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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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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Jill Ellen Stein
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We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.
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We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.
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The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.
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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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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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The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.
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I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.
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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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To my mind, to say that says to young people and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably do not have a climate that's going to be here come 2050. And, in my view, the point is not necessarily to win now but it's to begin building our power.
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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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We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.
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I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.
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I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.
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If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.
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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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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 think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.
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We saw recently that Donald Trump has gotten now over $4 billion in free media exposure, Hillary Clinton over $2 billion, and of course I've had almost none.
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You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought to create an international religious extremist group to fight the Soviet Union.
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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.
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