Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising - very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn't use the word 'socialist' at all because everybody in the state knows that I am that.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

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.

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

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.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.