Jill Stein Quotes

Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

We deserve elections we can trust.

I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think, before it really exploded as a big movement.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

She [Hillary Clinton] is actually got the track record for doing the crazy things that Donald Trump talks about.

You don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

I think the press is here to inform and empower people.

I wouldn't say it's a done deal yet, by any means. I think there are a lot of people who feel like their lives depend on decisions that are going to be made in this election [2016].

I think there are a lot of people who feel very passionate about needing to have an open debate. And I think it's a real sign of leadership that the press needs to be actually standing up for that.

I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign.

Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups.

Well, you know, with Donald Trump, it's non-stop and it's 24-7.

Remember, the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't actually support him. They're mainly motivated by not liking Hillary Clinton.

We call for, on the other hand - how do you deal with ISIS [Islamic State], of course, is the question that comes up immediately, ISIS and other terrorist groups.

We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.

We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.

It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.

It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.