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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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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Jill Ellen Stein
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We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.
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You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.
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Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people.
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Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.
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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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Bernie Sanders started off at about three percent himself and skyrocketed as word got out about him.
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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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Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
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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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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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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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We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.
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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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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 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 Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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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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The Green Party provides the infrastructure, kind of the culture of watchdogging the electoral bureaucracy, and how you participate, how you get on the ballot, stuff like that which is very difficult to do unless you have billions of dollars.
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That's not to say they [Bill and Hillary Clinton] intend to be corrupt, but I think they're way too cozy with the economic elite, and we know that our political system exemplifies the power of the economic elite.
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