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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.

Dennis Kucinich

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Dennis Kucinich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 8
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Cleveland
Ohio
Dennis John Kucinich
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That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
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I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.
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What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.
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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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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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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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I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
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We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.
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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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We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.
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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.
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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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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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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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But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.
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So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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