Quote

The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court.

Jill Stein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
Physician
Politician
Chicago
Illinois
Jill Ellen Stein
People
Afraid
Nixon
Days
Delivered
Politics
Richard
President
Stood
Fear
Lesson
Everything
Supreme
Take
Court
Important
Lessons
Oppressive

More quotes by Jill Stein

Image
This is in a nutshell, this is what's wrong with our media, and we see that really played out full in this election [2016], where this is undoubtedly the most toxic election that we've had in - certainly in my lifetime.
Jill Stein
Image
I found that the walls that are created by the institutions of health care are very problematic, and I felt not good about giving people pills and procedures and then sending them back out to the things that were making them sick in the first place.
Jill Stein
Image
The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Jill Stein
Image
If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.
Jill Stein
Image
Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most we need an affirmative agenda.
Jill Stein
Image
The next Wall Street crash is just around the corner. The meltdown of the climate is coming. The wolves are at the door, all kinds of them. We need to stand up and provide the solutions that are there, that are affordable.
Jill Stein
Image
The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.
Jill Stein
Image
We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.
Jill Stein
Image
They have to earn our vote. Neither Hillary [Clinton] or Donald [Trump] have earned our votes, yet the media is kind of closing ranks around them to try to prevent before people find out that there is actually - you know, that we actually have other choices. We are not limited to two corporate candidates.
Jill Stein
Image
We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.
Jill Stein
Image
Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.
Jill Stein
Image
[Hillart Clinton] holds the illusion that we can make fossil fuel safe, and that they are safe, and she established an office for fracking. We know who she's taking the money from. We know who the Democratic Party is taking the money from.
Jill Stein
Image
We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.
Jill Stein
Image
To my mind, to say that says to young people and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably do not have a climate that's going to be here come 2050. And, in my view, the point is not necessarily to win now but it's to begin building our power.
Jill Stein
Image
Where does Donald Trump come from - and it's not just Donald Trump. It's a whole movement of right-wing extremism, not just in this country but also in Europe, which is a response to globalization, to the financialization of our economy, you know, to the trade agreements that throw working people under the bus.
Jill Stein
Image
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
Jill Stein
Image
I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.
Jill Stein
Image
We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.
Jill Stein
Image
I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.
Jill Stein
Image
My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.
Jill Stein