Bernie Sanders

Do I think under those considerations of Al Franken resigning, do I think the president should resign? I do.

I think you got a president who has some very serious emotional problems. To say that about a female United States senator is obscene.

The people of Alabama voted for a Senate candidate who said he would oppose this legislation. Their voices should be heard in this debate.

No. Look, Anderson, let us be clear, this tax bill was written for wealthy Republican campaign contributors.

I think there is significant truth to that and I think also there is another truth. In my view, too much of Democratic party money has gone to consultants, maybe too much to TV advertising and not enough to grassroots get out to vote…

If we can mobilize the American people to demand we have a government that works for all of us and not just the 1 percent, that we end the divisiveness that Trump has been advocating, I think we can win tremendous victories in 2018.

When people are prepared to get involved in the political process, stand up and fight, there is nothing that we cannot do and against all of the odds, Jones won because there was a very, very large turnout.

I think it's very significant. Not only because his victory in itself is important and Doug Jones coming to the Senate is very important. What Alabama was about last night was a tremendous amount of energy and a very high turnout.

I would just say that I would be delighted to gut and destroy this legislation, but pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974--I am sorry.

Absolutely. That is absolutely what they will do. They will talk about saving Social Security; they will talk about entitlement reform. What they mean is cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, and cutting Medicaid. As the Senator has…

You have 62 percent of the benefits going to the top 1 percent. Meanwhile, by the end of the decade, my good friend, Senator Wyden from Oregon, there is no question but that tens of millions of middle-class Americans will be paying more in…

I thank the Senator very much. I would just say, according to a number of independent studies, despite what President Trump and the Republican leadership are saying, the overwhelming bulk of the tax benefits in this legislation goes to the…

Let me be very clear. Do I have your word now that you as a Senator--I know you can't speak for everybody--that as a Senator, after this bill is passed--and I suspect it will--you will not support any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and…

I believe that if this tax bill passes in the near future, there will be brought to the floor of the House and the Senate a trillion-dollar cut in Medicaid.

I just don't understand how we allow a situation to continue where these companies make billions of dollars in profit who essentially lied to physicians, lied to the American people, and have caused an epidemic.

Purdue and other companies produced a product, forgot to tell doctors or the people that it was addictive.

Should the pharmaceutical industry and companies like Purdue be treated the same way as the tobacco industry?

In my small State of Vermont, we have lost 112 people last year as a result of opioid overdoses.

Look, frankly, I think Mr. Jones is going to be win that election and will cross that bridge when we have to.

Trickle down economics in my view is a fraudulent theory. It does not work and it only benefits the wealthy.

It is not the best way to bring people into health care. The best way, of course, is a medicare for all single-payer system, which guarantees health care to all people and it is funded based on ability to pay.

Billionaires and millionaires have bought hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process, supporting Republican candidates, and today is pay-back time for them. Huge tax breaks for the rich, huge tax breaks for multinational…

You know, Anderson, what this whole business is about, you've heard me talk about this for a long time, is the power that big money has in American politics as a result of our corrupt campaign finance system.

Well, it's a bad idea, Anderson, because it's going to throw 13 million Americans off their health insurance they currently have, including about six million people on Medicaid. It's going to raise premiums by about 10 percent for ordinary…

Today, appropriately, we are dealing with the immediate crisis that we have, but please let us not forget--I am more familiar with Puerto Rico's problems than the Virgin Islands, although they may be similar.