Bernie Sanders Quotes

Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus.

But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

The Democrats have traded an intellectually weakened liberal who acquiesced to everything progressives wanted for a full-on progressive who can be counted on to promote everything progressives want: Medicare for all, free healthcare for illegal immigrants, the abolition of cash bail, and much more.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

People don't stay mobilized.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.

I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

I don't care much for Hillary Clinton.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

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

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.