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History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

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.

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

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.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.

The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

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.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America.

Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

I'm not much into speculation.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

It's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.

As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.

Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.

In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.

A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

Democracy is not a spectator sport

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

It's time to make our government work for all of us ... and not just the 1%.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

When millions of people stand up and fight ... they win.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college
regardless of income.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.

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?

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.