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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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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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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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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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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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We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
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Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.
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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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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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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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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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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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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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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.
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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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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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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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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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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.
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So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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