Bernie Sanders Quotes

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

As a society, we need to refocus on creating an economy that works for everyone. I believe the business community is in the best position to lead the way.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.