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We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
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Jill Ellen Stein
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Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes?
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We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.
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I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
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I have the unique liberty as part of the Green Party that operates on the same terms. We have the ability to actually speak for everyday Americans. We are not controlled by major donors, by the influence of big banks, by fossil fuel giants, by war profiteers or insurance companies.
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Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
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By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
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The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.
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I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.
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As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.
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I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.
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I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
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You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.
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Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.
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It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.
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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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We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.
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In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf of peace and on international - and a policy based on international law and human rights.
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Bernie Sanders had public support behind him that outstripped... in head-to-head polling, Bernie Sanders was ahead of all the other competition. This is a progressive agenda that the American people embrace every time they have something to say about it.
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