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“For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.”

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“Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.”

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“Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.”

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“Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as ‘socialist.’ Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.”

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“Good environmental policy is good economic policy.”

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“When I talk about democratic socialist, I’m not looking at Venezuela. I’m not looking at Cuba. I’m looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.”

“I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.”

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“I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.”

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“Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.”

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“When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising – very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn’t use the word ‘socialist’ at all because everybody in the state knows that I am that.”

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“It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.”

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“Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.”

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“We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.”

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“The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist – like tomorrow – remember this: I don’t believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.”

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“Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.”

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“We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.”

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“In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.”

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“Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.”

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“Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That’s right, $27.”

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“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.”

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“Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.”

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

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“I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal – that is not a new idea.”

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“If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.”

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“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.”

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“What being a socialist means is… that you hold out… a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed… but on cooperation… where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.”

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“For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.”

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“Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.”

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“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.”

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“To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.”

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“All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small ‘d.’ I believe in democracy, and by democracy, I mean that, to as great an extent as possible, human beings have the right to control their own lives. And that means that you cannot separate the political structure from the economic structure.”

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“Finland is no utopia.”

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

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“General Electric, NBC’s parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.”

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“Let’s be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.”

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“After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.”

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“Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.”

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“Difficult times often bring out the best in people.”

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“Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment – money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.”

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“Nowadays you don’t need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.”

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“The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.”

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“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.”

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“When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.”

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“Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans – working families, children, the elderly, the poor – or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.”

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

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“You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.”

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“While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.”

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“Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.”

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“I’m not always a smiley kind of guy.”

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“Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.”

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“Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.”

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“Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.”

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“Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.”

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“There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.”

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“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state’s first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

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“Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.”

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“I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls.”

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“I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all.”

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

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“It’s time to make our government work for all of us… and not just the 1%.”

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“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.”

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“I’m not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee health care to all people as a right.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.”

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“Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.”

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

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“It’s better to show up than to give up.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.”

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

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

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“To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.”

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“You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.”

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“I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word ‘socialist,’ get very, very nervous.”

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“It used to be that I was known as ‘the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,’ which is true. Now I’m a ‘self-professed democratic socialist.’ Things change when you run for president.”

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“Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I’m a democratic socialist.”

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“Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.”

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“I certainly did not know what the word ‘socialism’ meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not.”

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“Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was ‘socialist.’ The concept of the ‘minimum wage’ was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as ‘socialist.'”

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“Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.”

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“Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.”

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“We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.”

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“It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.”

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“Our job is to do two things – to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.”

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“Any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.”

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“Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!”

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“Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!”

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“Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That’s right, $27.”

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“But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.”

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“Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.”

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“We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.”

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“Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.”

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“Hillary Clinton understands that a president’s job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.”

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“Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major – the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they’re dumb and they don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so.”

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“It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.”

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“At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.”

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“The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.”

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“Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.”

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“Mitt Romney’s energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.”

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“The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.”

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“While I may not agree with all of President Obama’s energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.”

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“Before Social Security existed, about half of America’s senior citizens lived in poverty.”

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“If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.”

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“In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don’t.”

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“When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.”

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“Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.”

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“Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim ‘manufacturing’ tax deductions.”

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“I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls.”

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“History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.”

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“If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.”

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“From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.”

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“When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.”

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“The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.”

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“We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.”

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“For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.”

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“Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.”

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“States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.”

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“Finland is no utopia.”

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“In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.”

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“Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I’m the only socialist he knows.”

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“If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.”

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“In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.”

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“In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.”

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“In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.”

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“For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.”

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“I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.”

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“Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.”

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“The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.”

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“Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.”

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“For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell’s classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they’re realistic. That’s what we do.”

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“Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries.”

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“Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.”

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“The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.”

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“Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.”

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“If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.”

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“I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.”

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“In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.”

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“In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush’s $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.”

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“In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.”

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“Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.”

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“If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family – the founders of Wal-Mart.”

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“While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.”

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“If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.”

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“Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.”

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“Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.”

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“Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.”

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“Ford’s federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.”

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“Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.”

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“The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.”

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“Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.”

– Bernie Sanders


“There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.”

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“People don’t trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.”

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“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.”

– Bernie Sanders


“Let’s be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.”

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“I’m not much into speculation.”

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

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“What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.”

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“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.”

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“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.”

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

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“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.”

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“I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.”

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“I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.”

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“I don’t consider myself a pariah.”

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“I’m not a Democrat, I’m an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.”

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

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

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

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“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.”

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“Washington is dominated by big money.”

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“If you look at the newspapers here – the Washington papers – most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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Funny Bernie Sanders Short Quotes


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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, ‘No.'”

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“Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.”

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“It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.”

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