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Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.
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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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Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable
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I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.
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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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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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When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.
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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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I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.
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Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!
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For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
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Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.
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If Mr. Trump wants to work with us to make sure that trade works for the American worker, not just CEOs of corporate America, you have got a partner, partner.
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At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
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Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.
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Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.
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As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
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Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.
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When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.
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People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.
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