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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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Jul 24, 2017

I think many of his ideas as attorney general are disastrous.

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Jul 24, 2017

What the President done is unbelievable. How do you appoint the guy, who was a member of the United States Senate, make him attorney general, and then undermine him and then humiliate him?

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Jul 24, 2017

You, Mr. President, and your Republican colleagues will be held accountable.

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Jul 24, 2017

How pathetic is that for a president of the United States to say?

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Jul 24, 2017

I believe we should move towards a Medicare for all single payer programs like every other major country guaranteeing health care to all people.

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Jul 24, 2017

You can't write a bill behind closed doors without any public hearings and without any serious debate.

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Jul 24, 2017

This is not what Bernie Sanders said, Anderson. This is what study after study has shown. ... what study after study shows, is that many, many thousands of people will die.

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Jul 24, 2017

What Trump thinks is a great step forward is part of his belief that we should throw 22 million people off of health insurance, raise premiums for all the workers and cut Medicaid by $800 billion. That's not what the American people think…

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Jul 17, 2017

Last I heard the President was a Republican, the Republicans had majority in the House and Senate. They control the United States government.

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Jul 17, 2017

The last poll that I saw on the Republican proposal had the support of 12 percent of the American people.

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Jul 17, 2017

The answer is absolutely. And that is why there are many of us who are talking about ways that we can significantly improve the Affordable Care Act.

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Jul 17, 2017

Well, I think it's really beyond belief that we have a President of the United States who is working over time to sabotage the healthcare that millions of Americans receive.

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Jul 10, 2017

We want to maintain the strength of the VA, and what we do not want to do is, piece by piece, dismantle the VA.

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Jul 10, 2017

I will not allow the VA to be dismembered.

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Jul 10, 2017

I think there are folks who spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the political process who want to do just that.

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Jul 10, 2017

We do not want to see our veterans overmedicated.

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Jul 10, 2017

The veterans organizations want to see the VA strengthened.

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Jul 10, 2017

Our job is to strengthen the VA, to make it the best that it can, and where appropriate, to make sure that people do have the opportunity to go outside of the VA.

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Jul 10, 2017

The VA is not perfect. The VA has problems.

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Jun 25, 2017

The American people are saying, 'Enough is enough. We need to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the people on top.

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Jun 21, 2017

The American people want us to deal with the crisis that they face right now today.

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Jun 21, 2017

We have got to tell the billionaire class, who are doing phenomenally well, that Trump is serving so arduously right now.

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Jun 21, 2017

What we are for is to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

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Jun 21, 2017

We have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour, pay equity for women.

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