Bernie Sanders

It must not be dictated by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and their profit.

This proposed rule would fundamentally alter Head Start and break the promise that America has made good on for decades to offer the children born furthest from opportunity with the best our country has to offer in early childhood…

Instead of expanding access to early childhood education, he is moving to dismantle Head Start and the standards that keep its 700,000 kids safe. How cruel.

It’s not a radical idea to require companies in America to provide at least two weeks of paid vacation to their workers. What’s radical is that millions of Americans are not only working longer hours for lower wages, but that they do not…

We hear a lot of talk about family values in America, but let’s be clear: When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. That is an attack…

What the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act does is say that yes, we can create decent and affordable public housing for more than 1.5 million Americans that is based on energy efficiency and sustainable sources of power. And that when…

They’ve got nothing to say. We’re going to win.

What I hope everybody appreciates is that what happened in Michigan yesterday is literally unprecedented in modern American history.

If Mr. Carville doesn’t want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party.

But nobody I know believes in ‘defunding the police’.

What you know as well as I do is that the right wing, that’s their job, right? They will take what one person said and put, you know, $80bn of TV ads on it and make the claim every Democrat supports that.

What Abdul did last night is pull off, in a sense, the biggest upset in the history of modern politics.

And the other thing that we will do is revitalize American democracy.

I think that’s right. The transition is that, instead of having a top-down party, in which wealthy campaign contributors have enormous influence, we’re going to transform the party into a broad-based party of working people, of young…

So the message here is that the days of a top-down party, I think, are finished.

Now is the time to stand up to powerful special interests. Now is the time to start representing working families.

I have already made, and my colleagues have made a major compromise, going from six trillion down to three and a half trillion.

Instead, we will strengthen and expand Social Security by requiring the wealthiest Americans to finally pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as tens of millions of working people do today.

At a time when the very rich are getting richer while working families struggle, it is no great secret that millions of Americans no longer have faith in the political process or either major party.

The Democratic Caucus must make it abundantly clear that under no circumstances will we support legislation that cuts Social Security benefits, raises the retirement age, reduces Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs), or privatizes this…

Because they have the guts to talk to the issues that are on the minds of ordinary Americans. It’s not more complicated than that.

You know, ‘the donor class said you or you should be the candidate for the Senate,’ that’s what the ‘donor class’ says.

Maybe the Democratic establishment should begin to understand they are way, way, out of touch with where the American people are.

When it became clear the VA would combine the Keene and Brattleboro clinics into one, larger facility, I worked with them to ensure a location was selected that was convenient to veterans in both states.

I am also delighted that the new South Burlington clinic will provide desperately needed dental care services, a first for a VA facility in Vermont.