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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Dennis Kucinich

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Dennis Kucinich
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 8
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Cleveland
Ohio
Dennis John Kucinich
Always
People
Behalf
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Economic
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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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We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.
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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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Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
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We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.
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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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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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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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Challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood.
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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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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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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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Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.
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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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We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.
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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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