Bernard Sanders Quotes

After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
Bernard Sanders

Powerful, Through, After

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.
Bernard Sanders

Money, Power, Children

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
Bernard Sanders

Dangerous, Financial, Economy

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
Bernard Sanders

Women, Men, Justice

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
Bernard Sanders

Future, May, Happen

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
Bernard Sanders

Big, Fail, Financial

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Bernard Sanders

Money, Political, Person

In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.
Bernard Sanders

Country, After, Service

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Bernard Sanders

War, Political, Greed

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
Bernard Sanders

Money, War, Political

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
Bernard Sanders

Financial, Safety, Risks

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
Bernard Sanders

Small, America, Same

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
Bernard Sanders

Powerful, Political, America

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

Often, View, Amended

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
Bernard Sanders

Medical, Forward, Feeling

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.
Bernard Sanders

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: September 8, 1941

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