Bernie Sanders

This is what I want Democrats to do, if I have anything to say about it, this is what I'm going to push. I want to raise that minimum wage today from a starvation minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to 15 bucks an hour so working people can live…

Well, I think what Democrats are increasingly trying to do is represent the middle class and working families and not the billionaire class or the 1 percent.

I think of the many concerns that I have about Trump, and his tax breaks for billionaires and he's trying to throw people off health insurance, this movement toward an authoritarian type society and support of authoritarians all over the…

I think if, in fact, it turns out what I believe to be true is that Khashoggi was killed by the Saudis, it requires some sanctions and it requires a fundamental rethinking of U.S./Saudi relations.

No, I don't think so. I mean, that's what he said yesterday. God knows what he will say tomorrow.

It sounds to me like they killed this guy. He was a dissident and a critic of the regime.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

We need trade policies that benefit American workers, not just the CEOs of large corporations.

I think this idea makes a lot of sense.

That is a culture that has to change.

I think it, to me, would be unconscionable for Chuck Grassley to go forward with a vote on Friday before we had a thorough FBI investigation.

I think he would, if seated, become part of a hard-right majority voting against the environment, voting against women's rights in Roe versus Wade, voting against campaign finance reform.

I do not judge what President Trump says because I think he's a kind of unstable guy who lies a whole lot of the time, and whatever he says today may well change tomorrow.

Unanimously they will tell you no, they want to strengthen the VA.

The most popular health program in America is Medicare. The second most popular program is the VA.

The VA is the largest integrated health care system in the country. It has problems.

Private insurance reimbursement rates are higher than Medicare in your state?

Many of my colleagues voted to cut $1 trillion in funding over a 10-year period to Medicaid, and $500 billion to Medicare.

Under the much-maligned Affordable Care Act, we doubled funding for federally qualified community health centers.

I think there is general agreement that we have a shortage of physicians in the country and in rural America in particular.

Under a one-payer, publicly funded, universal system such as the one embodied in Senator Sanders' Medicare for All Bill simplified billing and administration could be reduced by $500 billion by some estimates.

We spend on average twice per capita what other countries spend, all of whom cover everyone while enjoying a longer life expectancy and better health outcomes.

But I would hope that at the end of the day, we understand that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Two-thirds of rural counties in America are depopulating, two-thirds.

I think Senator Roberts a couple of years ago--Senator, correct me if I'm wrong, but you were telling me I think in parts of Kansas there are counties where there are no doctors.