Bernie Sanders

That isn't going to happen.

Then why did we spend $7 billion looking at Yucca?

In all due respect, a higher level of inspection. People are leaking a possible cancer causing product, and your response was to do a higher level of inspection. I think most Americans would not be satisfied with that.

Vermont is showing the Nation that we do not need nuclear but that we can in fact rely on energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

I in fact strongly support the bipartisan decision of the Vermont State Senate, which under Vermont law voted 26 to 4, not a close vote, not to extend the operations of Vermont Yankee beyond 2012.

I think there is overwhelming distrust of the plant.

Do we appreciate, and are we inculcating our young kids with, the understanding that intellectual development is a good idea, in addition to being a great basketball player?

Do you think, as a nation, we really take intellectual development seriously?

How do we turn that around to say that, 'If some kid wants to study hard and become an engineer, you know what, that's pretty cool?'

Many of the kids who are coming into school are already--especially from low-income families--already pretty far behind.

I don't think that any of us fully appreciate the far reaches of poverty on children.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth, far higher than most of the European countries; and we end up with more people in jail than any other country.

President Reagan fought hard for a 5 cents per gallon gas tax that included transit funding and he made a promise to, then, my children, in 1983.

If we are going to be a strong, competitive Nation economically, we are going to have to adjust this problem at one point or another.

I come from Vermont, one of the most rural States in the country, and we have exactly those problems as well.

I do not think there is any debate, no matter what your politics may be, progressive or conservative, bridges falling down are bridges falling down.

We have to be part of the solution, and we have to partner in very new ways with HHS.

When 70 percent of women went to work outside of the home, it created many more opportunities for women.

Well, I look forward to working with you. I don't know how we are going to make great advances in elementary and secondary education, lest we address child care as well.

Do you agree that our current system is a disaster?

No Child Left Behind puts too much emphasis on testing, therefore narrowing the curriculum of many classrooms.

We are going to lose that, aren't we? We are going to have to rethink that.

I don't know how we can expect kids to do well in school if the first 4 or 5 years of their lives, they don't have their intellectual or emotional needs addressed.

In our country, we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty of any other country on Earth.

The blueprint for reauthorization that we have received from the Obama administration is a step in the right direction.