I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.
As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.
I don’t consider myself a pariah.
People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That’s what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.
I don’t represent large corporations and I don’t want their money.
As a nation, there are many issues we don’t talk about, we just don’t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.
It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college – for one reason: that their family lacks the funding. And together we are going to change that.
Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I’ve always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.
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.
I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it’s a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America.
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.