Bernie Sanders Quotes

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

One of my goals, is to make the House co-equal with the White House.

To reform Congress, you have to get Congress to play along.

The reigning conservatives in the House and Senate felt a relief that they did not try to conceal at the fact that I was not to remain as President.

The history of Congress shows that once parliamentary tools become big enough obstacles for the majority party, they are abolished or reformed.

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

As you get a changing of the guard in Washington D.C., with different people from different sectors, you'll start to break through the gridlock.

In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move the Senate to be a Democratic majority. I'm going to try to help pick up House seats. I'm going to try to elect Democratic governors, Democratic legislators, and all the way down the line.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

If you're conservative, if you're Republican, I dare say that if you're over 50, you didn't think - you never thought - that what happened last November would be possible. You wouldn't think a Republican, I don't care who it is, could win the White House and that we would control the House and the Senate at the same time and have the Democrats' 2018 prospects be in the tank, which they are.

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.

We want a Republican majority in the house and the senate, there's no question.

For the United States, our political system is clearly distorted. We have gerrymandering so that there is a situation where a million more voters who vote for Democrats, yet the House is controlled by the Republicans. So clearly, the way our Congress operates is important. The other big issue is the influence of money in politics. It's not only campaign contributions. People like Trump - either you become very dependent on your benefactors or you are very rich.

President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.