I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family.
Bernie SandersWe are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.
Bernie SandersWhat I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.
Bernie SandersWhen I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens.
Bernie SandersIt's the Democrats' same old weakness: much too much dependency on consultants and TV ads rather than mobilizing people.
Bernie SandersIf elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.
Bernie Sanders