Top 100 Bernie Quotes

#1. I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #870
#2. Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #2268
#3. The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #3418
#4. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #5694
#5. I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #7940
#6. We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

Bernie Taupin

Bernie Quotes #7945
#7. I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #9729
#8. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #9922
#9. Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #10600
#10. Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - "

Christy Clark

Bernie Quotes #12019
#11. That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #12273
#12. Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #13003
#13. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #13055
#14. Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #13112
#15. I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #13634
#16. I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #14075
#17. You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #15314
#18. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

Bernie Quotes #15502
#19. Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #21195
#20. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #23267
#21. I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #23813
#22. The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.

Brian J. White

Bernie Quotes #24406
#23. The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #25448
#24. I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #25449
#25. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #25740
#26. The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #27443
#27. Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

Bernie Worrell

Bernie Quotes #30200
#28. We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #30575
#29. When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #37096
#30. Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #37203
#31. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Bernie Glassman

Bernie Quotes #41380
#32. It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #43315
#33. earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones

Bernie Krause

Bernie Quotes #44108
#34. The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Bernie Krause

Bernie Quotes #44916
#35. Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #46063
#36. People support me because they know me. They know my life's work. They have worked with me and many have also worked with Senator [Bernie] Sanders. And at the end of the day they endorse me because they know I can get things done.

Hillary Clinton

Bernie Quotes #48284
#37. By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #52798
#38. I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #52899
#39. I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #56190
#40. To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It's undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn't create.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #56345
#41. I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #61035
#42. Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #62043
#43. Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #62153
#44. I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

Bernie Leadon

Bernie Quotes #62626
#45. I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #64560
#46. Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #65260
#47. The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #65691
#48. It's better to show up than to give up.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #68480
#49. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

Jimmy Fallon

Bernie Quotes #71576
#50. One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Bernie Taupin

Bernie Quotes #75792
#51. Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #76078
#52. Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #77621
#53. Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.

Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Quotes #80880
#54. What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #82130
#55. Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #82459
#56. What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #83542
#57. For every Way there's a way of following that Way that's fun

Bernie De Koven

Bernie Quotes #84658
#58. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #89141
#59. I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #97520
#60. I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #98146
#61. For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #103619
#62. I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #104868
#63. At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.

Ted Cruz

Bernie Quotes #105065
#64. I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #105694
#65. Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.

Chris Hayes

Bernie Quotes #105757
#66. Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #105975
#67. I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #106443
#68. Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.

Rachel Maddow

Bernie Quotes #107073
#69. I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #108630
#70. Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

Killer Mike

Bernie Quotes #111228
#71. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's [Clinton] people had something to do with putting them on these evenings because that's what she did to Bernie Sanders.

Donald Trump

Bernie Quotes #112959
#72. As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #115238
#73. We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #115356
#74. A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Kenneth Langone

Bernie Quotes #118286
#75. Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #118603
#76. Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #119168
#77. So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I'm allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #119747
#78. I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #120643
#79. When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with.

Bernie Sanders

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#80. I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.

Rachel Maddow

Bernie Quotes #124172
#81. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #126814
#82. Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

Rob Portman

Bernie Quotes #130581
#83. And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #131656
#84. If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #132379
#85. Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with a dead man any longer than I have to, okay? C'mon, please, don't make this a Weekend at Bernie's thing! (Amanda)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bernie Quotes #140052
#86. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #140484
#87. The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

Bernie Taupin

Bernie Quotes #140612
#88. All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #146775
#89. I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #149223
#90. Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.

Bernie De Koven

Bernie Quotes #150547
#91. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #151362
#92. I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Bernie Siegel

Bernie Quotes #151958
#93. 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.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #155543
#94. In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #156817
#95. Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'

Bernie Parent

Bernie Quotes #160560
#96. The contrast, between the two parties is now so strong that I think senator [Bernie ]Sanders has summed it up himself several times. He has said on her worst day, whatever that means, Hillary Clinton is infinitely better than any Republican.

Joe Conason

Bernie Quotes #163439
#97. Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #166826
#98. I love who I am. I love what I've become.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Quotes #168187
#99. If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Quotes #168883
#100. I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

Bernie Sanders

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