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You, as a citizen, get one vote. They, as oligarchs, get to buy the candidates. That’s not democracy.

I introduced legislation, which Graham will be by my side in fighting for, which says that we are going to impose a 5% annual wealth tax on 938 billionaires in America.

When we come together as one people, we can take on the oligarchs.

Our democracy depends ultimately on protecting and preserving the right of individual citizens to pick their politicians, not intensifying the control that politicians have about who the voters are that they will permit to be involved in…

If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling of their premiums in the Affordable Care Act.

Mr. President, every single one of us--every Member of the U.S. Senate, my fellow Vermonters, all Americans, people around the world--are absolutely thrilled by the cease-fire in Gaza.

I want to reflect that I support this amendment and intended to vote YES.

not ONE Republican senator went to the floor to put this DHS shutdown exactly where it belongs — on the Democrats.

Jackson was a courageous civil rights leader who put his life on the line in the fight against segregation and racism.

Mr. Miller gave a very good definition of imperialism.

We cannot continue to allow big banks to make huge profits ripping off the American people.

We are powerful. We have the strongest military on Earth, and we can run any country we want.

Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from getting away with murder.

A farmer in Vermont, their premium is going to go from $900 a month to $3,200, a month.

That America, our great country, must belong to all of us, not just a few. And that lesson begins today in New York City.

The billionaire class in this city and country have to got to understand that in America they cannot have it all.

There's a number of Republican and Democratic senators who are seeing what a disaster this will be for families that they represent.

It would require that President Trump play a major role in this, because he has such influence over the Republican majority in the House and even in the Senate.