Enough. Aid enough is what about the Womens Movement . Said we years ago women are not going to be treated as third class citizens. We are going to do the work we want to do. [applause] ,e are going to be able to vote to run for political office. Huge struggles. But women as a result of those efforts made in norman us progress in normans progress. The Environmental Movement didnt happen in washington. It happened because people said what is going on on this planet of ours . You cant destroy it. We have to protect the planet. You think about gay rights. If we were sitting here 10 years ago, and somebody said i think in 2015, gay marriage will be , the personstates next to him would have said what are you smoking . Which raises another issue. [laughter] but the point is, when people at the grassroots start moving, and when they say this is not right, in this country people should have the right to love anyone they want regardless of their gender [applause] tremendous changes took place. ,ou go and talk to young people they shrug their shoulders and say what is the big deal . That is what a revolution is about. [applause] if we were here 40 years ago, somebody jumped up and said i enough,erica is mature it has gone far enough, overcoming racism, in 2008 we are going to elect an africanamerican as president , there a few people would have believed that can happen. But it did happen. [applause] then, ithappened doesnt matter whether people like obama or dont. They said were going to vote for somebody based on his ideas, not the color of his skin. A revolutionary breakthrough. [applause] here we are in 2016. Roomevery person in this knows, our republican friends dont know, this country wayomically has come a long under president obama and Vice President biden in the last seven years. [applause] on ourt be too hard republican friends. Suffer from a serious illness called amnesia. They cant remember where we were seven years ago when we monthosing 800,000 jobs a. We were running up a recordbreaking deficit of 1. 4 trillion. When by the way, the worlds Financial System was on the verge of collapse. Other than that we were in good shape when bush left office. We have come a long way in seven years and we should be proud of the accomplishments of the obama and biden administration. [applause] but, we have got to be honest, and acknowledge we still have a long way to go to create the nation that i know all of us believe we can create. [applause] i have been all over this country talking literally to hundreds of thousands of people. Nobody i know thinks that it is acceptable, that it is moral, think that it is sustainable that in the United States of america we have more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth, that it is worth worse here here today then 1928. That is not acceptable. It is not acceptable to me the owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . It is not acceptable the 20 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the million americans. It is not acceptable that one owns more wealth than the bottom 40 of the American People. When we talk about the economy its not just well. It is income. , we have many people, millions throughout our country working not one job but to jobs and three jobs trying to cobble together the income they need and some health care. Despite the hard work of the American People, and we of the hardest working people of any in the industrialized world. We work the longest hours. 58 of all new income generated today goes to top 1 . My friends, this is not an american economy. It is not a fair economy. Economy anded together we are going to change that. [applause] its not only a rigged economy where the people on top are doing phenomenally well while the middle class continues to disappear and 47 million americans live in poverty. What you have accompanying the rigged economy is a corrupt Campaign Finance system that has undermined american democracy. [applause] wish i could give you a gentler word, a less harsh word but the word is corrupt. The word is correct because what we are seeing today is wall street and billionaires spending unlimited sums of money in super pacs, attempting to elect candidates who will represent their interests. Let me tell you as straightforwardly as i can. I am proud that i am the only amid credit candidate running for president who does not have a super pac. [applause] two. R our campaign has received, i never would have believed this receivedsible, we have 3. 5 million individual contribution. Averaging 27 apiece. [applause] this is a campaign, to paraphrase abraham lincoln, of the people, by the people, for the people. [applause] let me tell you something else. If anybody here does not understand the direct connection between a corrupt Campaign Finance system and the major issues facing our country, and what congress does or does not do does not understand anything about contemporary american politics. Let me be as straightforward as i can and tell you one of the first major priorities of the Sanders Administration will be to overturn this disastrous Citizens UnitedSupreme Court decision. [applause] our campaign talks about the need to reform a corrupt Campaign Finance system. We talk about the need to end a rigged economy and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 . We talk about a broken criminal Justice System, a criminal Justice System in which we have more people in jail than any other country on earth, largely black and latino. And native americans. [applause] let me tell you briefly a story, the kind of encapsulates everything we talk about in this campaign. What a rigged economy and corrupt Campaign Finance system is about. Some may have read in the last few weeks large wall street Financial Institutions like Goldman Sachs have reached a settlement with United States government. It was for 5 billion. Other banks have reached larger settlements with the government. The reason they are reaching the settlements is because they were selling subprime mortgage packages to investors and the American People that were worthless. They reached a 5 billion agreement with the u. S. Government. To a significant degree the Business Model of wall street happens to be fraud. We talk about political power in america, where the average american says why should i vote . Vote. One wall street is spending this money. O one hears my pain no one is concerned about my life. Dont ask me to vote. I will tell you one of the things that angers the American People is that today some kid in minnesota will get picked up for possessing marijuana, he or she will get a Police Record which will stay with them for the rest of their lives. , whoseves on wall street greed and recklessness and illegal behavior ended up driving millions of people out , not one of those executives on wall street will have a Police Record. That is not what criminal justice is supposed to be about. [applause] a Sanders Administration will bring back justice to a criminal Justice System whether you are rich or poor. You will get equal treatment under the law. When we talk about the issues facing the American People, when we understand why it is people are working so many hours for such low wages, it should be clear we have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 an hour. [applause] when we talk about equitable rages wages, i hope every man in this room will stand with the women in the fight for pay equity for women workers. I know i will not shock any person in this room by telling you every now and then, once in bit ofere is a big hypocrisy in politics. I know you are shocked, dismayed to hear this, but it is true. Let me give you an example. They say we hate the government. Government is the worst thing. It is terrible. Were going to get the government out of your life. We will do away with the epa. We will cut nutrition programs. Government stinks. We are going to get it out of your life. Except when it comes to a womans right to choose. [applause] in that case, my republican colleagues love state and federal government, and want the government to make that decision everyone men in minnesota every woman in minnesota and america. I will do everything in my power to beat back those attacks on a womans right to choose. [applause] when republicans talk about family values, what they are also saying is that every gay person in this country should not have the right to get married i disagree. [applause] we live as everybody here knows in a highly competitive, global economy. 150 years ago workers in this country achieved a huge breakthrough. What they managed to accomplish which we take for granted is Public Education. They said we dont want our kids to be working in factories were on farms. We want them like the rich kids to be able to get a decent education. They fought and succeeded in creating great Public Schools all over america. 2016 and in myr view it is time to rethink Public Education. Respects and in many College Degree today is the equivalent of a High School Degree 50 years ago. [applause] whenis why i believe that we talk about Public Education we should demand that every Public College and university in america be tuition free. [applause] the other part of that equation, this is quite unbelievable, if you are prepared to think outside of the box, all over you havetry, im sure people dealing with incredibly oppressive loads of student debt. Im talking about people paying 100,000, 400,000 of student debt which they will be paying off for decades. I keep running into families where mom is not only paying off her daughters student debt, shes paying off her own student debt of 20 years ago. In america we should not be punishing people for the crime of trying to get an education. We should be rewarding people, encouraging people to get that education. That is what i believe we should allow people with student debt to refinance their loans at the lowest possible Interest Rate they can find. [applause] some of my opponents, and some Corporate Media says you are giving out all this free stuff. You are santa claus. How are you going to pay for it . You have to pay for it. I will tell you how we are going to pay for it. Free tuition and lowering student debt. We will impose a tax on wall street speculation. [applause] crashed, and it was there in the senate, wall street went begging to the American People and the u. S. Congress, bail us out. Congress did. Now it is wall streets turn to help the middle class of this country. [applause] about a corrupt Campaign Finance system there are many examples that i could give you about how campaignfinance impacts public policy. Would be to easiest deal with Climate Change. Im a member of the Senate Environmental committee. Ive talked to scientists all over the world. The debate is over, Climate Change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is causing devastating problems in our country and around the world. [applause] would leave i lead this country, working with countries all over the world to take on the fossil fuel industry, to transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to energyefficient the and sustainable energy. Point i want to make. How does it happen . Im being as deadly serious as i can. Entires it happen if the Scientific Community agrees Climate Change is real and it is causing devastating problems, and will only get much worse in years to come . How does it happen we have a Republican Party which almost unanimously rejects science . How does it happen not one republican in a debate or in any other format will say what Everybody Knows to be true. And we change is real have to transform our Energy System to save this planet from future generations. How does that happen . Not one republican candidate will say that . On the day that republican candidate says it, he will lose his Campaign Funding from the koch brothers, from exxon mobil, and the fossil fuel industry. That is what a corrupt campaign is doing in this country. View, we judge a nation and i know paul said it better than i we judge a nation not by a number of millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how we treat the most Vulnerable People in our country. People who cannot defend themselves. That is a sign of a great country. [applause] nobody in this room should be proud of the fact that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. Acceptshould be proud or millions of seniors and disabled onerans are trying to get by 11,000 a year. That is not what america should be about. Believe we must lift the cap on taxable income coming into the Social Security trust fund. And expand Social Security benefits. [applause] legislation i introduced would raise taxable taxes for more. Earning 250,000 or and expand and extend Social Security for another 58 years and expand it such that seniors now living on less than 16,000 will get 1300 more. For is the least we can do the people who helped build our country and raise us. My friends, my vision for america, my ideas are just too radical. They are not radical. The only thing that is radical is the fact that the Insurance Companies and the Drug Companies , and the fossil fuel industry, and wall street, and the militaryindustrial complex are standing in opposition to what we have to accomplish. It is not a question of what we should be doing. I believe, i have always believed my entire adult life, health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [applause] im on the committee that wrote the Affordable Care act. We made Real Progress but we can do better. The issue in front of us is not what we know we should do. There is widespread agreement on that. It is whether or not we have the courage to stand up to the billionaire class, to stand up to wall street, to stand up to , and all ofpanies those people today exercising in normans power at the expense of ordinary americans. What the Political Revolution is yes, is the belief that when we stand together, we know mps ofot allow the tru the world to divide us, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. I ask you to join the Political Revolution. Thank you very much. [applause] song my powers turned out ms. Clinton hello minnesota. [applause] it is wonderful to be here, reunited with so many friends, a state with such a long proud tradition. So many minnesotans have inspired us with principled leadership. Want her montell. Millstone. I had the great honor of serving with paul and sheila, spending a lot of time on the floor of the senate talking with him about what we wanted to see happen to improve the lives of the people we represented, and i thought a lot about him in the last month. He was a true progressive who wanted to get things done. He wanted to make progress. I miss him, and i think you i thank you for sending him to serve. Adding to that list there are many of you here tonight, someone else i served with, spent a lot of time sitting in the back row, firstterm senators as your governor, mark davies. [applause] theres a lot to be said about mark. Effective he has been. How he has stood against the tide of tea party republicanism. Has the highest job growth record in the United States. Knowing mark, that is not enou [applause] aces that are not seet kind of economic growth. Determined he is going to make progress everywhere in your state. I want to thank his terrific lieutenant governor. [applause] i want to thank my two friends and former colleagues, your senators, amy clover shar and al franken. You know what treasures they are. You get to see them all the time. They are actually working their hearts out, stumping across the country from me. Everywhere they go people are blown away. They want to know more about them. They want to know what they can progressive senators like them. Friendsout our great and even better public servants. To chris colman and betsy hodges, the members of congress representing you, the city officials who pour your hearts into serving the people of minnesota and our country, i thank you. At ane come together important moment. When i started this Campaign Last april, i knew we were facing challenges as a country. Talking to families across america has made it even clearer to me. Appalling to encounter the indifference and neglect that i saw firsthand when i went to flint last sunday. Those children and their families have been poisoned with lead in their water because their governor