Political Quotes

“let me be as clear as I can be. The so- called healthcare bill that passed in the House of Representatives several months ago, strongly supported by President Trump, is the most anti-working-class legislation that I have ever seen. The Senate bill, also supported by Mr. Trump, in some respects is even worse. At a time when working families in Vermont and all across this country are working longer hours for low wages--many people in my own State are working two or three jobs just to bring in enough income to maintain a family--this legislation will cause devastating harm to millions of our families from one end of America to the other. The American people are united. This weekend I was in West Virginia and Kentucky--so-called conservative States--but I tell you that what is true there, what is true in Vermont, and what is true all over this country is that the American people are standing up and saying loudly and clearly that we will not allow 22 million Americans to be thrown off of the health insurance they currently have in order to give over $500 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent, to the drug companies, to the insurance companies, and to other profitable corporations. We will not support a bill that takes from the most vulnerable people in our country--the children, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, and the poor--in order to make the very, very rich even richer.…”