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The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.
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It's not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that are debating the real issues. It's much better to deflect attention away from issues and get into the story of the day.
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We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.
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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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I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.
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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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When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.
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It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.
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Muslims are not your enemy.
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I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages. You have a right to be bitter and you have a right to be that.
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The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.
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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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People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.
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Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.
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When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.
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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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I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.
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This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.
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Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.
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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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