The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn’t have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.
If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
Instead of cutting Social Security, we’re going to expand Social Security benefits.
We don’t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.
We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.
In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.
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.
I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.
Don’t underestimate me.
I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That’s fine. But what do you do?
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.
I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.
Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don’t. I believe in a society where all people do well.