Bernie Sanders Quotes - Page 18

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• 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.

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  White, America, Lynching

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• I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?

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  Different, World, Six

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

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• During the last two years the wealthiest 14 Americans saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is truly unbelievable. This $157 billion INCREASE in wealth among 14 individuals is more wealth that is owned, collectively, by 130 million Americans. This country does not survive morally, economically or politically when so few have so much, and so many have so little.

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  Country, Years, Two

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• I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.

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  Rights, Long, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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?

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  Life, School, Fighting

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• I believe strongly that we can protect our people without undermining our constitutional rights and I worry very, very much about the huge attacks on privacy that we have seen in recent years - both from the government and the private sector. I worry that we are moving toward an Orwellian society, and this is something I will oppose as vigorously as I can.

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  Believe, Moving, Rights

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2015.

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• These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

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  Believe, Government, Play

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

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  New York, Illinois, California

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

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• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

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  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We are not addressing the real needs of the American people. And second of all, philosophically, there is a huge division between the House and the Senate.

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  Real, Thinking, People

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• I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.

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  Children, Growing Up, Book

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Jan 04, 2016

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• I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

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  America, People, States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Worth Fighting For

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

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  Thinking, People, United States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the issues he fought for. He was a good friend of mine. We'll be trying to do a couple of things. One is fighting for national health care. Another is fighting to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and changing our trade policies.

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  Couple, Fighting, Good Friend

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

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• You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

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  Children, Sleep, Billionaire

  Bernie Sanders (2015). “The Speech: On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class”, p.70, Nation Books

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• 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.

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  Party, Decision, Democratic

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.

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  Losing, Individual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

  Bernie Sanders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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  Party, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education, making public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America earning less than 125,000 bucks. Didn't go as far as I wanted. But that's 83 percent of the population in this country.

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  Country, College, Clinton

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our health care outcomes are in many cases worse in terms of life expectancy, infant mortality and so forth.

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  Country, People, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives destroyed by going to prison. We need to look at mandatory minimum sentencing and give judges more flexibility when there are issues of drug abuse or addiction.

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  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process at every level.

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  People, Political

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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