Bernie Sanders Quotes

What we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often profitable, in order to get cheap labor all over the world. And that is one of the reasons why the middle class in this country is disappearing.We have lost our manufacturing base, and that's an issue that has got to be dealt with.

Benedict Arnold CEOs send American jobs overseas.

Globalization: We get cheaper running shoes—You lose your job!

We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Let’s export American products, not American jobs.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

There are practices which most people believe should be ended. They include … the shifting of actual production form one locality or region to another in pursuit of the cheapest wage scale.

Many large corporations in the last 20 years have decided that their business plan is to shut down manufacturing in Dayton and Toledo and move it to Wuhan and Shenzhen. And then they will sell products back into the United States. It’s a betrayal of this country and a betrayal of the middle class.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.

Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.