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Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we need a good debate as to where we go, not only just now but in the future, and to my mind, if there's anything that this unexpected moment in American history should teach us, we've got to rethink the basic structures of American society, and that is guaranteed health care to all as a human right, creating an economy that provides for all people not just the wealthy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What was very clear from the media narrative and what the establishment wanted was to make sure that people coalesced around Joe BidenThis and try to defeat me. So, that's not surprising.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When we talk about differences with my friend Joe Biden -- and he is my friend -- I think it's important for people of Michigan and people of America to know difference in our record, joe's been around for a while, I've been around for a while, how do we differ, what's our records ? Who stood up when the going was tough ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I dont know, I think Crazy Bernie has it.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons Donald Trump has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to Donald Trump, and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what President Obama is doing, i think one of the reasons that President Obama has moved as far to the right as President Obama has is President Obama thinks President Obama can go all the way and no one will stand up to President Obama.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not a Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, i'm the longest-serving Independent. I think if a progressive Democrat wants to run, I think it would enliven the debate, raise some issues and people have a right to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You may recall way back in, when was it,1961 United States invaded Cuba and the, everybody was totally convinced Fidel Castro was the worst guy in the world. All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro, united States had forgotten that Fidel Castro educated the kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Under( Cuban leader Fidel Castro) Fidel Castro, enormous progress has been made in improving the lives of the poor people( and) of the working people, on the other hand, in terms of democratic rights, there are enormous deficiencies.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What every study out there, conservative or progressive says, Medicare For All will save money.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the last three years, last three years, billionaires in this country saw an $ 850 billion increase in their wealth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
-- but that is different than saying governments occasionally do things that are good.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What Barack Obama said is they made great progress on education and health care. That was Barack Obama.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was really amazed at what Mayor Bloomberg just said a moment ago, vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said that the Chinese government is responsive to the Politburo, but who the hell is the Politburo responsive to ? Who elects the Politburo ? You got a real dictatorship there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In Nevada, and in New Hampshire and in Iowa -- what we showed is that our volunteers are prepared to knock on hundreds and hundreds of thousands of doors, that no campaign has a grassroots movement like we do, which is another reason why we're going to win this election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will not create the energy and excitement we need to defeat Donald Trump if that candidate pursued, advocated for and enacted racist policies like stop and frisk which caused communities of color in his city to live in fear, the simple truth is that Mayor Bloomberg with all Donald Trump money will not create the kind of excitement and energy we need to have the voter turnout we must have to defeat Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reason I believe we are going to win, is that we have an unprecedented grassroots movement, from coast to coast, of millions of people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Donald Trump says that Donald Trump would love to run against Bernie Sanders. Well, maybe not. Donald Trump lies a whole lot of the time and in fact, what I have read is some of Donald Trump advisers tell Donald Trump that I will be the toughest candidate for Donald Trump to run against.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you win an election by 6,000 or 2,500 votes from where I come from you win the primary or the caucus. So we are confident we won Iowa.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I try to think about how I came to the views that I hold, there are two major factors, no. 1, I grew up in a family that didn't have a whole lot of money. ... The second one is being Jewish.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've got enough of Iowa, move on to New Hampshire.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the community that I lived in you go downtown, shop, and people had the tattoos from the concentration camps on their arms.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There was a poll that came out today that had us all of one point in the lead. That tells me this is going to be a very, very tight election, and it tells me that the candidate will win, which campaign has the best get out the vote effort. Polls are one thing, getting out the vote is something else.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Childcare workers are making wages lower than McDonald's workers.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Joe Biden are now spending twice as much per person on health care as do the people of any other country. That is insane.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I’m glad they reached out to Gore, but apparently they are not hearing what Gore has to say.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Our job now is to have her listen to what millions of people in this country who supported me want to see happen.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Whatever the cost of that problem is people in the United States of America shouldn't have to wait five hours in order to vote.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And what happened in Arizona is a disgrace. I hope that every state in this country learns from that and learns how to put together a proper election where people can come in and vote in a timely manner and go back to work. whatever the cost of that problem is people in the United States of America shouldn't have to wait five hours in order to vote.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are doing something very unusual in modern American politics. We are telling the truth.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our campaign … never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Nobody is talking about building a wall around the United States, oh, I beg your pardon, there is one guy who is talking about building a wall. Let me rephrase it: no rational person is talking about building a wall.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of the strong differences of opinion that Secretary Clinton and I have -- I have helped lead the opposition against every one of these terrible trade programs.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I'm tasting this for the very first time, this is good ... Excellent, really good. I'm not just saying that because it's 'Bernie's yearning.'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are going to fight here in New Hampshire, looking forward to winning here.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the significance is, for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win, that we could compete against Hillary Clinton, I hope that that thought is now gone.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We lost (the non-white vote), but that gap is growing slimmer and slimmer between the secretary and myself. I think you'll find as we get to South Carolina and other states, that when the African-American community, the Latino community, looks at our record, looks at our agenda, we're going to get more and more support.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There has been no United States senator who has been stronger on senior issues, not only on defending Social Security, but on the need to expand Social Security benefits. People can't make it on $12,000 to $13,000 in Social Security benefits.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're revitalizing American democracy and if we're going to change America, that's what we've got to do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Whether we lose by a fraction of a point or we win or whatever, we're very proud of the campaign that we , i think the significance is, for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win, that we could compete against Hillary Clinton, I hope that that thought is now gone.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Yes, we may raise taxes but we are going to remove private health care insurance premiums for individuals and businesses.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We will raise taxes, yes we will, yes, we may raise taxes but we are going to remove private health care insurance premiums for individuals and businesses.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This good news shows that diplomacy can work, even in this volatile region of the world.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's become clear that no mass shooting, no matter how big or bloody, will inspire Republicans to put children and innocent Americans over the interests of the NRA. They are simply more loyal to gun lobbyists than our children. That's why I support President Obama's executive actions to make our communities safer.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have enormous problems facing this country, and I think we got more things to worry about than Bill Clinton's sexual life, maybe Donald Trump might want to focus attention on climate change. … Maybe Donald Trump should understand that we should raise the minimum wage. … Maybe he should focus on those things.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I would prefer that we could have bipartisan support, but the truth is Republicans aren't interested in doing anything on gun safety.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is a wide consensus, overwhelming majority of the American people believe we should expand and strengthen the instant background checks, i think that's what the president is trying to do and I think that will be the right thing to do.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
No, I think we've got more important things to worry about in this country than Bill Clinton's sex life.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the more than history of the United States.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are all horrified by the cowardly attacks against innocent civilians in Paris. I offer my sympathy to the victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with the people of France, the first friend of the United States.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's a state and a federal issue. The federal issue is that we should remove marijuana from the Controlled Substance Act. That's a federal decision, the state decision is that we live in a federal system of government where issues like tobacco and alcohol are significantly regulated by the states. And I think that is a province of the states.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The state wants to go forward, they should be able to go forward without legal impediments from the federal government, and that's what this legislation is about, colorado wants to legalize marijuana, it's their decision. If Alabama does not want to legalize marijuana, that's their decision. But if a state wants to go forward, it should be able to do so without impediments from the federal government, which now prevent stores that sell marijuana from using banks, because that's in violation of federal law.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
By the way, about eight years ago, all of the political experts talked about how another Democratic candidate for president just couldn't win, he was unelectable -- remember that guy -- what's his name? Oh, it's President Obama, well Iowa, I think we're going to prove the pundits wrong again. I believe we will make history.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I was, i take it to mean, was I ever arrested by the police. When I was young, I was involved in a civil rights demonstration.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I know that's not an easy thing to do, but you made that decision, that you were not going to take it and you were going to stand up and talk about what happened to you and a whole lot of woman in this country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
So people will have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to Wall Street and corporations, big corporations, with the secretary.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
So is deficit reduction important? Of course, it is.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I want to invest a trillion dollars in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. I do want to do that because I think that will create up to 13 million jobs, so is deficit reduction important? Of course, it is.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My Republican friends want to throw millions of more people off of health insurance, and what I want to do is have the United States of America join the rest of the industrialized world, every other country in guaranteeing health care to all people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And you say, 'You know what? Corporate America, you ain't going to stash your money in the Cayman Islands and not pay any taxes at all,' if you are very, very wealthy, as Warren Buffett reminds us, you know what? You're not going to continue to pay an effective tax rate lower than middle class people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
She was a very, very progressive ... socialist who organized working people and the poor to stand up to the wealthy and the powerful and to fight for social justice.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The fact that he cited her -- not to mention Martin Luther King Jr. -- as one of the people he appreciated tells you where this man is coming from in the global world, the fact that he talked about somebody that spent her life fighting for the poor and fighting for justice.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think he came here today and touched on some very, very important issues that a lot of people would prefer not to talk about. And that is the issue of poverty, the issue of environmental degradation, immigration, the death penalty, the need to do everything we can to create a peaceful world, and I think he did it in a very dignified, non-partisan type way.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I believe strongly the United States, the U.K., France, other countries should be supportive.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Countries like Saudi Arabia, which has the third largest military budget in the world, Turkey, other countries, are going to have to get their hands dirty -- going to have to get on the ground in taking on ISIS, i believe strongly the United States, the U.K., France, other countries should be supportive.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think this country benefits, all people benefit, democracy benefits when we have debates, and I want to see more of them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need banks that invest in the job-creating economy, we don't need more speculation with the American economy hanging in the balance.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Main Street struggles while Wall Street soars, if a bank is too big to fail, too big to jail and too big to manage, then it's too damn big.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You'll have to ask Hillary Clinton her views on whether we should break up these large financial institutions.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think Bernie Sanders raises a lot of good issues to be discussed, i wouldn't necessarily agree with all of his solutions.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I look forward to learning more about the complex details of this agreement to make sure that it is effective and strong.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it’s clear to say that Clinton is the candidate for most members of Congress and the Democratic establishment.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If somebody has a gun and it falls into the hands of a murderer and the murderer kills somebody with a gun, do you hold the gun manufacturer responsible? Not any more than you would hold a hammer company responsible if somebody beats somebody over the head with a hammer. That is not what a lawsuit should be about.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Folks who do not like guns is fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9% of those people obey the law, i want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know if it's a winning strategy or not, but this is what I do know: The middle class of this country is disappearing despite the fact that people are working longer hours and they're earning lower wages.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That's a good question, as I said, she's far preferable to the Republican candidates. But the challenge now is to rally millions of Americans to stand up, and people will have to determine whether her past record puts her in that position.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It has to be a credible campaign, not just for my ego but because all of the issues that we're talking about, all of those issues that millions of people believe in, I've gotta carry that banner, and if I can't run a good campaign, I'm not going to do it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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