There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.


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If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for th...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 ...
BERNIE MARCUS