Quotes from Bernie Sanders

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

I think if we're looking at lasting peace in the Middle East, the United States has got to respect the needs of the Palestinian people. They cannot be pushed aside.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses.

Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

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.