"Together we developed a moral agenda, a moral agenda that calls for the elimination of systemic racism, and poverty, ecological devastation, and militarism in the war economy."
"Budgets reflect our deepest values, our most important priorities."
"We need a moral revolution of values that places the needs and demands of the poor and of the planet at the heart of the budget."
"Poverty is people's creation. It is their creation of immoral budgets and unjust policies."
"It seems to me that tackling the issue of poverty should be something that we do in a bipartisan way."
"the traditional poverty measures don't actually capture the distressed conditions that the American people are confronting."
"The traditional poverty measures don't actually capture the distressed conditions that the American people are confronting."
"Seventeen different intelligence agencies concluded that Russia attacked our democracy as part of an effort to try and artificially place someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
"Many of my colleagues voted against equal pay for equal work, notwithstanding the fact that women are paid approximately 80 percent of what men are paid for doing the same job."
"So that means that there are still places in the United States of America where someone can be fired because of their gender identity or sexual orientation."
"And still places in the United States of America where someone can be denied a loan because of their gender identity or sexual orientation?"
"the totality of the import of what Medicaid provides, I think, is well established"