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It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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Not only did I vote against that war, I helped lead the opposition, and if you go to my website, berniesanders.com, you will see the statement that I made in 2002. And it gives me no pleasure to tell you that much of what I feared would happen the day after Saddam Hussein was overthrown, in fact, did happen.
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I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.
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No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.
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Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.
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