What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.