Bernie Sanders

I would hope that most Americans would agree that it makes no sense at all that in our country today, we are spending $350 billion a year importing oil from foreign countries.

As long as this Congress, this House of Representatives and this Senate, aren't prepared to stand up for American jobs, we will keep getting our butt kicked by the cheaters in China.

We need a national renewable or clean energy standard.

I would like to restate that wind energy has the potential to simultaneously address the environment, energy security, and of great importance, job creation.

Real unemployment today, in my view, is probably closer to 16 percent than it is 9 percent

In my view, we can create good-paying jobs by investing in efficiency and sustainable energy, technologies that create more jobs per dollar than many other energy technologies.

I think what most Americans are very alarmed about, when they go into a store and they try to buy something, it is increasingly difficult to buy something manufactured in the United States of America.

They are not disposed toward cramdowns. In fact, they are very much scared of them.

When President Obama first came into office, I met with Treasury and gave them a presentation, which I will be glad to share with everybody, pointing out, saying in the next few years you are going to have horrendous problems in terms of…

As you may know, the State of Vermont is giving serious thought to moving forward toward a Medicare-for-all-single-payer program.

We believe that we can save many, many hundreds of millions of dollars through a Medicare-for-all-single-payer program.

Our goal there is to maintain the high standards of the national legislation, but to give States flexibility.

In Vermont we're making real, real success; and if you're really nice to us in the next couple of years, and you grant a few more requests, every part of the State of Vermont, every county, every area in the State of Vermont will enable…

We do not want to throw people off of health insurance; we want to make sure that every person in our State is covered.

Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many…

For millions of people, working people, their effective total tax rate is a hell of a lot higher than it is for some of the richest people in this country.

The sad reality is that for millions and millions of Americans, their real incomes are going down.

Social Security, to my mind, has been an enormously successful program for the past 75 years, taken a whole lot of elderly people out of poverty.

If you add to that, Senator Sessions, State taxes and you add local taxes, which are, by and large, regressive.

In my view, this is simply unacceptable when we have a $14 trillion national debt.

I thought that was a pretty sensible idea.

You cannot get blood from a stone.

Do the governments in Europe do a little bit better job? Of course they do.

How much does it cost to send to the best universities in Europe? Not much. In fact, I think in Germany tuition there is probably free.

The United States has 50 million people without any health insurance. We are the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide health care to all people.