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Republican Quotes by Bernie Sanders

28 Republican quotes by Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders has never shied away from calling out the GOP on economic and social issues. Here you’ll find a concise collection of his most resonant statements, each reflecting his fight for equality and critique of corporate influence. It’s a solid snapshot of his critique.

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The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb.

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This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

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Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

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For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to…

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Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people…

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I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out…

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The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be…

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Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly,…

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The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb. And if millions of people begin to stand up and fight back, they're…

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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important…

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Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

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Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is…

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If you're a Republican politician and you're seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what…

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I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the…

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The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a…

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There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions…

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Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds…

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Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with…

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When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to…

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I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you…

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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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How about something more interesting? How about you come forward and say, [Donald] Trump supporters, I absolutely know what you think about…

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Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

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Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of…

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All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of…

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While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives…

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Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter…

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Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is…

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We need a strategy. And the goal is to bring millions of people together.

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We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of…

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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

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I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.…

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The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

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Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

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If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed…

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It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were…

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I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

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The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process…

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