We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country.

What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.

What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.

The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

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!

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.