Bernie Sanders

This is absurd, and our Tax Code should treat it as such.

We have as a Nation an extremely unfair Tax Code that allows billionaires to pay a lower effective tax rate than public school teachers, truck drivers, and nurses.

Some of my Republican colleagues have decided that what we should do is give massive, massive tax breaks to the very, very wealthiest families in America.

If we collected just a third--one-third--of the unpaid taxes of the very rich, we could provide in this country and make public colleges and universities tuition free.

The wealthiest people and largest corporations pay their fair share of taxes

It is time for the wealthy to stop viewing taxes as a punishment instead of a responsibility.

That is why I support a higher minimum wage because there is such a thing as 'not enough.'

We need a progressive tax system based on the ability to pay, not a regressive tax system that rewards the wealthy and the well-connected.

People are shocked to hear that. How does that happen that a usually profitable corporation owned by the wealthiest guy in the world paid nothing in Federal income tax?

One thing that we most certainly should not do is tax cuts further--we should not do further tax cuts for the well-off.

That is why I am a proud class traitor.

It is time to stop rewarding people who make money simply by having money.

We need to guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child as a human right, not a privilege.

We need to expand not cut Social Security so that 20 percent of our seniors are no longer forced to survive on an income of less than $13,500 a year.

We can no longer tolerate a Tax Code that allows him, worth $95 billion, to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary.

If you are asking me do I feel particularly comfortable that the President of the United States should not express his views on Twitter, I don't feel comfortable about that.

The time is long overdue for Medicare to do that as well.

Last year, one out of five Americans could not afford to buy the medicine prescribed by their doctor.

In fact, I think it's fair to say that it is not Congress which regulates the drug companies but the drug companies which regulate Congress, and that has got to change.

I myself may be wrong, but I would give the nod to the pharmaceutical industry.

Let's be clear: the pharmaceutical industry is not particularly sympathetic to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.

We can no longer tolerate a system that allows the former CEO of Gilead to become a billionaire by charging $1,000 for a hepatitis C drug called Sovaldi that costs just one dollar to manufacture.

One out of every four Americans with Type 1 diabetes were forced to ration insulin because they could not afford it.

It is an industry which is significantly responsible for the fact that in the United States we pay the highest prices in the world for health care.

How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry?