Bernie Sanders Quotes About Democratic Party

Quotes about: Democratic Party

• I think, the most progress I have agenda, the progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party. So we have got to continue bringing people in, fighting for an agenda that works for working families and having the courage to take on the big money people who today control our economic and political life.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I want to see working people and young people come into the party in a way that doesn't exist now. And you know what, I want a 50-state strategy so the Democratic Party is not just the party of 25 states.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, People, Want

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

• There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions to spend on campaigns. think tanks and 'educational' organizations, the Koch brothers are the most powerful. We must overturn Citizens United, move to public funding of elections and pass real tax reform.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Brother, Powerful

• We need a Democratic Party open, that is bringing working people into the party, that is bringing young people, that bringing all of the people of this country who are sick and tired of an economy that works well for the 1 percent while the middle class struggles.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Party, Struggle

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

• I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Party, Priorities

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

• How about something more interesting? How about you come forward and say, [Donald] Trump supporters, I absolutely know what you think about the Republican Party and the Republican establishment and how disappointed you are. Guess what, I'm going to tell you what you're right about. What they've disappointed about. The Republican Party is always eager to tell you the flaws of the Democratic Party. Take Trump supporters seriously by conceding what is true about their critique of the GOP.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests, who today, to a very significant degree, control our economic and political life.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Believe, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Country, Party

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Party, Republican

  "Jobs". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.sanders.senate.gov. February 5, 2013.

• I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Moving, President

  "Bernie Sanders fights back tears during brother's emotional speech about their parents" by Keely Lockhart, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 27, 2016.

• The Democratic Party has been very strong in a lot of areas, in fighting to make our country a less discriminatory country. And that is enormously important.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Strong, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on down.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Decision, Democratic

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Party, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• We're going to stand with working people. We're going to take on the billionaire class. We're going the take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. We're going the take on Wall Street. That's where I think the future of the Democratic Party lies.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Lying, Party

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The Democrats have got to open the door to young people. Welcome them in and understand that it will be messy, that many young people are not professional politicians. The Democratic Party is going to have to adjust itself to their reality, rather than force young people to be adjusted to the Democratic leadership's reality.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Reality, Doors

  Source: billmoyers.com

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