A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests, who today, to a very significant degree, control our economic and political life.

We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

What a grassroots party is about is people getting excited, getting involved in the local political process, saying, we want our candidate to run for office, we want him to run for office, and we're going to get involved and make sure that he or she wins.