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.

There is something fundamentally wrong when the top 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

The function of a good government is to represent and protect the needs of the most vulnerable people in our society.

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 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.

I believe that in a democratic, civilized society, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

What we need is a progressive agenda which speaks to the needs of working families.

We have a moral obligation to make certain that no American goes hungry, no American sleeps out on the street.

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 little.

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.