Bernie Sanders Quotes

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

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

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

Well, what are you socialists going to do about me?

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just tell you what I'm against. I tell you what I'm for and how I would do it.

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

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

Share the Wealth

I believe in capitalism but in fair capitalism.

The socialist labor party of Germany endeavors by every lawful means to bring about a free state and a socialistic society, to effect the destruction of the iron law of wages by doing away with the system of wage labor, to abolish exploitation of every kind, and to extinguish all social and political inequality.

Here we have in New York Mr. Aster with an income of millions derived from real estate, … and we have along side of him a poor man receiving $1000 a year. What is the discrimination of the law in that case? It is altogether against the poor man—Everything that he consumes we tax, and yet we are afraid to tax the income of Mr. Astor. Is there any justice to it? Why, sir, the income tax is the only one that tends to equalize the burdens between rich and poor.

One way to reduce income inequality is to get rid of the rich. If Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch and their billionaire friends could be persuaded to emigrate from the United States, income inequality would decrease overnight.

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

Socialism is that policy or theory which aims at securing by the action of the central democratic authority a better distribution, and in due subordination thereunto a better production, of wealth than now prevails.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

We need to create an economy that works for everyone, not crony capitalism and unchecked corporate consolidation.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.