Quotes from Bernie Sanders

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

I would ask... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.