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Bernie Sanders
said
Why do we hear more about O. J.
— Outsider in the House (1998)
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
- Audience1.4M
- Fame85.4
- Momentum10.0
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1.4M youtube followers
- Audience1.4M
- Fame85.4
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#209
- United States rank#62
- Politicians rank#50
Born 1941 · age 85United States
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The longest-serving independent in Congress who ran inside the Democratic tent twice for president and pulled the party left both times. A self-described democratic socialist who turned small-donor fundraising into a mass movement and made Medicare for All a litmus test.
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Born into a working-class Jewish family in New York City on September 8, 1941, Sanders organized civil rights protests for CORE and SNCC as a University of Chicago student before settling in Vermont in 1968. He spent the 1970s losing third-party races, then won Burlington's mayorship as an independent in 1981 and held it through three reelections. Elected to the House in 1990, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus a year later and served sixteen years before moving to the Senate in 2006—the first non-Republican in that seat since 1850. His 2016 presidential run generated startling…
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Bernie Sanders
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in spite of the magnitude of these problems, each of them can be addressed and solved.
— Outsider in the House (1998)
Bernie Sanders
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The strong environmental position should not be and cannot be to do nothing, and to put our heads in the sand and pretend that the problem does not exist.
— Speaking at the on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact, in 7 October 1997.
Bernie Sanders
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I have always been a proponent of a national health care system. It just seemed eminently fair and right.
— Outsider in the House (1997), p.175
Bernie Sanders
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My ears may have been playing a trick on me, but I thought I heard the gentleman a moment ago say something quote unquote about homos in the military.
— Speaking to Representative Duke Cunningham on the floor of the House of Representatives, 11 May 1995, from Watch Bernie Sanders Demolish A
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