"There is something fundamentally wrong when the top 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
"What we need is a progressive agenda which speaks to the needs of working families."
"I believe that in a democratic, civilized society, healthcare is a right, not a privilege."
"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."
"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 not let the wealthiest people in this country, who have so much influence over our political process, make the rules for everyone else."
"The United States must help lead the world in reversing the arms race, not in escalating it."
"I think the major political problem in this country is that you have a two-party system, which is essentially a one-party system."
"We should be spending less money on the military and more money on human needs."
"We must make the banks serve the needs of the people, not the needs of the banks."
"We have to educate, organize and mobilize the working people of this country."