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Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Vermont.

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First of all, the dysfunctionality of the current health care system is obviously apparent, as I said earlier, there are people who hesitategoing to the doctor. ... Clearly we are not prepared, and Trump only exacerbates the crisis. When we spend twice as much per capita as any other nation, one might expect were gonna have enough doctors all over this country. One might expect were gonna have affordable prescription drugs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 20 days ago Politics

Going into Wisconsin, key battleground states — all states that have been devastated by these terrible trade agreements I fear very much if Joe Biden is Joe Biden, believe me, President Trump will and has already talked about Joe's record on trade.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

We are losing the debate over electability, i can not tell you how many people our campaign has spoken to, who have said, and I quote,' I like what your campaign stands for ; I agree with what your campaign stands for, but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden, because I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat President Trump.'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

Everybody knows that there are limited amounts of time ; we did three rallies yesterday.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

During a crisis we must make sure that we care for the communities most vulnerable to health and economic pain.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 23 days ago Politics

On Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Politics

Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections and the three wealthiest Americans owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Politics

While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability. I can not tell you how many people our campaign has spoke to and said, and I quote,' I like what your campaign stands for, I agree with what your campaign stands for, but I'm going to vote for Joe Biden because I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump,' we have heard that statement all over this country. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with that assertion, but that is what millions of Democrats and independents today believe.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 24 days ago Politics

Joe Biden, what are you going to end the absurdity of the United States of America being the only major country on earth where health care is not a human right ? are you really going to veto a' Medicare for All' bill if it is passed in Congress ?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 24 days ago Politics

Last night obviously was not a good night for our campaign from a delegate point of view.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 24 days ago Politics

Today I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country and you must speak to the issues of concern to them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 24 days ago Politics

Donald Trump must be defeated, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen, on Sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal. ... I very much look forward to the debate in Arizona with my friend, Joe Biden.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 24 days ago Opinion

There's been a lot of vitriol and misogyny, i think that probably hasn't helped him.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 25 days ago Politics

We have over 10.6 million people on Twitter, and 99.9 percent of them are decent human beings.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 25 days ago Politics

I don't want to relive 2016. We're in 2020 now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 25 days ago Politics

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Sanders have both shaped the ideological terrain on which this campaign is being waged, senator Warren and Senator Sanders have proven an effective team on debate stages and in the polls, and we hope that partnership continues. We're proud to call both of Senator Warren and Senator Sanders allies in the fight for a more just America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

We'll have tremendous rallies, we're doing very well. We've done a fantastic job, with respect to that subject, on the virus.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Politics

I'm looking to the CDC for advice on that, we're going to follow the recommendations of the experts... and if they conclude that there shouldn't be big indoor rallies, then we'll stop big indoor rallies. We're going to do whatever they say.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Politics

I'm running for president of the The President and that requires a lot of work.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Politics

I think that every organization in America is taking a hard look at what the coronavirus will mean to their operations, and, yes, that is true of our campaign as well.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Politics

Democratic Socialists must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights, democratic Socialists is what I mean by democratic socialism.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Top News

I have used more hand sanitizer in the last two weeks than I've used in my entire life.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 26 days ago Top News

But, what I would say on a good day, is my wife likes me, but also, if you guys look at some of the polling they do for United States senators, in most cases I turn out to be the most popular senator in the country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

What happened in the Soviet Union was not socialism, it was authoritarian communism, im not an expert on the current economy in Sweden.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

Sadly, we have an administration in Washington that has shown the world that it does not believe in science, when you appoint Vice President Pence, an individual who also doesnt much believe in science, what youre telling the whole world is that youre politicizing this issue.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

You listen to the scientists; you dont say stupid things, you dont suggest to people they can go to work.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

They have gone a long way to eliminate poverty, to make sure that all of their people have the basic needs that they need to live good lives.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

I will not become president until January, and the economic situation will be different then.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

It is something -- I got to tell you, I never expected in my life, as an American, to see a swastika at a major political rally. It's horrible.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 27 days ago Politics

He was behind me. And I was speaking to the crowd and I saw crowds booing and I turned around, I didn't quite see what it was. I learned about it right after I left the stage, the idea that there was a swastika, a symbol of everything that this country stands against -- we lost 400,000 people fighting that symbol, fighting Nazism. Six million Jews were killed, other people were killed. The most devastating war in the history of humanity.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 27 days ago Top News

I was there on the right side of history, and my friend Joe Biden was not.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 29 days ago Politics

Tonight, I tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the Democratic nomination.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 29 days ago People

This will become a contrast in ideas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 29 days ago People

I'm proud of the grassroots organizations that we have. Look, we are taking on the establishment. And I fully understand, no great surprise to me that establishment politicians are not going to endorse us, the establishment will rally around establishment candidates. That's the simple reality.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

When they look at rallies like this in St. Paul and say,' What's going on here ?' .

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I don't go to rich people's homes like Joe Biden.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

The establishment is getting very nervous about our campaign, tonight, theyre going to turn on the TV and find the 10,000 people who came out to the Boston Commons and theyre going to become even more nervous.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

I am here to ask you to bring out your friends and your family and your co-workers so that we have the largest voter turnout in the history of Massachusetts.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

In order to defeat Trump we are going to need the largest voter turnout in the history of this country, in order to beat Trump, what we are going to have to do is speak to millions of working-class people who are today, working two or three jobs. Theyre worried about their kids. Theyre worried about retirement. They cant afford health care.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

We will end the so-called war on drugs, turns out, who knew this, but it turns out, through executive order a president can legalize marijuana in every state in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

Why is he here? He's here to try and disrupt the Democratic primary.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Here's the message to Russia : stay out of American elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

He's running in the reddest of states, maybe it should have a color of its own, because red isn't enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

It is not a radical idea that when you get sick you should be able to go to the doctor no matter what your income is.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Trump has called the press the 'enemy of the people,' and now - taking a page from his dictator friends around the world - is trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate. Joe Biden `` Everyone formed the literacy brigade.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that American Samoa has overthrown governments all over the world -- in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran, and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I have cast thousands of votes, including bad votes. That was a bad vote, if Im elected, NRA [the National Rifle Association], Im coming for you and gun manufacturers, Im gonna take you on and Im gonna beat you.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

Truth is truth, if you want to disagree with me, if somebody wants to say -- and by the way, all of those congresspeople that you mention, just so happen to be supporting other candidates -- accidentally no doubt, coincidentally. But, you know, the truth is the truth. And thats what happened in the first years of the Castro regime.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

Together we will defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

If on Super Tuesday we can bring out working people, and young people, people who have given up on the political process, people of all shades who believe in economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice -- if we can create a large voter turnout -- we're going to win Democratic primary a week from Super Tuesday.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

What I say to Mr. Russian President Vladimir Putin, if elected president, trust me, you are not going to be interfering in American elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

We were told that Russia, maybe other countries, are going to get involved in this campaign, and look, here's the message to Russia : Stay out of American elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

As the son of an immigrant...I will not tolerate the continued demonization of the undocumented in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We were told that Russia, maybe other countries, are going to get involved in this campaign, look, here is the message: To Russia, stay out of American elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

What they are doing, by the way, the ugly thing that they are doing - and I've seen some of their tweets and stuff - is they try to divide us up, they are trying to cause chaos. They're trying to cause hatred in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

The intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign, right now, in 2020. And what I say to Mr. Putin, if elected president, trust me you are not going to be interfering in American elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

It's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that, other countries tried - it was called communism and just didn't work.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I can't speak for all billionaires, all I know is I've been very lucky, made a lot of money and I'm giving it all away to make this country better. And a good chunk of it goes to the Democratic party as well.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

When Donald Trump , wow gets $ 800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, that's socialism for the rich, we have to subsidize Walmart's workers on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages. That's socialism for the rich. I believe in democratic socialism for working people. Not billionaires. Health care for all. Educational opportunity for all.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Maybe we can talk -- maybe we can talk about a billionaire saying that we should not raise the minimum wage or that we should cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If that's a way to beat Donald Trump, wow, I would be very surprised.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

What Bernie Sanders need to do to deal with this grotesque level of wealth and income inequality is make sure that those people who are working -- you know what, Mr. Michael Bloomberg, it wasn't you who made all that money, maybe your workers played some role in that as well.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I can't think of a way that would make it easier for Donald Trump , wow to get reelected than listening to this conversation. It's ridiculous. Bernie Sanders're not going throw out capitalism. Bernie Sanders tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism. It just didn't work.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans, that's wrong, that's immoral, that should not be the case when we got a half a million people sleeping out on the streets, when we kids who can not afford to go to college, when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop-and-frisk that went after African American and Latino people in an outrageous way, i dont think theres any chance of the senator beating President Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

The idea that anybody who works with me would make a vicious attack against a union leader just because we disagree on an issue is incomprehensible to me, and you know what, I'm just not sure that that's true.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I do not believe in online bullying, end of discussion.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Talk to the people in my campaign, often the African American women in this campaign, talk to my wife, about the kind of ugly attacks that have come in to us.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Mr. Bloomberg, like anyone else has a right to run for president. He does not have a right to buy the presidency!

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Imagine a multi-billionaire opposing a raise in the minimum wage. Imagine a multi-billionaire asking for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

And I'm not so sure, to be honest with you, that they are necessarily part of our movement.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

I know not everybody agrees with everything I say, but I think what we can agree about is that we cannot continue having a president who is a pathological liar.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We're not going to ask for recanvass of the whole state, that we're certainly not going to do, but I think there were some precincts, where there were some pretty apparent irregularities... I think we will ask Iowa Democratic Party to take a look at those precincts.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Whatever ones political view may be, the American people understand that that is the kind of human being who should not be in the White House, and we intend to make him a one-term president.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

Tomorrow you have a choice.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

That is precisely the problem with American politics.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 month ago US News

I think all of us probably could have done a better job in bringing out our supporters, but if there is a good spot, a good aspect about that campaign, is that young people came out in higher numbers than they did during Obama's historic 2008 campaign. And if that happens nationally, we're going win and defeat President Donald Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I have something that I believe I need to say. And I believe that that message will succeed or fail based on its values. But my question about how much do I care about this ? I don't think there's a limit to how much I care about this.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Weve got enough of Iowa, i think we should move onto New Hampshire.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

The reason we're going to win here in Iowa, the reason we're going to win the Democratic nomination, is because we are a campaign of us, not me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

We have spoken to tens and thousands of people, and we have put together an unprecedentedly strong grassroots, this is a moment I want to thank people of Iowa for their hospitality, and thank them for seriousness of purpose, we look forward to a victory tomorrow night... It's not just our agenda, as strong and powerful as that agenda is, it is grassroots movement.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The schedule we had planned for Iowa is now in the garbage can.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago US News

I think anyone who looks at the vice president's record understands that time after time after time, Joe has talked about the need to cut Social Security, that's in the congressional record. He has said that many, many times. I don't think that's disputable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I'm not going to go there yet. We're still in a very vigorous primary season, well, right now my job is to win in Iowa. It's to win in New Hampshire, do everything we can. But what Secretary Clinton did indicate -- I was glad to hear this -- is that Secretary Clinton would support the Democratic nominee. And if that's me, I look forward to Secretary Clinton support.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way. And I'm sorry that that op-ed appeared.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

Well, right now my job is to win in Iowa. It's to win in New Hampshire, do everything we can. But what Secretary Clinton did indicate -- I was glad to hear this -- is that Secretary Clinton would support the Democratic nominee. And if that's me, I look forward to Secretary Clinton support.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history : the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

Women do not need 80 cents on the dollar. They need the whole damn dollar.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

I would rather be in Iowa today.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

It's not good enough for someone to say,' I'm a woman ! Vote for me !'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened. What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever Donald Trump could, do I believe a woman can win in 2020 ? Of course ! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

The way you defeat Trump is talk to working people in this country who are so exasperated, so tired of working longer hours for lower wages, so tired of working for 10, 11, 12 bucks an hour and not being able to afford to maintain their family with a dignity that family deserves.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

I say to those who are delaying action on climate change: look at the blood-red sky and unbreathable air in Australia because of raging forest fires.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Environment

We must invest in the needs of the American people, not spend trillions more on endless wars.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

I think we'll find out when we come back in session where we are.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

It is not going to stop corporations going to Mexico, what we need is a trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

And maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $ 1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president -- i.e. Bernie Sanders -- can lead the world. Instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

So, Pete Buttigieg, we look forward to you -- I know you are an energetic guy and a competitive guy -- to see if you can take on Joe on that issue, but what is not -- what is not a laughing matter, my friends : This is why three people own more wealth than the bottom half.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Its not just another business.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Sports

I think there is not going to be a debate so long as there remains a labor dispute, i hope and expect the DNC will resolve that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I am delighted that in Congress we actually have done something in a bipartisan way. Doesnt happen very often nowadays. But, on this issue, youve got Democrats and youve got Republicans from all over this country saying to Major League Baseball, do not take away minor league baseball from 42 communities all over this country. Aint going to happen, if it does happen, youre going to have to deal with a number of us in Congress who will respond accordingly.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Sports

Its not just another business where you can pay people low wages and then shut down your enterprises in communities where this means so much to the kids and the families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Sports

The ballplayers from the team made it into the majors. They ended up winning three Eastern League titles. What was most important to me as the mayor of the city at that time is seeing what Minor League Baseball did for our community. It was a beautiful, beautiful thing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Sports

Major League Baseball has gotta understand that baseball is more than just a bottom line for a group of billionaires. It is these communities where the kids come out, where young ballplayers.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Sports

We must live our values and there is nothing more core to the Democratic Party than the fight for working people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

We do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections, that is why multi-billionaires like Michael Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

I am the son of an immigrant, i have some sense of an immigrant experience. I will stand with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

They have lied and lied and lied when they had the evidence that their carbon products were destroying the planet and maybe.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

He is likely the most corrupt President in the modern history of America. But we can not simply be consumed by President Donald Trump. Because if we are, we are going to lose the election.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

You're not going to get elected president by avoiding Iowa, by avoiding New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. You're not going to buy this election by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on media in California. Those days are gone.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

What it means is, what Cardi B does, not only is she an enormously popular entertainer, what she is doing is speaking to young people about the important issues that are on their minds and I applaud that very much.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

They're going to go up significantly for the wealthy, and for virtually everybody, the tax increase they pay will be substantially less -- substantially less than what they were paying for premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

You're asking me to come up with an exact detailed plan of how every American -- how much you're going to pay more in taxes, how much I'm going to pay. I don't think I have to do that right now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago US News

Weneed a new vision for American and thats what our campaign is about, the most important and significant opposition we face is the limitation to our imaginations. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib address the audience during a Sanders campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan. ( REUTERS/Rebecca Cook) Sanders also took the time to praise Tlaib for her role in representing the partys progressive wing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

We're going to legalize marijuana and end the horrifically destructive war on drugs, it has disproportionately targeted people of color and ruined the lives of millions of Americans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

The truth is we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality and we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families in this country for 45 years.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

We are going to be mounting a vigorous campaign all around this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

As somebody who wrote the damn bill, let's be clear : Under the Medicare for All bill I wrote, premiums are gone, copayments are gone, deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

Ilhan is a leader of strength and courage, she will not back down from a fight with billionaires and the world's most powerful corporations to transform our country so it works for all of us. I'm proud of what we've done in Congress, and together we will build a multiracial working class coalition to win the White House.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

The American people have had enough. They are sick and tired of profitable corporations like Amazon, General Motors, Eli Lilly, Chevron, Halliburton, Netflix and Delta making billions in profits, but paying nothing in federal income taxes.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

Here is the story. We live in an unprecedented moment in American history and by that I mean only that we have the most dangerous president in the history of this country somebody who is a pathological liar a racist a sexist, a homophone xenophobe and a religious bigot.....Wehave a corrupt political system in which billionaires are able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy elections undermining the whole thrust of what American democracy is supposed to be about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Latest Headlines

We were doing( in) some cases five or six meetings today, three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people. I don't think I'm going to do that, but I certainly intend to be actively campaigning. I think we can change the nature of the campaign a bit. Make sure I have the strength to do what needs to be done.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

Everything that happens every day, weigh on how people feels about you, and my own view is that it's the voters who view you look at the totality of who the candidate is, you look at what that candidate stands for the integrity of that candidate, the history of our candidates, I've been fighting for working families, for my entire adult life.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

I must confess, I was dumb, during this campaign, I've been doing, in some cases three or four rallies a day, running all over the state -- Iowa, New Hampshire, wherever. And yet I, in the last month of two, just was more fatigued than I usually have been.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

If there's anything that this event kind of tell us, it is the importance of the what our message is in this campaign, and our message is' us, not me.' This has never been about me. It's been about millions of people, including certainly our campaign staff, working together to bring about the kind of fundamental changes this nation absolutely needs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

The very concept of medical debt should not exist, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one illness or disease should not ruin a family's financial life and future.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Politics

It is immoral and unconscionable that families across the country are finding themselves nearly broke or bankrupt because of crippling medical debt while the health care industry made more than $100 billion in profits last year.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Politics

Here you have a situation with United Auto Workers is out on strike. 49,000 workers. I am sure that in that 49,000 there are family members who are seriously ill, and yet the greed of General Motors -- which has the amount of money to pay their CEO something like $ 21 million a year -- they cut off the health care benefits for those 49,000 workers, under Medicare for All, every American -- whether you're working, whether you're not working, when you are going from one job to another job -- it's there with you.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Our message to General Motors is a simple one : End the greed, sit down with the The UAW and work out an agreement that treats your workers with the respect and the dignity they deserve.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

I don't think she needs to put out her own plan or anything like that, in fact, putting out her own plan would be seen as competing with the existing bills that people have been rallying around and worked really hard on.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Hold it. John, stop it. You're not gon na kill yourself. Stop it, i can't do this.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

What I wanted to make sure is that I got the correct information because what I did not want to happen is just him talking about his story but not being able to follow up with him, he told me he doesn't answer his phone very much because there are bill collectors calling him up every day.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Here is somebody who put his life on the line to defend this country, a veteran, dealing with a terrible, terrible illness, and what was obviously very unsettling is when he used the word suicide, nevada Congressional was the most dramatic and painful moment of the whole town meeting.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

This should not be going on in America, not for a veteran, not for any person in this country, and it is beyond comprehension that under the current healthcare system, somewhere like a half a million people go bankrupt every year because of medical bills, clearly we are not doing what we should be doing to make sure that every veteran in this country gets all of the quality healthcare they need when they need it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Alright, let's chat later at the end of the meeting, okay ?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

He told me he doesn't answer his phone very much because there are bill collectors calling him up every day.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Every study done shows that Medicare for All is the most cost-effective approach to providing healthcare to every man, woman and child in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

Americans don't want to pay twice as much as other countries, and they guarantee health care for all people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they can not pay their outrageous medical bills.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

These are no longer radical ideas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Politics

In terms of your legacy, Ady Barkan, I think it will be very clear that even with the terrible illness that you're struggling with right now, that you didn't give up, that you understood that, especially given your illness, that you could play a significant in rallying the American people toward a sane and humane health care system, and I think you will be remembered in very, very wonderful ways as a man of great courage in doing that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

I hope that people will remember me as somebody who had the courage to take on virtually all of the powerful special interests in this country, in the fight for economic, social, racial, environmental justice.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

In the United States of America, your financial life and future should not be destroyed because you or a member of your family gets sick, that is unacceptable. I am sick and tired of seeing over 500,000 Americans declare bankruptcy each year because they cannot pay off the outrageous cost of a medical emergency or a hospital stay.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

It also trapped families with medical debt in long-term poverty, mandated that they pay for credit counseling before filing for bankruptcy, and increased the need for expensive legal services when filing a case for medical bankruptcy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

In the midst of a dysfunctional health care system, what we have got to do is say that you can not go bankrupt. You can not end up in financial distress, because you're terribly sick. That's cruel, and that is something we've got to end.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Politics

News outlets owned by Disney and Jeff Bezos may happily tout Disney films and Bezos's plans for space exploration, but we cannot count on them to consistently and aggressively cover workers' fight for better wages at Disney- or Bezos-controlled companies.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Politics

I say to Sen. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have the courage to stand with the working people of Kentucky and America, not your wealthy campaign contributors.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

We cannot turn our backs on this crisis, we have got to lead the entire world in a new energy direction.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Environment

We are going to invest massively in wind, solar and other sustainable energies.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Environment

Corporate America and the billionaire class have been waging a 40-year war against the trade union movement in America that has caused devastating harm to the middle class in terms of lower wages, fewer benefits and frozen pensions, that war will come to an end when I am president. If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class in America, we have got to rebuild, strengthen and expand the trade union movement in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

I want to thank the Finnish people not just for what they are doing but for giving us a vision, and a model that we in this country can attain to as well.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

I talk about( Amazon's taxes) all of the time, and then I wonder why The Washington Post, which is owned by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn't write particularly good articles about me. I don't know why.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

I talk about [ Amazon's taxes ] all of the time.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

Well, I would just say Hillary Clinton was winning in the polls, too.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

They spend half of what we spend.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

She is really smart. And she is deeply concerned about what's happening in this country, she wants to make sure we improve life for working people in this country, and I'm delighted that she is a supporter.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

Prices go up and up and up at the same level for the same companies, so what you do is you throw these people in jail if they engage in price-fixing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

You're getting lettuce and tomatoes coming from Mexico. You're getting the shoes you're wearing, coming from China. You've got poultry coming from all over the world. Yet somehow or another, we have not been able to reimport from Diabetes Canada into the United States the products being sold in this pharmacy with FDA approval, and the drug companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign contributions, bribing members of the Congress, in essence, who spent billions on lobbying, have been able to prevent us from having prescription drug distributors or pharmacists buying products here in Canada that are a fraction of the price.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

It's an embarrassment for those of Read MoreSanders who are Americans, Read MoreSanders love Read MoreSanders Canadian neighbors and Read MoreSanders thank them so much, but Read MoreSanders should not have to come to Diabetes Canada to get the medicine Read MoreSanders need for Read MoreSanders kids to stay alive, Read MoreSanders can do that in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Joe is a friend of mine and he has different points of view on health care than I do, that's great. We'll debate those issues. But we should not have a distortion of what Medicare for All stands for.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

And its not just Amazon, i think we need vigorous antitrust legislation in this country because you are seeing you name the area, whether its pharmaceuticals, whether it is Wall Street, whether it is high tech fewer and fewer gigantic corporations owning those sectors. He would appoint an attorney general.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Tech

I will be very soon introducing legislation in the Senate to establish a $ 20 billion emergency trust fund to help states and local communities purchase hospitals that are in financial distress, in my view, any time a hospital is put up for sale in America, the local community or the state must have the right to buy it first with emergency financial assistance.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

At the end of the day, you've either got to be on the side of the people or the side of the health insurance companies. I know what side I'm on. Others will have to make their own choice, we must pass Medicare for All.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

It's not based on a system of profiteering, whether it's real estate speculators, whether it's insurance companies, or whether it's drug companies. Health care is a human right.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare, but I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

At a time when Donald Trump and the health insurance industry are lying every day about Medicare-for-all, I would hope that my fellow Democrats would not resort to misinformation about my legislation.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Politics

It is preposterous to argue that as we expand Medicare for All that people with cancer and other illnesses will not get the care that they need, in fact, under Medicare for All, the good news is that we will end the horror of millions of people going into bankruptcy and financial distress simply because they need hospital care for serious conditions.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

At a time when Donald Trump and the health insurance industry are lying every day about Democrats Medicare for all, I would hope that my fellow Democrats would not resort to misinformation about my legislation.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

It should come as no surprise that corporate CEOs and billionaires have united against our movement. These people have a vested interest in preserving the status quo so they can keep their grip on power and continue to exploit working people across America, we welcome their hatred.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

The homes just became dilapidated. The grass was dying. Palm trees were dumped over, it was just dead, dead, dead, dead, all the way down. At least 10 houses down, every other home was just gone. Empty.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

And by the way : Medicare today is the most popular health insurance program in the country. Private health insurance is not particularly popular.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

The last poll I saw had us 10 points ahead of Donald Trump, because the American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

People who have healthcare under Medicare for all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no co-payments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in healthcare for what they get.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

The American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

The American people understand that Trump is a phony, that Trump is a pathological liar and a racist and that he lied to the American people during his campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

People who have health care under Medicare for all will have no premiums, no deductibles, no copayments, no out-of-pocket expenses. Yes, they will pay more in taxes, but less in healthcare for what they get.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

We have a new vision for America, at a time when we have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America while 500,000 people are sleeping on the streets today. We think it is time for change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Working families need support and need to be lifted up and frankly, this economy is not working for working people, for too long, the rules have been written in favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

The polls have us 10 points ahead of Donald Trump because the American people understand that Donald Trump is a phony ; Donald Trump is a pathological liar and a racist, and Donald Trump lied to the American people during Donald Trump campaign, president Trump you are not standing up for working families when you try to throw 32 million people off their health care that they have ; and 83 % of your tax benefits go to the top 1 %. That is how we beat Donald Trump. We expose Donald Trump for the fraud that Donald Trump is.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Weve got to look at the root causes. And you have a situation whereHonduras among other things is afailing state -- massive corruption.Youve got gangs who aretelling families that if a10-year-old does not join thatgang, thatfamily is going to be killed, what we have got to do on day one, isinvite the presidents and theleadership of Central Americaand Mexico together.This is a hemispheric problem.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 9 months ago Politics

We are studying the issues. We are trying to figure out who is up there on the stage with me and we are going to be contrasting out views with other people, i am proud of the record that we have and we will be contrasting it with others.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago US News

This proposal completely eliminates student debt in this country and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime of debt.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

The American people bailed out Wall Street. Now, it is time for Wall Street to come to the aid of the middle class of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

Let me be clear. I do understand that I and other progressives will face massive attacks from those who attempt to use the socialism as a slur. But I should also tell Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that I have faced and overcome these attacks for decades and I am not the only one.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

When President Donald Trump screams socialism, all of his hypocrisy will not be lost on the American people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

It is my very strong belief that the United States must reject that path of hatred and divisiveness -- and instead find the moral conviction to choose a different path, a higher path, a path of compassion, justice and love, it is the path that I call democratic socialism.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

This is what I mean by democratic socialism.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

What I mean by democratic socialism is creating a government that works for everybody, not controlled either legislatively or politically by a handful of very wealthy people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

We must take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman and child in our country basic economic rights, this is what I mean by democratic socialism.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

I understand that there are some well-intentioned Democrats and candidates who believe that the best way forward is a middle ground strategy that antagonizes no one, that stands out to nobody and that changes nothing, in my view, that approach is not just bad public policy, but it is a failed political strategy that I feel could end up with the reelection of Donald Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 9 months ago US News

I understand there are some well-intentioned Democrats and candidates who believe the best way forward is a middle-ground strategy that antagonizes no one, that stands up to nobody and that changes nothing, in my view, that approach is not just bad public policy, but it is a failed political strategy that I fear would end up with the re-election of Donald Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

And let me thank everybody in this room for your determination to defeat the worst president in the history of this country. A president who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe and a religious bigot, together we are going to defeat a president who has the most corrupt administration in history and a president who knows nothing about real American values.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

If Donald Trump and Donald Trump family could get more than $ 880 million in special tax breaks to build a real estate empire, we can damn well make sure every kid in America gets a good education, even if Donald Trump and his family don't live in one of Mr. Trump's luxury apartment buildings, it's time for Donald Trump and the top 1 % to pay a hell of a lot more in taxes than they are today.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

Every child has a right to a quality K-12 education, regardless of your race, regardless of your income, and regardless of your zip code, for too long, we have seen devastating education funding cuts used to pay for massive tax breaks for a handful of corporations and billionaires. When we are in the White House, that greed is going to end.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

A lesson that we should have learned a long time ago is the unintended consequences of war. That is you think something is going to happen but the result is very, very different, we should have learned the lesson of Iraq and apparently at least John Bolton has not.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

When you're dealing with the future of the planet and making sure that our kids and our grandchildren have a healthy and habitable world in which to live, I don't know how you go too far, this is an existential threat, not just to the United States, but to the entire planet.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

This week marks a victory for patients with LEMS and American taxpayers, and a blow to the greed of Big Pharma, suffering patients used to receive life-saving medication for free from Jacobus Pharmaceuticals -- until a competitor, Catalyst, bought the rights to the drug, received market exclusivity, and started charging $ 375,000 a year to those in desperate need.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

It strikes me as incredible that politicians think that they have the right to tell a woman what she can or can not do with her body, this is especially true in Vermont, where we have a legislature which is almost completely dominated by men.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

If the banks and corporations feel that they can better exploit the people of Mississippi, New Hampshire, Hong Kong or Puerto Rico in order to make their blood profits -- let them go there, in the Dominican Republic, American companies pay native workers $ 2 a day for a full day's work. Vermont is not going to compete with that kind of slavery.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

America is supposed to be a democracy, not an oligarchy. Our leaders are supposed to come from the ranks of the people and represent the needs of the people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

This President is the first President in the modern history of our country who is trying to divide our people up based on the color of their skin, the country they were born in, their sexual orientation, their gender, their religion.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

It says a great deal about our country that the richer our country gets, the more of us there are behind prison bars and that an overwhelming number of those who are in jail are poor, nonwhites.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

No fundamental change can come about in the country until the wealth and power are broken up and the people themselves direct the economy and government.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

We cannot create an economy that works for all Americans if we continue to neglect the needs of rural America, in rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

Factory farms are a threat to the air we breathe, the water we drink and the communities we live in.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

The Biden rebootAs Biden and I have very different pasts, in terms of how we have voted, and a very different vision for the future, and that is something we should be discussing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago US News

I think when people take a look at my record versus Vice President Biden's record -- I helped lead the fight against NAFTA ; Vice President Biden voted for NAFTA, i helped lead the fight against( permanent normal trade relations) with China ; Vice President Biden voted for it. I strongly opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership ; Vice President Biden supported it. I voted against the war in Iraq ; Vice President Biden voted for it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I thank my friend @JoeBiden for joining our effort to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, which, over four years of war, has experienced the world's worst humanitarian crisis, we must override @realDonaldTrump's veto.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

You will see in this campaign a lot of spontaneous activity that doesn't come from our national headquarters, people in Memphis, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California, they're going to come up with an idea, they're going to use local artists and musicians. So this is our effort to build a political movement, which will help us win the primary, help us win the general election and, in my view, it is the only way we bring about the kind of fundamental reforms we need in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

This is always the difficulty you have, so if somebody in some city or some state says something that's dumb, we can be sure that the local media will pick up on it. But I think everybody understands that when you have over a million people involved in the political process, you know, people will say what they say.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

If somebody commits a serious crime -- sexual assault, murder -- they are going to be punished. They may be in jail for 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives. That is what happens when you commit a serious crime, but I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Opinion

I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, so, I believe that people commit crimes, they pay the price. When they got out of jail, I believe they certainly should have the right to vote. But I do believe, even if they are in jail, they are paying their price to society, but [also] that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Opinion

This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy and I believe every single person does have the right to vote.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

Unfortunately, the idea of Medicare for All on top of the problems that were facing right now is kind of the typical government answer: more centralized governance from Washington. Thats the whole problem in the first place, massively.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Politics

Its going to break it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Politics

Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say,' Well, that guy committed a terrible crime, not going to let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not going to let that person vote,' you're running down a slippery slope.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

You raise the issue I am a millionaire. Well, actually this year we had $560,000 income, thats a lot of money, and in my case, my wifes case, it came from a book that I wrote. A pretty good book, you might want to read it. Its a best-seller, sold all over the world, and we made money. So, if anyone thinks that I should apologize for writing a best-selling book, Im sorry, Im not going to do it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Opinion

It comes from a book I wrote, pretty good book, if anyone thinks that I should apologize for writing a best-selling book, I'm sorry, I'm not going to do it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, certainly not violence towards anyone.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

But the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her, not only one-time, but history of anti-Semitic comments.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

I think it's a good thing that the president is calling her out for those comments and the big question is why aren't the Democrats doing it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

If you write a best-selling book, you can be House Democrats, too.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Like many of you here, I have been fighting for economic, social and racial justice. As this presidential campaign begins, I believe that is the defining difference between President Trump and me, donald Trump is a man who has said he believes Nazis and white supremacists are 'very fine people,'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Donald Trump is a man who has said he believes Nazis and white supremacists are 'very fine people,'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I have no reason not to believe Lucy, and I think what this speaks to is the need to fundamentally change the culture of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

I don't want a summary of Robert Mueller report, i want the whole damn report because nobody, especially this President, is above the law.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago US News

Donald Trump told working people that Donald Trump was going to be on their side. Donald Trump is not on their side, and Donald Trump record proves that quite clearly, and we're going to make that very clear. And I think by the end of this campaign, I suspect that a number of people who voted for Donald Trump will understand that Donald Trump is not Donald Trump and that the agenda that we have, which is prepared to take on the billionaire class, is the agenda that they will support.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago US News

We can not just support unions with words, we must back it up with actions, on this campaign and when we are in the White House, we are going to make it easier for people to join unions, not harder.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I will be campaigning in support of the Liberty Union utility proposal which calls for the public ownership of Vermont's private electric companies without compensation to the banks and wealthy stockholders who own the vast majority of stock in these companies, i will also be calling for public ownership of New England Telephone company -- which is probably the single greatest rip-off company in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries. In Vermont we have some $ 2 billion of deposits in our banks, in Vermont, as well as nationally, it is not tolerable to me that the control of capital would remain in the hands of the richest two or three percent of the population to do with it as they like.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I believe in socialized medicine, public ownership of the drug companies and placing doctors on salaries. The idea that millionaires can make money by selling poor people drugs that they desperately need for highly inflated prices disgusts me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Nobody should earn more than a million dollars.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Too many lives are being destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people get criminal records. You know why? Because they have smoked marijuana.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

It didn't do a whole lot for me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology, which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world, we must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel. Rather, we must develop an evenhanded Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

And not only do we end voter suppression, but we make it easier for people to vote, not harder.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

It's our turn to demand that we end all voter suppression in this country. And not only do we end voter suppression, but we make it easier for people to vote, not harder.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

My experience as a kid, living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values, unlike Donald Trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay the bills, I know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from — because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults, today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I did not come from a family that taught me to build a corporate empire through housing discrimination, i protested housing discrimination.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Unlike Donald Trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay the bills, I know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

It's fair to say the last election was undemocratic, but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country, what I am calling for right now is internationally supervised free elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, i am very fearful of the United States continuing to do what it has done in past -- the United States overthrew a democratically elected government in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We need an international movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security and dignity for all people, and that addresses the massive global inequality that exists, not only in wealth but in political power.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The only way we will win this election and create a government and economy that work for all is with a grassroots movement -- the likes of which has never been seen in American history, they may have the money and power. We have the people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Instead of answering my questions or lowering the price of this drug, they've hired a lobbying firm, it is now clear that some patients are rationing their supply of Firdapse because they cannot afford to cover the outrageous cost of the drug, which they used to receive at no cost.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I can tell you very happily, and I think any objective observer would confirm what I'm saying, is that in the last year and half or so, the Democratic party has moved in a far more progressive direction than they were before I ran for president.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Our bill does what the American people want.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I will take a look at it, i really can't speak to it until I study it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I must tell you, today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism, and I must tell you : It gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Racial equality must be central to combatting economic inequalityif we are going to create a government that works for all of us, and not just the 1 percent.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Security at our nations airports could be threatened if TSA employees and air traffic controllers are not getting paid, you want a national emergency? 30 million Americans have no health insurance and many more are under-insured.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I'm concerned that the concept of PAYGO will make it harder for Congress to address the many crises facing our working families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We put forward the strongest set of principles in terms of mandatory training, in terms of women, if they felt harassed, having an independent firm that they can go to, and I think that that's kind of the gold standard of what we should be doing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

As a white person in America, you would've been the master, the slave owner. ... It was mostly black women who were enslaved in the house, who were raped, who were beaten daily, day in and day out, they endured physical and mental abuse. For a lot of people in America, that was like slap in the face to the black community, particularly to black women.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

What we did today is basically say that the United States Congress is sick and tired of abdicating its responsibility -- constitutional responsibility -- on matters of war.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think one of the strong things that we can do is not only stop military sales, not only put sanctions on Saudi Arabia, but most importantly, get out of this terrible, terrible war in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I think that there is an understanding there is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about a nation in which we have three people who own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people. That does not make sense.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

This decision will ensure that delegates elected by voters in primaries and caucuses will have the primary role in selecting the Democratic Party's nominee at the 2020 convention, this is a major step forward in making Democratic Party more open and transparent, and I applaud their action.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

You had superdelegates voting for Hillary Clinton in states that I won pretty handsomely, and now there is agreement among Tom Perez and our people, and a lot of the Hillary Clinton people, to say we should reduce the number of superdelegates.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

Too much attention is given to sensational issues like Stormy Daniels, or who President Donald Trump fired yesterday, or the latest tweet that Stormy Daniels sent out today, and they are not talking about the broad issues that impact tens of millions of Americans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Too much attention is given to sensational issues like Stormy Daniels, or who Donald Trump fired yesterday, or the latest tweet that Stormy Daniels sent out today, and they are not talking about the broad issues that impact tens of millions of Americans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We certainly hope that Republicans will continue to remain in the House, particularly those that support the President's agenda.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We want an agenda that represents working families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

We’ll take a look at the race.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

Three years is a long time in national politics, i don’t think it’s that unusual for Democrats with 2020 aspirations to get on board with that vote.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I will keep working with my colleagues to find a long-term solution that supports members of our military, funds CHIP and community health centers, provides resources for those recovering from disasters guarantees a future for young immigrants who are as American as all of us.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

The president was puttingpressure and standing firm onexactly what he was willing todo and what he wasn't, and it very clearly worked.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

The way we treat women in our country has been abysmal in almost every way. We are finally addressing the issue of sexual harassment, and we need to get it right, but the conversation we are having now is only the tip of the iceberg. It needs to be an ongoing movement of women and men that includes a national discussion about sexism, sexual harassment, objectification, inequality and abuse of power.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

We have a better idea: guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare for All, single-payer health care program.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I’m not sure, i would think that he’s pretty well-versed on what happened.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

While this incident is alarming, it is not surprising, hate crimes and shows of hostility toward minorities have recently been surging.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

We got to see what they get to tonight, we haven’t seen a final piece of legislation. We’re continuing to work with the Senate to make sure we get the best health care we can.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I am often asked by the media and others, 'How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?' my answer is that Trump didn't win the election -- the Democratic Party lost the election.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Your greed is destroying this country, and you know what? We're going to take you on.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Syria's Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against the men, women and children of his country makes him a war criminal.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 2 years ago World

There’s a strong possibility he’d overturn Roe v. Wade, and I do not want to be a party to what happens.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

How in God's name do they win elections ? and the reason is, in my view, that the time is long overdue for fundamental restructuring of the Democratic Party. We need a Democratic Party which is not the party of the liberal elite but a party of the working class of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

On every major point facing this country, the American people do not believe in a right-wing agenda ; they believe in a progressive agenda, we've got to take that agenda to the people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Throwing 24 million Americans off of health insurance, raising premiums for older low-income Americans, while giving $285 billion in tax breaks to the top 2% is a disgusting and immoral proposal, thousands of Americans will die if this legislation is passed and we have to do everything that we can to see that is defeated.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It’s taking place. The Green Party has the legal right to do The Green Party.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We cannot allow our drinking water to be poisoned so that a handful of fossil fuel companies can make even more in profits.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We welcome all voters who want to fix our rigged system and bring back our jobs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I understand that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am, but to all of our supporters – here and around the country – I hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with Hillary Clinton tonight.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Wasserman Schultz ' has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party. While Wasserman Schultz ' deserves thanks for Wasserman Schultz ' years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working peopleand young people. The party leadership must also always remain impartial in the presidential nominating process, something which did not occur in the 2016 race.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made the right decision for the future of the Democratic Party. While Debbie Wasserman Schultz deserves thanks for Debbie Wasserman Schultz years of service, the party now needs new leadership that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working peopleand young people. The party leadership must also always remain impartial in the presidential nominating process, something which did not occur in the 2016 race.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Tim is a very, very smart guy. He’s a very nice guy, his political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

His political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We have made enormous strides, thanks to the millions of people across the country who got involved in the political process – many for the first time – we now have the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

When parents go to the store and purchase food, they have the right to know what is in the food their kids are going to be eating.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

The American people have a right to know what they are eating.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

Guess what: The sky didn't fall.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

What ordinary people are saying is 'hey, give us an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top,' and I think that is to a significant degree what this Brexit vote was about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

It’s not about me. It is about people at the grassroots level.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

What the political revolution means is that you are the revolutioners.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia where we will have more than 1,900 delegates.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

For a lot of these folks, the campaign is as much as social calling as it is a movement.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

It is morally reprehensible that Wall Street vulture funds are demanding that Puerto Rico fire even more teachers, close more schools, cut pensions and slash the minimum wage so that they can reap huge profits off the misery of the people of Puerto Rico.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

Thisfirst I’ve heard of that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

The Democratic Party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. It can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

Working people are hurting, we need an economy that works for all of us, not just the one percent.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

We intend to fight for every vote and every delegate remaining.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

In other words, the convention will be a contested contest.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

This campaign is doing as well as it is with the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm Donald Trump are generating across the country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

This campaign is doing as well as it is with the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm we are generating across the country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

We need a progressive tax system in this country that is based on the ability to pay, if we are serious about reforming the tax code and rebuilding the middle class, we have got to demand that the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I mean, that’s just a fact, that’s a sad reality of American society. And that’s what we have to transform.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

So many people have given up on the political process, including a whole lot of low-income people where the voting rates are low, young people who are not voting in large numbers. Our job is to bring people into the political process, to create a government that represents all of us, not just the one percent.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

I think that a lot of superdelegates are going to be looking around them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

You'll get them, yes, they are very boring tax returns. No big money from speeches, no major investments. Unfortunately - unfortunately - I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

Does Secretary Clinton have the intelligence, the experience to be president? Of course she does but I do question her judgment, i question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

I question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

I don’t believe that that is the kind of judgment we need.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

There is something profoundly wrong in America when one out of five profitable corporations pay nothing in federal income taxes.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Business

We believe that we have the momentum. We believe that the polling is showing that we're closing the gap.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

If neither candidate ends up, you know, having the kind of votes they need, yes, I think there will be some discussion.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The pope's schedule is determined by the Vatican but I would certainly be enthusiastic about that, ... I think there is a possibility but that has not been scheduled.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

There are people who think that Bernie Sanders is radical, read what the pope is writing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

And we have won almost all of them with overwhelming, landslide numbers.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Broadband access is a necessity, not a luxury. I urge The FCC to expand Lifeline and help millions of working families get online.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

The United States government should use every tool available to lower outrageously high prescription drug prices, nIH has the power to stop this blatant profiteering and put the pharmaceutical industry on notice that the era of charging unconscionable prices must end.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

I have a lot of respect for George Clooney. George Clooney’s George Clooney. I like George Clooney, but this is the problem with American politics … big money is dominating our political system. And we are trying to move as far away from that as we can.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

But this is the problem with American politics … big money is dominating our political system. And we are trying to move as far away from that as we can.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

It’s a criticism of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests, and it’s not Amal Clooney, it’s the people coming to this event, have undue influence on the political process.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The super-delegates are going to have to make a very difficult decision.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We are the strongest candidate. … We’re going to work together to get the nomination, we are gaining a lot of momentum. Just in the last week, we have closed the gap with Secretary Clinton.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think it would be just extraordinary for this country if what is perceived to be a conservative state like Idaho stood up and said, 'We are part of the political revolution,'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What I learned . . . is that you could have a community in which the people themselves actually owned the community, seeing that type of relationship exist, and the fact that these units in the kibbutz were working well economically, made a strong impact on me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I remain unwavering in my support for the Jewish state and the partnership between the United States and Israel.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

We are obligated to speak the truth as we see it. This is what real friendship demands, especially in difficult times, if elected president, I will work tirelessly to advance the cause of peace as a partner and as a friend to Israel. But to be successful, we have to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

If elected president, I will work tirelessly to advance the cause of peace as a partner and as a friend to Israel. But to be successful, we have to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It is absurd for elements within the Netanyahu government to suggest that building more settlements in the West Bank is the appropriate response to the most recent violence. It is also not acceptable that the Netanyahu government decided to withhold hundreds of millions of Shekels in tax revenue from the Palestinians, which it is supposed to collect on their behalf.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Peace will require strict adherence by both sides to the tenets of international humanitarian law. This includes Israeli ending disproportionate responses to being attacked, even though any attack on Israel is unacceptable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think I'm 100% prepared to support Judge Garland, i think he's clearly very knowledgeable and can serve ably on the Supreme Court. But between you and me I think there are some more progressive judges out there.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I worry very much about an isolated, paranoid country with atomic bombs, i do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons, they have got to be dealt with. Dealt with effectively.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

To suggest we don't fight this out to the end would be, I think, a very bad mistake. People want to become engaged in the political process by having vigorous primary and caucus process. I think we open up the possibility of having a large voter turnout in November. That is exactly what we need, a low voter turnout, somebody like a Trump can win. High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The bottom line is that when only half of the American people have participated in the political process ... I think it is absurd for anybody to suggest that those people not have a right to cast a vote.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

A low voter turnout, somebody like a Trump can win. High voter turnout, the Democratic candidate will win.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We have lost, since 2001, almost 60,000 factories. Can you imagine that? Sixty-thousand factories, millions of good-paying jobs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I hear Secretary Clinton is in Ohio tonight talking about how concerned she is about the auto industry -- an industry decimated by the North American Free Trade Agreement and normalized trade with China. She supported those bad deals. I opposed them, now she says she wants to make it tougher for automobiles to be imported to this country under the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership. That's the deal she called the 'gold standard' when she was secretary of state.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I have a message for Secretary Clinton: We shouldn't re-negotiate the Pacific trade proposal, we should kill this unfettered free trade agreement which would cost us nearly half a million jobs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The facts are that Hillary Clinton has vigorously supported almost every piece of disastrous trade legislation, i have opposed those pieces of legislation, helped lead the opposition to them, because I understood that American workers should not be forced to compete with people in Mexico, people in China that are making pennies on the dollar.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think she understands that the momentum in this campaign and the energy is with us, and that we have a good chance to win a number of states on Tuesday.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe, as I've said throughout this campaign, that health care is a right of all people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm not quite sure where Secretary Clinton got her information. I'm glad she apologized. But the truth is it wasn't President Reagan and Nancy Reagan who were leaders in talking about this issue.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't think our supporters are inciting. What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways, encouraged violence, when he talks about ... 'I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.' What do you think that says to his supporters?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

So the issue now is Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I can make that promise, i do not want to see them deported. I want to see them on a path to citizenship. That is exactly what I will do.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

At a time when nearly 14% of Americans do not have a full-time job and when the middle class is working longer hours for lower wages, I oppose a massive increase in temporary guest worker programs that will allow large corporations to import hundreds of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar workers from overseas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We look forward to going to Illinois, Ohio, Missouri and the other states.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

What tonight means is that the Bernie Sanders campaign, the people's revolution that we're talking about, the political revolution that we're talking about, is strong in every part of the country, and, frankly, we believe our strongest areas are yet to happen.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

First thing you do is say, people are not paying a water bill for poison water. And that is retroactive, you are playing three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vermont, for clean water.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, we're going to rebuild the pipe system, the water system here in Flint, we're going to make sure that all of those people affected have the health care that they need and that those that were affected also get the educational opportunities that they need.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What I meant by that is I think many white people are not aware of the kinds of pressures and the kind of police oppression that sometimes takes place within the African-American community, i don't want to be lectured about talking about poverty whether it's white, black, Latino. Nobody in this campaign has talked about it more, nobody in this campaign cycle has proposed more specific ideas on how to address poverty.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Senator Sanders, on a personal front, what racial blind spots do you have?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am, look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am very proud of being Jewish, and that is an essential part of who I am as a human being.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are, if elected president, going to invest a lot of money into mental health, and when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are, if elected president, going to invest a lot of money in mental health, and when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in mental health.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

Do you know what the other name of the Export-Import Bank is and what it's called in Washington? It's called the Bank of Boeing because Boeing itself gets 40% of the money discharged by the Export-Import Bank. Seventy-five percent of the funds going for the federal government and the Export-Import Bank goes to large profitable corporations.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Excuse me, I'm talking, if you're going to talk, tell the whole story.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago US News

What is going on is a disgrace beyond belief.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago US News

Geographically, we’re looking good.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think you’re going to see those numbers change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

No matter your party or political ideology, this is a sad day for America. Nancy Reagan was an exemplary first lady, a devoted partner, she was her husband's most trusted adviser and, as such, served our country well. Even after her time in the White House, she was an outspoken advocate for stem-cell research to find a cure for Alzheimer's. Nancy Reagan had a good heart, and she will be dearly missed.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

(The) truth is we have not done well in the Deep South.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

But I am absolutely certain that our numbers will continue to get better.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The bottom line is, when you left that meeting, you thought, 'What country am I living in? Is this the United States of America?' I fear that Flint is the canary in the coal mine here.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

(The) Middle class in this country is disappearing, we have massive income and wealth inequality.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

All of that may be fantasy to the ruling class and the big money interests in this country. I don't think that's fantasy to the working people in this country who have worked longer hours for lower wages, who are tired of establishment politics and establishment economics, every proposal that we have brought forward, we've paid for ... Maybe the drug companies don't like it and the insurance companies don't like it. I think the American people do like it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You are speculating -- I don't think that's going to happen, we think we have momentum and we think we're going to do just fine.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Every proposal that we have brought forward, we've paid for ... Maybe the drug companies don't like it and the insurance companies don't like it. I think the American people do like it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have the momentum. We have a path toward victory. Our campaign is just getting started.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain, and let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

We are not going to let the Donald Trumps of the world divide us.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

This campaign is not just about electing a president. It is about transforming America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Americans don’t need crumbs, they need the whole loaf.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think we got a real shot at Minnesota. I think we got a shot at Colorado, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Vermont.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, tonight we lost. I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her very strong victory. Tuesday, over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many, many of them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This campaign is just beginning. We won a decisive victory in New Hampshire. She won a decisive victory in South Carolina. Now it's on to Super Tuesday, our grassroots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won't stop now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

We have so much ugliness and so much violence that I don't think the government should be involved in that violence and killing people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I do not receive many millions of dollars from Wall Street or the pharmaceutical industry or other powerful, wealthy interests in this country, and have not given speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars to Wall Street.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I am happy to release all of my paid speeches to Wall Street -- here it is, there ain't none.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have been dealing in the last seven years with an unprecedented level of obstructionism against President Obama.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

To answer your question, Thurgood Marshall was a damn good Supreme Court justice.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

They are the longest, most boring discussions in the history of politics.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What I am fighting for right now is a political revolution in which government starts working for working people and for the middle class, and that's a revolution that is prepared to take on the billionaire class today which has enormous power.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We have been dealing, in the last seven years, with an unprecedented level of obstructionism against President Obama, literally -- literally it turns out on the day that Obama was inaugurated, Republicans came together and said 'What are we going to do?' And what they concluded is we're going to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, make it as difficult as he could to do anything.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am encouraged to see that the President is sending Congress a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. As I have said for years, the prison at Guantanamo must be closed as quickly as possible.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am encouraged to see that the President is sending Congress a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison, as I have said for years, the prison at Guantanamo must be closed as quickly as possible. Others, including my opponent, have not always agreed with me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There are a lot of differences of opinion between Secretary Clinton and myself on major, major major issues, but at the end of the day, this is the main one -- what we are seeing is more and more power going into the hands of the few. Who's life work is about standing up to the billionaire class, standing up to Wall Street?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The answer is, sadly, there are elements of the Democratic Party, historically, that have worked too closely with the big money interests that have made the agreements that were really not in the best interest of the constituents who supported them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Hillary Clinton is trying to embrace the president as closely as she possibly can. Everything the president does is wonderful. She loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff, and we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the president is enormously popular.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Not only did I vote against it, but I spoke out strongly against it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The truth is that for a campaign that started out as a fringe campaign at 3% in the polls we have enormous momentum.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe we won the Latino vote, which is a huge, huge way forward for us. We did badly with the African-American vote.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think the more the African-American community hears our message on a broken criminal justice system -- which has more people in jail today than any country on earth, largely African-American and Latino -- when they hear our message of an economy that represents all of us, not just the 1%. I think you're going to see us making progress there as well.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I wish we had had a larger voter turnout.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It was an interesting day.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think he has done a great job in many respects, but you know what? Like any other human being, he is wrong on certain issues.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Hillary Clinton now is trying to embrace the President as closely as she possibly can. Everything the president does is wonderful. She loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the President is enormously popular.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It is absolutely incomprehensible that we have Republicans in the U.S. Senate - my colleagues in the Senate - who refuse to honor the Constitution of the United States, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Constitution of the United States is pretty clear - that the President of the United States nominates individuals to the U.S. Supreme Court -- not a whole lot of ambiguity, is there?

– Bernie Sanders

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I understand the African-American community has been harder hit than any other community in America. I understand that it is unacceptable that 35% of black children in America are living in poverty.

– Bernie Sanders

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I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA, i support what President Obama is doing in terms of trying to close the gun show loopholes.

– Bernie Sanders

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I'm pleased that this legislation is being introduced.

– Bernie Sanders

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Let’s see how this thing plays itself out.

– Bernie Sanders

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We've seen, across the board, across the country, that the rank-and-file membership of these different groups are overwhelmingly with Bernie.

– Bernie Sanders

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Some of us believe that what God teaches us what this world is about is that we do not turn our backs on our brothers or our sisters, essentially, we are in this together.

– Bernie Sanders

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Over the last seven years in this country, we have made enormous progress under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden, no state in America knows more about the impact of the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street than the state of Nevada. This state was decimated. We have made great progress but much more needs to be done.

– Bernie Sanders

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I just don't think it looks good that, for very overtly political reasons, that the Republicans would deny this president the right to express his constitutional responsibility.

– Bernie Sanders

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But I respect people willing to serve their country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

One of us ran against Barack Obama -- I was not that candidate.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Tonight, many of us are going to give our support to a candidate for president who has done more than any other candidate in living memory to bring together the disenfranchised, the hungry, the poor, the workers who are being thrown out of their decent-paying jobs and the farmers who are being thrown off of their land, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.

– Bernie Sanders

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Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.

– Bernie Sanders

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We have a moral obligation to provide for the wounded and ensure that all veterans receive every benefit they have earned and deserve.

– Bernie Sanders

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What criminal justice is supposed to be about is you do the crime, you are found guilty, you pay the price. I'm not aware that paying the price includes taking away your rights to vote in a Democratic society. You paid the price right? You're a citizen of the United States, correct? You have the right to vote. you have large numbers of African-American men and women not being able to vote. Somebody benefits from that.

– Bernie Sanders

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Let me concur with the Secretary.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Because what we will do is say, instead of giving tax breaks to millionaires, we are going to create millions of jobs for low-income kids so they're not hanging out on street corners, we're going to make sure that those kids stay in school or are able get a college education. So I think that when you give low-income kids, African-American, white, Latino kids, the opportunities to get their lives together, they are not going to end up in jail. They're going to end up in the productive economy, which is where we want them.

– Bernie Sanders

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She talked about getting the approval or the support or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger, now, I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

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I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. Count me in as somebody who will not be listening to Henry Kissinger.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era who talked about the domino theory. Not everybody remembers that. You do. I do. The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

– Bernie Sanders

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My view, it doesn't go anywhere near far enough.

– Bernie Sanders

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We can talk about it as a race issue, but it's a general economic issue.

– Bernie Sanders

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Let's not insult the intelligence of the American people. People aren't dumb. Why in God's name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions?

– Bernie Sanders

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I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.

– Bernie Sanders

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Madam Secretary, that is a low blow.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I am proud to say Henry Kissinger is not my friend.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Secretary Clinton, you're not in the White House yet.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

One of us ran against Barack Obama, I was not that candidate.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We had a decision to make early on. Do we do a super PAC?... we said no. We don't represent Wall Street. We don't represent the billionaire class, i'm the only candidate up here of the many candidates, who has no super PAC.

– Bernie Sanders

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Who denies that African-American youth unemployment, real, is over 50%.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Let’s not insult the intelligence of the American people. People aren’t dumb, why in God’s name does Wall Street make huge campaign contributions? I guess just for the fun of it.

– Bernie Sanders

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That is absolutely inaccurate, in my view, health care is a right of all people … and I will fight for that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

In my view, health care is a right of all people … and I will fight for that.

– Bernie Sanders

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We need fundamental police reform.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

What the American people understand is that our great country was based on a simple principal, and that principle is fairness, let me be very clear, it is not fair when we have more income and wealth inequality today than almost any major country on Earth. And, when the top one-tenth of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that's not fair.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When we talk about transforming America, it means ending the disgrace of this country having more people in jail than any other country in the world, disproportionately African-American, and Latino, not only are we going to fight to end institutional racism, and a broken criminal justice system, we are going to provide jobs and education for our young people, not jails and incarceration.

– Bernie Sanders

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Don't tell me we do not need to invest heavily in the African-American community and create decent-paying jobs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Mmm, it’s really good. This is the first time I’ve tasted it.

– Bernie Sanders

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I was disappointed by Bill Clinton… let’s keep it on the issues and not [make it personal].

– Bernie Sanders

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I believe that, as a human being, the pain that one person feels, if we have children who are hungry in America, if we have elderly people who can't afford their prescription drugs, you know what, that impacts you, that impacts me, so my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

So my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm not going to New York City to host a fundraiser on Wall Street. Instead I'm going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America. My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The online campaign is, 'anybody who doesn't agree with me is a tool of the establishment,'.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It bothers me to be in an election where debate is impossible because if you disagree you are just part of the establishment.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It's disgusting, we don't want that crap. The Clinton campaign has confronted the Sanders campaign over the rhetoric. Former President Bill Clinton said Sunday at a New Hampshire campaign event that online supporters.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The political revolution continues next Tuesday here in New Hampshire.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

No idea, i have no idea what she said and I think the decision as to whether or not to release it is her decision.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I happen to like Hillary Clinton, but I am astounded by some of the people that she has hired, including David Brock.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We think it's gonna be a close election, we're working really hard.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am not a pacifist: I supported the war in Afghanistan, I supported President Clinton's effort to deal with ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I support air strikes in Syria, i happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Clinton, who was secretary of state for four years, has more experience -- that is not arguable -- in foreign affairs, but experience is not the only point; judgment is.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Maybe I shouldn't have combined the two in the same speech, because the foreign policy part of it didn't get much attention.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Wealthy and powerful Muslim nations in the region can no longer sit on the sidelines and expect the United States to do their work for them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We cannot be the policeman of the world.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

That's what they do. And not only should members who are elected be working for the people, not raising money -- if you think you could simply divide your brain in half, if you're working on unemployment or health care and think, now I've gotta go out and raise money, it affects your entire being.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The way it is structured right now, if you make it all the way to California, you could do pretty well. But in terms of the early states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, the other states -- it just doesn't work.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

To my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people who have given up on the political process stand up and fight back, demand a government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contributions, contributors.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I do not know any progressive who has a super PAC and takes $15 million from Wall Street, that's just not progressive.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Of course I am a Democrat and running for the Democratic nomination.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Everybody practices religion in a different way. To me, I would not be here tonight, I would not be running for president of the United States, if I did not have very strong religious and spiritual feelings.

– Bernie Sanders

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I believe that, as a human being, the pain that one person feels, if we have children who are hungry in America, if we have elderly people who can't afford their prescription drugs, you know what, that impacts you, that impacts me, and I worry very much about a society where some people spiritually say, it doesn't matter to me, I got it, I don't care about other people. So my spirituality is that we are all in this together and that when children go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, it impacts me. That's my very strong spiritual feeling.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Well, a fair question. And I think you know the answer is that we have worked on many, many issues, Anderson. And your point is fair that we should've acted sooner, we should've known what was going on in Phoenix, those long waiting lines and the lies that some administrators were telling us.

– Bernie Sanders

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Like in any school you see big kids picking on little kids, you know, and I resented that. I always did.

– Bernie Sanders

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Some of my best friends are moderates, but you ca n’t be a progressive and a moderate at the same time.

– Bernie Sanders

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We take nothing for granted, and some of the polls I've been seeing are completely inaccurate, i think this is going to be a very hard fought race in the next week, we are going to be holding as many rallies, and meeting as many people as we can ... We really think we can win.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe we are the stronger campaign to defeat that right wing Republican, the way Democrats win elections is when there is a large voter turnout ... I think our campaign has the capability to bring out a lot of working people, a lot of young people who in the past have not been involved in politics.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You can be a moderate, that's fine. You can be a progressive. But you can't be a moderate and a progressive.

– Bernie Sanders

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I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The Iowa caucus is so complicated -- it’s not 100 percent sure that we didn’t win it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

We are in a virtual tie.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We're going to fight really hard in New Hampshire and then we're going to Nevada, to South Carolina, we're doing well around the country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Nine months ago, we came to this beautiful state, we had no political organization, we had no money, we had no name recognition and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We lost (the nonwhite 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.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The man is out there like an open book, i want to tell you what I like about him: His honesty, his integrity.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think I am a different, and perhaps a better, candidate (than in 2008), i hope that also shows.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I have a very substantial lead in New Hampshire, but I think it would be really good to win Iowa. I'd like to win Iowa.

– Bernie Sanders

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The voters of Iowa and this nation deserve a serious discussion of the issues facing them, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.

– Bernie Sanders

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The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.

– Bernie Sanders

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We started out organizing in Iowa a lot later than Senator Clinton did. She was here in 2008; has the experience we didn't have. She's done this before, we didn't. She has a very strong organization. And I applaud her for that, but I will tell you that the last couple of months we have gained a whole lot of ground and again I think we stand a real chance to create a large voter turnout.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

One of the myths of the Iowa caucuses is that Hillary Clinton didn't run a good campaign in 2008.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't want my integrity and honesty to be impugned, this is a lie, an absolute lie. Okay? We will win, or we'll lose -- we do it honestly. I really dislike people suggesting, what? We're going to bring in students from out of state, who are going to perjure themselves by saying they live in Iowa?

– Bernie Sanders

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It really reminds me very much of what happened here eight years ago. Remember that? eight years ago, Obama was being attacked for being pie in the sky, he did not have the experience. People of Iowa saw through those attacks then and they're going to see through those attacks again.

– Bernie Sanders

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It is also no secret that we have, as is the case in a democratic society, we have differences of opinion, i was on the floor of the Senate for eight and half hours, in disagreement with him over taxes. We disagree over the (Trans-Pacific Partnership). But by and large over the last seven years, on major issue after major issue, I have stood by his side.

– Bernie Sanders

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Obama in 2008 ran a campaign which is really going to stay in the history books. It was an unbelievable campaign, do I think that in this campaign that we're going to match that? I would love to see us do that. I hope we do. But frankly I don't think we will. What happened in 2008 was extraordinary.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think the American people, working people, young people, want to see real movement in this country, and I think we are tapping into that energy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Well, count me in as one person -- you know, if Secretary Clinton and Gov. O'Malley want to do it, I'm there, i love debates. I think they are a way to inform the American people of our positions and our differences. So, I think that is a great idea. So, I'm in. If the other candidates are in, you count me in.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I thought it was a very positive and constructive meeting.

– Bernie Sanders

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Likewise, Bernie Sanders said Bernie Sanders campaigned for President Obama in 2008 and 2012( though Sanders in 2011 casually discussed the possibility of President Obama getting a challenger, Bernie Sanders did not ultimately recruit one). We have got to do a lot better to protect the middle class, but it's important to remember how far we've come under President President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

– Bernie Sanders

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My God, what a turnout! our campaign has the energy, we can see it here tonight.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Our campaign has the momentum because people are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We will raise taxes, yes we will.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We will raise taxes. Yes we will.

– Bernie Sanders

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Obama in 2008 ran a campaign which is really going to stay in the history books. It was an unbelievable campaign. In places they ran out of ballots, as I understand, the turnout was so extraordinary, nobody expected it. Do I think in this campaign that we are going to match that? I would love to see us do that, I hope we can.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Experience is important. But judgment is also important, i think I have the background, I think I have the judgment.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

On Day 1, I said the Keystone pipeline is a dumb idea, why did it take Hillary Clinton such a long time before she came into opposition to the Keystone pipeline?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I have understood from Day 1 that our trade policies have cost us -- NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China, millions of decent-paying jobs, i didn't have to think hard about opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Experience is important, but it is not the only thing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

On day one, I said the Keystone Pipeline is a dumb idea.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What I said on a television program, and I did not say it well, is that sometimes the base of an organization looks at the world a little bit differently than the leadership.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy, but I believe we need to lift our vision above the obstacles in place -- and look to the American horizon.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Eight years ago, Obama was attacked for everything. He was unrealistic. His ideas were pie in the sky. He did not have the experience that was needed. But you know what, the people of Iowa saw through those attacks then and they're going to see through those attacks again.

– Bernie Sanders

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It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The reason that I am laughing is that I fully admit to having a big ego, like many other politicians, but the idea that Bernie Sanders' candidacy, because that it has growing support all over this country, is unsettling world markets, is absolutely absurd.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

But the idea that Bernie Sanders' candidacy, because that it has growing support all over this country, is unsettling world markets, is absolutely absurd.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Wall Street's greed and recklessness and illegal behavior drove this economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their homes, their life savings, and their jobs. And, yes, I believe that we have to break up the major financial institutions. We have to re-establish Glass-Stegall.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are taking on the entire establishment. We are taking on the economic establishment, we're taking on the political establishment, and all due respect, we are taking the media establishment.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I expect that Secretary Clinton will get a lot of the endorsements from mainstream media, but I have the endorsement, and I'm very proud to say, of 2.5 million individual contributions to my campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You can tell when a campaign gets nervous -- like the Clinton campaign -- and I think they're getting a little nervous, what do you think? when candidates and campaigns get nervous, they start throwing out a bunch of stuff.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We can't wait to help Ellen with her exorbitant prices. We can't wait to help the minimum wage workers I meet who are working one, two jobs and still can't figure out how they are going to gather enough money to make any progress. We can't wait to deal with the student debt that so many young Iowans tell me they are struggling under. it really reminds me what happens here in Iowa eight years ago.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Will Iowa be the first state in the union to embark upon a political revolution to lead this country in a very different direction? you know what? I think that's exactly what you will be doing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It really reminds me what happens here in Iowa eight years ago.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What Roe v. Wade was about is that women and their male allies were saying, 'You know what, on these issues, it should be with the individual, the woman, the family, the doctor, to make these decisions and not the government. That's a choice for a woman,'.

– Bernie Sanders

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I would expand funding for Planned Parenthood.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite as inevitable as she did eight and a half months ago! if you want somebody who is going to beat Trump and going to beat other Republicans, I think Bernie Sanders is that candidate.

– Bernie Sanders

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As many of you know, we began this campaign about nine months ago. And when we began, we were 50 points behind. We were 50 points behind the inevitable, the inevitable Democratic nominee! well, guess what, that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What would he say about a nation where 29 million people don't have health insurance?

– Bernie Sanders

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A recent study showed on ABC evening news, Trump over a period of time got 81 minutes of time. Bernie Sanders got 20 seconds, now, you tell me why.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Let me talk about polling. ... In terms of polling, guess what, we are running ahead of Secretary Clinton in terms of taking on my good friend Donald Trump, we have the momentum. We're on a path to a victory.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What a Medicare-for-all program does is finally provide in this country health care for every man, woman and child as a right, the truth is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Trump ... they believed that health care should be available to all of our people.

– Bernie Sanders

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I don't get personal speaking fees from Goldman Sachs.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You've received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Secretary Clinton was right and what I did, which I think is also right, is demanded the resignation of the governor. A man who acts that irresponsibly should not stay in power.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In Iowa, New Hampshire, the race is very, very close.

– Bernie Sanders

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Universal health care is an idea that has been supported in the United States by Democratic presidents going back to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, it is time for our country to join every other major industrialized nation on earth and guarantee health care to all citizens as a right, not a privilege.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I was a little disappointed that what Chelsea said was simply not accurate.

– Bernie Sanders

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What this plan does, of course, is end private insurance payments for the American people, so instead of making a private insurance premium payment, you're now going to make a Medicare premium payment. And what all of the studies indicate is that payment under a Medicare-for-all single-payer system will be significantly less than what middle class families today are paying for health insurance.

– Bernie Sanders

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Will they like me? No.

– Bernie Sanders

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I pledge to you that every day I will fight for the public interest, not the corporate interest. I will not abandon any segment of American society -- whether you're gay or black or Latino or poor, or working class -- just because it is politically expedient at a given time.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Absolutely, if I said we're going to do it that's what we're going to do.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There are some parts of that bill are right, and there are some parts of that bill that are wrong, and I am, as I said several months ago, willing to re-look that, secretary Clinton, obviously now, sees herself in trouble.

– Bernie Sanders

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As much as I admire Chelsea, she didn't read the plan, and where she is absolutely wrong: This is a plan that works in 50 states in this country, whether you have conservative Republicans or progressive Democrats. It's a national program.

– Bernie Sanders

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I stand with the President on gun issues.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Secretary Clinton, obviously now, sees herself in trouble.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

As I mentioned to you earlier, my father was born in Poland. Like Obama, I am the son of an immigrant father. Nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate. Maybe it's because of the color of my skin being different than Obama's.

– Bernie Sanders

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I will vote to revise that bill. There are parts of it that made sense to me, look George, if you have a small gun shop owner in Northern Vermont who sells a gun legally to somebody and then, you know, something happens to that guy, he goes nuts or something, and he kills somebody, should the gun shop owner be held liable? I think not.

– Bernie Sanders

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We're doing much better with independents. We even draw a little bit better with Republicans, so I believe, quite honestly, that with the enthusiasm that we are generating, with the kind of voter turnout that I think we can bring out -- look, Republicans win when people are demoralized and the voter turnout is low.

– Bernie Sanders

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Look George, if you have a small gun shop owner in Northern Vermont who sells a gun legally to somebody and then, you know, something happens to that guy, he goes nuts or something, and he kills somebody, should the gun shop owner be held liable? I think not.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

On the other hand, if you have a manufacturer that is sending guns into an area and really knows that those guns are not being used by the people or bought by the people in that area but are being sold to criminals, should we hold that manufacturer liable? Absolutely.

– Bernie Sanders

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If people are concerned about electability, and Democrats should be very concerned, because we certainly do not want to see some right-wing extremist in the White House, I think Bernie Sanders is the candidate.

– Bernie Sanders

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So I believe, quite honestly, that with the enthusiasm that we are generating, with the kind of voter turnout that I think we can bring out -- look, Republicans win when people are demoralized and the voter turnout is low.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When you look at the major issues facing our country today ... I think if you look at those issues, what you conclude is that at this moment in our history, it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Look, Hillary Clinton is not Bill Clinton, but what Bill Clinton did was totally, totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable. But I am running against Hillary Clinton, not Bill Clinton.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And I believe and I gotta say this, and I thank you for your question, in this sense, I think what we need to do as a nation, certainly something the Republicans are not doing, is focus on the bloody issues facing this country -- the disappearance of the middle class income and wealth inequality.

– Bernie Sanders

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The reality is that fraud is the business model on Wall Street, it is not the exception to the rule. It is the rule.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

To those on Wall Street who may be listening today, let me be very clear: Greed is not good, in fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation. And here is a New Year's resolution that I will keep if elected president -- and that is if Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

My opponent says that, as a senator, she told bankers to 'cut it out' and end their destructive behavior. But in my view, establishment politicians are the ones who need to cut it out, the reality is that Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street, its lobbyists and their billions of dollars regulate Congress.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation. And here is a New Year's resolution that I will keep if elected president -- and that is if Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The reality is that Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street, its lobbyists and their billions of dollars regulate Congress.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks will not be represented in my administration.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have been very specific. We have more to do, and we will be doing that in the very near future.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The bottom line, what the Wall Street Journal forgot to tell the American people in that article is people will not have to pay for private health insurance and the cost of prescription drugs is going down.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have had our differences of opinions with the DNC, but at the end of the day, the DNC, Hillary Clinton and myself -- we want to defeat right-wing extremism in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What I'm suggesting is that what Trump has done with some success has taken that anger, taken those fears -- which are legitimate -- and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

For his working class and middle class support.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I am very disturbed by reports that the government may commence raids to deport families who have fled here to escape violence in Central America, we need to take steps to protect children and families seeking refuge here, not cast them out. O’Malley said the plan would be.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Now much has changed over the decades, but unfortunately, some things have not. Institutional racism existed then. Institutional racism exist today, the criminal justice system was broken then. The criminal justice system remains broken today. And that's the sad reality of where we are as a country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Like any other public official, when a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The criminal justice system was broken then. The criminal justice system remains broken today. And that's the sad reality of where we are as a country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And it will be an enormously high priority for me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

As we spend time with our families this holiday season, we who are parents should ask ourselves what we would do if our children faced the danger and violence these children do? How far would we go to protect them? we need to take steps to protect children and families seeking refuge here, not cast them out.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There's no doubt in my mind that she, like too many African-Americans who die in police custody, would be alive today if she were a white woman.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are doing very badly among older people and I want to change that, we will change that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Not only will I oppose any efforts to cut Social Security benefits, what we are going to do is expand Social Security benefits.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The greed of the billionaire class, the greed of Wall street is destroying this economy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Regime change is easy ... but you have to think about what happens the day after.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What the DNC did, arbitrarily, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our information, crippling our campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

That is total overreaction.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Gaddafi, terrible dictator, gotten rid of, right now, ISIS is gaining ground in Libya because of all of the destabilization in the region and all of the turmoil.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

Not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton ... I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the type of campaign that we run.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Our differences are fairly deep on this issue, i worry too much that Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Let’s calm down a little bit, Martin, let’s tell the truth.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

They ain’t gonna like me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

That is an egregious act.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

They called me fairly quickly after the breach was closed to inform me that there was something weird going on and that portions of the system were shut down.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What's scary about Trump is you open -- there are a lot of people out there who feel certain ways and you see somebody who is running for president say these things, 'Whoa! Trump said that! I can say that! I can beat up the Muslim in my community! I can be a racist on a college campus now, because that's the climate.' So you're right, it is scary.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It strikes me that if you don't take part in the political process, you're really crapping on people who gave their lives to defend this country, WWII and elsewhere, obviously, this country faces enormous problems ... but that doesn't mean you walk away from it. But it means you engage and fight back.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, I'll talk to some old people, i, myself, as a young person, I respect old people myself.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Of course ISIS is a major threat to our country and to the world and of course it has to be crushed, but it is not the only issue.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The problem is that a lot of these issue are more complicated than a six-second sound byte and a lot of the issues we choose to raise end up in conflict with corporate America and the corporate media, but you know what, we are going to talk about those issues anyhow.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The planet is in crisis. We need bold action in the very near future and this does not provide that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I have said is that obviously ISIS and terrorism are a huge national issue that we have got to address, but so is poverty, so is unemployment, so is education, so is healthcare, so is the need to protect working families.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I just don't believe that Republicans are going to buy into this language that guarantees that Hillary Clinton has a far better chance of winning.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What somebody like a Trump is trying to do is to divide us up -- a few months ago, we're supposed to hate Mexicans, now we're supposed to hate Muslims. That kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you are in a wealthy nation, you would think you are in a third world country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It probably costs more to eat here, what are you supposed to feed your kids? Potato chips?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am running for president because, in these difficult times, against vitriolic Republican rhetoric, we must protect a woman's right to choose and we must defend Planned Parenthood.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And I think public leaders need to try to figure out ways to unite people around common purposes again, rather than divide us up. all Americans should be sickened by the video of Laquan McDonald's murder. As a nation we must do more than just echo the phrase Black Lives Matter.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

All Americans should be sickened by the video of Laquan McDonald's murder. As a nation we must do more than just echo the phrase Black Lives Matter.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What I have said over and over again is that I have not and will not raise a nickel for a super PAC, i am the only Democratic candidate who does not have a super PAC. I will not have a super PAC. They are nurses and they are fighting for the health care of their people. They are doing what they think is appropriate. I do not have a super PAC.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I made a decision -- now it wasn't an easy decision -- I said if I am going to walk the walk and not just talk the talk, I am not going to have a super PAC.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Now, I have many disagreements with Hillary Clinton. And one of them is that I don't think it's good enough just to talk the talk on campaign finance reform. You've got to walk the walk.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am disappointed that Secretary Clinton does not think we should join every other major country in guaranteeing health care through a cost-effective, Medicare-for-all, single-payer system that would save the average family about $5,000 a year.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe in fair market, American capitalism and that is a big difference between Secretary Clinton's Wall Street crony capitalism and Senator Sanders' socialism.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I have voted time and again for the background checks, and I want to see it improved and expanded. I want to see them do away with the gun show loophole. ... I don't know that there's any disagreement here.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy, democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system in America today which is not only grossly unfair but, in many respects, corrupt.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Anybody that would say that the Paris attacks were caused by global warming, there's something missing.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We're going to win, because first we're going to explain what democratic socialism is, what democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1% in this country own almost 9%, almost -- own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, that it is wrong today, in a rigged economy, that 57% of all new income is going to the top one percent.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You are looking at the non-billionaire major candidate for president who does not have a super PAC, i don't have a super PAC.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't have a super PAC.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I wouldn’t use the word offensive, I found them a little bit silly, a bit absurd, the issue was what impact did the fact that she has received huge amounts of funding from Wall Street have on her attitude towards Wall Street.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Look, I think the President is trying to do the right thing. And what he's trying to do is put together a coalition of the Western democracies along with the Muslim nations to destroy ISIS, while at the same time making sure that we're not involved in a perpetual war in the Middle East, my own view is that the major issue that we have right now is to destroy ISIS. And I think we've got to work toward a political agreement to get Assad out of office.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have different points of view.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have different points of view ... but Russia has got to join us. We are concerned about Iran, but Iran has to join us. We have concerns about Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia has to join us, if all over the world these attacks are taking place, the world has got to come together.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Of course I have concerns.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Now, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something. Everybody knows that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

They expect to get something. Everybody knows that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe calling it what it is … radical jihadis, let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim-American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. … We need our Muslim-American neighbors to stand up and to be a part of this.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Maybe they're dumb, and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something, everybody knows it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Why over her political career has Wall Street been a major, the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? Maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so, i have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street from the military industrial complex, not one candidate -- 'Oh these, these campaign contributions will not influence me.' But why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something, everybody knows that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm not that much of a socialist, compared to Eisenhower.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely and led to the rise of al Qaeda and to ISIS.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I do not want us to in any way inadvertently allow people who wish us harm to come into our country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I will do everything that I can to make sure that the United States does not get involved in another quagmire like we did in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country, we should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'd shut down what exists right now, (which) is that virtually every telephone call in this country ends up in a file at the NSA, that is unacceptable to me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

You have to enforce no-fly zones, and I believe, especially with the Russian air force in the air, it could lead to an escalation because of an accident that we would deeply regret.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

To my mind, if patriotism or love of country means anything, it means that we do not now, or ever, turn our backs on those who defended us, it means we keep our promise to those who kept their promises to us.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We're doing just fine. My debate prep today is to stand with workers who are trying to get a living wage from a contractor with the United States government, that's the kind of debate prep that inspires me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

All three Democratic candidates have strong records, we endorsed Hillary Clinton today, as we made clear, because we believe she will be the most effective person to get the job done from Day One.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

If the question is, am I much of a small-talker, or am I a good schmoozer, am I a good -- well that's not the word politicians use -- I'm not so great at that, do I enjoy retail politics? The answer is yes, I really do I love going out.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Am I a grump? Yeah.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I mean, I cannot walk down the corridors of Capitol Hill without being really begged by the media to attack Hillary Clinton, they want to make this personal. ... I choose not to do that. Let's talk about the economy, let's talk about Wall Street, let's talk about climate change, let's talk about education. Frankly, that is what the American people want to get discussed.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think the American people get tired of seeing front page stories from the media day after day about emails.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I do not regret that at all.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If the elections were held today, just among the African-American vote, we would lose.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think I have the economic and social justice agenda now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Now to me, as opposed to maybe some other unnamed candidates, the issue of Keystone was kind of a no-brainer. It never made sense to me, from day one, as to why you would extract and transport some of the dirtiest fuel on this planet.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It cracks me up, it's unbelievable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, what motivated that is that I think the American people want substantive discussions on substantive issues, there is a process in place for the email situation that Hillary Clinton is dealing with. Let it play itself out. As a nation, let us start focusing on why it is that so few have so much and so many have so little.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think that's an issue that we've got to take a hard look at, and I think what's going on now is, as I think Secretary Clinton now realizes, is not a good practice, do you think that she jeopardized national security?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, there is a process that is going on now, we will learn more about it.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are not going to let them fall by the wayside.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

This is a major, major, major, planetary crisis.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

Under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden, this country has come a long way economically since President Bush left office and we were losing 800,000 jobs every month and the world economy was on the brink of financial collapse, nevertheless, we still have a long way to go to create the kind of economy that works for all Americans and not just the top 1 percent.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In the year 2015, it is time for the federal government to allow states to go forward as they best choose.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

That means that recognized businesses in states that legalized marijuana should be fully able to use the banking system without fear of federal retribution.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If they're going to engage in this kind of attack, they need to understand we're not going to stand there and take it. i am not making that threat. I don't know what Tad meant by that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

At the end of the day, the VA provides high-quality health care for the veterans that are able to get into the system, clearly there were problems. Clearly the VA provides good quality health care to millions of our veterans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If they make unfounded criticisms, we are going to respond forcefully, if they express disagreement on issues, that's called democracy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If I am called a sexist, for example, or if other charges are made against me, we will respond forcefully.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am not making that threat. I don't know what Tad meant by that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe in serious debates on serious issues. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. Maybe I shouldn't say this: I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Hillary Clinton, will the media, among others, allow us to have a civil debate on civil issues? Or is the only way you get media attention by ripping apart somebody else?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What a campaign is about is contrast. That it is what it is about, i don't want negative ads and I don't believe in negative campaigning, but what is the sense in being in a campaign if you don't differentiate your difference with your opponents?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I've never run a negative political ad in my life.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't want negative ads and I don't believe in negative campaigning, but what is the sense in being in a campaign if you don't differentiate your differences with your opponents?

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

All that I can say is I am very proud of my record on women's issues. I certainly do not have a problem with women speaking out -- and I think what the secretary is doing there is taking words and misapplying them, what I would say is if we are going to make some progress in dealing with these horrific massacres that we're seeing, is that people have got to start all over this country talking to each other.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation, that legislation was anti-gay legislation. It was playing off the fears of a lot of Americans.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What I would say is if we are going to make some progress in dealing with these horrific massacres that we're seeing, is that people have got to start all over this country talking to each other.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Hello, hello, hello, enough with the hellos, let's do this.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think we'll use Larry at our next rally, he does better than I do.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Puerto Rico is now in very, very difficult straits. People are leaving the island, unemployment is high, schools are being closed, bottom line is you cannot get blood from a stone. You can't push more austerity on a people who are already hurting. The goal is to rebuild the economy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, I am who I am. And what I believe in, and what my spirituality is about is that we're all in this together. That I think it is not a good thing to believe that as human beings we can turn our backs on the suffering of other people, and you know, this is not Judaism. This is what Pope Francis is talking about, that we cannot worship just billionaires and the making of more and more money. Life is more than that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Well, I thought it was pretty, pretty, pretty good.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We've got to end the war on drugs. And you know you look at what's going on in Colorado and elsewhere I am not unfavorably disposed to moving toward the legalization of marijuana.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When you go to your public library, when you call your fire department or the police department, what do you think you're calling? these are socialist institutions.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What he said in so many words was, 'Thank you so much for electing me to be president, but I will take it from here. I will go forward and I will negotiate with (House Speaker John) Boehner and (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell and the Republicans,' he did this because he is a decent guy and he thought naively that Republicans really wanted to work or negotiate compromises. Truth is, they never, ever did.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He thought he could walk into Capitol Hill and the Oval Office and sit down with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the Republicans and say, 'I can't get it all. You can't get it all. Let's work out something that's reasonable,' because he's a reasonable guy, these guys never had any intention of doing (serious) negotiating and compromising ... I think it took the President too long to fully appreciate that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Yes, it would, but it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have huge amounts of tax loopholes that exist for the wealthy and large corporations, we're going to address that issue and protect the needs of working families and the middle class.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think that for the first time people viewing from across the country saw that there were more than two candidates running for president in the Democratic party.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails, enough of the emails! Let's talk about the real issues facing America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I would vote yes because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for non-violent offenses, we have a criminal justice system that lets CEOs on Wall Street walk away, and yet we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Let me say something that may not be great politics, but I think the secretary is right, and that is that the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails, me too, me too.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We need to combat institutional racism from top to bottom, and we need major major reforms in a broken criminal justice system in which we have more people in jail than China, i intend to tackle that issue, to make sure our people have education and jobs rather than jail cells.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Enough of the emails, let's talk about the real issues facing America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little, by which Wall Street’s greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No, I don’t.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I don't know how she did it, really. (She is a) tough lady.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

People will have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to Wall Street and corporations with the secretary.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think we can do it. And I think that's what the bully pulpit is about, and that's what organizing effort's about. And that's what this campaign is about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Democrats will not retain the White House, will not regain the Senate or the U.S. House, will not be successful in dozens of governors races all across this country, unless we generated excitement and momentum and produce a huge voter turnout, that turnout, that enthusiasm, will not happen with politics as usual.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't think this is a leftist, extremist position.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I plead guilty—I should have been more sensitive at the beginning of this campaign to talk about this issue.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

People will have to contrast my consistency against the secretary’s.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

That was a complicated vote and I'm willing to see changes in that provision, here's the reason I voted the way I voted : If you are a gun shop owner in Vermont and you sell somebody a gun and that person flips out and then kills somebody, I don't think it's really fair to hold that person responsible, the gun shop owner.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Instead of listening to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry and The FDA 1,400 lobbyists, it is about time that the The FDA and Congress started listening to the overwhelming majority of the American people, who believe that medicine is too expensive.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Healthcare

Instead of listening to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry and their 1,400 lobbyists, it is about time that the FDA and Congress started listening to the overwhelming majority of the American people, who believe that medicine is too expensive.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

It is time for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world by implementing prescription drug policies that work for everybody, not just the CEOs of the pharmaceutical industry.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health News

You're looking at a candidate who has run in many, many elections, who has never run a negative political ad in my life and hopes never to have to run them, and you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think the Latino community is obviously deeply concerned about comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship is something I strongly support, and I think the Latino community is outraged over some of the racist attacks that have been made against some Latino groups -- and that is unacceptable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He's definitely won me over, 100%.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It goes without saying that our condolences go to the families of those who were killed and our hearts and prayers go out for a full recovery for those who were wounded, but we also know that we are tired of condolences and we are tired of just prayers.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Yes there are disagreement on how we go forward in terms of gun safety, but I think the vast majority of the American people want us to move forward in sensible ways which keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

My family story is a story very similar to many people who are here tonight, and that story is the story of America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Wall Street and other big corporations have won again, it is time for the rest of us to stop letting multi-national corporations rig the system to pad their profits at our expense.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I also know that there is an enormous amount of disgust in the African-American community with regards to certain police departments. We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Clearly if Sandra Bland, who was a middle class black woman, had been a middle class white woman, it is unlikely that the police would have treated her in the same way, unarmed African-Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When I say we need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, that's going to impact the country but it will impact African-Americans even more. When I talk about pay equity for women workers, it will impact all women but it will impact African-American women even more because they are more discriminated against and their wages are even lower than white women.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Many white people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African-Americans, especially younger African-Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the black community.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Wall Street and other big corporations have won again.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

I am proud to have the support of many hundreds of thousands of members of the National Education Association and trade unionists all across America, we are going to win this nomination and the general election because of support from grassroots Americans. We are on track to do just that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I oppose, at this point, a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria which could get us more deeply involved in that horrible civil war and lead to a never-ending U.S. entanglement in that region, we do not want to make a very complex situation in Syria even worse. I support President Obama's effort to combat the Islamic State in Syria while at the same time supporting those in Syria trying to overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

No nominee of mine to the United States Supreme Court will get that job unless he or she is loud and clear that one of their first orders of business will be to overturn citizens United.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that. and how long did it take us to elect an African-American to be president of the United States? What we should be doing is as a people is judge our candidates based on their views, their abilities, not the color of their skin, not on their religion. That is what America is supposed to be about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And how long did it take us to elect an African-American to be president of the United States? What we should be doing is as a people is judge our candidates based on their views, their abilities, not the color of their skin, not on their religion. That is what America is supposed to be about.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

That is absolutely not true, my plan says that every kid in America ... you are going to be able to make it into the middle class, you are going to be able to get a college education, regardless of the income of your family.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

What Trump is doing is appealing to the baser instincts among us -- xenophobia, and, frankly, racism, you target some group of people, you go after them. You take people's anger and you turn it against them. You win votes on that. I think that is disgraceful and not something we should be doing in 2015.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I knew we had a message that would resonate with the American people, this is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet all of the income and wealth is going to the top 1% and people do not feel good about that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Sen. Sanders’s agenda does cost money, if you look at the problems that are out there, it’s very reasonable.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views, it's harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Don't tell anybody. I think what they know is that four months ago, when I entered this race, if you look at the polls, I was in 3 to 4%. Vast majority of the American people didn't know who Bernie Sanders was, they didn't know what my ideas were, and in last few months, we have amassed huge amounts of enthusiasm and huge amounts of energy, so obviously, I think the secretary's people are getting nervous about the kind of energy and enthusiasm our campaign is bringing forth.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Here's one area where Barack Obama and I disagree. Here's what I understand -- is that given the powers that be in Washington, Wall Street, corporate America, the big money interests -- change does not take place no matter who gets elected president unless there is a strong grassroots movement, brilliant campaign. But after he got elected he had the illusion -- the mistake -- of believing that he could sit down with Republicans and just work out some good compromises. That was never going to happen. The only way that we change life for the middle class in this country is when millions of people become actively involved in the political process. No president can do it alone.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

So what we are doing now is hiring on people. We have now dozens of people on the ground here in Iowa. Great crowds are wonderful, but that does not necessarily translate into votes. People need to be organized and know how to come out and participate in the caucuses.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Welcome to the political revolution.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think that that is dead wrong and I have let the leadership of the Democrats know that, i want to see more of them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

And in fact, coming from a rural state which has almost no gun control, I think I can get beyond the noise and all of these arguments and people shouting at each other, and come up with real, constructive gun control legislation which most significantly gets guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

When people have mental health issues, when they're a threat to others or themselves, they should be able to get counseling immediately. That is not the case right now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I want to see more of them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I guess we will have to wait and see.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I think people understand there is something profoundly wrong today with establishment politics, that we need some bold ideas to resurrect the middle class in this country, to address poverty, to address income and wealth inequality.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We are gaining and I think what the polls seem to indicate is Hillary Clinton's support seems to be receding a bit, but we have a long way to go. Joe would be a formidable opponent. I am not sure who politically it would help.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Whoa, this is an unbelievable turnout.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Great night. Huge turnout. Very good.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is, so all that I can say is I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I admire her. I respect her. I like her. She and I have very different points of view on a number of issues.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It's so easy to be critical of an agreement which is not perfect, but the United States has to negotiate with, you know, other countries. We have to negotiate with Iran. And the alternative of not reaching an agreement, you know what it is? It's war.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think it is unfortunate because, among other things, I wanted to talk about the issues of black lives, the fact that the American people are tired of seeing unarmed African-Americans shot and killed, but there are other issues as well that we have to talk about, and that is the fact that the middle class of this country is disappearing and most importantly, we don't bring change in this country... unless all people stand together. That is what we have to do.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Liberty University was kind enough to invite me to address a convocation and I decided to accept, it goes without saying that my views on many issues -- women's rights, gay rights, education and many other issues -- are very different from the opinions of some in the Liberty University community. It is very easy for a candidate to speak to people who hold the same views. It's harder but important to reach out to others who look at the world differently. I look forward to meeting with the students and faculty of Liberty University.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have to end institutional racism but we have to deal with the reality that 50% of young black kids are unemployed, that we have massive poverty in America, that we have an unsustainable level of income and wealth inequality, as Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have address both.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The American people are saying loudly and clearly enough is enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Obviously, I think Cecile Richards apologized for the tone of that video, i think her apology was exactly right. I think that the staffer, the tone was terribly wrong.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

This video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows totally outrageous police behavior, no one should be yanked from her car, thrown to the ground, assaulted and arrested for a minor traffic stop. The result is that three days later she is dead in her jail cell.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin, racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Racism has plagued the United States since its inception.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't want to psychoanalyze Donald Trump.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Without these folks it is likely that out agricultural system would collapse.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Without these folks it is likely that out agricultural system would collapse.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Yes, we have to raise individual tax rates substantially higher than they are today because almost all of the new income is going to the top 1%, and yes, those folks and large corporations will have to pay under a Sanders administration more in taxes so that we can use that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create the jobs we need, make sure that every kid who has the ability is able to get a college education in America because public colleges and public universities will be tuition-free.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Clearly, that has got to change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

And yes, those folks and large corporations will have to pay under a Sanders administration more in taxes so that we can use that revenue to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, create the jobs we need, make sure that every kid who has the ability is able to get a college education in America because public colleges and public universities will be tuition-free.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Whoa, in case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I am more than aware that my opponents will be able to outspend us. But we are going to win this election, they may have the money, but we have the people. And when the people stand together, we can win.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What I would like to ask of you: Please think big, not small.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders, it is not about Hillary Clinton, it is not about anyone else, it is about you.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We have [ raised money ] very, very differently than other campaigns, but I believe we will be able to raise, as will be indicated in this reporting period and in the future, enough money to run a winning campaign.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think, as I understand it, we are going to have a pretty good campaign financial report coming out.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We need to join the rest of the industrialized world.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

So I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think we are probably doing a lot better than you would have thought two months ago when we got into this, right? clearly, what I do know, is the stronger that I get, the attacks are going to come from all kinds of sources.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What I am doing is, in fact, speaking to issues that are in the hearts and the minds of the American people in a way that is a little bit bolder than other candidates have in the past, and I think people are responding to that.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Until we finally pass comprehensive reform -- and I would very much like to see the House of Representatives pick up where the Senate left off -- we must be aggressive in pursuing policies that are humane and sensible and that keep families together, i strongly support the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA is a good first step, but it should be expanded.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We cannot, and we should not, be talking about sweeping up millions of men, women and children, many of whom have been in this country for years, and we cannot allow a continuation of this ridiculous idea that suddenly we are going to throw millions of people out of this country. That is wrong and that type of discussion must end now.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think we need to have as serious conversation about that, i think rural America needs to understand what urban America feels. Urban America needs to understand the culture of rural America. But I think together we have got to go forward to make certain that people who should not be having these weapons do not have them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There are weapons out there that have nothing to do with hunting and are designed to kill people and kill them quickly, and this is an issue that must be dealt with.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think the people of Vermont understand that guns in Vermont are different than guns in Chicago or guns in Los Angeles.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It is time to give them legal status, it is time to create a reasonable and responsible path to citizenship.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The Republican majority in both the House and the Senate needs to let us debate and pass real immigration reform.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If we are truly serious about reversing the decline of the middle class.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If she joins us, we could stop this disastrous deal once and for all.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Corporate America and Wall Street are going to bring that bill back.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't think we are out of the mainstream. I think that what we have noticed is that the mainstream has been ignored for a long time.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time, Sanders roared, before thousands of supporters in Burlington, the liberal city he once served as mayor. 'Enough is enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This great nation and its government belong to all of the people and not to a handful of billionaires, their super PACs and their lobbyists.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Today ... we begin a political revolution to transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It is not about Hillary Clinton. It is not about Jeb Bush or anyone else. This campaign is about the needs of the American people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I opposed the deregulation of Wall Street and pretty much predicted what would happen in terms of the Wall Street crash, i certainly disagree with her husband on that. She hasn't been clear about where she's coming from.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We're living in a world since Citizens United where multi-millionaires and billionaires are playing a horrendous role in the political system, that's why I believe that we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

You can't be on the fence of this one, you're either for it or you're against it. No fence-sitting on this one.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Are you in the media prepared to allow us to engage in that serious debate? or do I have to get media attention by simply making reckless attacks on Hillary Clinton or anybody else? I don't believe in that. I believe in serious debates on serious issues.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

You're either for it or you're against it. No fence-sitting on this one.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There is in my view massive dissatisfaction in this country today with corporate establishment and the greed of corporate America.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Nike epitomizes why disastrous unfettered free-trade policies during the past four decades have failed American workers, eroded our manufacturing base and increased income and wealth inequality in this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I owe my brother an enormous amount. It was my brother who actually introduced me to a lot of my ideas.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

TPP will help level the playing field. It will be good for the workers of both our countries.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We now have a political situation where billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I have voted against every disastrous trade agreement coming down the pike and helping to lead the effort against this Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would mean the outsourcing of more good paying job to low-wage countries.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It tells me what is a very serious problem, it's not just about Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton. It is about a political system today that is dominated by big money. It's about the Koch brothers being prepared to spend $900 million dollars in the coming election.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Frankly, it is vulgar to me that we're having a war of billionaires.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe we should break up the Wall Street banks. If they're too big to fail, they're too big to exist.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I am not a billionaire, to run outside of the two-party system would require enormous sums of money.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

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

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

I am running for president, people should not underestimate me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay, it is not acceptable that a number of major profitable corporations have paid zero in federal income taxes in recent years, and that millionaire hedge fund managers often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than the truck drivers or nurses.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think this is not about personality, i am not a singer, I am not a dancer, I am not an entertainer.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

To run a credible campaign in this day and age, you do need a whole lot of money, whether the magic number is $200 million, it is $150 million, it is a lot of money, but even with that, you would be enormously outspent by the Koch Brother candidates and the other candidates who will likely spend, in the final analysis, over $1 billion, if not two.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

People should not underestimate me.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What we are saying today is pretty simply, that the taxpayers of this country want to make sure that when government contracts are made, those employers who get those contracts pay workers a living wage, a great nation will not survive, in my view, when so few have so much and so many have so little.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

My strong hope is that Secretary Clinton and all candidates, Republicans and Congressional Democrats, will make it clear that the Trans-Pacific Partnership should be rejected and that we must develop trade policies that benefit working families, not just Wall Street and multi-national corporations.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I do have doubts that Hillary Clinton or any Republican out there will take on big-money interests who control so much of our economy.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think we are reasonably close, the clock is ticking. If we do it, I've got to get out there. So I think we are looking at an announcement in the pretty near future.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

To run a credible campaign in this day and age, you do need a whole lot of money, whether the magic number is $200 million, it is $150 million, it is a lot of money, but even with that, you would be enormously outspent by the Koch Brothers candidates and the other candidates who will likely spend, in the final analysis, over $1 billion, if not two.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We probably have more serious problems than any time since the Great Depression.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I hope that Secretary Clinton will speak out on these and other important issues in the days and weeks ahead.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I only know what I read in the newspapers so I just don't' know a whole lot about it. That's about all I can say, i just told you, I only know what I read.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If Congress fails to address these problems, the administration should act on its own to close, at a minimum [those tax breaks].

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

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