Bernie Sanders Quotes

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The political revolution is not about one election or one candidate. It is about transforming America and continuing the fight for economic, social, racial and environmental justice. We have to continue to work together to advance the progressive future we all support.

Bernie Sanders
What happens in Syria, for example, there's some thought about this. When you have drought, when people can't grow their crops, they're going to migrate into cities and when people migrate into cities and when they don't have jobs, there's going to be a lot more instability, a lot more unemployment and people will be subject to the types of propaganda that Al Qaeda and ISIS are using right now and so where you have discontent you have instability, that's where problems arise and certainly without a doubt, a climate change will lead to that.

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There was a piece of legislation supported by dozens and dozens of members of the House which codified existing legislation. What the secretary is doing tonight and has done very often is take large pieces of legislation and take pieces out of it. No, I did not oppose the bailout or the support of the automobile industry. No, I do not support vigilantes, and that is a horrific statement, an unfair statement to make.

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When you have Republican candidates for president and in Congress telling you that climate change is a hoax, which is Donald Trump and other candidates' position, what they are really saying is, we don't have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry.... You know what happens to that Republican who listens to the scientists? On that day, that Republican loses his campaign funding from the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry.

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When millions of people stand up and tell the fossil fuel industry that their profits, their short-term profits are less significant than the long-term health of this planet, we will win. That is the way change always takes place.

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Want to get on the front page of the paper? I have to make some vicious attack. I won't do that. I'm running an issue-oriented campaign.

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If we stand up, fight back, we can do a lot better.

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I think the United States should be working with governments around the world, not get involved in regime change. And all of these actions, by the way, in Latin America, brought forth a lot of very strong anti-American sentiments.

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If you are serious about real healthcare reform, the only way to go is single-payer.

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It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don't line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.

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I fear very much that, in fact, government of the people, by the people and for the people is beginning to perish in America.

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In my view, and we've introduced legislation to deal with this, if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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Warren Buffett, one of the richest guys in the world, openly admits that his effective tax rate is lower than his secretary's. It's time to tell the billionaire class that if they want to enjoy the benefits of America, they have to accept their responsibilities, and they have to start paying their fair share of taxes.

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The essence of what we are trying to do is to unite families, not to divide families. The idea that a mother is living here and her children are on the other side of the border is wrong and immoral.

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Today in America, the middle class is disappearing.

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A nation that in many ways was created—I'm sorry to have to say this, from way back—on racist principles, that's a fact, we have come a long way as a nation.

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In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by Authority for allowing her 6 month old daughter to go about without her diapers on. Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on peoples sexual frustrations.

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No single financial institution should have holdings so extensive that its failure could send the world economy into another financial crisis... If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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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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The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity...

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Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

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You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

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It's not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that are debating the real issues. It's much better to deflect attention away from issues and get into the story of the day.

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As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.

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Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

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Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

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We don t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

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As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

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Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

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The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.

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