Top 300 Bernie Sanders Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.”

— Bernie Sanders

252. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

268. “Muslims are not your enemy.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

270. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

283. “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

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

290. “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

291. “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

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

— Bernie Sanders

293. “It’s time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.”

— Bernie Sanders

294. “The wealthiest 400 Americans now earn, on average, $345 million a year, and they pay an effective tax rate of 16.6 percent.”

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bernie Sanders

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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