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Tweets I submitted to the Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.

  • The GOP has picked Cleveland for their first debate. Hasn't the Rust Belt suffered enough?
  • Having all those Republicans in Cleveland might make LeBron want to leave town again.
  • I'm not going to watch the GOP debate. If I want to see clowns, I'll visit the circus.
  • I decided to watch the GOP debate after all. Can't pass up a good comedy.
  • All those Republicans on stage—things haven't looked this ugly in Cleveland since the Cuyahoga caught on fire.
  • That wasn't a debate. That was ten guys auditioning to be water boys for Wall Street.
  • That guy Trump makes a lot of sense. When you turn the sound off.
  • I think I have more real hair than Trump.
  • And the prize for best performance during the GOP debate goes to whoever did Donald Trump's hair weave. That person is a magician.
  • Remember how the Republicans busted the economy in 2008? The ten guys on stage last night want to go back to those days.
  • The Republicans believe there isn't a problem in the world that can't be solved by starting another endless war.
  • Last night's ten GOP candidates: All they were saying is give war another chance.
  • Until last night's GOP debate “Carrie' was the scariest thing I had ever watched.
  • There was enough fertilizer being spread at last night's GOP debate to cover all the farms in Vermont.
  • I don't care what they are thinking in Davos. I care what they are thinking in Dubuque.
  • A government of, by and for the people will most certainly perish from the the earth if we keep handing it over to our biggest corporations.
  • Banks need to go back to handing out toasters instead of default swaps.
  • Making 400 times what the average worker makes isn't a sign of success. It's a sign of greed.
  • The only thing standing between you and the corporate domination of our government is a voting booth.
  • John Kennedy didn't ask what you can do for Countrywide Financial.
  • The most crime infested neighborhood in America isn't in Detroit. It's Wall Street.
  • It's time the banksters traded in their three-piece suits for orange jump suits.
  • Billionaires are not your friend, my friend.
  • Off-shore the billionaires.
  • A free-range chicken in every pot and a green car in every garage.
  • Wage stagnation is not healthy for children or other living things.
  • Stakeholders have rights too.
  • Shareholder value didn't build this country. The American middle class did.
  • We can do better. We have to.
  • Down with all the redistribution upwards.
  • This country has given the 1% many things. So why are they handing them to China?
  • Endless war is the same as endless suicide.
  • The Washington quid pro quo has got to go.
  • Whoever said hard work is its own reward must not have had bills to pay.
  • How can you call yourself a defender of capitalism when you export jobs to communist China?
  • The Founding Fathers never meant for our government to be an ATM machine for corporations.
  • It's time to blow up the military budget.
  • If we don't get money out of politics, democracy will be getting out of America.
  • Subsistence wages have no place in the wealthiest country in the world.
  • I didn't come to Washington to praise big corporate interests. I came to bury them.
  • Democracy is too important to be left to corporate lobbyists.
  • Big Money is a bigger threat to our democracy than Iran.
  • I'm nobody's lap dog. And I bite when I have to.
  • Rewarding capital at the expense of labor is not working for millions of underpaid Americans.
  • Today's minimum wage is a maximum insult.
  • It's not 1968 anymore. So why do we keep paying minimum wage workers like it is.
  • I'm not worried about the top 1%. It's the bottom 99% that I'm fighting for.
  • The people who have everything keep telling the rest of us we can't have anything.
  • If Trump really wants to keep the crooks out, he should build a wall around Wall Street.
  • I wouldn't call Reagan the worst President. Jefferson Davis was pretty bad.
  • In the words of those great philosophers Twister Sister, We're not going to take it anymore.
  • It's not pie in the sky to believe that every American should have enough money to put food on the table.
  • It's not pie in the sky to believe the middle class deserve more of the pie.
  • No one has to hold their nose when they vote for me.
  • Universal health coverage—it's not utopia when every other western nation has it.
  • Forty years of voodoo economics have put a bad spell on the country.
  • Supply-side economics—When the rich get all the supplies and you get a big side of nothing.
  • Forever is too long to wait for real change.
  • Trickle-down economics is when the crooks on Wall Street drink champagne while the folks in Flint drink lead.
  • Universal health coverage—they say we can't afford to do it. We can't afford NOT to afford to do it.
  • When the rich say you can't have it, that's because they don't want you to have it.
  • I like my progressivism strong not lite.
  • What has the status quo done for you lately?
  • President Bernie Sanders—The radical idea that we shouldn't keep doing the same thing over and over again.
  • No more neo-con jobs.
  • Going along to get along is what Neville Chamberlain did.
  • A college education is too valuable to be unaffordable.
  • While raising the billionaires' yachts, we sunk the middle class economy.
  • In 1957 Milwaukee had a socialist mayor and the Braves won the World Series. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
  • Why is there always money for Baghdad but not Beloit?
  • The economy is rigged—you can bank on it.
  • Hillary is taking it to the streets: Wall, Rodeo, Park Avenue and everywhere else the rich fundraisers reside.
  • If only Hillary was as good at funding our public schools as she is at funding her campaign.
  • I'd rather raise hell than campaign contributions from Wall Street.
  • What good is consensus when your opponents have totally lost their senses?
  • If you aren't mad you must be.
  • It's time for Walker to take a hike.
  • Scott Walker couldn't be here tonight. He was too busy fetching water for the Koch Brothers.
  • I love my country too much to let the Koch Brothers and their errand boy in Madison run it.
  • Speaking of frozen tundra, do you know what's in Scott Walker's heart?
  • When your great-grandparents were getting a raw deal, they fought for a New Deal. It's time we did the same.
  • Teach you children well. Because if the Republicans have their way there won't be any public teachers left to do so.
  • It's okay to be rich. But it's not okay to make sure everyone else stays poor.
  • Subsistence wages are beneath the wealthiest nation in the world.
  • It is time for people of good conscience to stand up to the big corporations that have none.
  • An economy that works for just the 1% is 99% not working.
  • After 40 years of trickle-down economics, it's time for some trickle-up. Raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks.
  • We're not just having a healthcare crisis. We're having a healthcare crime wave. Stop Big Medicine from ripping us off.
  • Lloyd Blankfein says bankers do God's work. When did God hire Mister Potter?
  • Hillary Clinton is too privileged to fail.
  • The same old, same old has gotten really old.
  • Why am I running for President? Goldman Sachs made me do it.
  • The billionaires say the economy isn't rigged. And I've got a bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut to sell you.
  • I'm invited to the Vatican to speak on economic inequality and Hillary Clinton gets invited to Goldman Sachs to speak on … she won't say.
  • It's hard to get a leg up when someone is standing on it.
  • I am what I am and not what Goldman Sachs tells me to be.
  • Economic justice delayed is economic justice denied. Raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks.
  • Economic inequality is the civil rights issue of our time.
  • College should be a public right not a private privilege.
  • I choose to stand in picket lines, not the Goldman Sachs buffet line.
  • If elected I will fight for the neglected.
  • We either have a revolution in the halls of Congress or it will happen in the streets of America.
  • More political strangulation through Clinton triangulation? I don't think so.
  • Hillary was expecting a cake walk. Instead she's getting a run for her Goldman Sachs money.
  • Slow and easy has never been my default setting.
  • The great political philosopher Jim Morrison said it best: The time to hesitate is through.
  • This country needs a lot less of more-of-the-same.
  • I've been fighting for economic and social justice for over fifty years. Why would I quit now?
  • The question isn't will things change? The question is will the change be good or bad?
  • What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and a fair wage for a fair day's work?
  • I've been standing up and fighting too long to lay down now.
  • I'll quit as soon as the water in Trump's Mar-a-Lago pool freezes over.
  • The billionaires don't think we have an income inequality problem. That's rich.
  • Death, taxes and Hillary. I'm still working to make sure one of those is not inevitable.
  • The US ranks 92nd in income equality and number one in rich people who want to convince you otherwise.
  • If supporting a living wage is revolutionary, then I say bring on the revolution.
  • It's time to dis the supply-side dystopia.
  • I'd be laughing at the Laffer Curve if it wasn't so tragic.
  • I like Ike's tax policy.
  • We don't need more politicians fighting for the greater good of the wealthy.
  • A lot of people on the right work very hard at convincing you that poor people don't work hard.
  • In Iceland, they put the bankers that destroyed the economy behind bars. Here we put them behind desks in the Treasury Department.
  • I will never stop shining a light on the too many dark realities of our economy.
  • What good is pragmatism if the policies your practice stink?
  • They say universal single-payer healthcare is a pipe dream. I say what we have now is a nightmare.
  • It's true: Hillary is very good at delivering things. Especially speeches to Goldman Sachs.
  • The economic class war is far from being dismissed.
  • The economic beat down on those at the bottom must stop.
  • Power trumps people only if we let it.
  • Our middle-of-the-road economic policies have run over the middle class.
  • War, what is it good for? I don't know, you'll have to ask Hillary.
  • I rather fight the system than be a willing victim of it.
  • I don't apologize for my progressivism. Do Republicans apologize for their regressivism?
  • The sky's the limit isn't possible when Wall Street keeps letting it fall on everyone.
  • What's really radical is after 40 years of failed supply-side economic were still practicing it.
  • Hi, I'm Bernie Sanders. You may have heard of me even if the “New York Times” has not.
  • What are you going to tell your grandchildren, I voted for “staying the course?
  • I've never run away from anything. Why would I start now?
  • What is wrong with people who aren't millionaires having things too?
  • When was the last time the 1% was told they can't have something? Why are you and I always being told we can't have anything?
  • This country is slipping into a banana republic.
  • What's political pragmatism done for you lately?
  • You can vote for the wrong change (Trump) or no change (Hillary) or the real change we need.
  • If the Founding Fathers had done the practical thing we'd still have a king.
  • If now is not the time to do what is right, when will it ever be?
  • The rich never lower their expectations. So why must we diminish ours?
  • We're told we should be happy with a glass half-full. Meanwhile the 1%'s cup is running over.
  • Wall Street wants your vote. Don't they own enough already?
  • We're giving Hillary a run for her Wall Street donor money.
  • It's time to roil the Clinton royalty.
  • Do we really want to do the Clinton time warp again?
  • What does $225,000 buy you these days? We don't know because neither Hillary nor Goldman Sachs will tell us.
  • Do we wait for a better world or do we start building one now?
  • I'd rather be an agent of change than a victim of it.
  • This just in from the Clinton campaign: The coronation has been postponed to a later date.
  • I was never for the Iraq War before I was against it. I know bad as soon as I see it. That's what leaders do.
  • The fat cats think we are pussies.
  • I'll suspend my campaign when the people tell me to, not the “New York Times."
  • You can be the change you want to see or you can wait to see what change the 1% have in store for you.
  • Why are we waiting to do what the rest of the modern world has already done?
  • Incrementalism is fine if you are a turtle.
  • Gradualism is okay if you are a snail.
  • It's easy for the wealthy to say economic justice must wait.
  • Slow and steady doesn't cut it when there's a race to the bottom going on.
  • Hillary is going to triangulate like it's 1999.
  • You can't have outside-the-box solutions when everything is controlled by insiders.
  • What good is getting things done when what you are doing is keeping things from REALLY getting done?
  • I didn't enter this race to inspire people to dream small.
  • Great countries don't do small. Neither do their political leaders.
  • The best leaders get people to believe in possibilities, not probabilities.
  • I don't plan to work with the Republicans. I plan to work to defeat them.
  • A great leader takes people places where the entrenched interests don't want them to go.
  • I prefer reinvention to regurgitation.
  • Our party doesn't need more Republican Lite. We need Democratic Strong.
  • If you want to know what a candidate really stands for, check which corporate donors stand with her.
  • For forty years worker productivity has increased while wages have remained stagnant. And some people still think the economy isn't rigged.
  • Corporate hegemony is the enemy.
  • A thriving middle class is the source of America's economic strength, not the consequence of it.
  • If you work in a restaurant, you should be paid enough to afford to eat in a restaurant.
  • I must not have gotten the memo that the Hillary coronation has begun.
  • Universal healthcare—what we call a fantasy of the left the rest of the modern world calls a fundamental right.
  • Never mind being great again, how about being great for once by making college free?
  • Great countries don't think small.
  • A great leader takes people places where the entrenched interests don't want them to go
  • Free college education. Because the world needs more books and a lot fewer bombs.
  • Why should those who broke the economy get all the tax breaks? End the carried interest loophole.
  • The fight for economic justice does not have a cut-off date.
  • The progress we want to see tomorrow still starts with what we do today.
  • People make mistakes. Our job continues to be getting Republicans to learn from theirs.
  • Even with me gone, the establishment still has to go.
  • What the hell—I'll vote for Hill.
    A Bernie supporter for Hillary Clinton
  • Hillary's thumb on the red button sure beats Trump's stubby finger.
    A Bernie Sanders supporter for Hillary Clinton
  • Rather hold my nose than get it bent out of shape by Trump.
    A Bernie Sanders supporter for Hillary Clinton
  • Better triangulation that conflagration.
    A Bernie Sanders supporter for Hillary Clinton
  • It's either Bernie's revolution or revolution by pitchfork.