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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

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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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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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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If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.
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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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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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It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
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We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.
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My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.
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The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.
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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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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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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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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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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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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
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You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.
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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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2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.
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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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