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  The top 1% owns 42% of the nation’s wealth. This unfairness is not only morally reprehensible, it is bad economics.

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• You’ve got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

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• You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

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• You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.

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• You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that’s not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

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• Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

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• When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we’ve got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

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• What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don’t break the knee caps of those who can’t pay back, they still are destroying people’s lives.

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• What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.

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• Washington is dominated by big money.

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• Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That’s fine. But what do you do?

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• Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

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• To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

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• These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

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• There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

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• There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

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• The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

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• The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

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• The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

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• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, ‘Global warming is a hoax,’ he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

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Bernie Sanders (63)

Birth:	8th September, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Vermont. Before serving in the Senate, he represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives and served as mayor of Burlington, the largest city in Vermont. Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, and has praised Scandinavian-style social democracy.

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