Bernie Sanders

As political leaders in this country, it is our job to address it.

Over 200,000 children... lost one or both of their parents to COVID.

What type of impact does social media have on the mental health of our Nation's youth?

We have got to move dramatically if we are serious about protecting the mental health and helping people in this country.

In America today, we have a mental health crisis, and the crisis has been exacerbated by the horrific COVID pandemic.

As political leaders in this country, it is our job to address it.

One out of every five teenagers in our Country has seriously considered suicide.

40 percent of parents report being either very or extremely worried that their child is struggling with anxiety or depression.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare.

I think it is time we got our priorities right. And if we get our priorities right, we put children at the top of the list.

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

We need a vision for the future, which understands that every family in America has the right to high quality, affordable childcare.

We cannot afford to allow that to happen.

You want to have a kid in America, and you are working class, well, we are going to make you pay for that boy.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

It's gone and people say okay, hey, budget ceiling is coming. We're going to go through this again. That is a pretty bad way to develop budgets.

This is not a budget issue. We're not arguing here what we should be spending next year.

That's what you do in a democratic society, not hold the world economy hostage, which is what the Republicans are doing.