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Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as 'socialist.'

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country.

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!

We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

It used to be that I was known as 'the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,' which is true. Now I'm a 'self-professed democratic socialist.' Things change when you run for president.