Bernie Sanders

That is right. What you have proposed which makes sense is you want an objective analysis of the costs involved in a mandate. Fair enough. I agree with you. It seems to me what we want is an objective, nonpolitical analysis as best as they…

In all honesty, I really sincerely believe this should not be a political debate for this reason: Any sensible business person invests in the future. He or she purchases, say, new machinery, new technology. If the only part of the equation…

I have no argument with my friend that it is important for us to know the costs of the legislation we are proposing, no argument about that. But I think my friends would also not deny that some legislation is cost effective. If one could…

Now we will have to cut back on loan guarantees for small businesses in America while we, for example, extend $40 billion to Mexico.

Thus, if it costs States more money to enforce the same occupational safety standard, there is arguably a new unfunded mandate that can be banned. I am seriously concerned that current minimum labor standards are in serious jeopardy. I…

The gentlewoman is not suggesting that the patriotic billionaires in Mexico are not going to themselves reinvest in their own country? She is not suggesting that they might take their own money out of their own country and put that money…

You are absolutely right. And I think the point that has to be made over and over again is that at a time when America, for working people, is becoming a poorer and poorer country, at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is…

It is an absolute disgrace that in the wealthiest nation on earth, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country.

We have a moral obligation to make certain that no American goes hungry, no American sleeps out on the street.

The function of a good government is to represent and protect the needs of the most vulnerable people in our society.

There is something fundamentally wrong when the top 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

What we need is a progressive agenda which speaks to the needs of working families.

The time is long overdue for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide healthcare to every man, woman, and child as a right.

I believe that in a democratic, civilized society, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

We must stand up to the big money interests who not only want tax breaks for themselves but want to cut back on the needs of working families and the elderly.

The United States must help lead the world in reversing the arms race, not in escalating it.

We must not let the wealthiest people in this country, who have so much influence over our political process, make the rules for everyone else.

I think that anyone who has studied economics and has some kind of a conscience understands that you cannot continue to have a nation in which a few people have so much and so many people have so little.

I think the major political problem in this country is that you have a two-party system, which is essentially a one-party system.

We should be spending less money on the military and more money on human needs.

We must make the banks serve the needs of the people, not the needs of the banks.

We have to educate, organize and mobilize the working people of this country.

We can't allow our kids to be unemployed when they're 18 or 19 or 20.

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary.

The real debate should not be over whether the United States or the Soviet Union spends more on its military, but over how to reduce worldwide military spending.