Bernie Sanders Quotes (10 Quotes)

The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice,

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important. You have war and peace issues, economic priority issues, which are very important. And on those issues you can bring together coalitions, which redefine the normal paradigm which a lot of the corporate media creates when they talk about liberal and conservative.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Chief Justice Rehnquist has served his country in the highest court of the land for 33 years and his service is much appreciated. As a summer resident of Vermont I'm sure that his many friends in the Greensboro area will miss his yearly visits. I know that I join with all Vermonters in sending my condolences to his family.

We should be very aware that PNTR is not only leading to the destruction of traditional blue-collar manufacturing, ... It is leading to the loss of millions of high-tech information technology jobs as well.

This is certainly a good day for the millions of American workers who, at least for the moment, will not see their benefits slashed by 20 to 50 percent due to a cash balance conversion,

We want to stop the bait and switch scams by which college students, low income and working employees throughout the country and are essentially lying to them,

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

If we don't, I fear very much that for the first time in the modern history of our country the next generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents, and that would be a real tragedy.