Bernie Sanders

In my view, we face the existential threat of addressing climate change, which could wreak havoc on our country and the world.

The Pentagon remains the only agency in the Federal Government that cannot pass an independent audit, 30 years after Congress required it to do so.

We have got to ask ourselves why we are spending more on the military than the next 12 nations combined.

Over 90 million Americans today are uninsured or underinsured.

Our child care system is dysfunctional, and we have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.

WASTE, FRAUD, COST OVERRUNS, AND AUDITING AT THE PENTAGON

If we`re going to achieve anything meaningful for working families, we must use reconciliation, abolish the filibuster, pass legislation with 51 votes. We can`t afford to wait.

We have never seen this before. And many of his followers and many of his supporters in Congress maintain that lie as well.

What is the right thing to do policy-wise makes very good politics. And that is to continue Biden`s effort to be bold. to go big.

The debate now with the Republican Party, it’s not all the health care or education or climate. It’s whether or not we remain a democracy.

If we can do what has never been done, Chris, and that is take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, they have never lost.

If anybody here thinks the corporate America gives one damn about the average American worker, you`re mistaken.

We should levy an annual tax on net wealth from 1 percent to as high as 8 percent.

We are literally talking about the future of this planet.

We have been treating scarce resources, our environment, our water, our air, as if they were free. But there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Delay is costly. Taking carbon out of the atmosphere is far more expensive than not putting it into the atmosphere in the first place.

Doing something about climate change could be a real boon for the economy.

We are talking about millions of people dying unnecessarily.

If we leave them a world in which they will have to confront climate change and its consequences, we are truly bequeathing them a real debt, substantial lowering their standards of living.

We cannot continue to hand out corporate welfare to the fossil fuel industry, and that is why today I, along with Senators Merkley, Markey, Booker, Van Hollen, and Warren, introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act, which would abolish $150…

In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry.

This debate was not driven by science but by a decades-long campaign of lies, distortion, and deceit funded by the fossil fuel industry.

In my view, we have got to make it clear to the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet.

In my view, we have a fundamental choice to make. We can listen to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers and not worry about the impact of climate change.

If we do nothing, the effects of climate change will lead to the deaths of 1.5 million people across the globe every single year.