Top 300 Bernie Sanders Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.”

— Bernie Sanders

52. “At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.”

— Bernie Sanders

53. “Washington is dominated by big money.”

— Bernie Sanders

54. “Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.”

— Bernie Sanders

55. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

56. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

57. “Inequality, corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism are inseparable. They must be understood as part of the same system, and fought in the same way.”

— Bernie Sanders

58. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

59. “The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.”

— Bernie Sanders

60. “We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.”

— Bernie Sanders

61. “Change will not take place without political participation.”

— Bernie Sanders

62. “We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.”

— Bernie Sanders

63. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

64. “Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That’s fine. But what do you do?”

— Bernie Sanders

65. “The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.”

— Bernie Sanders

66. “This is a war for the soul of Islam. And those countries who are opposed to Islam, they are going to have to get deeply involved in a way that is not the case today. We should be supportive of that effort.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

68. “Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn’t have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.”

— Bernie Sanders

69. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

70. “I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you’re serious about climate change, you don’t encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.”

— Bernie Sanders

71. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

72. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

73. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

74. “What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.”

— Bernie Sanders

75. “I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.”

— Bernie Sanders

76. “I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have.”

— Bernie Sanders

77. “Don’t take it out on the Muslims. Don’t take it out on Latinos. Try to help us work together to create a country where your kids and you can have a decent standard of living. It has to be a bold and radical agenda.”

— Bernie Sanders

78. “Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We’re proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.”

— Bernie Sanders

79. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

80. “We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money.”

— Bernie Sanders

81. “I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is – the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology – reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.”

— Bernie Sanders

82. “We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They’re kind of common sense.”

— Bernie Sanders

83. “If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women’s rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don’t have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.”

— Bernie Sanders

84. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

85. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

86. “To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.”

— Bernie Sanders

87. “I’m not much into speculation.”

— Bernie Sanders

88. “Don’t go to the dark side. Don’t go bashing immigrants or Muslims.”

— Bernie Sanders

89. “Further, police officers must be trained to understand that lethal force is the last response, not, as is too often the case, the first response.”

— Bernie Sanders

90. “In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.”

— Bernie Sanders

91. “It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

93. “In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth – worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.”

— Bernie Sanders

94. “All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.”

— Bernie Sanders

95. “52 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

97. “We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.”

— Bernie Sanders

98. “The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, ran for Senator. This is what she said when she was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2004: “There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.” I could go on and on and on, but I think we have the point.”

— Bernie Sanders

99. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

100. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders