Bernie Sanders Quotes

The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on, the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues.

We propose the abolition of the United States Postal Service.

The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

Neither heat nor slow delivery nor gloom of mailers stays these [postal] rates from their swift rise.

The establishment of the militia, of a mint, of standards of weights and measures, of the post office and post roads are subjects which I presume you will resume of course, and which are abundantly urged by their own importance.

The report of the Post Master General presents a gratifying picture of the condition of the Post Office Department…. The Department has been redeemed from embarrassment and debt, has accumulated a surplus exceeding half a million dollars, has largely extended and is preparing still further to extend the mail service, and recommends a reduction of postages equal to about 20%.

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

When companies fail, shareholders bear the losses. It's just the way our system is supposed to work.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.