Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low..

I would love it if everybody in America agreed with me on every issue. I can't get my wife to agree with me on every issue, let alone the American pe….

To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody i….

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result ….

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well gues….

The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to ….

I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in ….

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society..

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana..

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue..

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness that [Ge….

I am going to work with people who hold similar views to me inside Congress, outside of Congress to make certain that we come together to stop Trump ….

I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you know, Republicans give a lo….

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process..

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, i….

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy..

All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our health care outcomes are in many cases worse….

If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk ab….

In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an insp….

If you`re a Republican politician and you`re seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, ….

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little..