Bernie Sanders Quotes

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

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.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.

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

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.

The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

The American people understand that we need real change in this country, in my view, a political revolution, which says to the people on top, "You know what, you guys can't have it all."

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.