Top 300 Bernie Sanders Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “The rich and large corporations get richer, the CEOs earn huge compensation packages, and when things get bad, don’t worry; Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers are here to bail you out. But when you are in trouble, well, we just can’t afford to help you, if you are in the working class or middle class of this country.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

212. “Your story is for – voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?”

— Bernie Sanders

213. “I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.”

— Bernie Sanders

214. “Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.”

— Bernie Sanders

215. “We don’t want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.”

— Bernie Sanders

216. “I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.”

— Bernie Sanders

217. “In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.”

— Bernie Sanders

218. “I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.”

— Bernie Sanders

219. “I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can’t stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.”

— Bernie Sanders

220. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

221. “Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don’t. I believe in a society where all people do well.”

— Bernie Sanders

222. “We’re not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in – at a time when we’re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.”

— Bernie Sanders

223. “I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.”

— Bernie Sanders

224. “As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded us: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

— Bernie Sanders

225. “The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and they have the right of free speech and the right without disclosure – all of this is through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision – to put as much money as they want into campaigns all over the country.”

— Bernie Sanders

226. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

227. “Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.”

— Bernie Sanders

228. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

229. “Democracy is about one person, one vote. It’s about all of us coming together to determine the future of our country. It is not about a handful of billionaires buying elections, or governors suppressing the vote by denying poor people or people of color the right to vote. Our job is to stand together to defeat the drift toward oligarchy and create a vibrant democracy.”

— Bernie Sanders

230. “It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.”

— Bernie Sanders

231. “We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.”

— Bernie Sanders

232. “I think it’s important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.”

— Bernie Sanders

233. “Today in America, more than 2 million people are in jail, disproportionately black, Latino, and Native American. That is a greater number of inmates than in any other country on earth – including China, which has a population four times greater than ours and an authoritarian government that does not tolerate dissent.”

— Bernie Sanders

234. “We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.”

— Bernie Sanders

235. “I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

237. “I am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it’s a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America.”

— Bernie Sanders

238. “The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.”

— Bernie Sanders

239. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

240. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

241. “The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.”

— Bernie Sanders

242. “While it is not likely that Democrats will start winning statewide elections tomorrow in Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming, or Utah, they will never win if they don’t plant a flag and start organizing. My own state of Vermont is a good example. Forty-five years ago, Vermont was one of the most Republican states in the country. Today, as a result of a lot of hard work by many people, it is one of the most progressive.”

— Bernie Sanders

243. “I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.”

— Bernie Sanders

244. “As a nation, there are many issues we don’t talk about, we just don’t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.”

— Bernie Sanders

245. “The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don’t boldly change course now.”

— Bernie Sanders

246. “Let’s ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there’s nothing that the government can do to stop it.”

— Bernie Sanders

247. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

248. “Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.”

— Bernie Sanders

249. “I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.”

— Bernie Sanders

250. “We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.”

— Bernie Sanders