Bernie Sanders Quotes

You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I campaign all the time.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

The way you get anything done in the Congress is through coalitions.

It's harder to pass a law than stop one.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

If we want to influence the discussion in Congress, we can't oppose everything.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out!