I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region, we do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama's effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad.

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Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

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I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

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Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.

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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

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In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.

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People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

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I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.

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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

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What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

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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.

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I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

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I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.

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I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

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I worry very, very much about an isolated country. That's what makes me nervous. Russia lives in the world. China lives in the world. North Korea is a very, very strange country because it is so isolated, and I do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons, they have got to be dealt with. Dealt with effectively.

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Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

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There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

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This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

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I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

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