"While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. What an outrage!"

"When I talk about democratic socialist, I'm not looking at Venezuela. I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden."

"Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?"

"It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires."

"In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department."

"Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value."

"To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read."

"Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration."

"We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger."

"The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America."

"Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans."

"I'm not always a smiley kind of guy."

"Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education."

"I am a socialist, and everyone knows it."

"It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company."

"I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes."

"Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship."

"Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy."

"Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent."

"Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs."

"Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together."

"The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often."

"There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents."

"Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating."