"I think it is so important that that gets across, because there is no way that we can develop a plan, there's no way that I think you can develop a plan that is realistic unless we lift this burdensom..."
"A lot of private delivery corporations do not cover healthcare for a lot of their employees. It's extremely stressful work conditions."
"So people just throw out the term $32 billion. That is what is owed to New York City's Housing Authority alone, $32 billion."
"In a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. We are going to guarantee healthcare, housing, and education as rights. There is no other way around it."
"This moment, this opportunity is a gift from the gods of liberal women in politics."
"If you can write off billions of fines as the cost of simply doing business, how are overdraft fees anything other than an ideological tool to simply further punish the poor?"
"I was really going back and reviewing these last 10 years and I have concerns about how much things have really changed."
"In my district, I represent Rikers Island. I represent kids who go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metro card."
"I do want to commend you for your decision, and Chase's decision to pull out of financing for private prisons."
"So I think what we have laid out here is a very clear moral problem, and in terms of leadership, if we fail to act, or even if we delay in acting, we will have blood on our hands."
"I think that ironically, despite that fixation, it does not seem that they have actually read the contents of the proposed and presented resolution."
"So the fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for the development of solar panels is 'socialist' is just bad faith and it is incorrect."