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Bernie Sanders is gearing up to speak in South Carolina. Live quotes here 
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"I have 4 kids and 7 grandchildren. Downward mobility is not acceptable to me . And it is not acceptable to the American people. This campaign is about moving our people up, not down."
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"When we first launched our campaign in 2015, very few folks took our campaign seriously. The ideas that we were talking about were then, considered by the establishment politicians & MSM to be radical & extreme. Ideas that nobody in America would support. Well imagine that!"
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"Raising the min wage to a living wage. TOO RADICAL! Guaranteeing healthcare to all people as a right? TOO RADICAL! Creating up to 15 million jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure with a trillion $ investment. TOO RADICAL!"
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"...Aggressively combatting climate change. Imagine that! Trying to save the planet. TOO RADICAL. Reforming our broken criminal justice & immigration systems. Can't be done! TOO RADICAL. Ending the power of super delegates at the DNC. You want democracy? Oh wow! TOO RADICAL."
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"..And imagine this one. Not having a super-PAC and being dependent on wealthy people to get elected. Much too radical. Well a funny thing happened over the last several years..."
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"We will no longer accept the absurdity... in which we pay twice as much <for healthcare> per capita as the people in any other country... Our healthcare outcomes are worse. Our life expectancy is lower... Our infant mortality is higher..."
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"Hold on to your hats... the goal of healthcare, in my mind, must be to provide quality care to all people in a cost-effective way. NOT tens of billions in profits for the private insurance industry."
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“I’m not running for President just to be President. I guess that’s cool. The White House is a nice place to live...”
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"They are the most greedy group of people you have ever seen in your life." Bernie on Big Pharma
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"In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, it is an embarrassment that our infrastructure... is crumbling before our eyes. We are going to bring about a trillion dollar investment, up to 15 million good paying jobs."
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"When we talk about clean water, I am mindful...states like S Carolina have water systems serving 100s of 1000s of people & failed state inspections. We're gonna change that My god, it's not a radical idea to say people have clean drinking water when they turn on their taps."
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"Climate change is not a hoax, but a massive threat to our country & the entire planet. And whether the fossil fuel industry likes it or not, we will transform... to energy efficiency & sustainable energy. When we do that, we will create millions of good paying jobs."
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To the prison industrial complex: "Whether you like it or not, we are going to bring about real criminal justice reform in this country... going to end the embarrassment of our... country having more people in jail than any other country on earth."
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"...no more private prisons and detention centers... no more war on drugs, which has destroyed so many lives. Too many people from coast to coast have seen their lives wrecked because they were caught with some marijuana... that is going to end."
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"The US should never be about snatching babies from the arms of their mothers."
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"We are going to defeat Donald Trump, not because I am a billionaire or that we have a super PAC funded by billionaires... we are going to put together the strongest grassroots campaign in the history of this country."
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"Donald Trump wants to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our country of origin, by our gender, religion, sexual orientation. We are going to do exactly the opposite. We are going to bring our people together. That's how we win this election..."
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"I did not come...from a super wealthy family...that sent me to an elite private school. I was educated in public school. I did not come from a family that gave me $200K allowance every year...I came from a working class family &...my allowance was 25 cents/wk, $12/yr."
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"Unlike Donald Trump, I didn't come from a family of privilege... to entertain people on television by telling workers 'You're fired'..."
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"Donald Trump boasted proudly about shutting down the gov't & leaving 800K federal employees w/out income to pay their bills. I guess when you are a billionaire, you may not understand that employees, in many cases, work paycheck to paycheck."
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"...they gotta pay a mortgage...child care...the light bill... they gotta put gas in the car to get to work. My family lived paycheck to paycheck. I know where I come from and that is something I will never forget."
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"It is not acceptable black families have 1/10th the wealth of white families... it is not acceptable a high % of black workers make less than white workers... We're gonna change all that."
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"There is racial disparity in terms of healthcare when the infant mortality rate in black communities is 2.5x that in white communities. In terms of financial services, there is disparity when redlining prevents black businesses from getting loans..."
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"There is racial disparity in criminal justice, when African Americans are twice as likely to get arrested & 4x likely to experience physical force in an encounter w/ the police."
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"Today, there is racial disparity... in voting rights... when governors are working overtime trying to keep people of color from voting."
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Bernie on the other Democratic candidates: "Many of them are good people... personal friends of mine... I have known them for many years..."
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"My cabinet is going to look like America... not like a country club."
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"When we are in the White House, we will enact a federal jobs guarantee.... there is more than enough work to do. Let's make sure everybody in America has a job."
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@WhiteHouse, we will not only end the decline of rural America... a very serious issue... but we're also going to attack the problem of urban gentrification."@BernieSanders#BernieInSCShow this thread -
"In my home city & I expect across the country... working people are paying 50-60% of their income on housing... we're gonna build the affordable housing this country needs..."
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"When we are in the White House... we're going to move aggressively to end the epidemic of gun violence in this country. The American people want common sense gun legislation... and we are going to bring that about."
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"When we are in the White House, we are going to protect a woman's right to control her own body. That decision is a woman's. Not the federal gov't, the state gov't, not the local gov't. It's a woman's decision."
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