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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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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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Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.
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I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.
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I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get.
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.
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What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.
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I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.
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Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.
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...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
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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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I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.
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I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.
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I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
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The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.
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Real freedom must include economic security.
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I think we're going to win a very good share of those delegates. I think you've got major states coming up. And I think the important point is that people throughout this country are resonating to our message.
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Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.
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My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
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