Bernie Sanders

We need to make sure that effective and well-resourced lawsuits are brought to stop the illegal power plays.

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing…

The progressive agenda, and I say this over and over again, is the people's agenda. It is wildly popular.

Longer term, obviously, we have to do what the Democratic Party has not done—and become the party of the working class, develop a strong grassroots movement, with labor unions, with young people, with people of color—and organize and fight…

If you see these guys doing something—like wanting to give huge tax breaks to billionaires while they cut Medicare; or they want to go 'Drill, baby, drill' while we happen to be facing an existential threat of climate change; if they want…

When Trump fires the most pro-union General Counsel in the history of the NLRB and illegally removes a member of this independent board, he is not a champion of the working class.

When Trump campaigned for president, he claimed he was on the side of the working class. But that’s not what he’s delivering.

The Palestinian people have suffered unbelievably. >45,000 killed. >100,000 injured. Healthcare, educational system, housing—all destroyed.

Last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to enact a 32-hour workweek on a national scale.

Congress created the department to ensure all students in America have equal access to a high-quality education and that their civil rights are protected no matter their ZIP code.

Over the course of two weeks, the Trump administration issued sweeping executive orders and sought to broadly and illegally freeze federal financial assistance.

We will not stand by and allow this to happen to the nation’s students, parents, borrowers, educators, and communities.

Over the course of two weeks, the Trump Administration issued sweeping executive orders and sought to broadly and illegally freeze federal financial assistance.

The president wants to shut down USAID? He can have one of his Republican friends introduce legislation to do that, and it will be debated.

The idea that the president of the United States is going to say to these people, oh, by the way you're going to have to leave the place where you live, because we are going to build something equivalent to the French Riviera.

But you don't get rid of thousands and thousands of dedicated public servants and replace them with people who are simply loyal to Donald Trump. That's not the way democracy is supposed to work.

I think the overwhelming majority of Americans want a strong, efficient, independent civil service. We can make improvements. I am not here to tell you that we don't have a bureaucracy, that we don't have waste. We do, we've got to work on…

We're moving toward oligarchy. We're moving toward authoritarianism.

You cannot withhold US funds that were appropriated for Medicaid, for community health centers, for Head Start.

You cannot go into an agency like USAID and essentially fire everybody and get rid of that agency.

The Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an authoritarian society where the rule of law and our Constitution are being ignored and undermined in order to give more power to the White House and the billionaires…

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected multi-billionaires.

The American people are going to stand up and fight back, or else we're going to be in real trouble.

The U.S. spends 2x more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can't afford a doctor, and we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs. Healthcare is a…

Can you tell us now that you will, now that you are pro-vaccine, that you're going to have your organization take these products off the market?