Quotes from Bernie Sanders

Politics does not end the day of the election.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

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.

If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

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.

In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.

Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.