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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

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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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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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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
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Challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood.
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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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So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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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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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
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Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.
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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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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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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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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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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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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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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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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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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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