Bernie Sanders Quotes

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

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

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

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.

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Real freedom must include economic security.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

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.

I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It's real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb. And if millions of people begin to stand up and fight back, they're going to be thinking twice about doing very bad things.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

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.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

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.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.