Quotes by Dennis Kucinich

About Dennis Kucinich:

Dennis John Kucinich 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.
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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

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Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

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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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I believe health care is a civil right.

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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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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring Amer...

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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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I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

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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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The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so,...

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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 h...

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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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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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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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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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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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Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameDennis Kucinich
  • DescriptionOhio politician
  • BornOctober 8, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsGandhi Peace Award