The police are going to be a core, core way for us to address the public safety concerns that so many New Yorkers have, and let me be clear, defund the police is the wrong approach for New York City, you have to start by saying to the police very clearly that you are vital to our city's recovery because there is no recovery without public safety.

Andrew Yang

If The Democratic presidential candidate look at it, what does it say ? Medicare for All, which means that The Democratic presidential candidate have a Medicare program that everyone can be enrolled in. It does not say Medicare for All, and all private insurance is hereby illegal.

I would be right here in Iowa, or New Hampshire, or South Carolina, or Nevada, or someplace else campaigning. It's true.

The difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can get done. we should not be looking to other countries' mistakes.

A wealth tax makes a lot of sense in principle, the problem is it's been tried in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and all those countries ended up repealing it because it had massive implementation problems and did not generate the revenue projected.

Many working Americans do not feel like Democrats are speaking to... by Andrew Yang

Many working Americans do not feel like Democrats are speaking to them.

I've experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing, and it hurts. It's something that is very real, and I do think anti-Asian racial epithets are not taken as seriously as slurs against other groups.

It's time to trust ourselves more than our politicians, that's why I'm going to do something unprecedented tonight : My campaign will now give a' freedom dividend' of $ 1,000 a month for an entire year to 10 American families, someone watching this at home right now.

Ninety-four percent of the new jobs created in the US are gig, temporary or contractor jobs at this point, and we still just pretend it's the'70s, where it's like,' You're going to work for a company, you're going to get benefits, you're going to be able to retire, even though we've totally eviscerated any retirement benefits, but somehow you're going to retire, it's going to work out,' young people look up at this and be like,' This does not seem to work.' And we're like,' Oh, it's all right.' It's not all right. We do have to grow up.

This is how you start a revolution. by Andrew Yang

This is how you start a revolution.

In this case, I mean, it's very clear the President's actions and words have conveyed a strong sense to many Americans that he has white supremacist beliefs and that's the only standard we can go by.

The fact is there are many, many poor kids in this country who are underrepresented minorities, kids of color.

You know what the talking heads couldn't stop talking about about after the last debate ? It's not the fact that I am somehow No. 4 on the stage in national polling, it was the fact that I wasn't wearing a tie. Instead of automation in the future, including the fact we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs. Hundreds of thousands right here in Michigan.

If you go to a factory here in Michigan, you will not find wall-to-wall immigrants, you will find wall-to-wall robots and machines. Immigrants are being scapegoated for issues they have nothing to do with in our economy.

Were here with makeup on our faces and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show, its one reason why we elected a reality TV star as our president. We need to be laser-focused on solving the real challenges of today.

Right now we're on the verge of a difficult time, so, Americans c... by Andrew Yang

Right now we're on the verge of a difficult time, so, Americans can't trust what we see.

I don't look much like a white nationalist. It's been a point of... by Andrew Yang

I don't look much like a white nationalist. It's been a point of confusion.

So, if they can do that, why can't we ? by Andrew Yang

So, if they can do that, why can't we ?

What I've been saying is the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian... by Andrew Yang

What I've been saying is the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.

I disavowed any of that support, i don't want anyone that has an agenda different than that of this campaign. We're trying to solve the problem.

In the context of my book, I was saying, how will this tribalism and violence manifest itself. Poor whites who felt like they had no future and then that violence would emerge in large part because that group would become increasingly angry and distressed, that's the context of the book.