Bernie Sanders Quotes
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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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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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If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
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Donald Trump is a pathological liar.
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One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
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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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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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Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.
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Enough is enough! ... How many homes can you own?
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Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
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There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
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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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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!
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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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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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History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.
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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.
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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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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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You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
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Yes, I do believe that now after the American people bailed Wall Street out, yes, they should pay a Wall Street speculation tax so that we can make public colleges and universities tuition-free.