SHOWS: WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (APRIL 30, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. U.S. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS WALKING TO PODIUM 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SENATOR, BERNIE SANDERS, SAYING: “This country today, in my view, has more serious crises than any time since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. For most Americans, their reality is that they are working longer hours for lower wages and inflation-adjusted income, they are earning less money than they used to years ago despite a great increase in technology and productivity. So, all over this country, I have been talking to people and they say - how does it happen? I am producing more, but I am working longer hours for lower wages. My kid can’t afford to go to college, I am having a hard time affording healthcare. How does that happen? While at exactly the same time, 99 percent of all new income generated in this country is going to the top one percent. How does it happen? That the top one percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. And my conclusion is that that type of economics is not only immoral, it is not only wrong, it is unsustainable. It can’t continue. We can’t continue having a nation in which we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation on earth at the same time as we are seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.” 3. WIDE OF SANDER AT MICROPHONE, PAN TO PRESS 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS, SAYING: “We now have a political situation where billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates. Let’s not kid ourselves. That is the reality right now. So you got the Koch brothers and other billionaire families now prepared to spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in elections to buy the candidates of their choice, often extreme right wing candidates. I am the former chairman of the Senate Veterans (Affairs) Committee, and I can tell you, I don’t believe that the men and women who defended American democracy fought to create a situation where billionaires own the political process.”