Bernie Sanders

I happen to think you are doing a great job but you are not God.

Let us not forget that when Agent Orange was first used, our friends at Dow, Monsanto, and all of those companies, they said this was benign; there is not a problem.

If we do not want to do that, do not send them off to war.

What we are talking about today is the ongoing cost of war.

I think we have put the Secretary in a very difficult position and I think he has done the right thing.

Personally, I believe no veteran should ever, ever be denied timely access to the VA health care system.

That is the moral responsibility that we have, which I think is what we are talking about today.

We heard that under President Clinton as well. He was wrong then, and I am afraid those who are touting that line are wrong today.

I think the reason is not that complicated. When you can hire people for 30 cents an hour, that is a pretty good reason to go abroad.

I myself voted against NAFTA, Permanent Normal Trade relations with China and so forth and so on.

Almost all of the new income created has gone to the top 1 percent.

Some of us voted for huge tax breaks for the rich, many, many hundreds of billions of dollars, which added to part of the problem.

In 2007, the wealthiest 1 percent earned 23.5 percent of all income in America.

Some of us voted for the war in Iraq, which will end up costing $3 trillion. It was not paid for.

The United States today has the most unequal distribution of income and wealth of any major country on Earth.

Some of us voted for the Medicare Part D prescription drug program written by the insurance companies that was not paid for.

Debt is a very serious problem. We have to deal with it. But it is one of many problems.

I think, especially given the state of the economy right now and all of the anxiety that workers are feeling from one end of this country to the other, the model that we are looking at, that we're talking about now, the legislation that we…

My guess would be that that is a marketing advantage, right? Would I rather buy a product manufactured in the United States by a worker-owned company or a product manufactured in China?

If some entrepreneur started a business and was successful, he was aging, that he would have--and he was going to leave the business, that he knew about or she knew about the option of employee ownership

And how many people, how many employees?

I find, you know, many Americans see (a) product manufactured in the United States of America, everything being equal, they would like to buy that product.

The Work Act that Senator Sanders is proposing that would set up centers like the VEOC around the Nation

This is the first left wing person in the U.S. Congress

We have a number of co-sponsors on some of these legislations. That's because people all over the country are putting a little bit of pressure on their senators.