Not just for the U.S. Senate but it also means for school board and city council. We need to revitalize American democracy. We need to have people at all - all over this country, having the courage to take on big money and demand a set of policies that work for all of us and not just for the few.

I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

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

What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

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