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The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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Demagogues like [Donald] Trump come along. He says I know what the cause is. Remember, later, the cause was that Mexicans who are coming to this country, well, they were criminals or rapists. Now it is Muslims.
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We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.
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I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
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You want your kids to have an opportunity. We`re going to fight to give you that.
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The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.
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Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.
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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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The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process at every level.
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Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.
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In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
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Muslims are not your enemy.
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This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.
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20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.
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The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb. And if millions of people begin to stand up and fight back, they're going to be thinking twice about doing very bad things.
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When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.
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We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.
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We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.
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