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Young Quotes by Bernie Sanders

21 Young quotes by Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders brings his trademark urgency to the topic of youth, weaving together the optimism of the young with his call for societal change. In these 21 snippets you’ll feel the pulse of a leader who sees the next generation as the engine of progress, without needing to quote any single line.

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Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.

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We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

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In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our…

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When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community…

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We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

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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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Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years…

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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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We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is…

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At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the…

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I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right…

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The Democrats have got to open the door to young people. Welcome them in and understand that it will be messy, that…

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I want to see working people and young people come into the party in a way that doesn't exist now. And you…

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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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I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me…

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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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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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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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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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In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have…

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Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in…

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