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This campaign is going to send a message to
the billionaire class: You can't have it all!
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I'm running for president of the United States
of America, because we have four beautiful
kids and seven incredible grandchildren, and I wanna
make sure that the country we leave them is
a nation that we are proud of.
My mother was born and raised in New York City, she
died at the age of 46.
We had a three-and-a-half room rent-controlled
apartment.
At that very early age, I began to realize
the impact that lack of finances have on families.
My father came to this country from Poland
at the age of 17. He worked every day of his life.
I grew up in Brooklyn. Many of the families
were immigrants.
And they understood the importance of education.
We don't have a strong economy unless we have
a very well-educated workforce.
That is why I, as president, will fight to
make tuition in public colleges and universities
free, as well as substantially lower interest
rates on student loans.
At the University of Chicago I got involved
in the civil rights movement.
We ended up engaging in a sit-in demonstration.
I believe that you are entitled to justice
and to equal rights, whether you are black,
whether you are hispanic, whether you are
gay, whether you are transgender...
You are a human being.
I went to Washington to demonstrate and went
out there on the mall. It was an extraordinary
speech. I had the feeling I was, at that particular
moment, part of history.
I ended up winning my first election as mayor
of Burlington by 10 votes, after a recount,
in an election that nobody thought we could
win.
I met Jane just about the time of the election.
We have been together for 27 years.
As president, I will defend this nation, but
I will do it responsibly.
As a member of Congress, I voted against the
War in Iraq and that was the right vote.
I had serious doubts about what Bush and Cheney
were telling us.
And that if you overthrew Saddam Hussein,
you could bring a massive amount of instability
into that region.
And that it would not be quite as easy as
people like Donald Rumsfeld and others were
telling us.
We have got to, as a moral responsibility,
provide the best quality health care to the
men and women who put their lives on the line
to defend us.
John McCain and I put 5 billion dollar into
strengthening the VA, so that any veteran
that walks into a VA facility will get quality
care in a timely manner.
That was one of the major pieces of legislation
passed in the last Congressional session.
I don't want to see people not go to the doctor
when they're sick, because they can't afford
to pay the doctors fees.
The United States must join the rest of the
industrialized world and guarantee health
care to all as a right.
There is nothing more important than leaving
this country and our entire planet habitable
for our kids and our grandchildren.
Climate change is real. It is caused by human
activity. And we have a small window of opportunity
to transform our energy system, cut carbon
emissions and move in a very different direction.
This campaign is about putting Americans back
to work at decent paying jobs.
Let's get started. Let's put a trillion dollars
over a five-year period. Let's create and
maintain 13 million jobs.
Let's make our infrastructure stronger, safer
and more efficient.
We must establish pay equity for women workers.
The bottom line is that if somebody is working
40 hours a week that person should not be
living in poverty.
The issue of wealth and income inequality
is the great moral issue of our time.
It is the great economic issue of our time
It is the great political issue of our time.
This kind of rigged economy is not what America
is supposed to be about.
This has got to change.
And as your president, together, we are going
to change it.
I will be working hard to overturn Citizens
United.
That is the undermining of American democracy
and the qualities of this country which have
made us the envy of the entire world.
Today, in America, we have enormous problems.
They are solvable problems.
This country belongs to all of us.
We want to make policy that improves the lives
of all of our people.
That's how we transform America.
