Bernie Sandersಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸಿದ ಖಾತೆ

To confront the crises facing this country, we must tap the intellectual capacities of every person without making tuition an obstacle.

American exceptionalism should not be about being the only country besides Papua New Guinea that does not provide paid maternity leave.

On the TPP, we must take the side of unions and environmental groups who oppose it, not multinational corporations trying to outsource jobs.

The fact that billionaires' views are wildly out of step with most Americans goes a long way in explaining why the same is true of Congress.

Democrats will find success by making it clear they stand with the American people and are prepared to take on powerful special interests.

Considering the planetary crisis we face, it is completely inappropriate to continue giving billions in tax breaks to fossil fuel companies.

As a nation that prides itself on its dedication to family values, guaranteed paid family and medical leave should be our top priority.

It's outrageous that the 14 wealthiest individuals in the country saw their net worth increase by over $157 billion dollars in just 2 years.

Student debt has reached crisis proportions in this country with over 43 million Americans burdened with student debt. This has got to end.

No one is so naive as to think Wall Street spent $800 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2014 because they like giving away money

The price of name-brand drugs has doubled in the last five years. We must put a stop to opportunistic price hikes by drug companies.

The failure to prosecute the crooks on Wall Street for their illegal behavior is a clear indictment of our broken criminal-justice system.

To ensure anyone who wants to run for office has the opportunity, our ultimate goal must be to move to publicly funded elections.

We need to increase the wages of at least 53 million Americans by raising the minimum wage from a starvation wage to $15 an hour.

The truth is we've got a corrupt campaign finance system undermining American democracy.

If corporate America wants us to buy their products, they have got to start making those products in America, not just in Mexico or China.

If we stand together, men and women, gay and straight, black, white, Latino and Asian, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish.

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At a time when women workers earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, we need pay equity in our country.

America is not supposed to be about 20 people owning more wealth than the bottom 120 million Americans - half of our population.

You don't need an economics Ph.D to predict the effect of trade deals that put American workers in competition with workers making $5 a day.

It's my firm belief that quality education in America, from child care to higher education, must be affordable for all.

I don't think most people realize how often lobbyists write the bills affecting their industry. Truly, foxes guard the henhouse in Congress.

I say to the Walton family of Walmart: Get off welfare, pay your workers a living wage.

The billionaire class is very religious. Their religion is greed. It's not enough to own the economy, they want to own the government too.

When you hear some politician telling the world how tough he is, understand that it is not going to be his kids going off into that war.

Congress knew what free trade deals were about when they passed them. They knew because it was corporate lobbyists who wrote them.

We can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and combat climate change by implementing a carbon tax.

This is a rigged economy: The average household would make $156,000 a year if regular incomes grew at the same rate as the top 1 percent's.

We're headed for a day when members of Congress have NASCAR-style patches on their clothing saying: “Sponsored by the Koch Brothers.”

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Wealth and income inequality is the greatest economic, political and moral issue of our time both in America and across the global.

All over this country there are communities struggling with clean water. In America, in the year 2016 that is unacceptable and must change.

I don't care whether you're conservative or progressive, no candidate should have to beg billionaires for contributions.

It's time for the United States to catch up with the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee paid family and medical leave.

It's disgraceful for billionaires with lower tax rates than their secretaries to say deficit reduction must start with Social Security cuts.

I’ve been criticized for this point, so allow me to repeat it: Yes, health care is a right of all people.

I want to see America have one of the highest voter turnouts in the world not one of the lowest. We need automatic voter registration.

It's cruel for the GOP to blame the poor for a deficit they themselves caused by forgetting to pay for 2 wars and giving the 1% tax breaks.

Income should not determine whether you can go to college or see a doctor, or whether your elected representatives listen to your concerns.

It's not a radical idea for the United States to provide health care as a right, and 48 percent of millennials agree.

Bankers on Wall Street may be fraudulent but they're not dumb. They spend millions lobbying Congress because they know a good investment.

I’m proud that Vermont is once again leading the nation by making it easier for people to participate in the political process.

In a thousand different ways, we are taught to think small. We are taught to think we can’t change the status quo. That does not have to be.

We must overturn Citizens United so that elections are truly decided by one-person, one-vote, and not by a small number of wealthy families.

There is something immoral and unsustainable about our economic system when the top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 99 percent.

Why is it that in the wealthiest country in the world, people are working two to three jobs just to get by? The answer is corporate greed.