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Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump, often by big numbers and always at a larger margin than Secretary Clinton is."

By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 16, 2016 a town hall in San Juan:

"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet:

"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation":

Winning enough pledged delegates is "not impossible."

By Jon Greenberg • May 2, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech:

Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2016 In a statement to Philadelphia magazine:

"A tax on soda and juice drinks would disproportionately increase taxes on low-income families in Philadelphia."

By Mark Dent • April 25, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech:

"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a television ad:

"Washington politicians are paid over $200,000 an hour for speeches."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y.:

"We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO."

By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 12, 2016 a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.:

"We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low."

By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a Democratic debate in New York:

"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."

By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate:

"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

Says Hillary Clinton supported and continues to "support fracking."

By Linda Qiu • April 13, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet:

"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."

By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."

By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a speech at Temple University:

Says Hillary Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president.' "

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 3, 2016 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:

Says his campaign has released his past tax returns.

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

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