Bernie Sanders Quotes
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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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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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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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At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.
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Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
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I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.
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The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.
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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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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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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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In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.
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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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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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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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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
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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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Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.
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I'm not much into speculation.
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It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
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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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Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.