Jul 6, 2015
The only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.
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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Jun 23, 2015
Our job is to rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges, water systems, wastewater plants, our rail system, our levees and our dams.
Jun 23, 2015
It is an international embarrassment when in this great country we have an infrastructure which is crumbling.
Jun 23, 2015
We are going to create millions of decent paying jobs in areas where we really need work to be done.
Jun 2, 2015
Taking care of our veterans is a cost of war itself. If you can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, you can spend a few billion dollars taking care of them when they come home.
Jun 2, 2015
They said there are many examples of the Export-Import Bank subsidizing corporations that lay off American workers and move their production facilities overseas.
May 25, 2015
It is time to make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class? Or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda?
May 25, 2015
You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.
May 18, 2015
I hope we can all agree right now that the United States Government should pay its bills on time.
May 18, 2015
At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, let us work together on a budget that is fair.
May 18, 2015
I think that was a serious mistake. These arbitrary, across-the-board budget cuts are damaging the economy.
May 18, 2015
Bottom line is we are spending substantially less in rebuilding our infrastructure than we have in the past.
May 18, 2015
I see that the CBO has begun to study the impacts that climate change may have on the Federal budget.
May 18, 2015
If they to accept the benefits of being Americans, they are going to have to accept their responsibilities as well.
May 18, 2015
We need to have a tax system which ends the enormous loopholes that currently exist.
May 18, 2015
Do you really want to balance the budget by cutting education, by cutting health care, by cutting nutrition?
May 18, 2015
The wealthiest family in this country, one family, the Waltons, owning more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of the American people.
May 18, 2015
Profitable corporations like GE, Verizon, and Boeing have not only paid nothing in Federal income taxes in a given year, they actually got rebates from the IRS.
May 18, 2015
The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
May 18, 2015
I think it is very hard for anybody to not understand that climate change is going to have an impact on all of our lives, and certainly on the budget as well.
May 18, 2015
I think that some of your conservative economists out there regard this as--to say the word kindly--'gimmickry' 'Budget gimmickry.'
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