Standing up for working americans and is prepared to take on the billionaire class. [cheering] [applause] we love you bernie all across this country, we have drawn some of the largest turnouts at our rallies. We have overt that 400,000 people in this country who have made individual contributions to our campaign. [applause] word about that. You are looking at a candidate who does not represent the agenda of corporate america. [applause] who does not represent the class. Of the billionaire i stand before you today to say loudly and proudly, i do not want their money. I do not want a super pac. We will do it on our own. [cheering] [applause] i understand, i understand that when you have a super pac, you the room ofo millionaires and billionaires, and walk out with a heck of a lot of money. I get it. We will do it a different way. We will raise our funds from working people, averaging 31 a piece, and i am proud of that. [cheering] [applause] begin by telling you about an old song, reminding you about an old union song. Some of you remember it. Which side are you on . Do you remember that song . You are very lucky because im not going to sing that song to you. I cant sing, as some of you may know. In a workingclass home in brooklyn, new york. We lived some transplants here, all right we lived in a 3. 5 right controlled apartment. My family never had money. I knew from a very early age which side i am on. [applause] i am a proud progressive. [applause] i am proud to stand with the ,orking families of our country prepared to take on the powerful special interests which wield incredible power over our economy and our political life. That is what i did yesterday. That is what i did 25 years ago. That is what i will do tomorrow. [applause] and, that is what i will do if elected president of the United States. [cheering] [applause] let me also take a moment to tell you something that no other candidate for president will tell you, or perhaps, ever has told the American People. It is a simple truth. President , not bernie sanders, not anybody else can bring about the enormous changes we need to rebuild our crumbling , to do all of the things we have to do for the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor. We cannot do it. No president can do it alone, unless we have a political revolution. [cheering] unless tens of millions of americans are prepared to stand up, to get actively involved in the political process. Clear thatt very this great country, and our government, belonged to all of us, and not just a handful of billionaires and campaign contributors. [cheering] [applause] i am here today, not just ask for your help in winning here in new hampshire, in winning across. He country if we are going to transform america, we need millions of people to stand together, to take on corporate america, to take on wall street, to take on the big money interests. That is what this campaign is about. [applause] [cheering] else. Tell you something some of you may agree with me, and some of you may not. Republicans did not win the last midterm elections. We lost those elections. [applause] the American People did not vote for a party that wants to give huge tracts rakes tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, and cut social security, medicare, medicaid, nutrition, and does not realize the reality of Climate Change. That is not what the American People voted for. Is we had a voter turnout that was worse than abysmal. Millions of americans looked out not for me, im not going to vote, im not going to participate in the political process. Electionhat last ,ecause voter turnout was low and because all across this country, people are giving up on american democracy. Very clear. In my view, we will not retain the white house. We will not regain control of the senate. We will not gain the u. S. House, or be successful and dozens of ,overnors races across america unless we are the party that momentum,excitement, enthusiasm, and which produces a huge voter turnout. [applause] Bernie Bernie senator sanders democrats win wendy voter turnout wendy voter turnout is high. In when the when whe voter turnout is low. Our goal is to make it skyhigh. How do we do it . How to read generate the generatet how do we the excitement on the ground . How do we get those who are disillusioned back in the political process . How do we get young people involved . How do we get workingclass republicans to stop voting against their own best interest . [applause] with all due respect, that will not happen with politics as usual. Old, will notsame likely be successful. [applause] the people of our country understand that we are much better off today than we were when president bush left office and we were losing 800,000 jobs worldsand the Financial System was on the verge of collapse. Of coarse, we are much better off today. [applause] but, they also understand Something Else. Yes, we are better off than where we were under bush, but they also understand that for the last 40 years, under democratic and republican president s, the great middle class of this country, once the envy of the world, has been disappearing. , all overew hampshire my state of vermont, all over america, despite an explosion of technology and worker productivity, you have millions of people working longer hours for lower wages. You have people in my state and not work in one job, working two jobs, working three jobs, just trying to cobble together an income that will sustain their families. Today, we have almost four People Living almost more People Living in poverty than any time in american history. Once the American People understand, and what we cannot run away from, and what we have to have the courage to theess is while middle class continues to disappear, almost all of the new income and wealth that is being generated is going to the top 1 , and that has got to end. [cheering] [applause] very few people in america, no matter what their political views are, believe it is morally acceptable or economically 1 ofnable, when 1 10 of the American People have more wealth than the bottom 90 . Isy few people think that it acceptable when you have people all over this country working so hard, long and crazy hours, parents cant stay home with their kids, they are working so many hours. Yet, 50 of all new income generated today is going to the top 1 . That is not the economy that we need. [cheering] need an economy that works for the working people of this country, and not just the billionaire class. We need a Political Movement which is prepared to stand up to the most powerful people in this country, and create a government i know this is a radical idea , but imagine having a government in washington that is not controlled by Large Campaign donors and corporate america, but which represents all of us. [cheering] [applause] we need a Political Movement in the country which takes on political and economic establishment, not one that is part of it. We need a movement which tells corporate america, and the wealthiest people in this country, that yes, they will start paying their fair share of taxes. [applause] that multinational corporations are not going to continue stashing billions of dollars in in the cayman islands, bermuda, and other tax havens, while children and america go hungry. It aint going to happen anymore. [applause] no. No, the ceos of large corporations are not going to continue to receive huge compensation packages an incredible pensions while at the ,ame time they cut the wages health care, and pensions of their workers. It is not going to continue to happen. No, we are not going to continue to have disastrous trade fta. Cies like nafta, cal corporations shutting down plants in vermont, new hampshire, and traveling to other countries, and bringing their products back. We need to policies that create jobs in america, not just china. [applause] and, by the way, that means that together, we are going to defeat this disastrous transpacific partnership. [applause] we need a Political Movement which tells wall street that when a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. [applause] i understand the power of wall street. I really do. I have stood up to them for a very long time. But, whether they like it or not, we will reinstate glasssteagall. [applause] and, we will create a financial makem whose job it is to affordable loans to small and mediumsized physicists so we can create jobs in america, not a Financial System as it currently exists, which is an island onto itself only concerned about their profits. Off theoing to break major Financial Institutions on wall street. [applause] when we talk about the economy, all of you know that throughout this country, there are millions of americans who are working for damn which are just too low. In my view, the federal minimum is aof 7. 25 an hour starvation wage. We have to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 per hour, over the next few years. [applause] i hope that every man in his room will stand with the women, and fight for pay equity for women workers. [applause] there is no rational economic earninghy women are . 78 on the dollar to men. When we have pay equity for women workers, when we praise the minimum wage to a living wage, millions of mothers will then be able to raise their kids with security and dignity. They deserve that. [applause] i know here, in new hampshire, you see a lot of politicians tromping through your city. You are suddenly of a popular destination. You have heard many republicans talk about family values. You ever hear that . Families. Ust love you know, and i know, what they mean by family values. What they mean is that the women of america should not have the right to control their own bodies. I disagree. [cheering] [applause] what they mean by family values is that are gay brothers and sisters should not have the right to marry. I disagree. [cheering] [applause] i have four kids, seven beautiful grandchildren, and jane and i have been married for 27 years. We believe in family values, but our values are just a little different than republican family values. We believe that the United States has got to end the International Embarrassment of being the only major country on that doesonly one not guarantee paid family and medical leave. [applause] it is not a family value to tell and workingclass woman, who has a baby, that she has to be separated from that baby in a week or two weeks after birth. She has to run back to her job to earn income to sustain that family. That is not a family value. That is the opposite of what a family value is. [applause] that is why i will fight for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. [applause] brothers and sisters, here is the truth about unemployment. Real unemployment is not five and 1 . That is official unemployment. Counting those people who have given up looking for work. Real unemployment is over 10 . Let me tell you something of huge consequence, which very few people talk about. That is the tragedy of youth unemployment. Here are the facts. Real youth unemployment if kid, highle white school graduate, 33 . Hispanic, 36 . African american, 51 . Need a major jobs program to put our people back to work. [applause] and, the fastest way to do it is to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure our roads, bridges, rails, water system. [applause] let me tell you Something Else that i feel passionately about. The United States of America Today has more people in jail than any other country on earth. Memakes a lot more sense to for us to be investing in jobs and education for our again people than jails and incarceration. [applause] i want us to end this distinction of having more people in jail. I want to replace it with the distinction of us having the best educated population on earth. [applause] when we talk about politics, let me simply say this. I think most of you know it. Campaign finance system that we operate under his corrupt. Is it is undermining american democracy. [applause] word. T is the right when the Koch Brothers alone can spend 900 billion on this election more money than either the Democrat Party or Republican Party brothers and sisters, we are not about democracy. We are talking about oligarchy. Together, we are going to overturn citizens united. [cheering] [applause] Bernie Bernie bernie senator sanders i am likely the most progressive member of the United States senate, and im proud of that. That i without saying ofe very large areas disagreement with my republican colleagues. That is obvious. There is one area that goes , and goesappointment to embarrassment. Some of you may have seen are just the other evening at the republican debate. Is Scientific Community virtually un unanimous. Very little debate. Climate change is real and is already causing devastating problems in america and around the world. Our republican colleagues are. Repared to reject science that is a dangerous situation for the most powerful country on earth. I will tell you Something Else. It is not that these guys are done. It is that they get their money from the fossil fuels industry. [applause] and, theyre are more worried about their Campaign Donations than their kids and their grandchildren. That is a shame. [applause] must lead the world in transforming the energy system, working with china, russia, and india. We can do it. We can move to energy sufficiency. For the sake of our kids, that is what we have to do. [applause] talk about american needs, there is something beyond comprehension. I dont understand it. I dont understand how, in an incredibly competitive Global Economy, hundreds of thousands youngght, qualified people are unable to get into college, only for one reason. That is their families like the money. That is crazy. Productive tor the future of america. That is why i have introduced legislation and will fight for, as president , to make every Public College and university in this country tuition free. [applause] [cheering] it is not a radical idea. It is common economic sense to say, when young people or people of any age, need education, they should be able to get that education, regardless of the income of their family. [applause] that legislation also deals with a travesty that millions of americans are experiencing today in outrageously high student debt and outrageously high Interest Rates. Now, to lower Interest Rates of freent debt and provide tuition at public universities and colleges that is in fact an expensive proposition. I will tell you how we will pay for. We will pay for based on a tax on wall street speculation. [applause] the middleclass of this country iled out walla street, now decide for wall street to help the middleclass of this country. [applause] [cheering] when we talk about bringing our country together, it is not just the need for major criminal justice reform. I do not want to see kids lives destroyed because of mandatory minimal sentencing. [applause] i think it is time that we take a hard look at the socalled war on drugs, and the lives that have been lost as a result. [applause] think it is time that we make sure that when a Police Officer breaks the law like any other public official, the officer will be held accountable. [applause] when we talk about creating the kind of nation that we want to become, we cannot forget that there are two great 11 Million People in this country who are undocumented. Need view, we comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path towards citizenship. [applause] you are looking at a senator and former congressman who did not ,elieve what george w. Bush dick cheney, or don rumsfeld were saying about iraq, and voted against the war in iraq. [applause] [cheering] i heard the evidence. I heard what they had to say. I did not believe it. Youtube, my website, or somewhere. Read what i said back then. Im not happy. It does not made me happy to say i feared much of what would happen, in terms of the destabilization of that region, did happen. Understand, got to and i speak to you as a former chairman of the veterans veterans committee, someone who will ensure that our veterans get the health care and benefits that they need. [applause] someone who has spoken to hundreds of veterans and learned something about the cost of war. The terrible cost of war. Not just the 6700 brave men and women who died in iraq and afghanistan. Not just those who came home without legs, arms, and eyesight, but the 500,000 the quebec with posttraumatic stress disorder and somatic brain injury. And, the tens of thousands of families that have been disrupted in a way that they may never recover from. And, the children who have an hurt. And, the suicide. Anybody who does not understand the cost of war should not be in the United States congress. [cheering] [applause] that is why it astonishes me, and really hurts, to hear my colleagues talk so easily and loosely about getting into another war in iran. And secretary hard have worked long and for one simple goal. That is to present iran from getting a nuclear weapon. That is something we must do. When they have put together what they have put together is an agreement which allows us to accomplish that goal without going to war. I hope we all support that. [applause] let me conclude, and i have probably gone on too long, and. Ill get yelled at by somebody Bernie Bernie concludeanders let me by begging you to do one thing. Big, not small. Dont get into the argument whether we should cut education by 2 or 4 . Do not get into the debate about whether Climate Change is real or unreal. What i w