can go toe to toe who actually comes from the kinds of communities that he s been appealing to. i don t talk a big game about helping the working class while helicoptering between golf courses with my name on them. i don t even golf. as a matter of fact, i never thought i d be on a forbes magazine list but they did one of all the candidates by wealth, and i am literally the least wealthy person on this stage. i also wore the uniform of this country and know what is at stake in the decisions that are made in the oval office and in the situation room. and i know how to bring people together to get things done. i know that from the perspective of washington what goes on in my city might look small, but frankly where we live the infighting on capitol hill is what looks small. the usual way of doing business in washington is what looks small. and i believe we need to send somebody in who has a different kind of experience. the experience on the ground solving problems, working side by side
make a judgment what they believe is in their interest and not demand of them with the insurance companies. they want no competition. and my friends say you have to only go medicare for all. vice president biden, thank you. ashley? congresswoman gabbard, you have criticized hillary clinton as the, quote, personification of the rot that has sickened the democratic party. what is the rot you see in the democratic party? that our democratic party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people. it is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in washington represented by hillary clinton and others foreign policy, by the military industrial complex and other greedy corporate interests. i m running for president to be the democratic nominee that rebuilds our democratic party, takes it out of their hands and truly puts it in the hands of the people of this country. a party that actually hears the
establishment washington experience, but i would argue we need something very different right now. in order to defeat this president, we need somebody who go toe-to-toe, who actually comes from the kinds of communities that he s been appealing to. i don t talk a big game about helping the working class while helicoptering between golf courses with my name on them. i don t even golf. as a matter of fact, i never thought i d be on a forbes magazine list but they did one of all the candidates by wealth, and i am literally the least wealthy person on this stage. i also wore the uniform of this country and know what is at stake in the decisions that are made in the oval office and in the situation room. and i know how to bring people together to get things done. i know that from the perspective of washington what goes on in my city might look small, but frankly where we live the infighting on capitol hill is what looks small. the usual way of doing business in washington is what looks sma
recognizing what is required of executive leadership, and bringing that to washington so that washington can start looking a little more like our best run communities in the heartland before the other way around starts to happen. thank you, mayor. senator klobuchar, you said this of mayor buttigieg. quote, of the women on the stage do i think we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience he had, no i don t. maybe we re held to a different standard. senator, what did you mean by that? first of all, i made very clear i think pete is qualified to be up on this stage, and i am honored to be standing next to him. but what i said is true. women are held to a higher standard. otherwise we could play a game called name your favorite woman president, which we can t do because it has all been men. and all vice presidents being men. and i think any workingwoman out there, any woman that s at home knows exactly what i mean.
people all over the world. this is not a democrat issue or a republican issue. this is about the environmental threats that each and every one of us face. these are the kinds of conversations that we re having in our town hall meetings and house parties and different parties of the country where we have democrats, republicans, libertarians and independents coming together and saying, hey, we are all concerned about making sure we have clean water to drink for our families, that we have clean air to breathe, that we re able to raise our kids in a community that s safe. it is the hyper-partisanship in washington, unfortunately, that has created this gridlock that has stood in the way of the kinds of progress that i would bring about as president. transitioning our country off of fossil fuels and ending the nearly $30 billion in subsidies we as taxpayers are currently giving to the fossil fuel industry. instead investing in a green renewable energy economy that leads us into the 21st cent