I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.