It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.

Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process. That is not the democracy that many of us believe America should be.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

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?

The political world is changing rapidly. What the establishment has learned, what the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, the media establishment, is the world is not quite what they thought it was. With the middle class disappearing, with people working longer hours for lower rages, with people worried about the future of their children, what you are seeing is a lot of discontent at the grassroots level all over this country. And that's what's going on right now.

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