"the ideas that I am talking about are ideas that are widely supported everything that I talk about raising the minimum wage health care for all a tax system which demands the billionaires pay their fa..."

"Bernie Sanders senator from Vermont and two-time presidential candidate both times as the underdog who against the long odds captivated the support and excitement of millions of people both on the lef..."

"extraordinary I took a bus ride down with fellow students in the University of Chicago and it was a zillion people there I'm not sure if it was the first time I'd ever been in Washington in my life bu..."

"message sent out you're black deal with civil rights don't worry about foreign policy we'll take care of that but he said you know if I talk about peace and nonviolence I can't sit back and allow what..."

"into Iraq what was your thinking at the time behind that those speeches behind voting no on the Patriot Act on the Iraq resolution and maybe ironically came out of maybe the war in Vietnam and the eas..."

"political system and it's we don't talk about it what is the reality of the political system today and that is that billionaires are spending huge amounts of money to buy this election in Trump's camp..."

"institution in the Pentagon we spend a trillion dollar a year on the Pentagon it is the only Federal agency that cannot is not able to submit to an independent audit so if you think there's not massiv..."

"I think in 2016 have companies lobbyist ever try to buy you try to influence you we don't welcome them into our office I do deal with these guys but it's usually on a confrontational tone no so they d..."

"view how do we make that happen when uh there's so much money in the system and the politicians uh oh to the people who paid for their election does it have to come from the very top essentially sort ..."

"we need a Grassroots movement to say when somebody is at a town meeting you're running for the Senate you're running for the house what's your view on citizens of United are you prepared to vote to ov..."

"let's talk about Healthcare go out on the street do it we do a poll I've done the polling is Health Care a human right should every American be able to go to a doctor when they need regardless of thei..."

"bottom line is that because of our corrupt political system we have a health care System designed not to provide Health Care to old people to make huge profits for the drug companies and the insurance..."

"strengthen medic and have everybody in the system and when you do that and this is not just me talking number of Studies have pointed this out when you take the profit motive out of it from the insura..."

"out of pocket we pay through it through Medicare Medicaid Veterans Administration Etc uh what I am proposing is really not radical it's what exists in Canada and other countries it is publicly funded ..."

"to the hospital even if there's something wrong with you if there's pain and all that so you just live in a state of fear psychological fear that's the number one problem is it's not just Financial ps..."

"extremely expensive proposition okay or you end up in the hospital could you know rather than dealing with the problem when it occurs and and what is not talked about you know I mentioned earlier how ..."

"there's just so many stories and not even the horrific stories there countless horrific stories but just basic stories of cost like my friend uh a Doctor Peter Atia has this story where he happens to ..."

"system it is an inhumane system uh but you know the insurance companies and the drug companies are very powerful and they make a lot of campaign contributions have a lot of lobbyists and we are where ..."

"needs to be a mass movement and um probably I mean from my perspective it has to come from the very top it has to come from the president and the president has to be a populist president where they do..."

"you know the opposition is going to be extraordinary uh but what I am extremely proud of from that campaign in 2020 as well is that we took on the anointed candidate of the establishment and we showed..."

"going to ask you a question are you ready for this Lex let's go here we go over the last 50 years there's been a massive increase in worker productivity as a result of Technology right everyone agrees..."

"America I got to get back to 2016 because it's such a historic moment so there's a lot of fans of yours that uh wanted you to keep fighting because you forgave in the end the establishment and joined ..."

"to try to do what I could to prevent Trump from getting uh uh elected and in 2020 I did the same with Biden and we had more success with Biden than we had with Clinton well there's this interesting uh..."

"prophets don't are you willing to make those choices basically Obama is making a case that you have to sort of um moderate your approach in order to win so was was Obama right look and again that's wh..."

"you can lose and win if you're into transforming uh Society what my view is where I disagree with Obama is I think you have got to raise Consciousness among Ordinary People and when people know what's..."

"that's how you got to bring about change so just to go back to Obama though in many ways he too is a singular historic figure in American politics who has brought about a lot of change he's a symbol I..."

"even if people disagree with him politically um so he deserves and again don't ever don't underestimate I think you know years ago there were people who said a black president in our lifetimes never g..."

"want it all I have to ask you about capitalism the pros and cons so you wrote a book it's okay to be angry about capitalism that is a a thorough rigorous criticism of I would say hyper capitalism yes ..."

"countries if you look at Scandinavia and this shocks people because we don't talk about this at all so in Scandinavia has been the case you know Denmark Finland Norway for years that people have Healt..."

"plus billion but he gets by and I said to him Bill he was supposed to ask me questions I asked him the question I bill tell me something you know you're an innovator with Microsoft and all that stuff ..."

"that is the look I am no great fan of Elon mus espe especially in the role that he's playing right now in Trump's campaign but is he a brilliant guy of course he is does he work like a dog of course h..."

"$75 can you just speak to that tweet look nothing new Trump didn't invent it it's a called a photo opportunity I've done one or two in my life too so you go to a place he puts on an apron he Good Old ..."

"modest so what's your response usually to those attacks do I own three residences yeah I do I live here in Burlington Vermont we live in a m middle class neighborhood nice house uh guess what I'm a Un..."

"wife who also grew up in a working-class family will tell you the same we don't worry you raised that issue you know if we have to go to the doctor if our kids have to go to the doctor we go to the do..."

"worry about that and I don't have to worry about it but your point is again to me I don't like big fancy cars or big fancy homes don't go on my wife will tell you we've not been on a real vacation for..."

"president and the hope for you is that there will be future candidates that are populist that are progressive yeah absolutely let me ask you about a she's become one of the most influential voices for..."

"Alexandria what do you think is the most powerful enduring impact you've had on American politics looking back you've been in it for quite a bit well you know I don't know that I can give you a singul..."

"came dozens of candidates now in the House of Representatives people on city council people on State Legislature who did win so we mentioned about the worry of getting sick the worry of life that many..."

"it's a great honor to speak to you today thank you so much well thank you very much for what you're doing let me just say a word about you're doing okay to return the the compliments here you know I t..."