Sanders on Corporations: ‘They Ain’t Gonna Like Me’

‘Hillary and I have a difference’

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American economy moving and growing we're not going to recognize our country and we're not going to give our kids the same opportunities that we had. 
>> Secretary, thank you. Senator Sanders, I want to stay on this and ask you how big a role does corporate America play in a healthy economy and will corporate America love a president Sanders? 
>> No, I think they won't. [ Applause ] So Hillary and I have a difference. The CEOs of large multinationals may like Hillary. They ain't going to like me. And Wall Street is going to like me even less. And the reason for that is we've got to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street. When you have six financial institutions in this country that issue 2/3 of the credit cards and 1/3 of the mortgages. When 3 out of 4 of them are larger today than when we bailed them out because they are too big to fail. We've got to re-establish glass-steagall. We've got to break the large financial institutions up. So I don't that, I don't think I'm going to get a whole lot of campaign contributions from Wall Street. I don't have a super pac. I don't want campaign contributions from corporate America. And let me be clear. While there are some great corporations creating jobs and trying to do the right thing, in my view, and I say this very seriously, the greed of the billionaire class, the greed of Wall Street is destroying this economy and is destroying the lives of millions of Americans. We need an economy that works for the middle class, not just a

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