During The 1999 Debate Over Permanent Normal

The United States Must Join The Rest Of The Industrialized World, Guarantee Health Care To All People As A Right.

We're Not Going To Give Tax Breaks To Billionaires And Then Cut Back On The Needs Of Our Elderly Or Poor Or Kids Or Education. We're Not Going To Privatize Social Security - In Fact, We're Going To Strengthen It. We're Going To Provide Quality Education For Every Kid In America, From Preschool Through College. We Have To Take On These Corporate Leaders Who Are Selling Out The American People, Whose Allegiance Is Now Much More To China Than It Is To The United States. If We Have The Courage To Take These People On, I Think We Can Overwhelm George W. Bush And His Friends.

Politics Is Not About A Person. We Transform America Not By Electing Some Guy Or Woman To Be President; We Transform This Country When Millions Of People Stand Up And Fight Back. That Will Result In Good Leadership On Top. So The Goal Right Now Is Not To Worry About Who's Going To Be Running In 2020 Or 2080. The Goal Now Is To Mobilize Millions Of People Around A Progressive Agenda.

Wish We Could, And Allow The Taliban Or Anybody Else To Reclaim That Country. But What We Must Do Is Some Progress In Iraq, Where Finally The Iraqi Army, Which Has Not Been A Particularly Effective Fighting Force, Retook Ramadi.

I Think, While It Is True That The Hillary Clinton And I Voted Differently On The War In Iraq, What Is Important Is That We Learn The Lesson Of The War In Iraq. And That Lesson Is Intrinsic To My Foreign Policy If Elected President, Is The United States Cannot Do It Alone. We Cannot Be The Policeman Of The World. We Are Now Spending More I Believe Than The Next Eight Countries On Defense. We Have Got To Work In Strong Coalition With The Major Powers Of The World And With Those Muslim Countries That Are Prepared To Stand Up And Take On Terrorism.