Sanders: ‘Secretary Clinton and I Disagree on a Number of Issues’

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SANDERS: "Let me also welcome Secretary Clinton back to the United States Senate where she served for eight years. I very much look forward to this campaign to a serious debate about the very serious crisis’s facing our country. I don’t like negative campaigns. I’ve never ran a negative ad in my life. I believe the American people are entitled to a serious discussion to serious issues. Secretary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues. There are issues where we come from the same place. Some of the areas that we disagree are on trade. I happen to believe that the trade agreements that have been passed here over the last three decades -- NAFTA, CAFTA and the Chinese trade agreement TPP have been disastrous for American workers and have led to loss of jobs. Secretary Clinton, I believe, has a different view on that issue. I strongly oppose the war in Iraq, and if you go to the remarks that I made when I was a member of House, sadly, tragically much of what I predicated in fact took place. I voted against the so called USA Patriot Act because I feared very much that why we have to be vigorous and protecting this country against terrorism, we could do it without undermining the constitutional rights or the privacy rights of the American people. I happen to agree very strongly with Pope Francis that climate change is the great planetary crisis, environmental crisis that we face. I have helped lead the opposition against the Keystone pipeline. I don't believe we should be excavating or transporting some of the dirtiest fuel on this planet. I think Secretary Clinton has not been clear on her views on that issue… I believe that we should break up the major financial institutions and certainly go forward with restoring Glass-Steagall financial regulations. To the best of my knowledge, those are ideas that Secretary Clinton does not agree with… I think the secretary has not been quite clear on those issues…"