Bernie Sanders Quotes

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.

Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

Don't underestimate me.

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

I don't run against Hillary Clinton. I run on the most important issues facing America.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

A woman has the right to make decisions regarding her own body, not the United States government.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

Don't go to the dark side. Don't go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.