Bernie Sanders quotes - page 7

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. (Bernie Sanders)
If we expanded Medicaid [to] everybody. Give everybody a Medicaid card-we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money that, you know, we would bankrupt the nation. View quote
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A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused. A woman enjoys intercourse with her man - as she fantasizes being raped by three men simultaneously. The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday - and go to Church or maybe their "revolutionary" political meeting. Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspapers with the articles like "Girl 12 raped by 14 men" sell so well? To what in us are they appealing? Women, for their own preservation, are trying to pull themselves together. And it is necessary for all of us that they do so. View quote
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There are no "human" oppressors. Oppressors have lost their humanity. View quote
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Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. Real change can only come about through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values. View quote
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This idea of suddenly, one day or maybe a night, rounding up 11 million people and taking them outside of this country is a vulgar, absurd idea that I would hope very few people in America support. View quote
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In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by Authority for allowing her 6 month old daughter to go about without her diapers on. Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on peoples sexual frustrations. View quote
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It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don't line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death. View quote
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We have a president right now who doesn't consider himself a socialist but people call him a socialist as an insult. Are you concerned at all about framing yourself as this?"... "Not if we have the opportunity to describe what democratic socialism means.... You have countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway... which have had social democratic governments.... In those countries, healthcare is a right for all people.... Tuition is free.... In those countries, governments are working for the middle class, rather than the billionaire class. View quote
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I fear very much that, in fact, government of the people, by the people and for the people is beginning to perish in America. View quote
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Donald Trump is a pathological liar. (Bernie Sanders)
Billionaires and huge corporations should not be allowed to use loopholes and tax havens to avoid paying their fair share. At a time of massive global inequality the very wealthy should be paying more in taxes, not less. View quote
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The racist and homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is a horrific instance of the surging hostility toward minorities around the country. View quote
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Ending the estate tax would give a tax break of up to $63 billion to the Walton family and $39 billion to the Kochs-but $0 to 99.8% of Americans. At a time of record inequality, the very last thing we should do is line the pockets of the rich. View quote
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We must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet. And we must respond accordingly. View quote
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The stock prices of massive pharmaceutical companies tumbled because we are pushing to make health care a human right for every American. Corporate greed has no place in health care. View quote
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A $15 minimum wage once seemed impossible. Since then, 6 states raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour. 29 states raised it above the national minimum of $7.25 an hour. Thanks to a strong grassroots movement, $15 has gone from laughable to inevitable. View quote
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This is truly a revolutionary proposal: all Americans will get the college education or job training they need, while having all student debt forgiven. View quote
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These deaths are what a broken immigration system is all about. Instead of demonizing immigrants, Trump should be meeting with Central American leaders to find ways to end the horrific violence and poverty that are forcing people to flee their homelands. View quote
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I am going to make a prediction. The major opponents of our legislation to cancel $1.6 trillion in student debt-mark my words-will be the exact same people who said we had to bail out Wall Street to the tune of billions upon billions of dollars. View quote
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Whether it is fixing a broken criminal justice system, or massive disparities in the availability of financial services, or health disparities, or environmental disparities, or educational disparities, we will create a nation in which all people are treated equally. (Bernie Sanders)
I believe that the goal of life is to create community, to bring us together in love and compassion-to understand that it is my moral obligation to be concerned about your family, and yours to be concerned about mine. As human beings, we are in this together. View quote
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We have accepted a warped sense of priorities which says America can always find enough money for war, but that there is never enough for infrastructure or education or nutrition programs. We are going to reject that idea and invest in our people. View quote
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The Republican Party understands the implications of expanded participation by low-income citizens in the political process. That is why they work so hard to prevent it. But we will defeat them, and protect voting rights everywhere. View quote
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So in everything, do to others what you would have them to do to you, for this sums up the war and the prophets. View quote
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