Bernie Sanders Quotes

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

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

The Democratic Party has been very strong in a lot of areas, in fighting to make our country a less discriminatory country. And that is enormously important.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.

We need a strategy. And the goal is to bring millions of people together.

I am deeply concerned - about virtually everything that Trump is talking about and has talked about in his campaign and the kind of people that he is appointing.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong?

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

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.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

I want Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises. He's not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

You want your kids to have an opportunity. We're going to fight to give you that.

Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

It's the Democrats' same old weakness: much too much dependency on consultants and TV ads rather than mobilizing people.

I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.