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The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

Jill Stein

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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're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.
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There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.
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The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.
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We can keep doing the same thing, but it would be unreasonable to expect a different result. It's very important, I think, for us to stop and look at what we're doing.We've been applying a flamethrower to the Middle East. And not just to the Middle East.
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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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You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been in Washington, D.C., too long, because he used to really understand independent politics and why we cannot have a viable political system unless we have independent political parties. Otherwise we just keep marching to the right.
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I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more than one demographic here, finding our common ground, and having a very frank discussion about race, for one thing, which is where he is most hard-hitting, race, and the issues of human rights.
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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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Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.
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We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
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The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.
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When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.
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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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As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.
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Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.
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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.
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We basically maintain that we can have an America and world that works for all of us, but that we need to really engage, and inform and empower the American voter, who are a bunch of very unhappy campers right now. They deserve to be informed.
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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.
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We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.
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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.
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