Obama’s fight for fairness has Republicans worried (MSNBC)

January 25, 2012

Bernie reacts to the State of the Union address on MSNBC’s Politics Nation.

“The truth of the matter is, and I think the Occupy Wall Street people deserve much of the credit, the American people are catching on that the game is not fair, that the rich are getting richer while everybody else is getting poorer. And they want economic policies now which protect the 99% and not just the 1 percent.”

Investing in America (MSNBC)

January 24, 2012

On The Ed Show, Bernie reacts to the President’s State of the Union speech.

“There’s something fundamentally wrong in our society when so few have so much and so many have so little, when the top 400 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America. So to be talking, finally, about asking the richest people in this country to start paying their fair share is an important step forward.”

Bernie on Up With Chris Hayes (MSNBC)

January 15, 2012

“If you are concerned about the collapse of the Middle Class; if you’re wondering why the United States is the only country in the industrialized world not to have a national healthcare program; if you’re asking yourselves why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs or why we spend more money on the military than all the rest of the world combined; you are talking about campaign finance.”

Stephen Colbert hands over Superpac to Jon Stewart (MSNBC)

January 13, 2012

Bernie discusses the danger Citizens United poses to American democracy on MSNBC’s Ed Show.

“The Constitutional Amendment I’ve introduced to overturn Citizens United is called ‘Saving American Democracy’ and I don’t think I’m overstating the case.”