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Bernie Sanders says making public colleges tuition‑free should be a top priority. He contrasts spending on endless wars with the need to keep education affordable for families. He also stresses the right to ask tough questions on campus and the urgency of political change.

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The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

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Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

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

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We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas.…

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It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college…

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Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America…

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

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As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on…

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We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to…

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We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to…

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In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the…

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I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in…

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Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that…

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Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all…

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How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have…

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

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One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education,…

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In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do…

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

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The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle…

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I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend.…

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We need a movement that says in a highly competitive global economy all of our kids who have the ability, the qualifications…

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In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education,…

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The main problem of America is that you're seeing people working all over this country two jobs, they're working three jobs, and…

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Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as…

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If you look at virtually all of the issues of importance to the people of America - issues like making public colleges…

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At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable…

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Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it's got to move to a society…

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

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In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn't free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of…

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Essentially what my campaign is about, it's about anything, this is saying we've got bring that money back into the middle class…

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Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities…

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Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many…

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The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to…

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Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless…

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I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than…

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What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription…

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We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public…

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