Bernie Sanders Quotes

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
Bernie Sanders

Revolution, Country, Small

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
Bernie Sanders

Education, Health, Care

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
Bernie Sanders

Change, Age, Business

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
Bernie Sanders

Health, Forward, Care

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
Bernie Sanders

Time, Service, Losing

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

Become, Poverty, Child

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Bernie Sanders

America, Times, Large

For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
Bernie Sanders

Work, Real, Done

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.
Bernie Sanders

Here, Means, Stand

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

Single, Fighting, Worth

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

Work, True, Single

I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.
Bernie Sanders

America, Away, Rather

I don't consider myself a pariah.
Bernie Sanders

I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
Bernie Sanders

Power, Political, State

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.
Bernie Sanders

Energy, American, System

I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.
Bernie Sanders

Together, Start, American

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
Bernie Sanders

Lost, Thought, Economic

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.
Bernie Sanders

Democrats, Democrat, Caucus

I'm not much into speculation.
Bernie Sanders

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
Bernie Sanders

Health, Care, Goal

If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
Bernie Sanders

Women, Best, Gay

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
Bernie Sanders

Gossip, Here, Washington

In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
Bernie Sanders

Nation, Means, Democratic

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
Bernie Sanders

Same, Away, Europe

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
Bernie Sanders

Care, America, Honest

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: September 8, 1941

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