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• ‟ Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.

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• ‟ One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They're political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn't see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics.

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• ‟ Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

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• ‟ The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.

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• ‟ The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

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• ‟ Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.

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• ‟ To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

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