Bernie Sanders Quotes About Elections

Quotes about: Elections

• A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, People, Political

• In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the election. Democrats need a strong progressive agenda which says to the working class of this country, we are going the stand and fight for you, we're going to raise the minimum wage, pay equity for women, we're going to rebuild the infrastructure, and we're going to guarantee health care to all people as a right. We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Strong, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Issues, Trying

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

• We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

• There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions to spend on campaigns. think tanks and 'educational' organizations, the Koch brothers are the most powerful. We must overturn Citizens United, move to public funding of elections and pass real tax reform.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Brother, Powerful

• Politics does not end the day of the election.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doe, Election, Ends

  Source: billmoyers.com

• The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say they will raise nearly $1 billion for the 2016 elections. When one family can raise as much as an entire party, the system is broken. This is oligarchy, not democracy. We must overturn Citizens United.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, Party, America

• I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Confused, Kids, Thinking

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 9, 2015.

• Campaigns and elections are not a game. They're not a game. They're about trying to change America. We're the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not be having Flint, Michigan, or African-American communities all over this country where schools are failing. Those are the issue we got to pay attention to and not at this as come kind of silly game. And that is the critique that bothers me. That's what bothers me about media coverage.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Silly, School

  Source: info.msnbc.com

• I think we bring together that broad coalition including Russia to help us destroy ISIS and work on a timetable to get rid of Assad, hopefully through Democratic elections. First priority, destroy ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Russia, Isis

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Government, Brave

• I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Election, Modern

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

• There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Moving, Able

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Loss

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

• Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

  Bernie Sanders

  Media, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• If Trump is elected president... I just don't know what America looks like four years after his election, in terms of the kind of bigotry that will be erupting, in terms of the kind of divisiveness that we will see, the kind of demagoguery that we will see.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Years, President

  Source: billmoyers.com

• As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

• On many, many issues, Hillary Clinton's views are progressive. In many areas, they are awesome. Where they're not progressive, we've got to push her, and the day after the election, I will mobilize millions of people to make sure that we make her the most progressive president that she can be.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Issues, People

  Source: billmoyers.com

• The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Goal, Dollars

• Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

  Bernie Sanders

  Media, Issues, Democracy

• What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Government, Political Revolution

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