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We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

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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Sparta
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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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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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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
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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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