Bernie Sanders

How do we compete against that and create those manufacturing jobs here?

One of the concerns that I have is that in recent years, Dr. Danielson, China has put an enormous amount of money.

I think energy efficiency certainly is one way to go and sustainable energy is the other.

I think we have to move boldly and aggressively to transform our energy system.

I happen to believe A, that global warming is real.

Does, in a sense, represent a clear and present danger to the future of the housing market if we do not do something about it.

Thank you. First of all, I do agree with what Dave said.

Do you think, when children in Denmark have a 3.6 percent rate of poverty, compared to 21 percent plus in the United States, our poor kids are freer than those enslaved children in Denmark?

Socialism is probably a closer description.

I think it's a moral issue, whether you say, I'm going to compare the health of the poor now to the health of the poor 25, 50 years ago.

We consistently rank at or near the bottom on measures of health.

That is not true and there's a tremendous amount of data to support that.

What does it mean for the future of the country--that 21 percent of our kids are living in poverty?

I think the current science tells us that, most likely, to explain that lower ranking on life expectancy, we need to look at childhood poverty.

I trust you don't believe that those countries that have substantially lower childhood levels of poverty... are socialist tyrannies.

We are No. 1 in child poverty among the industrialized countries.

There is no medical reason why everyone shouldn't attain that.

I fear, moving forward, now that the poverty rate has climbed in this recession back up to the levels--to pre-1996 levels, I am concerned that, moving forward, and especially in 2014, we are going to trap even more people in poverty and in…

It's a time bomb. I mean, it's already true that in the United States, we rank at or near the bottom.

Your point is not just that people are dying, or suffering, or losing limbs because they can't get to a doctor.

Poverty is a death sentence, but it's not just because of the lack of medical care.

Getting people employed, and consequently healthy, is what your constituents want from you now.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak for those without a voice, who have died or will die as a result of our country's unwillingness to acknowledge that health care is a human right and to provide affordable, high quality health care to…

All we need is the political will. I'm hoping you will create that.

We need something that provides everyone equal dignity, an egalitarian system in this country, which provides equal healthcare for everyone.