Occupation: United States Senator Birth: September 8, 1941
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?.
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….
Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with….
We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy..
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….
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainab….
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and m….
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 think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs..
What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own weal….
The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way..
The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry..
I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to de….
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….
I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California and New York state.So….
I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain..
How about something more interesting? How about you come forward and say, [Donald] Trump supporters, I absolutely know what you think about the Repub….
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….
Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the est….
People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will the….