Jill Stein Quotes

My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

We saw recently that Donald Trump has gotten now over $4 billion in free media exposure, Hillary Clinton over $2 billion, and of course I've had almost none.

I am not an expert on the Clinton Foundation, so, you know, I don't want to pass judgment on it.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.

This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

Remember, Bernie [Sanders] was the guy. He was the one guy that could win this, and head-to-head he could go against [Donald] Trump and win.

My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

It's hard to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because, you know, he will change his mind in the next hour, if not the next day, or whatever.

I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.

I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.

We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

We're calling for that bailout for young people in order to jumpstart the economy of our future.

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.

We are subsidizing healthy food instead of subsidizing food that is definitely not healthy for us.

We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

The issues we address basically: We call for an emergency jobs program to address the emergency of climate change.

As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes?

Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.

We also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

I think NATO needs to be looked at.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.