{"author":"Bernie Sanders","author_id":"Bernie+Sanders","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["life","home","weather "],"id":299,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["government","believe","people "],"id":15086,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["long","vitality","must "],"id":32150,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["education","people","care "],"id":33748,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not all that much time covering the poor and the desperate. To a large degree, these people , the millions of poor people in America, are invisible, living under the radar screen. Their suffering is not seen on our evening news. But it's there.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["media","poor","poverty"],"id":52374,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["children","together","people "],"id":66244,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["together","men","fight "],"id":77344,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["future","employees","see "],"id":108311,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["security","long "],"id":109682,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"},{"text":"The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.","author":"Bernie Sanders","tags":["time","history","american "],"id":115400,"author_id":"Bernie+Sanders"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}