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Bernie Sanders is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he is known for his progressive policies and has been a vocal advocate for social justice, healthcare reform, and environmental protection throughout his career.

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“I think that the needs of the VA and the needs of the veteran community are very, very significant. Цe're talking about a VA system in which, in the last years a million-and-a-half more people have come into the system. You're dealing with 500,000 people have come home from Iraq an Afghanistan with PTSD and TBI. You're dealing with an older veterans population from World War II and Korea who need some difficult medical help. We want to see it be more efficient. We want to see doctors go to where they're needed.”

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“I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us and who are hurting today.”

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“It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We are not addressing the real needs of the American people. And second of all, philosophically, there is a huge division between the House and the Senate.”

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“One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.”

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“Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.”

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“What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.”

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

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“Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.”

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“You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.”

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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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“You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.”

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“We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.”

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“CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.”

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“I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.”

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“I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.”

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“I don't consider myself a pariah.”

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

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“I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.”

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“I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.”

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“I'm not much into speculation.”

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

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

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“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.”

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“Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.”

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“The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.”

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“The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.”

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“The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.”

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“Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?”

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“Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.”

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“You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.”

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“You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.”

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“You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.”

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“Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.”

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“I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.”

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“If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.”

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“In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.”

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“Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.”

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“To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.”

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“The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.”

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“As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.”

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“At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.”

“It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were people, in this Congress, in the British Parliament saying, 'Don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear'.”

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“If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.”

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“If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”

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“What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.”

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“Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.”

“At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.”

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“I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.”

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Born: September 8, 1941
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