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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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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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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 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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We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
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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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I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.
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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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That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.
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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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Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.
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What's going on with [Donald] Trump, you can't even get at, you know, and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening Mafiosos around the world.
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I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.
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[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.
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In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.
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The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.
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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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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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According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.
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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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I'm sorry. If you're working as secretary of state, you do not have time to be spending half of your volume of emails on your own private stuff, whether it's a nonprofit private business or whether it is a for-profit private business. You should not be doing that on company time.
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Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.
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