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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. (Bernie Sanders)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America. View quote
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As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved. View quote
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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. View quote
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break. (Bernie Sanders)
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal. View quote
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it. View quote
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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. View quote
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way. View quote
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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. View quote
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Washington is dominated by big money. View quote
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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often. View quote
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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. (Bernie Sanders)
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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