Bernie Sanders: 的f I were to run for president, do you know how much money the Kochs would spend? [View all]

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“If I were to run for president of the United States, do you know how much money the Koch brothers would spend, the military-industrial complex, the drug companies, the private insurance companies, corporate America?” he added. “It would be me, it would be my wife getting attacked, my kids getting attacked. So before I do that I have got to know, number one, is the message – is America ready for a candidate to take on the billionaire class and an agenda that works for working people?”

“If I were to run, we would need an unprecedented grassroots movement,” Sanders said. “Can we do that? Can we get millions of people involved? I don’t know if we can.”

Sander’s second concern was that he wouldn’t have enough active support from the American people to push his agenda through Congress.

“Here is the second thing, equally important,” he remarked. “And I’m the only — I think probably one of the few politicians who will say this, that no matter who is elected president of the United States, the best person in the world elected president, that president will fail unless there is the active involvement 365 days a year of the people. OK? You want to raise the minimum wage? We bring 2 million workers down to Washington, D.C., who understand who is going to vote against them, who is going to vote for them, we raise the minimum wage.”


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