B.R. Sanders Quotes

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Muslims are not your enemy.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you're looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.

I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.

I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get.

What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.

Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?

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

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

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

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

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

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart.

They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

I am very, very tuned into people. If something's wrong, I can sense it from the moment they walk in the studio.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that’s when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us and who are hurting today.

I think we should support entrepreneurialship.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country.

The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.

The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.

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

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.

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

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.

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.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

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.

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.

I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her.

Democrats need to become a 50-state party. You can't have a great party on the West Coast and the East Coast. You need to have a party in all 50 states.