“Now I know that some of my opponents are very good speakers, very fine orators, smart people,” Sanders said. “But you’ve got to be really, really, really good to get $225,000 a speech, that’s all I’ll say.”

Don’t you mean $600,000? a member of the audience asked.

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“That’s for three speeches,” Sanders replied.

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His criticism of Clinton echoed a line of attack from Sunday night’s Democratic debate, when Sanders pointed out that Clinton had taken more than $600,000 from Goldman Sachs for three speeches before launching her presidential bid.

Throughout much of the campaign, Sanders has sought to draw a distinction with Clinton over their respective levels of commitment to Wall Street reform.

Sanders has repeatedly suggested that Clinton, a former New York senator, is too cozy with the financial sector -- a notion she vigorously disputes -- to push for sweeping changes protecting consumers. She has argued that her Wall Street reform package is more comprehensive than his.

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During Sanders’s appearance here, on a snowy day in a town of about 10,000 people, he launched into an extended critique of Goldman Sachs before turning his attention to Clinton’s speaking fees.

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Sanders expressed outrage at the firm’s recent $5 billion settlement with the government for, in Sanders’s words, “defrauding their investors for selling them worthless packages of subprime mortgages.” The behavior, Sanders said, amount to “greed” and "reckless and illegal behavior.”

And Sanders held the firm up as a prime example of the “revolving door in Washington,” noting that two U.S. secretaries of the treasury -- one Democrat and one Republican -- had come from the firm. He promised he would not pick a member of Goldman for his administration.

Meanwhile, Sanders said, the well-connected chief executive officer of Goldman has lobbied Congress to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.