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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party. -- Bernie Sanders
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When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with. -- Bernie Sanders
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The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change. -- Bernie Sanders
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What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics. -- Bernie Sanders
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We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up. -- Bernie Sanders
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What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life. -- Bernie Sanders
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Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system. -- Bernie Sanders
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There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are. -- Bernie Sanders
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour. -- Bernie Sanders
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In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media is not necessarily interested in the issues facing the middle class, more interested in attacks in personality. So I think there were a lot of reasons. -- Bernie Sanders
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The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice. -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United! -- Bernie Sanders
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Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process. That is not the democracy that many of us believe America should be. -- Bernie Sanders
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Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons. -- Bernie Sanders
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It's better to show up than to give up. -- Bernie Sanders
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Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Obviously one would hope one would have as much support as possible from all walks of life, i am a great fan of Elizabeth and as for what people do and why they don't do it, I am not going to speculate. -- Bernie Sanders
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When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them. -- Bernie Sanders
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. -- Bernie Sanders
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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service. -- Bernie Sanders
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model. -- Bernie Sanders
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There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. -- Bernie Sanders
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Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class. -- Bernie Sanders
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Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street. -- Bernie Sanders
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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. -- Bernie Sanders
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This is a war for the soul of Islam. And those countries who are opposed to Islam, they are going to have to get deeply involved in a way that is not the case today. We should be supportive of that effort. -- Bernie Sanders
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Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety. -- Bernie Sanders
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Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs. -- Bernie Sanders
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The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections. -- Bernie Sanders
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Washington is dominated by big money. -- Bernie Sanders
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The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, ran for Senator. This is what she said when she was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2004: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore." I could go on and on and on, but I think we have the point. -- Bernie Sanders
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We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge. -- Bernie Sanders
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I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors. -- Bernie Sanders
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day. -- Bernie Sanders
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Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career. -- Bernie Sanders
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When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society. -- Bernie Sanders
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If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and they have the right of free speech and the right without disclosure - all of this is through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision - to put as much money as they want into campaigns all over the country. -- Bernie Sanders
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I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. -- Bernie Sanders
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Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all. -- Bernie Sanders
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I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin. -- Bernie Sanders
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions?Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence. -- Bernie Sanders
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Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics. -- Bernie Sanders
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Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value. -- Bernie Sanders
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Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that you have a political system which is heavily dominated by corporations and wealthy individuals. -- Bernie Sanders
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Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs. -- Bernie Sanders
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Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America. -- Bernie Sanders
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Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable -- Bernie Sanders
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It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college - for one reason: that their family lacks the funding. And together we are going to change that. -- Bernie Sanders
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The American people understand that we need real change in this country, in my view, a political revolution, which says to the people on top, "You know what, you guys can't have it all." -- Bernie Sanders
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Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me. -- Bernie Sanders
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I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class. -- Bernie Sanders
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Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. -- Bernie Sanders
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In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited. -- Bernie Sanders
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Change will not take place without political participation. -- Bernie Sanders
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I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans. -- Bernie Sanders
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Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America. -- Bernie Sanders
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Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood. -- Bernie Sanders
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You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right. -- Bernie Sanders
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In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have to develop a strong economic message which says every American is entitled to health care through a national health care program. And we're not going to allow these large corporations to push through trade agreements which allow them to throw Americans out on the street and run to China. -- Bernie Sanders
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There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward. -- Bernie Sanders
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Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. -- Bernie Sanders
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Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses. -- Bernie Sanders
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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.' -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career. -- Bernie Sanders
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Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen. -- Bernie Sanders
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What we're also looking at, if we do not transform our energy system, is more international war and conflict as countries fight over limited natural resources, including water and land to grow their crops. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks. -- Bernie Sanders
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In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. -- Bernie Sanders
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Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all. -- Bernie Sanders
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Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
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I would ask ... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate. -- Bernie Sanders
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I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income. -- Bernie Sanders
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The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements. -- Bernie Sanders
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Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999. -- Bernie Sanders
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The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate. -- Bernie Sanders
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Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election. -- Bernie Sanders
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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often. -- Bernie Sanders
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years. -- Bernie Sanders
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You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. -- Bernie Sanders
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People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department. -- Bernie Sanders
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I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy. -- Bernie Sanders
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Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues! -- Bernie Sanders
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I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine. -- Bernie Sanders
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In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue. -- Bernie Sanders
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Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits. -- Bernie Sanders
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Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future. -- Bernie Sanders
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I did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the bill that I wanted, but probably the most comprehensive V.A. health care bill in the modern history of this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do? -- Bernie Sanders
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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. -- Bernie Sanders
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way. -- Bernie Sanders
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The United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP in infrastructure; whereas, Europe invests twice that amount. -- Bernie Sanders
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There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right and yet we end up spending much more than they do, so I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system. -- Bernie Sanders
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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable. -- Bernie Sanders
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Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world. -- Bernie Sanders
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When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process. -- Bernie Sanders
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When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats. -- Bernie Sanders
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I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have. -- Bernie Sanders
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Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. -- Bernie Sanders
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I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society. -- Bernie Sanders
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There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. -- Bernie Sanders
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Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy? -- Bernie Sanders
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In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country. -- Bernie Sanders
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Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1% ... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process. -- Bernie Sanders
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This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton. -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange. -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins. -- Bernie Sanders
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It's time to make our government work for all of us ... and not just the 1%. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my judgement, that kind of judgement is what we want in a president going forward. I want to be a peacemaker. -- Bernie Sanders
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Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm not always a smiley kind of guy. -- Bernie Sanders
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Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do. -- Bernie Sanders
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Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need? -- Bernie Sanders
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We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages. -- Bernie Sanders
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How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys? -- Bernie Sanders
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Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China. -- Bernie Sanders
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Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That's right, $27. -- Bernie Sanders
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The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region. -- Bernie Sanders
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It's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage. -- Bernie Sanders
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I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you are not prepared top take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country - who came back wounded in body, wounded in spirit - if you're not prepared to help those people, then don't send them to war in the first place. -- Bernie Sanders
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We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money. -- Bernie Sanders
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One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
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So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil. -- Bernie Sanders
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Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. -- Bernie Sanders
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Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
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The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now. -- Bernie Sanders
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Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. -- Bernie Sanders
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I want to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege. -- Bernie Sanders
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When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. -- Bernie Sanders
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[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that. -- Bernie Sanders
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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States. -- Bernie Sanders
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I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children. -- Bernie Sanders
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Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win. -- Bernie Sanders
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Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. -- Bernie Sanders
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In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs. -- Bernie Sanders
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In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free. -- Bernie Sanders
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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. -- Bernie Sanders
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As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings - trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist. I -- Bernie Sanders
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Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows. -- Bernie Sanders
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If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal. -- Bernie Sanders
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All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican. -- Bernie Sanders
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Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year. -- Bernie Sanders
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In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in. -- Bernie Sanders
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Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits -- Bernie Sanders
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For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress. -- Bernie Sanders
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States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision. -- Bernie Sanders
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As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way. -- Bernie Sanders
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I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have. -- Bernie Sanders
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I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right thing. And that is to tell our university, at that time, the University of Chicago, that it was wrong to own and maintain segregated housing. I remember it very well. -- Bernie Sanders
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We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America. -- Bernie Sanders
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Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. -- Bernie Sanders
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I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America. -- Bernie Sanders
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What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label. -- Bernie Sanders
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Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become. -- Bernie Sanders
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd. -- Bernie Sanders
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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake. -- Bernie Sanders
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It's not something where you can say, one time you said this and now you said this. That doesn't peel off any of his people. The only way that you can do it is by out alphaing [Doanld] Trump, and I think that's what Marco Rubio's attempting to do. -- Bernie Sanders
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress. -- Bernie Sanders
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It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant. -- Bernie Sanders
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In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece's efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering. -- Bernie Sanders
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The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change. -- Bernie Sanders
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Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue. -- Bernie Sanders
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Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party. -- Bernie Sanders
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What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. -- Bernie Sanders
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I want to see working people and young people come into the party in a way that doesn't exist now. And you know what, I want a 50-state strategy so the Democratic Party is not just the party of 25 states. -- Bernie Sanders
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The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent. -- Bernie Sanders
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It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s - there were people - who said 'don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear! -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
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It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes. -- Bernie Sanders
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In terms of Iran and in terms of Saudi Arabia, of course they hate each other. That's no great secret. But John Kerry, who is I think doing a very good job, has tried to at least get these people in the room together because both of them are being threatened by ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street. -- Bernie Sanders
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Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm running for president, because as I go around this nation, I talk to a lot of people. And what I hear is people's concern that the economy we have is a rigged economy. -- Bernie Sanders
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If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again. -- Bernie Sanders
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives. -- Bernie Sanders
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Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. -- Bernie Sanders
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I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in which all people can live with dignity. And that's kind of what I believe. -- Bernie Sanders
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As mayor of Burlington, I helped establish two sister-city programs. One was with the town of Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua. -- Bernie Sanders
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An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
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We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout. -- Bernie Sanders
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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels ... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States. -- Bernie Sanders
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Good environmental policy is good economic policy. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
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[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
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And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California. -- Bernie Sanders
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To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families. -- Bernie Sanders
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I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline. -- Bernie Sanders
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The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public. -- Bernie Sanders
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Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system. -- Bernie Sanders
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I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street. I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history. -- Bernie Sanders
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After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street. -- Bernie Sanders
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Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point. -- Bernie Sanders
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At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you can't afford to take care of your # veterans , then don't go to war. -- Bernie Sanders
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In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways. -- Bernie Sanders
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Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
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I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured. -- Bernie Sanders
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Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners. -- Bernie Sanders
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I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton. -- Bernie Sanders
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The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry. -- Bernie Sanders
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The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it. -- Bernie Sanders
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What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires. -- Bernie Sanders
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break. -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus. -- Bernie Sanders
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I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America. -- Bernie Sanders
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I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think we bring together that broad coalition including Russia to help us destroy ISIS and work on a timetable to get rid of Assad, hopefully through Democratic elections. First priority, destroy ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
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What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. -- Bernie Sanders
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While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart. -- Bernie Sanders
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The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country. -- Bernie Sanders
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Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. -- Bernie Sanders
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For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. -- Bernie Sanders
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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies. -- Bernie Sanders
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In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women. -- Bernie Sanders
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I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump. -- Bernie Sanders
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists. -- Bernie Sanders
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Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists. -- Bernie Sanders
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We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated. -- Bernie Sanders
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Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things. -- Bernie Sanders
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At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States. -- Bernie Sanders
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money. -- Bernie Sanders
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People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons. -- Bernie Sanders
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This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate. -- Bernie Sanders
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When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease. -- Bernie Sanders
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network. -- Bernie Sanders
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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 ... -- Bernie Sanders
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I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American. -- Bernie Sanders
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My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. -- Bernie Sanders
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My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
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There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better. -- Bernie Sanders
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Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts. -- Bernie Sanders
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In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves. -- Bernie Sanders
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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! -- Bernie Sanders
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We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners. -- Bernie Sanders
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Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America. -- Bernie Sanders
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Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all! -- Bernie Sanders
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China. -- Bernie Sanders
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I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously. -- Bernie Sanders
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To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
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General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer. -- Bernie Sanders
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If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks. -- Bernie Sanders
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I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me. -- Bernie Sanders
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When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration. -- Bernie Sanders
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. -- Bernie Sanders
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Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries. -- Bernie Sanders
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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]. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff. -- Bernie Sanders
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I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns. -- Bernie Sanders
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I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people. -- Bernie Sanders
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The last point that I'd make. I had a hearing. I had all of the veterans groups in front of me. And I said to them, tell me when a veteran gets in to the V.A., understanding there are waiting lines and real problems, when a veteran gets into the system, is the quality of care good? -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available. -- Bernie Sanders
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment. -- Bernie Sanders
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Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve. -- Bernie Sanders
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. -- Bernie Sanders
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When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Muslims are not your enemy. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. -- Bernie Sanders
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Demagogues like [Donald] Trump come along. He says I know what the cause is. Remember, later, the cause was that Mexicans who are coming to this country, well, they were criminals or rapists. Now it is Muslims. -- Bernie Sanders
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Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Wish we could, and allow the Taliban or anybody else to reclaim that country. But what we must do is some progress in Iraq, where finally the Iraqi army, which has not been a particularly effective fighting force, retook Ramadi. -- Bernie Sanders
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It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies
both at home and around the world
to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change. -- Bernie Sanders
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Finland is no utopia. -- Bernie Sanders
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At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system. -- Bernie Sanders
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Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich -- Bernie Sanders
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In August 2008, the General Accountability Office issued a report. According to this report, two out of every three corporations in the United States paid no Federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified. -- Bernie Sanders
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Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well.But none of that happens unless there's a political revolution. And it's not going to happen unless we deal with corporate control of the media. -- Bernie Sanders
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Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so. -- Bernie Sanders
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The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people. -- Bernie Sanders
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I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities. -- Bernie Sanders
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Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors. -- Bernie Sanders
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The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop. -- Bernie Sanders
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It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company. -- Bernie Sanders
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You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally. -- Bernie Sanders
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The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves. -- Bernie Sanders
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more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American. -- Bernie Sanders
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I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money. -- Bernie Sanders
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Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought. -- Bernie Sanders
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Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS. -- Bernie Sanders
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Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on. -- Bernie Sanders
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What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We have some 2.2 million people in jail. What that means is that a lot of lives are being destroyed. -- Bernie Sanders
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Difficult times often bring out the best in people. -- Bernie Sanders
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In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy. -- Bernie Sanders
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The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany. -- Bernie Sanders
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Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble. -- Bernie Sanders
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I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country. -- Bernie Sanders
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You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street. -- Bernie Sanders
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Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior. -- Bernie Sanders
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It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems. -- Bernie Sanders
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The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom. -- Bernie Sanders
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Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe. -- Bernie Sanders
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A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think we've got a number of states coming up that we're going to do extremely well and possibly winning, including California and New York state.So I think we do have a path to victory. -- Bernie Sanders
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If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip. -- Bernie Sanders
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From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. -- Bernie Sanders
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Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs. -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. -- Bernie Sanders
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People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all. -- Bernie Sanders
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The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires. -- Bernie Sanders
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Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income. -- Bernie Sanders
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We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people. -- Bernie Sanders
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Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education. -- Bernie Sanders
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A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come. -- Bernie Sanders
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Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it. -- Bernie Sanders
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When millions of people stand up and fight ... they win. -- Bernie Sanders
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When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish. -- Bernie Sanders
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We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand. -- Bernie Sanders
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Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them. -- Bernie Sanders
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You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late, which is, he is just getting down in the muck with Donald Trump. And when you get down in the muck, you get up with muck on you. -- Bernie Sanders
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I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary. -- Bernie Sanders
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When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street. -- Bernie Sanders
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A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think Donald Trump is totally unfit to be president of the United States. Let's not forget, this guy was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement, which was an effort to delegitimize the presidency of the first African-American president we have ever had. -- Bernie Sanders
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Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits. -- Bernie Sanders
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Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book. -- Bernie Sanders
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We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America. -- Bernie Sanders
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I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support. -- Bernie Sanders
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Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free. -- Bernie Sanders
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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? -- Bernie Sanders
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I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues. -- Bernie Sanders
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Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout? -- Bernie Sanders
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If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach. -- Bernie Sanders
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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers. -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think we're going to win a very good share of those delegates. I think you've got major states coming up. And I think the important point is that people throughout this country are resonating to our message. -- Bernie Sanders
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When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby. -- Bernie Sanders
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The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent. -- Bernie Sanders
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As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. -- Bernie Sanders
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But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can. -- Bernie Sanders
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For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored. -- Bernie Sanders
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It is a challenge that progressives face throughout the country. We lose when we are divided. We win when we are united. At -- Bernie Sanders
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Experience is not the only point, judgment is. And once again, back in 2002, when we both [with Hillary Clinton]looked at the same evidence about the wisdom of the war in Iraq, one of us voted the right way and one of us didn't. -- Bernie Sanders
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Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. -- Bernie Sanders
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Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino. -- Bernie Sanders
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I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here - I helped write that bill - but by moving forward, rallying the American people, I do believe we should have health care for all. -- Bernie Sanders
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The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment. -- Bernie Sanders
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Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in the country who are hurting. -- Bernie Sanders
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I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles. -- Bernie Sanders
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What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
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I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm not much into speculation. -- Bernie Sanders
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It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower. -- Bernie Sanders
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Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do? -- Bernie Sanders
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Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels. -- Bernie Sanders
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What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief. -- Bernie Sanders
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The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that. -- Bernie Sanders
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We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society. -- Bernie Sanders
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Democracy is not a spectator sport -- Bernie Sanders
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The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them. -- Bernie Sanders
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Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up. -- Bernie Sanders
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The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
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Change comes, even in the face of overwhelming odds. And the recognition of the changes we have already made, of what we have won, inspires us to fight even harder. When -- Bernie Sanders
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I don't consider myself a pariah. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America. -- Bernie Sanders
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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. -- Bernie Sanders
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The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years. -- Bernie Sanders
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Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information. -- Bernie Sanders
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If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now -- Bernie Sanders
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As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues. -- Bernie Sanders
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What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests. -- Bernie Sanders
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If we are a free country, we have the right to be free. -- Bernie Sanders
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I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much. -- Bernie Sanders
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Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours. -- Bernie Sanders
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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. -- Bernie Sanders
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One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes. -- Bernie Sanders