Bernie Sanders quotes
Born
September 8, 1941, Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Politician.
Bernie Sanders is an American politician.Bernie Sanders is an American politician and U.S Senator from Vermont. He was first elected to the U.S House of Representatives in 1991 and then to the U.S Senate in 2007. He is known for his progressive policies and his focus on issues such as income inequality, universal healthcare, and campaign finance reform.
Washington is dominated by big money.
– Bernie Sanders
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
– Bernie Sanders
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.
– Bernie Sanders
I’m not much into speculation.
– Bernie Sanders
The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
– Bernie Sanders
Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.
– Bernie Sanders
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
– Bernie Sanders
If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now.
– Bernie Sanders
You’ve got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
– Bernie Sanders
Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.
– Bernie Sanders
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Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.
– Bernie Sanders
Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
– Bernie Sanders
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
– Bernie Sanders
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.
– Bernie Sanders
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
– Bernie Sanders
Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
– Bernie Sanders
Message to the billionaire class: You can’t have it all!
– Bernie Sanders
Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
– Bernie Sanders
I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.
– Bernie Sanders
I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
– Bernie Sanders
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
– Bernie Sanders
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
– Bernie Sanders
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.
– Bernie Sanders
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
– Bernie Sanders
It’s better to show up than to give up.
– Bernie Sanders