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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. The U.S.
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The difference between my socialism and Trump's socialism is, I believe the government should help working families, not billionaires.
What media loves is to focus on the candidates. What the American people, I believe, want is for us to focus on them, not the candidates, not anymore.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Warren Buffett, one of the richest guys in the world, openly admits that his effective tax rate is lower than his secretary's. It's time to tell the billionaire class that if they want to enjoy the benefits of America, they have to accept their responsibilities, and they have to start paying their fair share of taxes.
People are right to be angry: they understand they did not cause the recession, but they had to pay for it while Wall Street grew richer.
The essence of U.S. military predominance in the world is, ultimately, the fact that it can, at will, drop bombs, with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet.
A politics of struggle is rooted in values and vision, and above all trust.
Preface to Outsider in the White House (2015)
The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.
To my mind, global climate change is the single greatest threat facing the planet. It poses an actual existential threat to our country and our world.
Look, at this particular moment in history, and perhaps at any moment in history, despair is not an option.
Graduation should mark a joyous new beginning, not the start of an anxiety-ridden, decades-long financial bind.
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.
The bottom line is when Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
We have a crisis in higher education...Too many of our young people cannot afford a college education & those who are leaving college are faced with crushing debt. It is a national disgrace...
America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.
The average person is working longer hours for lower wages...This is a rigged economy which works for the rich and the powerful, and is not working for ordinary Americans…
The political revolution is not about one election or one candidate. It is about transforming America and continuing the fight for economic, social, racial and environmental justice. We have to continue to work together to advance the progressive future we all support.
If we cut military spending and corporate welfare, we would have more than enough money to meet America's needs.
Outsider in the House (1998)
Enough is enough! [...] How many homes can you own?
Now is the time for us to make America the country that the vast majority of our people want it to be. It will take a political revolution to make the change.
Preface to Outsider in the White House (2015)
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