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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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Dennis Kucinich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 8
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Cleveland
Ohio
Dennis John Kucinich
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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
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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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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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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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That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
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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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Lies are weapons of mass destruction.
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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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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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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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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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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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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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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 have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.
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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
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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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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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