Bernie Sanders

Look, Wall Street created a mess. We are paying for the mess.

Raising the gas tax on those people who make $11 or $12 an hour is not something that I am sympathetic to.

Do you think it is appropriate that we ask Wall Street to share of the pain that the rest of American is experiencing?

In my view, the middle class in this country is in steep decline. Poverty is increasing.

It is high time that we create millions of jobs rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure.

Our transportation infrastructure needs are well-documented, and they are growing more dire with each passing year.

Thirty-five percent of Vermont's 2,700 bridges are either 'structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.'

I think there is a broad understanding from all across the political spectrum that now is the moment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

Today, the United States invests just 2.4 percent of GDP on infrastructure. Europe invests twice as much.

We are losing enormous amounts of fresh water in this country because of leaks in water lines.

If there ever was a time to start rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, now is the time.

If you do not take care of your rotting infrastructure, your crumbling infrastructure, this year, it does not get better next year.

We don't want it invented in the United States and manufactured in China.

I think in the last 2 years you have done an extraordinary job, and I thank you very much for what you've done.

I think that that is terribly important.

There is a great fear out there that a lot of these technologies--solar, wind--that were developed in the United States are slowly but steadily moving to China.

We are getting out the weatherization money that came from the Department I think very rapidly and effectively.

We need to reinvent our environmental regulations to bring these down to being cost-effective, so that we can attract the capital, that we have the certainty and create jobs.

With that, I thought this was an excellent discussion, and I want to thank all of the panelists for their participation.

The Chinese do need to be held to WTO rules, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank needs to be absolutely aggressive in helping us compete.

I think most Americans think it that would make a lot more sense, for a whole lot of reasons, for us to move to energy independence.

Thank you very much.

We think that this Congress needs to have the guts to stand up for domestic content regulation that is no different than what other major countries are doing, consistent with our international obligations.

So the issue that we are dealing with now is, what is not going to be made in China?

The President has indicated, and I agree with him, that when we look at the future of our economy...