Bernie Sanders Quotes
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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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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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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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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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In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
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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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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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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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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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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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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.
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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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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
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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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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 going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
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Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.
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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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I'm not much into speculation.
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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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It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
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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.