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We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.
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You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
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Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
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We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
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If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.
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If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.
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I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.
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The first thing that I've got to think about is: What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for the people of my state and for the people of this country? And for the people of the world? I think it would be an absolute disaster. It would be beyond a disaster.
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Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.
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In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.
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The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.
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Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.
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I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.
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Donald Trump said: I, Donald Trump, yes, I am going to take on the entire establishment. I'm going to take on the political establishment. I am going to take on the economic establishment. I'm going to take on the media establishment. And I think a lot of people responded positively to that message.
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This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.
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We have to transform our energy system.
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Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
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I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.
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Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
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