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Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.

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Aug 14, 2019

When I say the wealthy are going to have to start paying their fair share of taxes, they're not necessarily sympathetic to that.

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Aug 14, 2019

Poll after poll after poll shows that the American people want to move forward as strongly as we can with gun safety legislation.

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Aug 14, 2019

Half of the people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck. That's not a strong economy.

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Aug 14, 2019

What Trump is trying to do obviously is to divide the American people up based on where we come from or our religion or the color of our skin or our sexual orientation.

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Aug 14, 2019

I regard Trump's action in this whole regard as part of his racism, his Islamophobia, and it is a clearly an absolute outrage.

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Aug 14, 2019

That is not what the NRA wants. And Trump and Mitch McConnell unfortunately are listening to the NRA.

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Aug 14, 2019

The power of the NRA over Trump, over Mitch McConnell, and the Republican leadership.

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Jul 29, 2019

I believe that healthcare is a right of all people.

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Jul 29, 2019

We have got to have the guts to take on the insurance companies and the drug companies and move forward toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program.

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Jul 29, 2019

We need a new trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers, and by the way, the word 'family farmer' is almost one of the times gone by.

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Jul 18, 2019

It's racist because last time I checked Bernie Sanders, who is actually Democratic socialist, was never told to go back to where he came from. But four congresswomen of color were told that by the President. It's racist.

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Jul 17, 2019

The fix Obamacare approach is not the way to go. We got to go Medicare for all.

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Jul 8, 2019

We think we stand an excellent chance not only to win the Democratic nomination but to defeat the most dangerous president in modern American history.

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Jul 8, 2019

What it looks like is that if we are going to save this planet and if we are going to respond to what the scientists are telling us, and that is that we have less than 12 years before they will be irreparable damage done to this country.

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Jul 8, 2019

I'm feeling very good. Look, this is a very different situation, political situation than last time around when there were two major candidates.

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Jul 8, 2019

Is the future of this planet more important than the short term profits of the fossil fuel industry? Do we tolerate this where we have a president, who is ignoring science, who thinks that climate change is a hoax?

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Jul 8, 2019

Yes, he should. He should resign because he was part of a process that really exposes the two tier criminal justice system in America.

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Jul 8, 2019

The American people are tired of billionaires making huge campaign contributions.

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Jul 8, 2019

It's to undercount of Latinos so that they can create congressional districts which will not be Democratic, and also make sure that the funding does not go to those under served and often minority communities. I think everyone understands…

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Jun 11, 2019

As Martin Luther King reminded us, it's socialism for the very rich, and unfettered individualism for the poor.

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Jun 11, 2019

In fact, people like Donald Trump are also socialists, except they are corporate socialists.

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Jun 11, 2019

What I am saying, picking up from Roosevelt, that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world now is the time to finally state that economic rights are human rights.

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