Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%.

We need you to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies and understand that health care is a human right.

Your presence here today is making Donald Trump and Elon Musk very nervous.

The future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

The country faces some very difficult challenges, and the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

Now we've got a president of the United States... thinks climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong.

We're living in a moment where the president has no understanding or respect for the Constitution of the United States.

We need you to stand up, to fight… for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.

The American people, whether they are Democrats, Republicans, or Independents, do not want billionaires to control our government or buy our elections.

We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families.

We need you to stand up to fight for justice. To fight for economic justice, social justice and racial justice.

The younger generation has to help lead in the fight to combat climate change, protect women's rights, and build an economy that works for all, not just the few.

the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

I am not aware that in the so-called mandate of President Trump--and, by the way, he got millions of votes less than Joe Biden got 4 years previously. I don't recall that during the campaign, Trump went around the country saying: Hey…

What he wants is power and wealth for his oligarch friends. So nothing would surprise me about Trump.

When you talk about people losing faith in the American political system, it’s justified.

What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’

let me cut to the chase, and I will try to be brief here. We hear a lot of talk on the floor of the Senate about patriotism, about love of country, about how we all have to work together for the common good. It would seem to me that when…

If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions … what do you think he’s going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?

We’ve got to stand up and rally the American people to fight against this horrendous agenda.

In the year 2025, in the richest country in the history of world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages.

That is not what people fought and died to create in this country.

We don’t have to hate China. We don’t have to hate other people. Let’s figure out a way to work together.

We need the Republicans to understand that workers in their states can’t make it on $7.25 and $10 an hour, they have got to join us and help us raise that minimum wage to $17 an hour.

There’s some kind of mythology out there that the only people working for minimum wage are kids trying to make some extra spending money … and that is not the case.