Bernie Sanders Quotes

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

~ Glenn Greenwald

I grew up in Germany. Europe is far more liberal than America. Even most conservative right-wing parties over there are to the left of the US Democrats on many issues. For example, it wouldn't occur to even the most right-wing party in Europe to oppose universal healthcare. But this isn't a book about politics. It's about sex and drugs. You know, the good stuff.

~ Oliver Markus Malloy

The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple....Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, which transform into theological decisions the summons of the simple to poverty. I said.Yes, but as you have seen, this happens too late, and when it happens, the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful, more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.

~ Umberto Eco

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

~ Robert B. Reich

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being socialists. Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

~ A.e. Samaan