Abdul El-Sayed: “We need someone to give us direction. I believe we have a leader here that can organize us.”

You should not be criminalized for a disease. That is absolutely wrong. It’s hateful. It’s discriminatory, and we can, as a state, do better. You can count on me for that.

One of the big things that we have to recognize about HIV is that no disease can be illegal. The continuing forward of these laws on the books stigmatize people with the disease.

I want freedom and democracy for the people of Iran, no question. But I want that to be done by the people of Iran, coming together as a community to decide how to create democratic change in their society.

I think they've been completely let down by a Trump administration that has capitulated to the very corporations that are on the wrong side of all their issues — whether it's the pharma industry, or it's big ag, or it's the food…