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We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Our Facebook went off the charts and volunteers poured into our campaigns and actually helped us achieve the ballot access status that we have now on the ballot in just about 48 states and this has continued.
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.
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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.
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Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.
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We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.
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We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.
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Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.
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Bernie's campaign was very principled in most regards, I think, you know, he certainly didn't go far enough in questioning the military policy, the military-industrial complex, and so on, but you know I think that's the price you pay for being in the Democratic Party. And Bernie [Sanders] has to pay that price.
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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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The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.
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Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.
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I'm trained as a medical doctor - that's my field: I've been practicing long enough to see how extremely broken our health care system is, how broken our health is, the link between that and the environment.
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The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.
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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.
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It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.
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Remember, the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't actually support him. They're mainly motivated by not liking Hillary Clinton.
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Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.
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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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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.
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Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.
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