Bernie Sanders Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Bernie Sanders on Wise Famous Quotes.
History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.
Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.
Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.
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.
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
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.
In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.
All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.
I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.
I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.
The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.
Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.
The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent.
In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.
Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.
I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?
Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.
If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.
What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.
As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.
I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.
As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.
Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.
A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.
I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.
In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.
Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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.
Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.
Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.
The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.
It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.
Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?
We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college
regardless of income.
regardless of income.
Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.
Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.