Bernie Sanders Quotes

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

I think the wealthiest people in America are doing phenomenally well, 52 percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent.

If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.

When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country.

I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar. We have never - our campaign does not believe and never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything. I would hope that Mr. Trump tones it down big time.

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

I prefer to stay on the important issues facing the American people.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

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.

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.