My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.
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.
The good news is that the American people, not just the African-American community are saying enough is enough. You can’t hold people in custody and suddenly find out that they are dead. You can’t shoot people in the back.
Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Let’s rebuild America and create jobs.
What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.
I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.
I don’t think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we’re seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.
I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all.
Don’t go to the dark side. Don’t go bashing immigrants or Muslims.
What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.
We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.
We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.
I want to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.
In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.
I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have.
One in four corporations doesn’t pay any taxes.
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we’ve got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.