"When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful."
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"The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity."
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"The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!"
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"Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on."
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"It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education."
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"I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch."
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"College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness."
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"We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence."
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"The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads."
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"A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air."
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"When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is."
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"Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?"
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"Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job."
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"Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school."
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"Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people."
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"I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful."
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"It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives."
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"The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder."
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"As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating."
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"There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what's going on here."
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