. As a nation we must do more than just echo the phrase Black Lives Matter.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I have said over and over again is that I have not and will not raise a nickel for a super PAC, i am the only Democratic candidate who does not have a super PAC. I will not have a super PAC. They are nurses and they are fighting for the health care of their people. They are doing what they think is appropriate. I do not have a super PAC.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I made a decision -- now it wasn't an easy decision -- I said if I am going to walk the walk and not just talk the talk, I am not going to have a super PAC.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Now, I have many disagreements with Hillary Clinton. And one of them is that I don't think it's good enough just to talk the talk on campaign finance reform. You've got to walk the walk.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am disappointed that Secretary Clinton does not think we should join every other major country in guaranteeing health care through a cost-effective, Medicare-for-all, single-payer system that would save the average family about $5,000 a year.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe in fair market, American capitalism and that is a big difference between Secretary Clinton's Wall Street crony capitalism and Senator Sanders' socialism.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have voted time and again for the background checks, and I want to see it improved and expanded. I want to see them do away with the gun show loophole. ... I don't know that there's any disagreement here.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy, democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system in America today which is not only grossly unfair but, in many respects, corrupt.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Anybody that would say that the Paris attacks were caused by global warming, there's something missing.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're going to win, because first we're going to explain what democratic socialism is, what democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1% in this country own almost 9%, almost -- own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that it is wrong today, in a rigged economy, that 57% of all new income is going to the top one percent.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You are looking at the non-billionaire major candidate for president who does not have a super PAC, i don't have a super PAC.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I wouldn’t use the word offensive, I found them a little bit silly, a bit absurd, the issue was what impact did the fact that she has received huge amounts of funding from Wall Street have on her attitude towards Wall Street.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Look, I think the President is trying to do the right thing. And what he's trying to do is put together a coalition of the Western democracies along with the Muslim nations to destroy ISIS, while at the same time making sure that we're not involved in a perpetual war in the Middle East, my own view is that the major issue that we have right now is to destroy ISIS. And I think we've got to work toward a political agreement to get Assad out of office.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have different points of view ... but Russia has got to join us. We are concerned about Iran, but Iran has to join us. We have concerns about Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia has to join us, if all over the world these attacks are taking place, the world has got to come together.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Now, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something. Everybody knows that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I believe calling it what it is … radical jihadis, let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim-American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. … We need our Muslim-American neighbors to stand up and to be a part of this.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Maybe they're dumb, and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something, everybody knows it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Why over her political career has Wall Street been a major, the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? Maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so, i have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street from the military industrial complex, not one candidate -- 'Oh these, these campaign contributions will not influence me.' But why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something, everybody knows that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely and led to the rise of al Qaeda and to ISIS.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I do not want us to in any way inadvertently allow people who wish us harm to come into our country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will do everything that I can to make sure that the United States does not get involved in another quagmire like we did in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country, we should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'd shut down what exists right now, (which) is that virtually every telephone call in this country ends up in a file at the NSA, that is unacceptable to me.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You have to enforce no-fly zones, and I believe, especially with the Russian air force in the air, it could lead to an escalation because of an accident that we would deeply regret.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To my mind, if patriotism or love of country means anything, it means that we do not now, or ever, turn our backs on those who defended us, it means we keep our promise to those who kept their promises to us.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're doing just fine. My debate prep today is to stand with workers who are trying to get a living wage from a contractor with the United States government, that's the kind of debate prep that inspires me.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All three Democratic candidates have strong records, we endorsed Hillary Clinton today, as we made clear, because we believe she will be the most effective person to get the job done from Day One.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the question is, am I much of a small-talker, or am I a good schmoozer, am I a good -- well that's not the word politicians use -- I'm not so great at that, do I enjoy retail politics? The answer is yes, I really do I love going out.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I mean, I cannot walk down the corridors of Capitol Hill without being really begged by the media to attack Hillary Clinton, they want to make this personal. ... I choose not to do that. Let's talk about the economy, let's talk about Wall Street, let's talk about climate change, let's talk about education. Frankly, that is what the American people want to get discussed.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think the American people get tired of seeing front page stories from the media day after day about emails.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the elections were held today, just among the African-American vote, we would lose.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think I have the economic and social justice agenda now.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Now to me, as opposed to maybe some other unnamed candidates, the issue of Keystone was kind of a no-brainer. It never made sense to me, from day one, as to why you would extract and transport some of the dirtiest fuel on this planet.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, what motivated that is that I think the American people want substantive discussions on substantive issues, there is a process in place for the email situation that Hillary Clinton is dealing with. Let it play itself out. As a nation, let us start focusing on why it is that so few have so much and so many have so little.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that's an issue that we've got to take a hard look at, and I think what's going on now is, as I think Secretary Clinton now realizes, is not a good practice, do you think that she jeopardized national security?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, there is a process that is going on now, we will learn more about it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden, this country has come a long way economically since President Bush left office and we were losing 800,000 jobs every month and the world economy was on the brink of financial collapse, nevertheless, we still have a long way to go to create the kind of economy that works for all Americans and not just the top 1 percent.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the year 2015, it is time for the federal government to allow states to go forward as they best choose.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That means that recognized businesses in states that legalized marijuana should be fully able to use the banking system without fear of federal retribution.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If they're going to engage in this kind of attack, they need to understand we're not going to stand there and take it. i am not making that threat. I don't know what Tad meant by that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
At the end of the day, the VA provides high-quality health care for the veterans that are able to get into the system, clearly there were problems. Clearly the VA provides good quality health care to millions of our veterans.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If they make unfounded criticisms, we are going to respond forcefully, if they express disagreement on issues, that's called democracy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If I am called a sexist, for example, or if other charges are made against me, we will respond forcefully.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am not making that threat. I don't know what Tad meant by that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe in serious debates on serious issues. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Maybe I shouldn't say this: I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Hillary Clinton, will the media, among others, allow us to have a civil debate on civil issues? Or is the only way you get media attention by ripping apart somebody else?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What a campaign is about is contrast. That it is what it is about, i don't want negative ads and I don't believe in negative campaigning, but what is the sense in being in a campaign if you don't differentiate your difference with your opponents?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want negative ads and I don't believe in negative campaigning, but what is the sense in being in a campaign if you don't differentiate your differences with your opponents?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All that I can say is I am very proud of my record on women's issues. I certainly do not have a problem with women speaking out -- and I think what the secretary is doing there is taking words and misapplying them, what I would say is if we are going to make some progress in dealing with these horrific massacres that we're seeing, is that people have got to start all over this country talking to each other.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation, that legislation was anti-gay legislation. It was playing off the fears of a lot of Americans.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I would say is if we are going to make some progress in dealing with these horrific massacres that we're seeing, is that people have got to start all over this country talking to each other.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Hello, hello, hello, enough with the hellos, let's do this.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think we'll use Larry at our next rally, he does better than I do.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Puerto Rico is now in very, very difficult straits. People are leaving the island, unemployment is high, schools are being closed, bottom line is you cannot get blood from a stone. You can't push more austerity on a people who are already hurting. The goal is to rebuild the economy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, I am who I am. And what I believe in, and what my spirituality is about is that we're all in this together. That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people, and you know, this is not Judaism. This is what Pope Francis is talking about, that we cannot worship just billionaires and the making of more and more money. Life is more than that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We've got to end the war on drugs. And you know you look at what's going on in Colorado and elsewhere I am not unfavorably disposed to moving toward the legalization of marijuana.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When you go to your public library, when you call your fire department or the police department, what do you think you're calling? these are socialist institutions.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What he said in so many words was, 'Thank you so much for electing me to be president, but I will take it from here. I will go forward and I will negotiate with (House Speaker John) Boehner and (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell and the Republicans,' he did this because he is a decent guy and he thought naively that Republicans really wanted to work or negotiate compromises. Truth is, they never, ever did.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He thought he could walk into Capitol Hill and the Oval Office and sit down with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the Republicans and say, 'I can't get it all. You can't get it all. Let's work out something that's reasonable,' because he's a reasonable guy, these guys never had any intention of doing (serious) negotiating and compromising ... I think it took the President too long to fully appreciate that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Yes, it would, but it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have huge amounts of tax loopholes that exist for the wealthy and large corporations, we're going to address that issue and protect the needs of working families and the middle class.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that for the first time people viewing from across the country saw that there were more than two candidates running for president in the Democratic party.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails, enough of the emails! Let's talk about the real issues facing America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would vote yes because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for non-violent offenses, we have a criminal justice system that lets CEOs on Wall Street walk away, and yet we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let me say something that may not be great politics, but I think the secretary is right, and that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails, me too, me too.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We need to combat institutional racism from top to bottom, and we need major major reforms in a broken criminal justice system in which we have more people in jail than China, i intend to tackle that issue, to make sure our people have education and jobs rather than jail cells.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Enough of the emails, let's talk about the real issues facing America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little, by which Wall Street’s greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No, I don’t.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't know how she did it, really. (She is a) tough lady.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
People will have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to Wall Street and corporations with the secretary.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think we can do it. And I think that's what the bully pulpit is about, and that's what organizing effort's about. And that's what this campaign is about.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Democrats will not retain the White House, will not regain the Senate or the U.S. House, will not be successful in dozens of governors races all across this country, unless we generated excitement and momentum and produce a huge voter turnout, that turnout, that enthusiasm, will not happen with politics as usual.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I plead guilty—I should have been more sensitive at the beginning of this campaign to talk about this issue.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
People will have to contrast my consistency against the secretary’s.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That was a complicated vote and I'm willing to see changes in that provision, here's the reason I voted the way I voted : If you are a gun shop owner in Vermont and you sell somebody a gun and that person flips out and then kills somebody, I don't think it's really fair to hold that person responsible, the gun shop owner.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Instead of listening to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry and The FDA 1,400 lobbyists, it is about time that the The FDA and Congress started listening to the overwhelming majority of the American people, who believe that medicine is too expensive.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Instead of listening to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry and their 1,400 lobbyists, it is about time that the FDA and Congress started listening to the overwhelming majority of the American people, who believe that medicine is too expensive.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is time for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world by implementing prescription drug policies that work for everybody, not just the CEOs of the pharmaceutical industry.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You're looking at a candidate who has run in many, many elections, who has never run a negative political ad in my life and hopes never to have to run them, and you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think the Latino community is obviously deeply concerned about comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship is something I strongly support, and I think the Latino community is outraged over some of the racist attacks that have been made against some Latino groups -- and that is unacceptable.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It goes without saying that our condolences go to the families of those who were killed and our hearts and prayers go out for a full recovery for those who were wounded, but we also know that we are tired of condolences and we are tired of just prayers.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Yes there are disagreement on how we go forward in terms of gun safety, but I think the vast majority of the American people want us to move forward in sensible ways which keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My family story is a story very similar to many people who are here tonight, and that story is the story of America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Wall Street and other big corporations have won again, it is time for the rest of us to stop letting multi-national corporations rig the system to pad their profits at our expense.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I also know that there is an enormous amount of disgust in the African-American community with regards to certain police departments. We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Clearly if Sandra Bland, who was a middle class black woman, had been a middle class white woman, it is unlikely that the police would have treated her in the same way, unarmed African-Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When I say we need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, that's going to impact the country but it will impact African-Americans even more. When I talk about pay equity for women workers, it will impact all women but it will impact African-American women even more because they are more discriminated against and their wages are even lower than white women.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Wall Street and other big corporations have won again.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am proud to have the support of many hundreds of thousands of members of the National Education Association and trade unionists all across America, we are going to win this nomination and the general election because of support from grassroots Americans. We are on track to do just that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region, we do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama's effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
No nominee of mine to the United States Supreme Court will get that job unless he or she is loud and clear that one of their first orders of business will be to overturn citizens United.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that. and how long did it take us to elect an African-American to be president of the United States? What we should be doing is as a people is judge our candidates based on their views, their abilities, not the color of their skin, not on their religion. That is what America is supposed to be about.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And how long did it take us to elect an African-American to be president of the United States? What we should be doing is as a people is judge our candidates based on their views, their abilities, not the color of their skin, not on their religion. That is what America is supposed to be about.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That is absolutely not true, my plan says that every kid in America ... you are going to be able to make it into the middle class, you are going to be able to get a college education, regardless of the income of your family.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What Trump is doing is appealing to the baser instincts among us -- xenophobia, and, frankly, racism, you target some group of people, you go after them. You take people's anger and you turn it against them. You win votes on that. I think that is disgraceful and not something we should be doing in 2015.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I knew we had a message that would resonate with the American people, this is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet all of the income and wealth is going to the top 1% and people do not feel good about that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sen. Sanders’s agenda does cost money, if you look at the problems that are out there, it’s very reasonable.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views, it's harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Don't tell anybody. I think what they know is that four months ago, when I entered this race, if you look at the polls, I was in 3 to 4%. Vast majority of the American people didn't know who Bernie Sanders was, they didn't know what my ideas were, and in last few months, we have amassed huge amounts of enthusiasm and huge amounts of energy, so obviously, I think the secretary's people are getting nervous about the kind of energy and enthusiasm our campaign is bringing forth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Here's one area where Barack Obama and I disagree. Here's what I understand -- is that given the powers that be in Washington, Wall Street, corporate America, the big money interests -- change does not take place no matter who gets elected president unless there is a strong grassroots movement, brilliant campaign. But after he got elected he had the illusion -- the mistake -- of believing that he could sit down with Republicans and just work out some good compromises. That was never going to happen. The only way that we change life for the middle class in this country is when millions of people become actively involved in the political process. No president can do it alone.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So what we are doing now is hiring on people. We have now dozens of people on the ground here in Iowa. Great crowds are wonderful, but that does not necessarily translate into votes. People need to be organized and know how to come out and participate in the caucuses.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that that is dead wrong and I have let the leadership of the Democrats know that, i want to see more of them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And in fact, coming from a rural state which has almost no gun control, I think I can get beyond the noise and all of these arguments and people shouting at each other, and come up with real, constructive gun control legislation which most significantly gets guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When people have mental health issues, when they're a threat to others or themselves, they should be able to get counseling immediately. That is not the case right now.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think people understand there is something profoundly wrong today with establishment politics, that we need some bold ideas to resurrect the middle class in this country, to address poverty, to address income and wealth inequality.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are gaining and I think what the polls seem to indicate is Hillary Clinton's support seems to be receding a bit, but we have a long way to go. Joe would be a formidable opponent. I am not sure who politically it would help.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is, so all that I can say is I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I admire her. I respect her. I like her. She and I have very different points of view on a number of issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's so easy to be critical of an agreement which is not perfect, but the United States has to negotiate with, you know, other countries. We have to negotiate with Iran. And the alternative of not reaching an agreement, you know what it is? It's war.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it is unfortunate because, among other things, I wanted to talk about the issues of black lives, the fact that the American people are tired of seeing unarmed African-Americans shot and killed, but there are other issues as well that we have to talk about, and that is the fact that the middle class of this country is disappearing and most importantly, we don't bring change in this country... unless all people stand together. That is what we have to do.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Liberty University was kind enough to invite me to address a convocation and I decided to accept, it goes without saying that my views on many issues -- women's rights, gay rights, education and many other issues -- are very different from the opinions of some in the Liberty University community. It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views. It's harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently. I look forward to meeting with the students and faculty of Liberty University.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have to end institutional racism but we have to deal with the reality that 50% of young black kids are unemployed, that we have massive poverty in America, that we have an unsustainable level of income and wealth inequality, as Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have address both.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The American people are saying loudly and clearly enough is enough.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Obviously, I think Cecile Richards apologized for the tone of that video, i think her apology was exactly right. I think that the staffer, the tone was terribly wrong.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows totally outrageous police behavior, no one should be yanked from her car, thrown to the ground, assaulted and arrested for a minor traffic stop. The result is that three days later she is dead in her jail cell.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin, racism has plagued the United States since its inception.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Without these folks it is likely that out agricultural system would collapse.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Without these folks it is likely that out agricultural system would collapse.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Yes, we have to raise individual tax rates substantially higher than they are today because almost all of the new income is going to the top 1%, and yes, those folks and large corporations will have to pay under a Sanders administration more in taxes so that we can use that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create the jobs we need, make sure that every kid who has the ability is able to get a college education in America because public colleges and public universities will be tuition-free.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And yes, those folks and large corporations will have to pay under a Sanders administration more in taxes so that we can use that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create the jobs we need, make sure that every kid who has the ability is able to get a college education in America because public colleges and public universities will be tuition-free.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Whoa, in case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am more than aware that my opponents will be able to outspend us. But we are going to win this election, they may have the money, but we have the people. And when the people stand together, we can win.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I would like to ask of you: Please think big, not small.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders, it is not about Hillary Clinton, it is not about anyone else, it is about you.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have [ raised money ] very, very differently than other campaigns, but I believe we will be able to raise, as will be indicated in this reporting period and in the future, enough money to run a winning campaign.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think, as I understand it, we are going to have a pretty good campaign financial report coming out.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think we are probably doing a lot better than you would have thought two months ago when we got into this, right? clearly, what I do know, is the stronger that I get, the attacks are going to come from all kinds of sources.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I am doing is, in fact, speaking to issues that are in the hearts and the minds of the American people in a way that is a little bit bolder than other candidates have in the past, and I think people are responding to that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Until we finally pass comprehensive reform -- and I would very much like to see the House of Representatives pick up where the Senate left off -- we must be aggressive in pursuing policies that are humane and sensible and that keep families together, i strongly support the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA is a good first step, but it should be expanded.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We cannot, and we should not, be talking about sweeping up millions of men, women and children, many of whom have been in this country for years, and we cannot allow a continuation of this ridiculous idea that suddenly we are going to throw millions of people out of this country. That is wrong and that type of discussion must end now.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think we need to have as serious conversation about that, i think rural America needs to understand what urban America feels. Urban America needs to understand the culture of rural America. But I think together we have got to go forward to make certain that people who should not be having these weapons do not have them.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are weapons out there that have nothing to do with hunting and are designed to kill people and kill them quickly, and this is an issue that must be dealt with.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think the people of Vermont understand that guns in Vermont are different than guns in Chicago or guns in Los Angeles.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is time to give them legal status, it is time to create a reasonable and responsible path to citizenship.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Republican majority in both the House and the Senate needs to let us debate and pass real immigration reform.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If we are truly serious about reversing the decline of the middle class.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If she joins us, we could stop this disastrous deal once and for all.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Corporate America and Wall Street are going to bring that bill back.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think we are out of the mainstream. I think that what we have noticed is that the mainstream has been ignored for a long time.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time, Sanders roared, before thousands of supporters in Burlington, the liberal city he once served as mayor. 'Enough is enough.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This great nation and its government belong to all of the people and not to a handful of billionaires, their super PACs and their lobbyists.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Today ... we begin a political revolution to transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It is not about Hillary Clinton. It is not about Jeb Bush or anyone else. This campaign is about the needs of the American people.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I opposed the deregulation of Wall Street and pretty much predicted what would happen in terms of the Wall Street crash, i certainly disagree with her husband on that. She hasn't been clear about where she's coming from.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're living in a world since Citizens United where multi-millionaires and billionaires are playing a horrendous role in the political system, that's why I believe that we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You can't be on the fence of this one, you're either for it or you're against it. No fence-sitting on this one.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Are you in the media prepared to allow us to engage in that serious debate? or do I have to get media attention by simply making reckless attacks on Hillary Clinton or anybody else? I don't believe in that. I believe in serious debates on serious issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You're either for it or you're against it. No fence-sitting on this one.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There is in my view massive dissatisfaction in this country today with corporate establishment and the greed of corporate America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Nike epitomizes why disastrous unfettered free-trade policies during the past four decades have failed American workers, eroded our manufacturing base and increased income and wealth inequality in this country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I owe my brother an enormous amount. It was my brother who actually introduced me to a lot of my ideas.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
TPP will help level the playing field. It will be good for the workers of both our countries.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We now have a political situation where billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have voted against every disastrous trade agreement coming down the pike and helping to lead the effort against this Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would mean the outsourcing of more good paying job to low-wage countries.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It tells me what is a very serious problem, it's not just about Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton. It is about a political system today that is dominated by big money. It's about the Koch brothers being prepared to spend $900 million dollars in the coming election.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Frankly, it is vulgar to me that we're having a war of billionaires.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe we should break up the Wall Street banks. If they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am not a billionaire, to run outside of the two-party system would require enormous sums of money.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don’t boldly change course now.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am running for president, people should not underestimate me.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay, it is not acceptable that a number of major profitable corporations have paid zero in federal income taxes in recent years, and that millionaire hedge fund managers often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than the truck drivers or nurses.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think this is not about personality, i am not a singer, I am not a dancer, I am not an entertainer.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To run a credible campaign in this day and age, you do need a whole lot of money, whether the magic number is $200 million, it is $150 million, it is a lot of money, but even with that, you would be enormously outspent by the Koch Brother candidates and the other candidates who will likely spend, in the final analysis, over $1 billion, if not two.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What we are saying today is pretty simply, that the taxpayers of this country want to make sure that when government contracts are made, those employers who get those contracts pay workers a living wage, a great nation will not survive, in my view, when so few have so much and so many have so little.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My strong hope is that Secretary Clinton and all candidates, Republicans and Congressional Democrats, will make it clear that the Trans-Pacific Partnership should be rejected and that we must develop trade policies that benefit working families, not just Wall Street and multi-national corporations.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I do have doubts that Hillary Clinton or any Republican out there will take on big-money interests who control so much of our economy.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think we are reasonably close, the clock is ticking. If we do it, I've got to get out there. So I think we are looking at an announcement in the pretty near future.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To run a credible campaign in this day and age, you do need a whole lot of money, whether the magic number is $200 million, it is $150 million, it is a lot of money, but even with that, you would be enormously outspent by the Koch Brothers candidates and the other candidates who will likely spend, in the final analysis, over $1 billion, if not two.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We probably have more serious problems than any time since the Great Depression.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I hope that Secretary Clinton will speak out on these and other important issues in the days and weeks ahead.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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