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I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Jill Ellen Stein
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We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.
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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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You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.
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I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
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I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.
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This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.
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If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.
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We call for, on the other hand - how do you deal with ISIS [Islamic State], of course, is the question that comes up immediately, ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight million dollars a day to the Israeli army that is also violating international law and human rights.
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Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.
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There is no question that many people are intimidated and scared. However, the majority of voters are clamoring for something else. So if word gets out that there actually is a candidate out there of integrity, who is not poisoned by corporate money, you could see a lot of people come together from across the political spectrum.
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I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think, before it really exploded as a big movement.
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Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment.
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The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.
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Even the majority of their own voters do not support them. It's something like 25 percent of [Donald] Trump supporters that actually support him. The majority actually hates Hillary [Clinton], and the same is true for Hillary. One-third of her supporters really like her. They dislike fear and hate Donald Trump. What's wrong with this picture?
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In other words, speaking truth as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.
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Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
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I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.
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I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.
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I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.
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