Dennis Kucinich

“I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.”

“War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.”

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

“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.”

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

“You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.”

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

“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.”

“When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.”

“In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.”

“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.”

“What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.”

“I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.”

“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”

“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 America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.”

“My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.”

“So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.”