Bernie Sanders Quotes
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People can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but everyone knows it’s not a killer drug like heroin.
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Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.
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America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.
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In the last thirty years, there has been a massive redistribution of wealth. Unfortunately, it's gone in the wrong direction. ... All that money that has gone from the middle class to the top 1%, I think it should start coming back to the people who need it the most.
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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
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What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
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I've got to tell you, 25 years ago, I believe that in this country, we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people. We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill. So that struggles continues.
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Enough is enough! ... How many homes can you own?
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
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In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
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If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
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There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
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The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.
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If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!
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People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
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For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
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The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
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The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.