00:00The America that I know understands that our greatness comes from our goodness.
00:05That we lean into challenges, you don't yield to them.
00:08That the frustration that we see in our streets and our communities is a cry for our government
00:13to be as good and as decent as the people we aim to serve.
00:17They — we — deserve nothing less.
00:20It was my first day of law school, my very first class.
00:25The goal — escape unscathed.
00:30Not three seconds in, and I get the first question.
00:35Mr. Kennedy, what is the definition of a sumpset?
00:43Uhhhhhh.
00:44Mr. Kennedy, you realize a sumpset is the very first word in your reading.
00:51Yeah, and I actually circled it because I didn't know what it meant.
00:57Mr. Kennedy, do you own a dictionary?
01:00That's what people do when they don't know what a word means.
01:02They look it up in a dictionary.
01:06I never showed up unprepared for Professor Elizabeth Warren ever again.
01:12There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury.
01:16There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection.
01:20The elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
01:23There is no mercy in a cold shoulder to the mentally ill.
01:26There's no mercy in a policy that takes for granted the sweat, the tears, and the sacrifice
01:30of working Americans that they shed every day so that they might care for their family's basic needs,
01:34food, shelter, health, and hope for tomorrow.
01:36Our soldiers do not discriminate. They do not offer to pay the ultimate sacrifice for some Americans
01:44and not for others. Their government owes them that same courtesy.
01:51Many of us are trying to address the real concerns that are confronting American families across our
01:57country. Where these debates, the debates that we need to be having, not about whether some White
02:03House staffer leaked something or whether the press was able enough to log on to a website and get a
02:09public disclosure. For a lot of folks across the country, our health care system is not perfect.
02:13And while we've made tremendous gains under the Affordable Care Act, we need to continue to make sure
02:17that every person in the country has access to quality and affordable health care.
