# Quote — Bernie Sanders, Outsider in the White House

> The majority of Americans today are outsiders, especially in the halls of power where decisions about our economy are being made. And we will remain outsiders for as long as the political balance is tipped against the great mass of Americans, for as long as the status quo is characterized by inequality and injustice. It will take all the energy of the new movements of

- Author: [Bernie Sanders](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders.md)
- Book: [Outsider in the White House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders/outsider-in-the-white-house.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Preface_to_Outsider_in_the_White_House_(2015)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders/outsider-in-the-white-house/the-majority-of-americans

## More from this book

> Change comes, even in the face of overwhelming odds. And the recognition of the changes we have already made, of what we have won, inspires us to fight even harder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders/outsider-in-the-white-house/change-comes-even.md)

> I got involved in electoral politics because I believed that movement activism on behalf of civil rights and women's rights and labor rights and environmental protection and peace needed to be reflected on our ballots and in the corridors of power.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders/outsider-in-the-white-house/i-got-involved.md)

> Now is the time for us to make America the country that the vast majority of our people want it to be. It will take a political revolution to make the change.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernie-sanders/outsider-in-the-white-house/now-is-the.md)