Bernie Sanders

No, we’re not going to cut Social Security. Quite the contrary, we must expand Social Security benefits and extend its solvency for the next 75 years.

Trump claimed that millions of dead people between the ages of 100 and 360 were collecting Social Security checks. That is an outrageous lie intended to lay the groundwork for cuts to Social Security.

I did not hear one word from Trump tonight about the economic reality facing 60 percent of our people [who live paycheck to paycheck], or the enormous stress that they are living under.

The cuts will make it harder for veterans to get health care and benefits.

Do you know what's really in it? This budget would cut Medicaid by $880 billion. Oh, I guess Trump forgot to talk about that.

This budget would cut Medicaid by $880 billion. Oh, I guess Trump forgot to talk about that.

Trump’s parallel reality of focusing on issues nowhere near the concerns of the American people.

Trump's focus is on issues nowhere near the concerns of the American people.

Trump’s focus is on issues nowhere near the concerns of the American people.

This budget would cut Medicaid by $880 billion. Oh, I guess Trump forgot to talk about that.

Tonight, Trump claimed that millions of dead people between the ages of 100 and 360 were collecting Social Security checks.

Despair is not an option. Giving up is not acceptable.

Let us never forget. Real change only occurs when ordinary people stand up against oppression and injustice — and fight back.

No, we’re not going to cut Social Security. Quite the contrary. We must expand Social Security benefits and extend its solvency for the next 75 years by scrapping the cap that allows a billionaire to pay the same amount into Social…

Let’s be clear: Well over 99 percent of Social Security checks are going out to people who earned those checks — 70 million people.

That is an outrageous lie intended to lay the groundwork for cuts to Social Security and dismantling the most successful and popular government program in history.

We can win. We will win.

Giving up is not acceptable.

Despair is not an option.

If we stand together and not let them divide us up by the color of our skin or where we were born...

Yes, the oligarchs ARE enormously powerful. They have endless amounts of money.

The Trump administration IS a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class.

But, from the bottom of my heart, I am convinced that they can be beaten.

We must do the exact opposite.

Given this reality, we cannot provide another $1.1 trillion tax break to the top 1 percent by making massive cuts to healthcare, housing, education and nutrition assistance as President Trump and Republicans in Congress want to do.