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.
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
The American people understand that we need real change in this country, in my view, a political revolution, which says to the people on top, “You know what, you guys can’t have it all.”
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.
This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.
I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.