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Vote: | 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 he's taking it. |
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Vote: | Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, for the 10th District of Ohio (map). He also sought the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2004 presidential election. Though he won no primaries, he continued campaigning for months with the goal of influencing the Democratic Party to shift its platform in the progressive direction, especially on the issue of peace. On July 23, 2004, Kucinich ended his campaign and endorsed Democratic Senator John Kerry for President.
Considered to be a green liberal, Kucinich sometimes describes himself as a "Wellstone Democrat." He has been praised as "a genuine progressive" by Ralph Nader. In 2003, Kucinich was the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award.
Personal life Kucinich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, as the eldest of the seven children of Frank and Virginia Kucinich (Kucinić). His Croatian father, a blue-collar man, was a semi-truck driver; his Slovenian mother, a homemaker. According to Kucinich, by the time he was 17, he had lived in twenty-one places, including several cars. He was able to pay for his college tuition by scrubbing floors. In 1973, he graduated from Case Western Reserve University with both a BA, and an MA.
Kucinich is twice-divorced, with a daughter, Jackie, from his marriage to Sandra Lee McCarthy.
Kucinich is a Catholic, an environmentalist, and a vegan.
With a net worth of between $2,000 and $32,000, Kucinich is one of Congress's least wealthy members.
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