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I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.
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I think it is now widely understood that the so-called War on Drugs has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.
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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
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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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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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If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.
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Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.
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[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.
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What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.
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Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.
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The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.
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