Prions Are Highly Indestructible.

A Lot Of Times, Candidates For Office, Especially Incumbents, Seem To Get Drawn Into Their Opponents' Arguments, And Fighting On Their Turf, Because You Want To Defend Yourself. That's Wrong. Fight On Your Own Turf. Make Them Come To You. Make Them Explain Why They Don't Agree With Your Position. I Think That A Lot Of Times, Too Many Liberals, Progressives, Lose Because They're Afraid To Really Stand Up For What They Believe In.

Let's Face It, In America Today We Don't Have A Health Care System, We Have A Sick Care System. We Wait Until People Become Obese, Develop Chronic Diseases, Or Become Disabled - And Then We Spend Untold Hundreds Of Billions Annually To Try To Make Them Better.

It's Been Years, But I Still Say That I Went Out With The Same Progressive Values And Liberal Ideals That I Went In With. I Made A Couple Of Mistakes, I Will Honestly Admit. In Retrospect, There Are A Few Votes I Wish I Could Take Back. But, Through It All, I Kept My Support For Organized Labor, I Kept My Support For Income Equality, I Kept My Support For Making Sure That Kids That Come From Poor Families Have Access To Education. So, Yes, I Still Believe That You Don't Have To Give Up Your Ideals And Go Along. One Person Can Still Stand Up And Make A Difference.

[a]s We Celebrate 75 Years Of The Minimum Wage, We Must Also Recognize That It Is No Longer Achieving Its Potential Impact In Our Economy Or For America's Working Families. Every American Deserves The Chance To Build A Better Life For His Or Her Family - And Raising The Minimum Wage Will Provide That Opportunity.

The Burning Issue Of Our Time Is The Growing Inequality In Income And Wealth In Our Country, And It's Got To Be Addressed. We've Got To Stop It. It's Eroding Our Politics. It's Separating Our Society Into The Haves And The Have-nots. It's Condemning A Whole Younger Set Of Our Population To Not Be Able To Enter The Middle Class. And, It Hits Hardest In The Prairie Areas Of The United States, Our Small Towns And Communities, Where The Jobs Just Aren't Available And The Incomes Are Low.