“I know that people aren’t comfortable when I say this, but I worry very, very much of the future of democracy in our country,” said the Vermont independent, speaking at the Brookings Institution on Monday.
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Sanders is known for highlighting what he sees as the ills that plague the United States in speeches and interviews. He regularly decries the amount of money in politics, frets about the growing income inequality gap and attacks the “greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of Wall Street.”
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If he runs, Sanders will likely face Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton is “a woman I respect, clearly a very intelligent person who I think is interested in issues,” Sanders said, adding that if he challenges her, he hopes to have a debate over climate change, the war in Iraq and other issues.
“It is not my style to trash people,” Sanders said, hinting that he wouldn’t go negative if he runs.
