Billionaire Quotes by Bernie Sanders

You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

— Bernie Sanders

Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!

— Bernie Sanders

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

— Bernie Sanders

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

— Bernie Sanders

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

— Bernie Sanders

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

— Bernie Sanders

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government…

— Bernie Sanders

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic…

— Bernie Sanders

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or…

— Bernie Sanders

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which…

— Bernie Sanders

What we need to do is support small and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of our economy, but we have to make sure…

— Bernie Sanders

I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us.…

— Bernie Sanders

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and…

— Bernie Sanders

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy…

— Bernie Sanders

What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.…

— Bernie Sanders

How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going…

— Bernie Sanders

If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the…

— Bernie Sanders

There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If…

— Bernie Sanders

We're going to stand with working people. We're going to take on the billionaire class. We're going the take on the drug…

— Bernie Sanders

Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class…

— Bernie Sanders

People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,…

— Bernie Sanders

Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which…

— Bernie Sanders

What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own…

— Bernie Sanders

The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in…

— Bernie Sanders

We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or…

— Bernie Sanders

As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers…

— Bernie Sanders

They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years.…

— Bernie Sanders

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle,…

— Bernie Sanders

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more…

— Bernie Sanders

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to…

— Bernie Sanders

We're not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter…

— Bernie Sanders

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and…

— Bernie Sanders

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans…

— Bernie Sanders

The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor…

— Bernie Sanders

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the…

— Bernie Sanders

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90…

— Bernie Sanders

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes…

— Bernie Sanders

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections…

— Bernie Sanders

No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power…

— Bernie Sanders