Bernie Sanders Quotes
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Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.
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The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.
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In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.
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Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
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I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
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It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.
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The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.
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Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
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Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.
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Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?
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Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
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When you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto, you don't know what it's like to be poor.
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I'm not much into speculation.
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Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.
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Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
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If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
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I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.
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It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
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Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.