Bernie Sanders

Well, thank you very much for that, I think, excellent answer.

We have a crisis in terms of the affordability and access to college in America today.

Millions of young people will leave school $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 in debt.

I am certainly going to very strongly support your nomination, and I look forward to working with you.

Would you agree that our goal should be that every parent in this country should be able to find access to high-quality, affordable childcare?

We end up spending $50,000 a year keeping them in jail rather than investing in education, rather than investing in childcare.

Now I know that President-elect Obama has been very strong on this issue, as I am, and I am sure many other members of this committee are.

In America today, 18 percent of our children live in poverty. That is, by far, the highest rate of poverty for children of any major country on Earth.

The world has changed, and we have not recognized that anymore.

It would be a good idea to have some laboratory in a climate where the weather gets 20 below 0.

The Federal Government can play an extraordinary leadership role in moving toward energy efficiency.

I voted against it, too. And in retrospect, it was the right vote, because, among other things, it allowed employers to discriminate against old workers by shifting to cash-balance pension plans that, in fact, could result in cuts in…

I think in front of us we have somebody who has the makings to be a great Secretary of Labor.

We recognize the central challenges that we are facing.

Only 8 percent have them and 60 percent want a union.

Today, if an employee is engaged in a union-organizing campaign, that employee has a one-in-five chance of getting fired.

I think we have the opportunity here to vote for somebody who will be one of the great Secretaries of Labor.

We want someone that's going to be fair, obviously, for the workers and for all of those affected by your department.

Will you work with those of us who think that, in fact, Americans should be able to purchase safe, FDA-approved medicine from other countries where the prices are substantially lower than they are in the United States?

Will you help us save money by allowing Medicare to begin negotiating with the drug companies?

Any success Mr. Obama has in reducing the number of uninsured will be meaningless if the newly insured cannot find medical homes.

Many of us for years have been trying to grapple with the issue of why Americans are forced to pay by far the highest prices in the world for the same exact prescription drugs.

It remains unconscionable that Americans, let alone in the developed world, lack universal health care as a right of citizenship.

Will you work with some of us... to do away with the donut hole?

Medicare Part D... is extraordinarily confusing.