Dennis Kucinich Quotes About Country

• 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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• This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq, which there wasn't one at the time we went in. I want to state that Mr. Cheney must be held accountable. He is already ginning up a cause for war against Iran. Now, we have to stand for this Constitution, we have to protect and defend this Constitution.

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  South Carolina Democratic Debate trancscript, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.

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  Speech at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, theconversation.org. February 17, 2002.

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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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• Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

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• The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

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

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• 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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  Formal Announcement of Candidacy, Cleveland City Council Chambers, p2004.org. October 13, 2003.

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• 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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  "Kucinich's anti-war platform". "Crossfire" with Robert Novak, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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