Top 300 Bernie Sanders Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

155. “The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.”

— Bernie Sanders

156. “It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s – there were people – who said ’don’t worry! Hitler’s not real! It’ll disappear!”

— Bernie Sanders

157. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

158. “If you looked at Jeb Bush’s campaign, it’s more than just money. It’s the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff.”

— Bernie Sanders

159. “I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.”

— Bernie Sanders

160. “So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.”

— Bernie Sanders

161. “I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.”

— Bernie Sanders

162. “Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.”

— Bernie Sanders

163. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

165. “At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

167. “When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.”

— Bernie Sanders

168. “We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.”

— Bernie Sanders

169. “The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.”

— Bernie Sanders

170. “I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.”

— Bernie Sanders

171. “The good news is that the American people, not just the African-American community are saying enough is enough. You can’t hold people in custody and suddenly find out that they are dead. You can’t shoot people in the back.”

— Bernie Sanders

172. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

173. “I don’t want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It’s a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.”

— Bernie Sanders

174. “Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.”

— Bernie Sanders

175. “I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.”

— Bernie Sanders

176. “Wish we could, and allow the Taliban or anybody else to reclaim that country. But what we must do is some progress in Iraq, where finally the Iraqi army, which has not been a particularly effective fighting force, retook Ramadi.”

— Bernie Sanders

177. “You want your kids to have an opportunity. We’re going to fight to give you that.”

— Bernie Sanders

178. “I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.”

— Bernie Sanders

179. “At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.”

— Bernie Sanders

180. “Fahrenheit warmer by the end of this century. This is catastrophic. It will mean more drought, more famine, more rising sea level, more floods, more ocean acidification, more extreme weather disturbances, more disease, and more human suffering. We must not, we cannot, and we will not allow that to happen.”

— Bernie Sanders

181. “In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.”

— Bernie Sanders

182. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.”

— Bernie Sanders

183. “Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.”

— Bernie Sanders

184. “When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.”

— Bernie Sanders

185. “I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.”

— Bernie Sanders

186. “If you take donations from Wall Street, you can’t be independent.”

— Bernie Sanders

187. “And let me make the radical statement that I don’t believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.”

— Bernie Sanders

188. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

189. “I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.”

— Bernie Sanders

190. “They are rightfully tired of turning on the television and seeing videos of unarmed blacks being shot and killed by police officers. They want criminal justice reform. They want police department reform.”

— Bernie Sanders

191. “I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we’re waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.”

— Bernie Sanders

192. “Ben Carson and I don’t have much in common politically. But the fact is when you have kids getting involved in the political process, doing their best to elect the candidates of their choice, that’s what the American democracy is about.”

— Bernie Sanders

193. “People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That’s what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.”

— Bernie Sanders

194. “The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity...”

— Bernie Sanders

195. “For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.”

— Bernie Sanders

196. “The American people understand that we need real change in this country, in my view, a political revolution, which says to the people on top, “You know what, you guys can’t have it all.””

— Bernie Sanders

197. “I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here – I helped write that bill – but by moving forward, rallying the American people, I do believe we should have health care for all.”

— Bernie Sanders

198. “Instead of cutting Social Security, we’re going to expand Social Security benefits.”

— Bernie Sanders

199. “We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.”

— Bernie Sanders

200. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders