Dennis Kucinich Quotes

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• Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Compassion

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• Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

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  Military, Government, Organization

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• We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

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  People, Teeth, Sparta

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• Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

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  Health, Should Have, Care

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• My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

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  Philosophy, Views, Different

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• The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading.

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  Country, Book, Reading

  Speech from the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressional Record, June 15, 2005.

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• We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

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  Eye, Soul, Avert

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

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• Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America. The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America. They want to take your Social Security. Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil.

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  Wall, Oil, Iraq

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

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  Country, Moving, Space

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• Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

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  Environment, Behavior, Economic

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• I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.

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  War, Thinking, Years

  N.H. Democratic Debate, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.

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  Country, America, People

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• So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

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  War, Depraved, Profitable

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• We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

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  Home, Health, Mass Destruction

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

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  Peace, War, Heart

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• Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.

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  Retirement, Jobs, Economic Inequality

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• There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

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  Kings, Mean, Differences

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Thinking

  "This Conversation With You is a Meditation". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.

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  Rocks, Want, Vote

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", www.cnn.com. November 5, 2003.

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• People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

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  People, Safe, Eating

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• Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

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  Political, Democracy, Restoration

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• I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

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  Heart, Demand, Spirit

  Speech, University of Manchester, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27, 2004.

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• Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

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  Israel, Land, Support

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• We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

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  Oil, Connections, Needs

  Grist and Outside interview, www.outsideonline.com. July 30, 2007.

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