SS, because your unique verbal proclivities and prejudices have reduced you to labeling and article entitled this "20 Atheist Quotes About Joy and Meaning That Crush 'Angry, Empty' Stereotype " to "Real Non-belief/not militant", I think I must decline your request for further examples.

I was simply trying to say that I thought that it was obvious that Bill said "but" to counter the typical US perception of socialist figures. The famous ones tend to be larger than life, emotional bloviators when compared to Mr. Sanders.