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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
Dennis Kucinich
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Dennis Kucinich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 8
Former U.S. Representative
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Cleveland
Ohio
Dennis John Kucinich
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My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
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I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
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We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.
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The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?
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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.
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If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.
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We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
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Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.
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So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
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I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.
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I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
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There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.
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He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
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