Transcripts For CSPAN Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally In Laram

CSPAN Bernie Sanders Campaign Rally In Laramie Wyoming April 6, 2016

Clearly and unapologetically, instead of negotiating with terrorism, we will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian Nuclear deal. [applause] we will defeat radical islamic terrorism and we will utterly destroy isis. [applause] we will have a president who keeps us safe. To the soldiers and sailors, the airmen and marines, the Police Officers and firefighters and First Responders who risk their lives so to keep us safe, we will have a commanderinchief who has your back. [applause] jobs freedom and security, that , is what this next election is all about. In 1980, milton and Rose Friedman wrote free to choose. They explain that the American Free enterprise system has been the greatest engine for opportunity and prosperity, that the world has ever seen. Too much government can stifle opportunity. But if we get washington out of the way, then there is no limit to what we can accomplish. [applause] it is what allowed my dad to leave cuba and come to america with nothing, washing dishes making him . 50 a day to start a business and today to be a pastor traveling the country. [applause] its what allowed my irish italian mother to become the first in her family to go to college, to smash glass ceilings by becoming a pioneering computer programmer. [applause] its what allowed my wife heidi [applause] [chanting] [applause] i may be biased, but isnt she going to make an amazing first lady . [applause] we love you, wisconsin. [applause] mr. Cruz she is the child of missionaries, my best friend in the world, and she has become a successful business leader, a loving mother and every day, she is teaching our daughters caroline and catherine that strong women can accomplish anything in the United States of america. [applause] thats america. Its what we are fighting for. Our children, our future, and wisconsin has made clear we are free to choose. [applause] for centuries, america has been a shining city on a hill, a pretty to the world, and we can and will be once again. [applause] so i ask you at home to join us as we continue to unite republicans and independents and libertarians and reagan democrats and americans who care about our future who want jobs, freedom, security just as weve done in wisconsin we are doing all across this country. [applause] and governor let me tell you, my look for work to coming back to the state of wisconsin this fall. [applause] and in november for the First Time Since 1984, painting the badger state bright republican red. [applause] so let me just say, hillary, get ready, here we come. God bless you. [applause] senator Bernie Sanders won the primary, defeating hillary clinton. He spoke to supporters in wyoming. [cheering] [applause] sen. Sanders thank you, laramie [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders you know, i was told that there were about 5000 people who participated in the last wyoming caucus. It looks like all of them are here tonight. Thank you thank you very much for coming out and let me remind everybody that we have got a really important caucus here on saturday. Doors open at 9 00 a. M. Lets be there. Lets win. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders now, i do not know if the audience here knows it i do not see any televisions here, but it has been projected by think all of the networks that we won in wisconsin [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting bernie ] sen. Sanders now let me say word about what momentum is all about. It meant starting this campaign 11 month ago and the media determining we were a fringe candidate see. Momentum is starting a campaign 6070 points behind secretary clinton. Momentum is that within the last couple of weeks there have been National Polls which have had us one point up or one point down. [applause] sen. Sanders momentum is that when you look at National Polls or you look at state polls, we are defeating donald trump by very significant numbers. [applause] sen. Sanders and, in almost every instance in National Polls and staples, our margin over and state polls, our margin over trump is wider than is secretary clintons. With a victory of the wisconsin tonight, and let me take this opportunity to thank the people of wisconsin for their strong support. [applause] sen. Sanders with our victory tonight in wisconsin we have now one seven out of eight of the last caucuses. [applause] sen. Sanders and we have won almost all of them with overwhelming landslide numbers. [applause] sen. Sanders what momentum is about, is that at a time in contemporary politics when every major candidate has a super pac, we have said no to super pacs, said no to the billionaire for fundings. [applause] and what we have done is in an unprecedented manner in history we have up until this point in the campaign received over six million individual campaign contributions. [applause] sen. Sanders anyone here know what the average contribution is . That is exactly right. Smart crowd. 27. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln at gettysburg, this is a campaign of the people, by the people, and for the people. [applause] sen. Sanders we have decided that we do not represent the billionaire class. We do not represent wall street or the Drug Companies or the fossil fuel industry. [applause] sen. Sanders and we do not want their money. What momentum is about is my belief that if we wake up the American People and if working people and middleclass people and citizens and young people begin to stand up, fight back, and come out to vote in large numbers there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. And whats we have been seeing a throughout his campaign is extraordinary voter turnouts in state after state after state. [applause] i am particularly grateful and pleased that at a time when many of the pundits said, you know, those young people they do not , want to get involved in politics. They are not really concerned about the major issues facing our country. They are too busy with their video games or whatever. Well, you know what is happening . All over this country, young people are standing up and saying, you know what . We want to help determine the future of this country which we love. [applause] sen. Sanders what momentum is about is all across this country, the American People are looking around them. And they understand that real change in our countrys history, whether it is the trade union movement, whether it is the civil rights movement, whether it is the womens movement, the gay rights movement, they understand that real change never, ever, takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up [applause] sen. Sanders in today today, coasttocoast, i have been in california, maine, and a whole lot states in between. What people are saying is why is it that in america we have grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality . Why is that that the top 1 10 of 1 now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Why is it that for the last 30 years the great middle class of this country has been shrinking and almost all due income and wealth is going to the top 1 . The American People are asking, why is it that women go to work tomorrow and they are earning . 79 on the dollar compared to men . [applause] sen. Sanders people are asking, how does it happen that the United States of america our great nation is the only major country on earth not to guarantee paid family and medical leave . [applause] sen. Sanders there are women giving birth in wyoming and wisconsin and vermont today but they are going to have to go back to work in two or three week because they do not have the income to take your of their families. Which is why, together, we are going to pass three months paid family and medical leave. [applause] sen. Sanders and the American People, from coasttwocoast are saying, yes, the Affordable Care act has done a lot of great things. Thank you president obama for your leadership. But, in terms of health care there is much, much more that has to be done. [applause] sen. Sanders the American People are asking, why does it happen that every other major country on earth united kingdom, france, germany, holland, scandinavia, canada every other major country on earth guarantees health care to all of their people as a right except the United States. Together we are going to change that international conundrum. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and the American People are asking and young people are asking why is it that when we are living in an increasingly competitive global economy, why is it that kids are graduating college 30,000, 50,000, 70,000 in debt . [applause] sen. Sanders and in some cases, in some cases spending decades having to pay off that debt . We should be rewarding people who get the education they need. Not punishing them. [applause] sen. Sanders and the American People are asking, how does it happen when the scientists all over our country who studied Climate Change and scientists all over the world are in virtual unanimous agreement, that Climate Change is real. That it is caused by human activity. That it is already causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. How do we have a Republican Party that refuses to even a cknowledge the reality of Climate Change . [applause] sen. Sanders and the American People are asking, how does it happen that we can spend trillions of dollars fighting a war in iraq that we never should have gotten in in the first place . [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders but in flint, michigan, and in cities all over this country our inner cities are crumbling. Unemployment is off the charts. Health care system, not acceptable. Kids dropping out of high school. Too many being arrested and sent to jail. How come we can rebuild the infrastructure of iraq and afghanistan but we cannot rebuild our own crumbling infrastructure . [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and the American People are asking, as they assemble all over this country, why can we not end a Campaign Finance system which is corrupt and which is undermining american democracy . [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders democracy is not a complicated process. It means that you have a vote in vote andave a democracy wins. What democracy is not about is billionaires buying elections [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders the American People are asking another very important and profound question. That question is, how does it happen in the wealthiest nations in the history of the world that we have more people in jail they and any other country on earth . [applause] sen. Sanders and what the American People are saying is that now is the time to invest in our younger people in terms of jobs and education. Not jails and incarceration. [applause] sen. Sanders some of you have recently heard about the discovery and revelations about the taxdodging that is taking place in panama which is one of the reasons that i oppose the Free Trade Agreement with panama. [applause] sen. Sanders and one of the reasons i was on the floor of the senate talking exactly about what i feared happened, and that is wealthy people and large corporations figuring out ways to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. [applause] sen. Sanders and what the American People are asking is, at the time of massive income and wealth inequality, how does it happen that you have large profitable, multinational corporations who in a given year pay zero, not a penny, and federal income taxes . [booing] sen. Sanders now change, real change, comes about whether it is fighting racism, worker exploitation, sexism, homophobia real change comes about when people stand up and they look around them and they say, you know what . The status quo is not working. We can do better. [applause] sen. Sanders and let me give you i cant give you many examples but let me give you the most contemporary example of what happens when people stand up and fight back. If we were here in this beautiful auditorium five years ago, not a long time from a Historical Perspective and somebody were to jump up and say, you know, i think a 7. 25 federal minimum wage is a starvation wage and it has got to be raised to 15 an hour. Now, if somebody stood up five years ago and said that the person next to them wouldve said, you are nuts. 15 an hour . You want to more than double the minimum wage. You are crazy. Maybe, maybe we could get up to eight dollars or nine dollars an hour but 15 an hour . You are dreaming too big. Sound familiar . You are unrealistic. It cannot be done. Think small. But then what happened is fast food workers, people working at mcdonalds, people working at burger king, people working at wendys, they went out on strike. And i was very proud to join with those workers in washington. [cheers and applause] [applause] nd they went out and they said fellow americans, we cant live on 7. 25 an hour. We cant live on 8 an hour. Youve got to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. And they fought and they fought. Suddenly, a few years ago, seattle, washington, 15 bucks an hour. [applause] los angeles, san francisco, 15 bucks an hour. Oregon, 15 bucks an hour. And in the last several weeks, in both california and new york, governors signed legislation for 15 buck an hour. Bucks an hour. [applause] what is my point . My point is that, yes, we can ange the status quo when we think big and when we have a vision. [applause] i am not naive. I know the power of wall street and their endless supplies of money. I know that Corporate America will shut down plants in america and move to mexico or china if they can make another 5 in profit. I know that billionaires are funding candidates whose job it is to represent the wealthy and powerful. I know about the Corporate Media that will give us all of the information we need except what is most important for working amilies. I know about all of that. But this is what i also know. I know that what history is about is that when people stand up and they say, the status quo is not acceptable, we will not have children working in factories, we will not have working people on the job who have no power over those jobs, we will not continue to have segregation or racism or big tri, we will not have or bigotry, we will not have women unable to vote or go to the schools they want or do the work they want. We will pass gay marriage in 50 tates. [applause] so that is what i have learned from history. When we are prepared to think big, when we are prepared to take on the greed and recklessness of wall street, when we stand together and we dont allow the trumps of the world to divide us up by whether we were born in america or born abroad, whether we are muslim or. Ewish or christian [applause] when we stand together, whether were gay or straight, male or female [cheers and applause] yes, we can create a government that represents all of us and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. Now, this campaign has won seven out of the last eight caucuses and primaries. With your help on saturday, were going to win here in wyoming. Then we are headed to new york. Cheers and applause] and i know a little bit about new york because i spent the first 18 years of my life in brooklyn, new york. Cheers and applause] no, please keep this a secret. Do not tell secretary clinton. Shes getting a little nervous and i dont want her to get more nervous. But i believe weve got an excellent chance to win new york and a lot of delegates in that state. Cheers and applause] and then we are going to head, after some other states on the east coast, out to the west coast. And we are we have an excellent chance to win in oregon and to win in california. Cheers and applause] and i think that a lot of these super delegates are going to be looking around them and they are going to be saying, which candidate has the momentum . Which candidate is bringing out huge numbers of people and huge [applause] which candidate can bring out large numbers of people, cant use the word huge anymore. But we will win in november if there is a large voter turnout. Thats what always happens. Democrats and progressives if theres a large voter turnout. Republicans win when people are demoralized. This campaign is giving energy and enthusiasm to millions of americans. Cheers and applause] i think the people of this country are tired of establishment politics and establishment economics. I think the people of this country are ready for a olitical revolution. And if you ignore what you hear on Corporate Media, the facts are pretty clear. We have a path toward victory, a path toward the white house. [applause] and wyoming can give us an enormous boost forward. F we win here on saturday. We often win, almost always win, when the voter turnout is high. We do poorly when the voter turnout is low. Let us see on saturday a record breaking turnout here in the wyoming caucus. Cheers and applause] and let us have wyoming democrats making it clear that this great state is part of the political revolution. Thank you all very much. 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