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• We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don’t have a right to aggress.

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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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• And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

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• 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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• 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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• First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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• 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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• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

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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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• 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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• 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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• My political career goes back to the ’60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

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• 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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• When you have real power you don’t threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Birth:	8th October, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Dennis John Kucinich was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative from Ohio, serving from 1997 to 2013. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential elections. From 1977 to 1979, Kucinich served as the 53rd Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1973, he graduated from Case Western Reserve University with both a Bachelor and a Master of Arts degree in speech and communication.

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