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"Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"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."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States."
Quote by -Bernie Sanders
"I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist."
Quote by -Boris Johnson