Dennis Kucinich famous quotes

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#War #Thinking #People

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Talking #Oil #Iraq

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Police #Citizens #Used

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#People #Giving #Great Day

Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Peace #War #Heart

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#America #Care #Pages

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#War #Compassion #Cities

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Military #Organization #Government

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Health #Care #Selling

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Eye #Soul

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Home #Health #Weapons

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Fda #Gmos #Citizens

I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Heart #Voice #Soul

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Kings #Mean #Differences

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Blow #Pieces #World

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Stars #Fire #Air

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Heart #Demand #Spirit

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

#Iraq #United States #Doe

Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA!
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Wall #America #Oil

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#War

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Lying #Weapons #Destruction

We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.
-- Dennis Kucinich

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Country #Military #Responsibility

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#America #Epidemics #Agreement

The Democratic Party headquarters house elf,
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Party #House #Democratic

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

#Abortion #Wade #Firsts

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Environmental #Spills

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Israel #Land #Support

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Country #Moving #Space

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies
-- Dennis Kucinich

#War #Lying #President

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Essence #Listening #Way

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

#My Family

What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Government #Ukraine #People

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Freedom #Opportunity #Together

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.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Principles #Connections #Body

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.
-- Dennis Kucinich

#Corporations #Corruption #Social