I Prefer To Stay On The Important

There Is A Reason Why These People [from Wall Street] Are Putting Huge Amounts Of Money Into Our Political System. And In My View, It Is Undermining American Democracy And It Is Allowing Congress To Represent Wealthy Campaign Contributors And Not The Working Families Of This Country.

I Have One Of The Strongest Records In Fighting For Senior Citizens. I Led The Effort To Prevent Cuts To Social Security. But I Think For Some Seniors, They Remember The "evil Empire" Of The Soviet Union. They Conflated The Term "democratic Socialism" With Communism.

It's Immoral And Wrong That The Top 1 Percent Of The Usa Owns Almost As Much Wealth As The Bottom 90 Percent. We Should Look At Countries Like Denmark And Sweden And Norway And Look At What They've Accomplished For Their Working People.

We Need A Very Progressive And Strong Agenda To Bring People Into The Political Process Because I Worry Very Much About The Future Of The American Democracy Where So Many People Are Giving Up.

High-speed Trains In Japan Can Now Reach 375 Mph - Twice As Fast As Any Public Transit Train In The United States. America's Railroads Were Once The Envy Of The World. Today They Are In Disrepair And We Are Falling Further And Further Behind The Rest Of The World. We Need To Rebuild Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Including Rail. When We Do That We Not Only Make Our Country More Productive And Efficient, We Create Millions Of New Jobs.