"The recklessness, the greed, I suspect the illegal behavior of maybe a few hundred, a few thousand people has impacted and destroyed the lives of millions of people in this country."
"Do you believe that Wall Street leaders engaged in illegal behavior and that some of them should end up behind bars in the coming years?"
"Don't you think we have a right to know a little bit more than these banks are telling us?"
"these wealthiest 400 Americans now pay a lower tax rate, lower effective tax rate than most police officers, teachers, nurses, and people in the middle class."
"I know, as well, and I think a lot of the problem is more financing than, in fact, technological and engineering."
"In my view, a corporation is not a person. In fact, it's not even close."
"It is an obscenity that we stigmatize so many young people with a criminal record for smoking marijuana."
"We have a moral obligation to make certain that no American goes hungry, no American sleeps out on the street."
"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."
"It is an absolute disgrace that in the wealthiest nation on earth, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country."
"The function of a good government is to represent and protect the needs of the most vulnerable people in our society."