Bernie Sanders
American politician
Lived from: 1941 -
Category: Politics Country: United States
Born: 8 september 1941
Quotes 41 till 60 of 81.
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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.
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Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
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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.
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Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
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Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.
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The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.
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The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
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