Bernie Sanders

There is something absurd about bringing into this country $350 billion worth of foreign oil every single year.

We have the potential to create millions of good paying jobs in energy efficiency.

By giving them the flexibility of paying it off through a few dollars more in property taxes, while they are saving money on their electric bill, is very clearly, I think, a win-win situation.

We do not have to worry about burying waste from solar energy. Is that not right?

I applaud that because the time is long overdue that we end the insanity of spending $350 billion every single year supporting Saudi Arabia, getting involved in wars for oil rather than moving to energy independence.

I think all of that is exactly the right thing to do.

I have a concern, in fact, that we are perhaps getting into a very dangerous area by adding another $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear plants.

Do you believe that the American people have a right to know who received trillions of dollars, which financial institutions received trillions of dollars of zero-interest loans?

I think the Wall Street bailout and the bonuses given to the people who helped cause the worst recession in the modern history of America is certainly an integral part of that appropriate outrage.

I think absolutely that in the midst of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression we have got to do everything that we can to put people to work and to make taxpayers out of them and to fight our way out of this horrendous…

I really do not like being lectured on deficits when you and many members of your party helped cause the situation we are in right now.

People are increasingly frustrated about income and wealth inequality in America.

I do not support, as Senator Gregg does, the repeal of the estate tax which would provide $1 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest three-tenths of 1 percent over a 10-year period.

I did not vote for the Wall Street bailout of $700 billion, and, in fact, I brought forth an amendment which said that if you were right, if the Bush administration was right, let us pay for it.

The last thing is the President, I think appropriately, understands that many senior citizens in this Country are hurting.

You voted for a war in Iraq which some people will think will cost two or three trillion dollars, but you forgot to pay for that war.

We bailed out our friends on Wall Street whose dishonesty and greed has resulted in some 17 percent of our people being unemployed or underemployed, a total economic disaster.

I did not vote for the Bush tax breaks which cost $600 billion over a 10-year period without any payment for them.

Yes. That is how laws are made usually. Congress passes them.

Will the administration come forward and say that is usury, that is immoral, that is wrong?

We have, as you know, Mr. Secretary, the most unequal distribution of income and wealth.

I get a little bit tired of being lectured about how serious the deficit crisis is today by, in many instances, the exact same people who caused the deficit crisis.

I did not, when I was in the House, vote for the insurance company and drug company prescription drug Medicare bill, which could have been paid for by negotiating pharmaceutical prices with the drug industry.

There is a lot of belief that a huge Pentagon budget which has significantly increased in recent years, that a lot of that money is not necessarily directed toward fighting the fights we are in right now against international terrorism.

I applaud the President for keeping in his budget a proposal to let all of the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent expire at the end of this year.