ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – NEWS10 ABC sat down with democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders before his Albany campaign event on Monday.

Thousands of people wrapped around the block to see Bernie Sanders at the Washington Avenue Armory. Most were already supporters who wanted to hear more from the Vermont senator.

Prior to the rally, he sat down with NEWS10 ABC reporter Heather Kovar for a one-on-one interview.

You can get a smile out of Sanders when asking about his wife, Jane, who is one of his key advisors. Sanders said he is very lucky.

“I cherish her advice,” he said. “We’re kinda a team.”

Sanders said he’s also gratified by the primary in Vermont where he received 86 percent of the vote.

“What I should tell you is that the people that know me the best, who I have served as mayor, congressman and senator, are prepared to support me, and I’m very proud of that,” he said.

Sanders said one of the great crises facing America is the declining middle class, and the economic culture in the country needs to change. He’s giving a speech in the Vatican on Thursday on how to create a moral economy.

“And what a moral economy is about is not cutting wages of older workers,” he said. “That is not a moral economy. That is a greedy economy.”

His rally motto is “A Future to Believe In.” He said everybody has the right to know what is in their water.

“We have to rebuild our water systems all over America,” he said. “This is the United States. 2016. Our people should not be drinking unhealthy water. That is why we are prepared to invest $1 trillion in rebuilding our water systems, our waste water plants, our roads and our bridges.”

Sanders said it would be accomplished by freeing up the wealth that is controlled by the top 1/10 percent of the people. He said he would do the same with funding education and a tax on Wall Street speculation.

But even after the Sanders’ rally, some supporters said they were going to head to the Times Union Center to see republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak because they said it was just too big an opportunity to miss.