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Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.

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Jan 8, 2009

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

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Jan 8, 2009

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

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Jan 7, 2009

Health insurance coverage for all must be one of our first priorities.

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Jan 7, 2009

We need your leadership at this moment.

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Jan 7, 2009

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?

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Jan 7, 2009

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.

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Jan 7, 2009

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

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Jan 7, 2009

Medicare Part D... is extraordinarily confusing.

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Jan 7, 2009

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

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Jan 7, 2009

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

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Jan 7, 2009

I proposed the surtax on people whose families had at least a million dollars in income, because they are the people who benefited from Bush's economic policies in general.

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Jan 7, 2009

I know, as well, and I think a lot of the problem is more financing than, in fact, technological and engineering.

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Jan 7, 2009

I hope you give serious thought and build into your analysis the savings as well as the expenditures.

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Jan 7, 2009

if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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Jan 7, 2009

I voted against the repeal of Glass-Steagall... I do not believe in unregulated financial institutions

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Jan 7, 2009

At what point, how much money do you throw down a rat hole before you say, wait a second, maybe it is a good idea to do something radically different?

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Jan 7, 2009

I am concerned that the same people on Wall Street who were part of the problem are still in office.

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Jan 7, 2009

I want to see the President cut the ribbon. I want to be there. Do you think I am going to?

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Jan 7, 2009

under President Bush, poverty increased, the middle-class shrank, and the wealthiest people became much wealthier.

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Jan 7, 2009

How do you lend out $2 trillion of Federal funds through the Fed and nobody knows anything about this?

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Jan 7, 2009

I think the American people, if they are going to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into these institutions, want a new slate of leadership so that we can work with them to move us in a new direction.

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Jan 7, 2009

the American people are outraged that a small number of Wall Street executives, through their greed, their recklessness, and likely illegal behavior, have plunged us into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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Jan 7, 2009

My understanding is that we have spent $350 billion on the first bailout.

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Jan 7, 2009

the top 400 Americans in this country saw a huge increase in their net worth, in fact, by $640 billion from 2001 to 2007.

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Jan 7, 2009

Do you agree with the potential for solar thermal?

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