Are We Prepared To Take

I Have Not Heard Almost Anybody Suggest That Raising The Minimum Wage To The Level We Have In Vermont Has Been An Impediment To Our Economy Which Is Doing Reasonably Well ... If Somebody Is Going To Work That Person Has Got To Receive At Least A Wage That They Can Go Out And Live With Dignity On. That's An Extremely Important Point.

I Believe, Along With Pope Francis And Almost All Scientists, That Climate Change Is Threatening This Planet In Horrendous Ways, And That We Have To Be Aggressive In Transforming Our Energy System Away From Fossil Fuel And Defeat The Keystone Pipeline.

I Went Back To A Small Town In Poland Where My Dad Grew Up. It Was A Very Traumatic Experience For Me As A Young Man To Know That My Father's Family Were Killed By Nazis, Killed By Hitler. And That Left, You Know, If Not Intellectually, At Least An Emotional Part Of Me Which Said, God, We Have Got To Do Everything We Can To End This Kind Of Horrific Racism Or Anti-semitism. And I Have Spent Much Of My Life Trying To Fight That.

Charles Kernaghan Is A Legitimate American Hero... Through His Determination He Has Forced The Leadership In Our Country And Many Other Countries Around The World To Pay Attention. Kernaghan Has Done More To Expose Child Labor Than Has The Whole Department Of Labor That Has A Budget Of Hundreds And Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars, Because He Has The Guts And Determination To Do It.

We're Going To Stand With Working People. We're Going To Take On The Billionaire Class. We're Going The Take On The Drug Companies And The Insurance Companies. We're Going The Take On Wall Street. That's Where I Think The Future Of The Democratic Party Lies.