Jill Stein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.
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The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.
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The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
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Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
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I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.
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Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.
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The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.
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Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.
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We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism.
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I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.
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Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.
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It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.
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Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
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If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.
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You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.
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There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.
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In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.
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The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.
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There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.
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The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.
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New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.
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I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.
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Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
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Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.
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We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.
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The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.
-- Jill Stein
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