I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women’s rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.
Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.
We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.
The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.
The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity...
I’m very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.
Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.
We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.
You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.
When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.
The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.
It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.
The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.
In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth – worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?