Bernie Sanders

I think it is wrong to be saying that the way we're going to deal with inflation is by lowering wages and increasing unemployment.

I believe, and most Democrats believe, that at a time when half our people are living paycheck to paycheck, we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

You got more income and wealth inequality today than anytime in the history of the United States. Three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of the people in our society. That is insane.

We cannot let right wing extremists undermine what is so important to this country, and that is the right of all people to participate in the political process.

It is women who should control their own bodies, not the government.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:33 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 10 a.m…

For the information of the Senate, there will be two rollcall votes at 11:30 a.m. and one rollcall vote at 1:45 p.m. ____________________

A strong majority of the American people think we should cancel student debt. And if Senator Cruz and others want to challenge that, I think that’s going to hurt them politically.

We need an economy that works for all of us. Unions are one vehicle that help people get decent wages and working conditions.

If you do what the people want, and not what the corporate world wants or billionaire campaign contributors want, you win elections.

You know, I have the radical idea that good policy is good politics. And it is good policy to cancel student debt in this country.

I think now is the time if you want to win an election to say you know what, I`m on the side of the vast majority of Americans, Black, White, Latino. I`m prepared to take on greedy, powerful corporate interests who are enjoying…

Well, I would say that things are better than they were a few months ago.

So there we are. We have got 650 environmental and social justice organizations, representing millions of people, and we have got the entire scientific community saying we have got to cut carbon emissions. And then on the other side, we…

If Congress does not begin to respond to the pain that so many of our people are feeling, they're going to say, why do I want to believe in democracy?

Trump's big lie, this mythology that he actually won the election is part of that effort.

Well, look, I have, and I think we should be honest about that. And make it clear that unfortunately, right now, and unbelievably, you have many, many Republicans, who are kind of giving up on democracy and want to move us into an…

We are fighting for working families who today are falling further and further behind. We have zero Republican support and taking on the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the big money interests, who are…

The function of health care is not to make the insurance companies tens of billions of dollars a year in profit, the function of healthcare is to provide quality care to all people in a cost effective way.

There is something fundamentally absurd, when the United States is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people.

This planet faces an unprecedented crisis in terms of climate change. And the scientists tell us that we got a few years to begin to turn around and transform our fossil fuel system, this bill and the best thing about this bill is it puts…

If I could ask my friend from Ohio, why would passage of this amendment or getting 48 votes on this amendment bring the overall bill down?

I call up my amendment No. 5210. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and Mr. Merkley, proposes an amendment numbered 5210 to…

People like Manchin, Sinema -- Sinema, to a lesser degree, who are intentionally sabotaging the president`s agenda. What the American people want. What a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. Nothing new about this. And the problem…

Should our goal be, it seems to me, to make it nice and simple that if somebody is feeling ill, if somebody has COVID, they can dial a 1-800 number and get the drug as quickly as possible.