If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk about income inequality, raising wages in America, trade policy - that's a huge success. It's not putting pressure on a candidate. It's mobilizing people.

We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.