Bernie Sanders

I say to Jeff Bezos, why are you spending millions trying to defeat an effort on the part of workers here who want nothing more than decent wages, decent benefits, decent working conditions.

It was an epidemic before the pandemic and it has only been exacerbated since.

This was bad before. It has only gotten worse.

The American people are disgusted by the reality that we pay the highest prices in the world, by far, for prescription drugs.

During the American Rescue Plan we did something, I think, extraordinarily important, and that is extended and expanded the child tax credit for working class parents.

The effective tax rate of billionaires in America is now 8 percent, which is lower than what a nurse, teacher, firefighter, or truck driver pays.

To a significant degree, pathetically, large corporations are using the war in Ukraine and the pandemic as an excuse to raise prices significantly.

I hope that we very much have the capability of taking on the greed of the fossil fuel industry and saving this planet for future generations.

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.

The time is now for Congress to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I will be doing everything I can to pass a strong and robust budget reconciliation bill that works for working families, not the 1 percent.

If Medicare does that, we lower the cost of prescription drugs by 50 percent. Not bad.

In the richest country on Earth senior citizens should not have teeth rotting in their mouths.

Today, in America, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have had in 100 years.

The question before us is whether we will stand with the working families of this country and protect their interests or whether we stand with the big money interests.

Over the last 45 years in this country there has been a massive--massive--redistribution of wealth.

A Federal budget is more than just a huge spreadsheet of numbers.

We need to focus on the needs of working families.

Do we have the courage to take on the hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbyists... or do we stand with the patients?

We have got to go further than that.

They understand there is something fundamentally wrong with so few have so much and so many Americans have so little.

The very, very wealthiest people are becoming phenomenally wealthier.

The scientific community is fairly clear. You know, we get distracted by the terrible war, Putin's war in Ukraine. We get distracted by a lot of things, but climate change is real, and what scientists tell us, if we do not act extremely…

The President believes, very strongly, that billionaires and those worth more than $100 million, should pay what firefighters, teachers, and nurses pay as their effective tax rate.

Medicare-for-all would save the American people and our entire health care system $650 billion each and every year.