Bernie Sanders

Should two months after these disasters half the people in Puerto Rico and some 70, 80 percent of the people in the Virgin Islands, still not have electricity?

We are the wealthiest, most powerful country in the history of the world. Do we really think that we are doing a great job when half the people in Puerto Rico and 80 percent of the people in the Virgin Islands still don't have electricity…

But if I'm working on behalf of the Democrats next year in 2018, we're talking about writing ads, and doing digital ads and saying, when the Republicans had a chance to 'get something done,' the one thing they got done was tax cuts for…

I'm concerned that Republicans, not just in Alabama but in Washington, are talking about ways to avoid an election because they do not want their candidate to lose. Like they are talking about changing the rules and (INAUDIBLE) something…

My job, our job is to go forward, is to do everything we can to defeat this white wing agenda of the Republican Party and the Trump administration, not to look backwards.

I don't think there's any same human being who doesn't believe that my campaign was taking on the entire establishment including the DNC.

Look, you know, it embarrasses me. I'm not happy to say this. He is the President of the United States, but he lies all of the time. This is just one more lie among many other absurd proposals, revisions in the tax proposal is the repeal…

To say the independence, we don't want you, you're the majority fraction in America, but we want to close the door to you, I think that's politically insane.

Every working person in this country is concerned about the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico and to China. Every worker is concerned about how he or she is going to go forward. Healthcare, they are concerned about how that you are going to…

Well, first of all, I think yesterday's elections were really a referendum on the disastrous Trump administration, on his temperament, on his reactionary policies. It was a referendum on Trump and Trump and the Republicans lost.

But we will never flip that switch as long we continue investing in oil and gas.

Don't you think that Alaska should be leading our country in terms of transforming our energy system away from the products that have caused the problems that are impacting your state?

Right now, according to NASA, the first six months of 2017 were almost a full degree hotter than any year since records started being kept in 1880.

It is especially surprising that in a beautiful state like Alaska, which has been hit so hard by climate change, that you are not leading the world.

The evidence is overwhelming that this country should lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energies.

All over this planet today we are seeing nations, including our own, ravaged by the impact of climate change.

My guess is that historians in years to come will look back at hearings like this and they will ask, what were they thinking about?

The amendment from the Senator from Utah speaks about ``strengthening and improving'' Medicaid and Medicare. We don't strengthen and improve Medicaid by cutting it by $1 trillion, and we don't strengthen and improve Medicare by cutting it…

Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations, we must demand that they pay their fair share.

You care about nothing but being reelected, and you seem to think large contributions from wealthy contributors will make that possible.

I thank Senator McCain for standing up against what you are doing, even though he may inexplicably agree with the bill.

Your hearing on Monday is a sham.

Our job is to build on our common humanity and do everything that we can to oppose all of the forces, whether unaccountable government power or unaccountable corporate power, who try to divide us up and set us against each other.

The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.

The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all as a right, not a privilege.