you know, a great nation is judged not by how many millionaires and billionaires it has. it is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable people in that country. i will not accept, and you will not accept, children in this country sleeping out on the streets. i will not accept, and you will not accept, senior citizens trying to get by on 11 or $12,000 a year social security. instead of having a congress that works for the benefit of the few, we are going to have a government that works for all of us.

[cheering] now, i am a member of the committee that passed -- that wrote the affordable care act. and the affordable care act has done some very good things. we have ended the so-called obscenity of preexisting conditions. and we provided insurance to 17 million people who didn't have it. but we have much more to do in health care. united states is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. and together, we are going to end that.

29 million americans have no health insurance. many of you are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments. and the drug companies are ripping all of us off every single day. and after all of that, we end up spending much more per capita on health care than any other country on earth. we are prepared to take on the private insurance companies. we are prepared to take on the drug companies. and we are prepared to pass a medicare for all single payer programs. [cheering]

bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! >> in my view, in my view, something i believed my whole life. health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheering] we are prepared to reform in a major way a broken criminal justice system. it is an international embarrassment that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. it is not unrelated that we are communities where young kids, white, black, latino, native american, are suffering

unemployment rates of 30, 40, 50 percent. so you know what we're going to do? we're going to invest in education and jobs for our kids. investment in education and jobs, not jails, not incarceration. and all of us are tired of seeing unarmed people shot and killed. now, i've been a mayor for eight years, and i've worked with police all over my state, all over this country. vast majority of police officers are honest and hard-working. but if a police officer, like any other public official, breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable.

[cheering] we do not want to see in communities all over this country police departments look like occupying armies. we need to demilitarize our police departments. we need to make police departments reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. we need to end private corporate ownership of prisons and detention centers. we need to re-think the so-called war on drugs. over the last 30 years, over the last 30 years, millions of

americans have been arrested for possession of marijuana. [booing] >> today, marijuana is listed under the fed control substance act as a schedule one drug. [booing] >> right alongside of heroin. that is pretty crazy. and that is why i have introduced legislation to take marijuana out of the federal controlled substance act. [cheering] bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie!

>> now, this is not only the right thing to do but it is also a major racial issue because it turns out that the black community, the white community, possess, smoke marijuana in equal levels. blacks are four times more likely to be arrested than whites. but let me say something else when we're talking about drugs. in my state, and all over this country, we have a major epidemic of heroin addiction and opiate addiction. this is a very serious crisis. the way to deal with that crisis is to understand that drug addiction, substance abuse, must be dealt with as a health issue, not a criminal issue. [cheering]

>> when we talk about criminal justice reform, let me tell you a brief story. turns out the goldman sachs, one of the large financial institutions -- [booing] -- i gather you know about goldman sachs. goldman sachs recently received a $5 billion settlement with the united states government. [booing] >> and they reached that agreement because they were selling worthless packages of subprime mortgage loans. and they and the other wall street crooks were the people responsible for driving our economy into the worst recession since the great depression.

now, here's a funny thing. some kid gets picked up for smoking marijuana in vermont or new york city. that kid gets a police record. but if you are an executive of a wall street firm, you don't get a criminal record for destroying this economy. you get a pay raise. [booing] together we will bring justice back to the criminal justice system. and equal justice under the law means that if you are rich or poor, you will pay the price if you break the law. that includes wall street. let me say a word or two about

some of the differences that exist between secretary clinton and myself. when we began this campaign, we had to make a choice, and the choice was, would we do what every other campaign is doing and establish a super pac? we agreed with you. we decided, after about one tenth of a second, thinking, that we don't represent wall street, we don't represent corporate interests, we don't represent the billionaire class, we don't want their money. [cheering] what we did is reached united states to working families all

over this country. we have received now over 6 million individual campaign contributions. [cheering] that is more contributions than any candidate in the history of this country, up to this point. [cheering] anybody know what the average contribution is? right. 27 bucks. to paraphrase abraham lincoln at gettysburg, this is a cam -- campaign of the people, by the people, and for the people. [cheering] secretary clinton chose to go in