Bernie Sanders Quotes
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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.
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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 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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In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.
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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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I would ask... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.
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To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.
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Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
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'We have a president right now who doesn't consider himself a socialist but people call him a socialist as an insult. Are you concerned at all about framing yourself as this?' ...
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In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.
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Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
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After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
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If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
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Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
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You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.
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Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.
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As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
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In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.
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I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.
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Washington is dominated by big money.
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
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The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.