I never believed what Cheney and Bush said about Iraq... I voted against the war in Iraq and helped lead the opposition.

We should not be in a position where teachers have to work two or three jobs to support themselves.

I believe that the United States should not be the only major country on earth not to provide paid family and medical leave.

We are not going to bomb our way to a solution in Afghanistan.

When I say the wealthy are going to have to start paying their fair share of taxes, they're not necessarily sympathetic to that.

Poll after poll after poll shows that the American people want to move forward as strongly as we can with gun safety legislation.

Half of the people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck. That's not a strong economy.

What Trump is trying to do obviously is to divide the American people up based on where we come from or our religion or the color of our skin or our sexual orientation.

I regard Trump's action in this whole regard as part of his racism, his Islamophobia, and it is a clearly an absolute outrage.

That is a very dangerous situation.

That is not what the NRA wants. And Trump and Mitch McConnell unfortunately are listening to the NRA.

The power of the NRA over Trump, over Mitch McConnell, and the Republican leadership.

We have got to have the guts to take on the insurance companies and the drug companies and move forward toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program.

We need a new trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers, and by the way, the word 'family farmer' is almost one of the times gone by.

I believe that healthcare is a right of all people.

It's racist because last time I checked Bernie Sanders, who is actually Democratic socialist, was never told to go back to where he came from. But four congresswomen of color were told that by the President. It's racist.

I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA.

I congratulate my friend and the senior Senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy, for casting his 16,000th vote in the U.S. Senate. Since he was first elected in 1974, Senator Leahy has worked tirelessly for the people of Vermont, bringing to…

The fix Obamacare approach is not the way to go. We got to go Medicare for all.

And, of course, they should get equal pay.

We think we stand an excellent chance not only to win the Democratic nomination but to defeat the most dangerous president in modern American history.

What it looks like is that if we are going to save this planet and if we are going to respond to what the scientists are telling us, and that is that we have less than 12 years before they will be irreparable damage done to this country.

I'm feeling very good. Look, this is a very different situation, political situation than last time around when there were two major candidates.

Is the future of this planet more important than the short term profits of the fossil fuel industry? Do we tolerate this where we have a president, who is ignoring science, who thinks that climate change is a hoax?

Yes, he should. He should resign because he was part of a process that really exposes the two tier criminal justice system in America.