Because when we stand together, as millions of working people, there is nothing that can
stop us, not the Koch Brothers, not anybody. We’re going to be back here in New Hampshire,
we’re going to be running a very grassroots campaign. That’s what I’ve always done
in Vermont, that’s what we’re going to do here. That means town meetings, that means
rallies, that means knocking on doors. I’m going to knock on doors but I can’t knock
on all of them, you’re going to have to help me do that.
Thank you.
We need a well-educated workforce, and you’re not going to have that workforce if college is
not affordable and if millions of students leave school saddled by incredibly oppressive
and deep debt. What else do we have to do?
We were hoping that we wouldn’t have to do this, but with the size of the crowd, if we could
in an orderly fashion, slowly make our way upstairs to the (inaudible).
Thank you. Yesterday, in my home town of Burlington, we had over 5000 people coming out.
And seeing all of you folks here, in this foreign country called New Hampshire, thank you so much for coming out.
As many of you may know, I was born in a faraway land called Brooklyn, New York
And my dad came to this country, at the age of 17, from Poland, without a
nickel in his pocket, and reflect and I think about how extraordinary and brave that
was. He came to this country without speaking a word of English, and that’s the story
of millions of families who came from Ireland, Italy, or wherever, Latin America. And my
dad worked as a paint salesman his entire life, he never made a lot of money, and we were
solidly middle-class. And my mom, had a dream. And her dream was that we would move out of
the 3-and-a-half room, rent-controlled apartment that we lived in, in Brooklyn, and maybe we
could get a home of our own. She died young, and she never fulfilled that dream. What I am
standing before you today, to say, is that tens of millions of families are in exactly
the same place that my family was in. And our job is, to not only give hope to these
families, but to show them what America is all about. And what America is all about is
making certain that every man, woman, and child has the income and resources to live
with dignity. To make sure, that when a mom goes to work she knows that her kid is in
quality childcare that she can afford. So here is the bad news for y’all. I need your
help to win New Hampshire and this election, but I’m going to be coming back to you the
day after the election because we're going to need your help to implement a progressive agenda that changes
America. Thank you all.