Top 300 Bernie Sanders Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.”

— Bernie Sanders

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

257. “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

258. “There is no justice, and I want you to hear this clearly, when the top one-tenth of 1 percent – not 1 percent, the top one-tenth of 1 percent – today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.”

— Bernie Sanders

259. “In August 2008, the General Accountability Office issued a report. According to this report, two out of every three corporations in the United States paid no Federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005.”

— Bernie Sanders

260. “I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

262. “Muslims are not your enemy.”

— Bernie Sanders

263. “It is a challenge that progressives face throughout the country. We lose when we are divided. We win when we are united.”

— Bernie Sanders

264. “When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.”

— Bernie Sanders

265. “We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.”

— Bernie Sanders

266. “At both rallies I spoke at length about the need for criminal justice reform and for ending the absurdity of the United States having more people in jail than any other country on earth.”

— Bernie Sanders

267. “I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who’s not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street.”

— Bernie Sanders

268. “I think we’re going to win a very good share of those delegates. I think you’ve got major states coming up. And I think the important point is that people throughout this country are resonating to our message.”

— Bernie Sanders

269. “I’m not going to get establishment support. I’m not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.”

— Bernie Sanders

270. “One in four corporations doesn’t pay any taxes.”

— Bernie Sanders

271. “Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.”

— Bernie Sanders

272. “Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That’s what they do. That is the essence of their politics.”

— Bernie Sanders

273. “I’m not really opposed to people changing their minds. I’m much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.”

— Bernie Sanders

274. “As mayor of Burlington, I helped establish two sister-city programs. One was with the town of Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua.”

— Bernie Sanders

275. “Let’s be very clear. Corporate media is not “objective”; they are not the “referees” trying to provide “all sides of the story.” Corporate media are profit-making entities owned and controlled by the ruling class and some of the wealthiest people in the country. And, like all private corporations, they have an agenda.”

— Bernie Sanders

276. “When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.”

— Bernie Sanders

277. “We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they’re experiencing various symptoms and they’re still in the active duty, they’re less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.”

— Bernie Sanders

278. “One of the more profound lessons that I’ve learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum.”

— Bernie Sanders

279. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

280. “Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it’s the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We’re feeling good about the future.”

— Bernie Sanders

281. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

282. “I don’t think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we’re seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.”

— Bernie Sanders

283. “This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.”

— Bernie Sanders

284. “But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that’s what I will do.”

— Bernie Sanders

285. “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.”

— Bernie Sanders

286. “The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

289. “I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.”

— Bernie Sanders

290. “I don’t go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don’t think I ever have.”

— Bernie Sanders

291. “Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.”

— Bernie Sanders

292. “I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I’m very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.”

— Bernie Sanders

293. “This campaign was never just about electing a president of the United States – as enormously important as that was. This campaign was about transforming America. It was about the understanding that real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up. It takes place when ordinary people, by the millions, are prepared to stand up and fight for justice.”

— Bernie Sanders

294. “What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.”

— Bernie Sanders

295. “I don’t represent large corporations and I don’t want their money.”

— Bernie Sanders

296. “Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That’s what they do. That is the essence of their politics. They get one group to fight another group while their wealthy friends and campaign contributors get richer and laugh all the way to the bank.”

— Bernie Sanders

297. “Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.”

— Bernie Sanders

298. “The United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP in infrastructure; whereas, Europe invests twice that amount.”

— Bernie Sanders

299. “I don’t want to see kids in America being scared because they’re hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.”

— Bernie Sanders

300. “I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience – hat is not arguable – in foreign affairs.”

— Bernie Sanders