The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.
BERNIE SANDERS Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 millio...
BERNIE SANDERS Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is whe...
BERNIE SANDERS After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 throug...
BERNIE SANDERS We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some o...
BERNIE SANDERS The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance ...
BERNIE SANDERS Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform...
BERNIE SANDERS Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and ot...
BERNIE SANDERS For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations...
BERNIE SANDERS Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early chi...
BERNIE SANDERS I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and ...
BERNIE SANDERS In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spe...
BERNIE SANDERS The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
BERNIE SANDERS The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.
BERNIE SANDERS Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigra...
BERNIE SANDERS Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand...
BERNIE SANDERS Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored du...
BERNIE SANDERS The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a...
BERNIE SANDERS Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, ...
BERNIE SANDERS Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must crea...
BERNIE SANDERS I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.
BERNIE SANDERS We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What...
BERNIE SANDERS In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing wh...
BERNIE SANDERS The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institution...
BERNIE SANDERS The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out...
BERNIE SANDERS There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually e...
BERNIE SANDERS I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
BERNIE SANDERS I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally dif...
BERNIE SANDERS It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarce...
BERNIE SANDERS The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
BERNIE SANDERS Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and u...
BERNIE SANDERS If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
BERNIE SANDERS What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win ever...
BERNIE SANDERS One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
BERNIE SANDERS Washington is dominated by big money.
BERNIE SANDERS In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid ...
BERNIE SANDERS For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
BERNIE SANDERS If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest ...
BERNIE SANDERS The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of g...
BERNIE SANDERS Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or d...
BERNIE SANDERS Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the l...
BERNIE SANDERS It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or ...
BERNIE SANDERS But, on the other hand, I have been able to forge alliances not just with Democrats but with conserv...
BERNIE SANDERS We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels, ... I am v...
BERNIE SANDERS You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important....
BERNIE SANDERS We have been expecting businesses to provide health insurance coverage, but is this fair? Or, should...
BERNIE SANDERS We want to stop the bait and switch scams by which college students, low income and working employee...
BERNIE SANDERS If we don't, I fear very much that for the first time in the modern history of our country the next ...
BERNIE SANDERS Chief Justice Rehnquist has served his country in the highest court of the land for 33 years and his...
BERNIE SANDERS This kind of support tells me that people want a strong voice in the United States Senate who will h...
BERNIE SANDERS The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash ba...
BERNIE SANDERS This is certainly a good day for the millions of American workers who, at least for the moment, will...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the...
BERNIE SANDERS I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.
BERNIE SANDERS The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middl...
BERNIE SANDERS CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is suppo...
BERNIE SANDERS What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangster...
BERNIE SANDERS As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of ...
BERNIE SANDERS The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I spon...
BERNIE SANDERS Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of ...
BERNIE SANDERS Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements al...
BERNIE SANDERS Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, a...
BERNIE SANDERS What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolut...
BERNIE SANDERS Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents al...
BERNIE SANDERS If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collecti...
BERNIE SANDERS Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong...
BERNIE SANDERS While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republica...
BERNIE SANDERS Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans...
BERNIE SANDERS In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that pro...
BERNIE SANDERS You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb ...
BERNIE SANDERS In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assist...
BERNIE SANDERS Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 3...
BERNIE SANDERS Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a righ...
BERNIE SANDERS Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they...
BERNIE SANDERS Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, woul...
BERNIE SANDERS It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
BERNIE SANDERS While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our d...
BERNIE SANDERS Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
BERNIE SANDERS When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the denta...
BERNIE SANDERS For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The stre...
BERNIE SANDERS For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of do...
BERNIE SANDERS We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing ...
BERNIE SANDERS As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed...
BERNIE SANDERS Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific ...
BERNIE SANDERS While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actu...
BERNIE SANDERS Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street...
BERNIE SANDERS Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, t...
BERNIE SANDERS Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
BERNIE SANDERS Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets peo...
BERNIE SANDERS Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fat...
BERNIE SANDERS Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great...
BERNIE SANDERS As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Po...
BERNIE SANDERS In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit o...
BERNIE SANDERS The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it...
BERNIE SANDERS These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol...
BERNIE SANDERS Finland is no utopia.
BERNIE SANDERS In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depr...
BERNIE SANDERS At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his su...
BERNIE SANDERS If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal....
BERNIE SANDERS We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am ver...
BERNIE SANDERS Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for th...
BERNIE SANDERS Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have...
BERNIE SANDERS Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy ...
BERNIE SANDERS In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National ...
BERNIE SANDERS What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness tha...
BERNIE SANDERS The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of do...
BERNIE SANDERS Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' Th...
BERNIE SANDERS Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meetin...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens Un...
BERNIE SANDERS If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment ...
BERNIE SANDERS In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by ...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not m...
BERNIE SANDERS What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installat...
BERNIE SANDERS At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of informat...
BERNIE SANDERS Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.
BERNIE SANDERS People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
BERNIE SANDERS I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and whe...
BERNIE SANDERS Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corpo...
BERNIE SANDERS Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis,...
BERNIE SANDERS The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the...
BERNIE SANDERS If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or...
BERNIE SANDERS General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-la...
BERNIE SANDERS we all had the same (health insurance) card.
BERNIE SANDERS It is simply unconscionable for a huge company like Nike to go to Third World countries -- about 97 ...
BERNIE SANDERS I was privileged to have known the chief justice for many years and to have had the pleasure of serv...
BERNIE SANDERS It may not be everything I want but I think you will see action, if not for the right reasons, at le...
BERNIE SANDERS I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare,...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that pers...
BERNIE SANDERS Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton ...
BERNIE SANDERS Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard...
BERNIE SANDERS At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the ...
BERNIE SANDERS The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dea...
BERNIE SANDERS What my focus has been as a congressman, and what my focus will be as a member of the United States ...
BERNIE SANDERS It is absurd that right now, on average, we in America are driving vehicles which get worse mileage ...
BERNIE SANDERS You have given the wealthiest [portion] of the population a break, and now you are coming before the...
BERNIE SANDERS I'm glad to see that some banks are scaling back on this practice, but we've got to go forward with ...
BERNIE SANDERS In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say tha...
BERNIE SANDERS In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,0...
BERNIE SANDERS States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterate...
BERNIE SANDERS A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable t...
BERNIE SANDERS The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and...
BERNIE SANDERS Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social S...
BERNIE SANDERS When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she...
BERNIE SANDERS Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means rei...
BERNIE SANDERS Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the ...
BERNIE SANDERS Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, an...
BERNIE SANDERS Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major netw...
BERNIE SANDERS I would ask... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring...
BERNIE SANDERS Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to...
BERNIE SANDERS You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most ...
BERNIE SANDERS Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens Un...
BERNIE SANDERS I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the ...
BERNIE SANDERS My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that ...
BERNIE SANDERS It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.
BERNIE SANDERS We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, ...
BERNIE SANDERS Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is ...
BERNIE SANDERS The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
BERNIE SANDERS For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican ...
BERNIE SANDERS You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In t...
BERNIE SANDERS Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in pr...
BERNIE SANDERS In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that ma...
BERNIE SANDERS If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for th...
BERNIE SANDERS I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his te...
BERNIE SANDERS Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accompl...
BERNIE SANDERS You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.
BERNIE SANDERS Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only ...
BERNIE SANDERS I'm not much into speculation.
BERNIE SANDERS The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't belie...
BERNIE SANDERS Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
BERNIE SANDERS We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
BERNIE SANDERS What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. ...
BERNIE SIEGEL I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and Jam...
BERNIE MAC When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was b...
BERNIE MAC When it comes to languages, I'm passably fluent in HTML.
BERNIE SU When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it...
BERNIE SIEGEL One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behav...
BERNIE SIEGEL I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a '...
BERNIE SIEGEL Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. The...
BERNIE SIEGEL A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also co...
BERNIE SIEGEL There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are sup...
BERNIE SIEGEL I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inn...
BERNIE SIEGEL The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands tha...
BERNIE SIEGEL The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who plea...
BERNIE SIEGEL Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doi...
BERNIE SIEGEL If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to ...
BERNIE SIEGEL If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place f...
BERNIE SIEGEL Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or wha...
BERNIE SIEGEL You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the pe...
BERNIE SIEGEL The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal w...
BERNIE SIEGEL True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomp...
BERNIE SIEGEL If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, fo...
BERNIE SIEGEL We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. ...
BERNIE SIEGEL An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
BERNIE SIEGEL When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave...
BERNIE SIEGEL Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day beco...
BERNIE SIEGEL There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger ...
BERNIE MAC Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child o...
BERNIE SIEGEL I think that this is going to help change that perception in people's minds and that we're going to ...
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