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If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
Physician
Politician
Chicago
Illinois
Jill Ellen Stein
People
Climate
Protect
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Tomorrow
Fear
Jobs
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It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.
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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.
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I think NATO needs to be looked at.
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Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal.
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It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.
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[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.
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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.
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We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.
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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.
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The policies that Hillary [Clinton] advocates are going to be more of the same, whether you're looking at her cozy relationships with the banks, her refusal to support Glass-Steagall, her vagueness about what actually she's going to do about the control of the big banks.
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For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system.
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In terms of the role of the media, that is my candidacy which does provide that truly progressive agenda that gets to the heart of what is driving this right-wing extremism.It's not just Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is not going to be the solution here.
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I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.
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If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.
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This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.
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Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.
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