Bernie Sanders Quotes
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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
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Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
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In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
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In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.
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Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
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Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
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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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I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.
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In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.
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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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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
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CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
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There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
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I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.
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Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.
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People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.
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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
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Washington is dominated by big money.
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If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
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The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has 'taught' her and accepts her boyfriends (sic) love.