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Middle class Quotes by Bernie Sanders

38 Middle class quotes by Bernie Sanders

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A tipping point for the middle class shows up when jobs disappear and student debt climbs. The quotes argue that government should listen to most people, not just big corporations, and that money in politics must be curbed. They warn that without bold change, the gap between rich and ordinary families will keep widening.

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I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we…

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Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast…

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What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a…

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I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us.…

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For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the…

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

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The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just…

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The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course…

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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions…

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This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an…

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I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for…

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The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have…

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired…

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The political world is changing rapidly. What the establishment has learned, what the Democratic establishment, the Republican establishment, the media establishment, is…

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The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap…

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People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline…

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“And to bring people together we need a simple and straightforward progressive agenda which speaks to the needs of our people, and…

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

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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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The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so…

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Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and…

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My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should…

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

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I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting.…

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To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls…

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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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There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about…

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Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the…

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We need a Democratic Party open, that is bringing working people into the party, that is bringing young people, that bringing all…

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For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the…

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The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of…

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The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should…

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In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media…

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The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars…

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Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces,…

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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 we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often…

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We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote…

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