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The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.
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The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.
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The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.
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I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.
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But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.
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