Bernie Sanders.

We Need an Energy Revolution by Breaking Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels, Polluting Fuels… I Am Very, Very Confident Our Small State Will Lead This. We Will Be Noticed by the Country and the World.

Wall Street Is Greedy, Reckless and They Operate Illegally. That’s Fine. but What Do You Do?

It Is Incomprehensible That Drug Companies Still Get Away with Charging Americans Twice as Much, or More, Than Citizens of Canada or Europe for the Exact Same Drugs Manufactured by the Exact Same Companies.

As a Single Payer Advocate, I Believe That at the End of the Day, If a State Goes Forward and Passed an Effective Single Payer Program, It Will Demonstrate That You Can Provide Quality Health Care to Every Man, Woman and Child in a More Cost Effective Way.

You’ve Got the Top 400 Americans Owning More Wealth Than the Bottom 150 Million Americans. Most Folks Do Not Think That Is Right.

One in Four Corporations Doesn’t Pay Any Taxes.

Washington Is Dominated by Big Money.

Do the Elected Officials in Washington Stand with Ordinary Americans Working Families, Children, the Elderly, the Poor or Will the Extraordinary Power of Billionaire Campaign Contributors and Big Money Prevail? the American People, by the Millions, Must Send Congress the Answer to That Question.

At the Current $5.15 an Hour, the Federal Minimum Wage Has Become a Poverty Wage. a Full Time Worker with One Child Lives Below the Official Poverty Line.

There Is Nobody That I Know Who Believes That Bank of America Is a Human Being Who Should Be Entitled for the Same Constitutional Rights That the People of Our Country Are.

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.

The Goal of Real Healthcare Reform Must Be High Quality, Universal Coverage in a Cost Effective Way.

Coal and Oil Lobbyists Added Fossil Fuels to a Bill Aimed at Helping American Manufacturers, so They Too Could Claim ‘Manufacturing’ Tax Deductions.

Every Working Family in America Knows How Hard It Is Today to Find Affordable Childcare or Early Childhood Education.

I Think the Overwhelming Majority of the American People Know That We Have Got to Stand Together, That We’re Going to Grow Together, That We’re Going to Survive Together, and That If We Start Splintering, We’re Not Going to Succeed in a Highly Competitive International Economy.

In Any Democratic, Civilized Even Non Democratic Nation, If You Are a Nation, It Means to Say That in Our Case, If There’s a Hurricane in Louisiana, the People of Vermont Are There for Them. If There’s a Tornado in the Midwest, We Are There for Them. If There’s Flooding in the East Coast, the People in California Are There for Us.

Not Only Must We Fight to End Disastrous Unfettered Free Trade Agreements with China, Mexico and Other Low Wage Countries, We Must Fight to Fundamentally Rewrite Our Trade Agreements so That American Products, Not Jobs, Are Our #1 Export.

The US Constitution Is an Extraordinary Document. in My View, It Should Not Be Amended Often.

If a Financial Institution Is Too Big to Fail, It Is Too Big to Exist.

What Some of Us Believe Is That It Is Possible That If Chemicals Are Related to Gulf War Illness That Some of the More Severe Symptoms May Not Erupt Until 10 or 20 Years Down the Line.

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.

These Are the Same People Who Believe, in Some Cases, the Federal Government Should Not Play Any Role in Providing Health Care to Our People or Protecting the Environment.

I’m Not a Democrat, I’m an Independent, but I Caucus with the Democrats.

Social Security Is a Promise That We Cannot and Must Not Break.

Establishing a 0.03% Wall Street Speculation Fee, Similar to What We Had from 1914 66, Would Dampen the Dangerous Level of Speculation and Gambling on Wall Street, Encourage the Financial Sector to Invest in the Productive Economy and Reduce the Deficit by More Than $350 Billion Over Ten Years.

CEOs of Large Corporations Earn 400 Times What Their Workers Make. That Is Not What America Is Supposed to Be About.

Social Security Has Nothing to Do with the Deficit.

History Will Record That the Citizens United Decision Is One of the Worst in the History of Our Country.

The Koch Brothers, Through the Expenditure of Billions of Dollars and the Creation and Support of Dozens of Extreme Right Organizations, Have Taken Fringe Extremist Ideas and Made Them Mainstream Within the Republican Party.

For Many, the American Dream Has Become a Nightmare.

Most of Us Have Not Heard About Master Limited Partnerships. These Special Financing Arrangements Allow Oil and Gas Investors to Avoid Paying Certain Corporate Income Taxes, but Are Not Available to Clean Energy Businesses.

I See a Future Where States Compete with One Another to See Which Can Be the Most Efficient, and Where Businesses Seek Out Efficient States in Which to Locate so They Can Reap the Economic and Environmental Benefits for Their Businesses and Employees.

You Go to Scandinavia, and You Will Find That People Have a Much Higher Standard of Living, in Terms of Education, Health Care and Decent Paying Jobs.

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.

People Don’t Trust Private Health Insurance Companies for All the Right Reasons.

The Occupy Wall Street Protests Are Shining a National Spotlight on the Most Powerful, Dangerous and Secretive Economic and Political Force in America.

I Have Introduced a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United and Make It Clear That the Congress and State Legislatures Do Have the Ability and the Power to Regulate and Get Corporate Funding Out of Political Campaigns.