Top 87 Dennis Kucinich Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
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#3. The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
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#4. Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
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#6. War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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#7. 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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#8. My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.
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#9. There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.
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#10. We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.
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#11. I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
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#12. I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives of the people, except as an engine to redistribute the wealth of the Nation upwards.
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#13. We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies
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#14. What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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#15. There's an ethical dimension to my life and all of our lives, from the time we get up in the morning to the time we sleep, including what we sleep on. So I don't separate my choices from ethical choices at any time.
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#16. 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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#18. I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.
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#19. We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to
aggress.
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#20. The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.
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#21. 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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#23. Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.
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#24. People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
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#25. America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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#26. When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.
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#27. Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.
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#28. Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?
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#29. It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.
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#30. I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!
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#31. I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
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#32. I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
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#33. I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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#34. I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
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#35. You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.
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#36. I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
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#37. Journalist:
Congressman Kucinich, I believe you're the only one here who voted against the PATRIOT act right away after 9/11. Why is that?
His Reply:
Because I read it.
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#38. But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.
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#39. People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.
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#40. So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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#41. You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.
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#42. Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
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#43. Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.
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#45. Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.
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#46. If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.
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#47. America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.
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#48. And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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#49. If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.
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#50. 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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#51. When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy. It's actually effortless - it's a flow.
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#52. We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.
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#53. I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.
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#54. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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#55. 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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#56. I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.
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#57. Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
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#58. He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
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#59. Challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood ...
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#60. The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined.
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#61. 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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#62. My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
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#63. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.
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#64. It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
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#65. That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
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#66. If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.
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#68. First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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#69. Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.
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#70. I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.
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#71. I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.
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#72. Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.
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#73. 2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.
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#74. 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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#75. Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
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#76. The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?
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#77. Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
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#79. In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.
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#80. Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.
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#81. We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
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#82. This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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#83. We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.
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#84. We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.
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#85. When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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#86. The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
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#87. Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.
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