Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax. Now, this is not just a stupid expression, but it is incredibly dangerous.

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