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Dennis Kucinich

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Dennis Kucinich is an American politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. He served from 1997 to 2013, representing the 10th congressional district. Kucinich is known for his progressive stance on various issues, including healthcare reform, anti-war advocacy, and environmental protection. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008, emphasizing a platform focused on social justice and peace. Throughout his career, Kucinich has been a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy and has championed the idea of a single-payer healthcare system.

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Mar 30, 2009

It seems to me that we have to take another look at what we are doing.

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Mar 30, 2009

But we are spending money that we don't have.

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Mar 30, 2009

I have always thought that we should have trade and tourism with other countries, and we should have cultural and educational exchanges, and we should help out during humanitarian crises.

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Mar 16, 2009

I look forward to joining you in whatever it takes to ensure that every child in America has access to high quality, full-day, full calendar year pre-Kindergarten education.

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Mar 9, 2009

I believe the root of our health care problems is simple: It is the health insurance companies.

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Mar 9, 2009

Our haphazard, complex, regressive, inefficient method of delivering health care has been in desperate need of an overhaul for decades.

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Mar 9, 2009

I believe it will lead to the president signing a health reform bill in 2009 that will very much benefit the country.

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Feb 24, 2009

In listening and reading Usher's comments, when people act on a desire to change the world to make it a better place, that is the genesis of causing other people to become involved.

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Feb 23, 2009

I would like to address these remarks to the panelists.

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Feb 23, 2009

I would say yes. And in particular, you have a lot of people running around this town who want to further cut the benefits that baby boomers have in the name of generational equity, which is rather perverse to me.

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Oct 8, 2008

Did you mislead your investors? And I remind you, sir, you're under oath.

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Oct 5, 2008

Did you mislead your investors? And I remind you, sir, you're under oath.

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May 20, 2008

How much more effective it would be if the disarming of Hezbollah, which should occur, would occur within the context of an agreement within Lebanon as opposed to being imposed by someone else. The Lebanese should have control of their own…

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May 20, 2008

My concern is this: that you had an assistant Secretary of State for the U.S., David Welch, who went to Lebanon, and he went there to basically make sure that the government took a hard-line position and that it would forestall the…

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May 20, 2008

I'm maintaining that our government, the United States, has really not been for dialogue so as to try to bring all the parties together. We have pursued a path that has been quite narrow and that, in effect, keeps the conflict going. So I…

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May 1, 2008

But there is a new survey that just came out published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that states that of the physicians that were contacted in this survey, thousands of them, 59 percent of the physicians now support a national health…

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Apr 29, 2008

I would ask that all of our colleagues join us in paying respect, appreciation, and gratitude to the life and the service of Corporal Bradley Arms by joining us in approving this resolution which honors his name by naming a United States…

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Mar 13, 2008

When I asked the question if you are aware of whether or not anything like this has happened before, we are talking about specific legislation that is before this House, would the gentleman know what the precedent for this is? Is this…

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Mar 13, 2008

The gentleman, in his long experience in the House, could he communicate to those who have, in my case, been in this House 12 years or less, anytime in your experience where the House has debated legislation in secret?

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Mar 13, 2008

And the debate that will take place regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, what would conceivably be the nature of that debate?

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Jan 23, 2008

The Center for Public Integrity, in a report released today, has found the Bush administration led the Nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and it culminated in military action against Iraq on…

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Dec 31, 2007

Kucinich told his supporters to caucus for Obama as their second choice.

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Dec 5, 2007

Let's hope that the National Intelligence Estimate will stop the drumbeat of war against Iran. This administration knew full well that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program in the same way that they knew that Iraq did not have…

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Nov 11, 2007

I did. And the rest of the account -- it was an unidentified flying object.

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