Bernie Sanders On ‘The One Percent’

2015

There is something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

Campaign kickoff rally

1991

What we have seen in the last 10 years is the richest 1 percent of the population have seen an 86 percent increase in their real income, OK? The richest people are becoming much richer. Meanwhile the working class, the middle class, are becoming poorer.

C-SPAN interview

1976

The fundamental issue facing us in the state is that ½ of 1 percent of these people — the richest ½ of 1 percent — earn as much as the bottom 27 percent and the top 3 percent earn as much as the bottom 40 percent.

Vermont gubernatorial debate