"There is something fundamentally wrong when the top 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
"The function of a good government is to represent and protect the needs of the most vulnerable people in our society."
"We have a moral obligation to make certain that no American goes hungry, no American sleeps out on the street."
"The United States must help lead the world in reversing the arms race, not in escalating it."
"I think that anyone who has studied economics and has some kind of a conscience understands that you cannot continue to have a nation in which a few people have so much and so many people have so litt..."
"We must not let the wealthiest people in this country, who have so much influence over our political process, make the rules for everyone else."
"We must stand up to the big money interests who not only want tax breaks for themselves but want to cut back on the needs of working families and the elderly."
"We need a program that promotes this industry because the benefits of purchasing organically produced food extend beyond the dinner plate to the support of farmers who protect the soil and water."
"We need a program that distinguishes phony organic food, items with a natural image but uncertain production methods, from the real thing."
"Organic certification standards should be national in scope, tough and fully enforced."
"We should be spending less money on the military and more money on human needs."
"I think the major political problem in this country is that you have a two-party system, which is essentially a one-party system."
"We must make the banks serve the needs of the people, not the needs of the banks."
"We have to educate, organize and mobilize the working people of this country."
"We can't allow our kids to be unemployed when they're 18 or 19 or 20."
"What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary."
"We must create a situation where women do not have to have abortions."
"The real debate should not be over whether the United States or the Soviet Union spends more on its military, but over how to reduce worldwide military spending."
