Bernie Sanders

Let's be clear: insulin is not a new drug. It was invented nearly 100 years ago by Canadian scientists who sold the patent rights for insulin for just $3.00.

This is an industry that has paid $32 billion in fines for a variety of illegal actions over the last 20 years.

Mr. Bezos, you are worth $182 billion. You`re the wealthiest person in the world. Why are you doing everything in your power to stop your workers in Bessemer, Alabama, from joining a union?

The wealthiest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, has become $77 billion richer during this horrific pandemic, while denying hundreds of thousands of workers who work at Amazon paid sick leave and hazard pay.

This is an incredible burden on millions and millions of young people.

At a time when the middle class is disappearing.

What I wanted to say is Jeff, you are worth $180 billion, B, $180 billion. You are the wealthiest person on earth. Why are you spending millions of dollars trying to defeat a union organizing effort in Alabama where your workers are…

To rebalance the economy it is necessary to provide more vigorous use of antitrust; substantially higher taxes on growing accumulations of income and wealth at the top; stronger labor protections to enable workers to join together to gain…

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty, and that living wage should be at least 15 bucks an hour.

Incredibly, if income inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975, the average worker in America would be making $42,000 more today than he or she is earning.

There has got to be much more emphasis on fighting monopolies, and it is monopolies both in terms of big high-tech companies, also monopolies in terms of high finance, big pharma.

Repealing the estate tax would only benefit the top one-tenth of 1 percent who inherit over $11.7 million.

Is that the America that we want? I do not think so.

The Democratic proposal is to spread it more evenly with a little bit more focus on the lowest-earning Americans; the Republican philosophy is to concentrate benefits at the top

The working class in this country has taken it on the chin.

We need to make it easier for workers to join unions, not harder.

Today we are going to be talking about what it means morally and economically when one person in this country, the wealthiest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, has become $77 billion richer during this horrific pandemic.

Clearly, I think our goal is to create a Nation where the economy works for all people and not just the very few.

I think you will see not only what the values of the parties are, but I think you will also see which economic philosophy actually produces more good for American society

We have got a severely imbalanced political economy.

I do not believe that we should be giving more tax breaks to the rich.

I am introducing legislation today to impose an income inequality tax on corporations that pay their CEO over 50 times more than their average workers.

The issue that we are dealing with today, income and wealth inequality, is an issue that has to be addressed and is an issue that will determine what kind of Nation we wish to become.

There is a reason why the rich get richer and so many other people are becoming poorer, and that is not just economic decisions but those are political decisions as well.

The Republican tax plan was passed with unanimous Republican support and no Democratic support and the American Rescue Plan was passed with unanimous Democratic support and no Republican support