American - Businessman | June 27, 1957 -
We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.
Tom Steyer
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We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!
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I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.
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I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time.
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I'm a 30-year businessperson. I believe in American business. I believe in American ingenuity, and I believe in American innovation.
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We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.
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Americans can take on huge projects. But they need to understand why they should take on a huge project.
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If you're struggling to make your mortgage payment, and you've got three kids between the ages of 12 and 18, and you and your spouse works, and someone says, 'Oh, by the way, the world's ending,' it's like, 'Please. You don't need to tell me that.'
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That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.
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I'm willing to do just about anything to try and contribute to getting us back on a growth path that is just and good for America.
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What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support, too. We just think that the idea of... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate.
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We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.
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