"The time is long overdue for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide healthcare to every man, woman, and child as a right."
"What we need is a progressive agenda which speaks to the needs of working families."
"It is an absolute disgrace that in the wealthiest nation on earth, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country."
"There is something fundamentally wrong when the top 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
"We have a moral obligation to make certain that no American goes hungry, no American sleeps out on the street."
"I believe that in a democratic, civilized society, healthcare is a right, not a privilege."
"The United States must help lead the world in reversing the arms race, not in escalating it."
"I think that anyone who has studied economics and has some kind of a conscience understands that you cannot continue to have a nation in which a few people have so much and so many people have so litt..."
"We must stand up to the big money interests who not only want tax breaks for themselves but want to cut back on the needs of working families and the elderly."
"We must not let the wealthiest people in this country, who have so much influence over our political process, make the rules for everyone else."
"We should be spending less money on the military and more money on human needs."