Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women
Senator sanders thank you all very much. Let me think all of the people thank all of the people in this room for the important work you are doing every single day. Together here in iowa, and all across this country, we will defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. [applause] together, we will end the racism and the sexism and the islamophobia and the homophobia, and all the other phobias that this president exhibits. And we will end White Nationalism in this country, as well. [applause] together, we will protect american democracy and the rule of law. And together, we will create an economy and a government that works for all, and not just the 1 . [applause] but let me be as clear as i can be. We will not defeat trump unless we have an agenda that speaks to the pain and reality of the working families of this country, millions of whom are working longer hours for lower wages. We will not defeat trump unless we have the courage to take on the powerful corporat
Amplify those stories to policymakers and elected officials and were building a commitmmunity of patients and as that can be mobilized in support of policies to lower drug prices. I started patients for Affordable Drugs because im a cancer patient. I have an incurable blood cancer, its called multiple myeloma. Its incurable but treatable for some period of time, unknown. With very expensive drugs. In fact, im taking drugs right now. I took my first drugs today by mouth and when i leave here, ill go for about three hours of infusion, they plug me in and pump drugs in. My drugs carry a price tag of 650,000 a year. And my journey as a cancer patient taught me a very important fact and that is, drugs dont work if people cant afford them. I will die of my disease sooner than i want to if they dont invent some new drugs for me. Ill run out of options. Thats why it kills people. Drugs stop working. And so i care deeply about innovation and new drug development. But we have to make sure that w
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