Bernie Sanders Liberty University Speech

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thank you for that warm introduction and welcome Sir convocation this morning we so honored and humbled to welcome

a very special guest this morning and senator Bernie Sanders is democratic dnmt these

women it was a democratic candidate for president of the United States and senator Sanders we made room for a lot of your supporters locally here on the front row so you

got a fan club here but we %HESITATION into thousand six senator Sanders was was elected to the U. S. Senate for the first time after serving for sixteen years as the sole congressman from

Vermont and he went on to be reelected in twenty twelve he was born in Brooklyn New York he attended Brooklyn

College in the universities I go he later moved to Vermont where he became a documentary filmmaker and a carpenter and

in nineteen eighty one he was elected mayor of Burlington Vermont by ten votes he was under

his administration the city made strides major strides in affordable housing environmental

protection childcare youth programs in the arts in Congress Bernie has fought tirelessly for working families focusing on the shrinking middle class and

amendments than anyone else in Congress Bernie lives in Burlington Vermont now and people have been asking since

we announced since David came to me and tell me that senator Sanders had agreed to speak at liberty and I said that's great people

have been asking well are you going to be able to find any common ground with the senator and I think I did I think this morning senator

Sanders if you come I nnj nnj

a fan of the liberty flames dnmt so we already found some common ground I hope but Anders

nnj residents of all well and David ok thank you very much for inviting my wife Jane and me ought

off by acknowledging what I think all of you already know and that is the views that

many here at liberty university have and all I on a number of important issues all

very very different I believe in women's rights nnj

now in the light of the woman to control her own body I believe in gay rights nnj

those are my views and it is no secret but I came here today because I

believe from the bottom of my heart that it is vitally important for those of us who

us there is too much shouting at each other there is too much making

fun of each other now in my view then are you can say this is somebody who whose voice

sentiment can we thank our senator before leann