Bernie Sanders actually said...

"If Social Security has not contributed one nickel to the deficit, why are we looking at it within the context of deficit reduction?"

"during the Bush years, we saw substantial tax reductions given to the wealthiest people in this country, and yet we had perhaps the worst record of job performance at any time since Herbert Hoover."

"Let us see some political courage there rather than throwing senior citizens off the LIHEAP program or low-income people off of life and death programs for them."

"Real unemployment in America today--I have not heard a word about unemployment yet, by the way--is 16 percent."