Bernie Sanders

Whose idea was it? The irony here--and I think Senator Landrieu made this point as well--is that there are plenty of millionaires out there who say: I don't need it. I am more worried about the crumbling infrastructure or our kids out…

Senator Landrieu is asking a simple question, and millions of people are asking the same question. The wealthiest people are becoming much richer, the middle class is declining, and poverty is increasing. Who decided? Who said billionaires…

That is what my understanding is. I think a lot of the folks in the military are very upset about that.

I was mentioning earlier the calls coming in and the e-mails coming into my office are overwhelming: 99 percent against this.

Exactly. The point cannot be understated. What Senator Landrieu is saying is that if you have a collapsing middle class and people are unable to purchase anything, it impacts the entire economy. The economy can't grow. We can't grow jobs…

Talk about the kind of priorities we have seen in the Senate recently, where just a couple of days ago the Senator and I worked very hard to try to make sure seniors on Social Security and disabled vets were able to get a $250 check at a…

Absolutely. We won 53 to 45, but around here the majority does not rule. The Republicans filibustered, as they almost always do on anything of substance, and we could not get the 60 votes because we did not get one Republican vote. The…

I thank the Senator for his very strong ethics in trying to get that $250 emergency check out to senior citizens on Social Security and disabled vets--over 15 million people. Mr. BROWN from Ohio. One more point. A majority of Senators…

It is, in my view, a bad deal, and I think we can do a lot better. ... 99 percent of those calls were against this agreement. ... I vigorously oppose the deal that has been cut and how we have to move in a very different way if we are…

These people who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe they've got to go back to the Bible or whatever they believe in understanding that there is virtue in sharing, in reaching out, that you can't get it all.

Greed is, in my view, like a sickness. It's like an addiction. We know people on heroin. They can't stop. They need more and more.

When the rich get richer . . . they say: 'I am not rich enough. I need to be richer.' What motivates some of these people is greed and greed and more greed.

On Capitol Hill today, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, talked for more than eight hours in a solo tirade against President Obama's tax cut deal.

A vote to begin debate on the package is scheduled for Monday.

What this legislation would do is, at a time when, for the second consecutive year, seniors and disabled veterans have received no cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, on their Social Security, this legislation would provide the equivalent…

Yes, we've got to deal with the deficit, but not on the backs of poor people and the middle class.

It makes a lot more sense to invest in your children than invest in jails.

Makes no sense whatsoever, not, really at any time, given this economic history, but especially now.

If we just keep children at the core, and families, and what they need; and then how do we forge the right policy...

Let me tell you a happy story. This is from a terrible earmark that I got that went to schools in Vermont--low-income schools.

What you're saying, essentially, is that permanent damage is now being caused to many very, very young children, and we're asking schools to do something which is extraordinarily difficult because the damage has already been caused.

We absolutely need to address that for our future as a Nation.

Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, we are failing, failing, failing our children. The way we treat our children in this country is a national disgrace.

By not attending to early childhood education in this country and early childhood development, I think we do do damage.

Somehow, you know, the Government of the United States hasn't quite caught on that the world has changed since the 1950s.