Bernie Sanders Quotes

It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

We must creep before we can walk. Protect the manufacturers for the present, and in a little time, they will protect themselves and us. They have the potential of releasing us from our dependence on foreigners and quieting their intrigues.

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

I believe America should make things.

As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Promoting American manufacturing should not be a political issue.

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

Throughout history households had consumed most of the things that they produced and produced most of what they consumed.

In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.

America cannot become just a service and financial services economy, and to prevent that, there is no substitute for having people with successful, real-world manufacturing experience in Congress.

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.

For a country like India, which, unlike China, has domestic market for which manufacturing happens, manufacturing also happens for export.

President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.