Bernie Sanders Quotes

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

I have never run a negative political ad in my life.

The minute you announce as a candidate, your opponents go on a deep sea fishing expedition for your sins.

Don't come in [to the Senate] without assets and remain that way.... Go out and accumulate some capital and then try and run for the Senate.

In a national campaign you are driven to negativism.

I am continuing to explore a run in the Senate from Connecticut, absolutely exploring it. In fact, I would say exploring it intensely.

Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.

Remember, Bernie [Sanders] was the guy. He was the one guy that could win this, and head-to-head he could go against [Donald] Trump and win.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a career politician.

It's hard to pin me down because I'm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

To win a successful campaign against an opponent that has a lot more name recognition and a lot more money, I have to be edgy.

Donald Trump is already losing badly to Hillary Clinton. He is a weak candidate, and he's performing that way.

Well, I mean, I think all campaigns run negative and positive ads.

As it became clear that Senator Rubio was likely to run for president, I received encouragement to consider running for the Senate.

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the left.

In a political campaign, you take your position; you stay strong with it. And the Clinton campaign put out tons of stuff that was not true about Donald Trump and who President Trump is.

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.