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Dennis Kucinich

US Congressman, Former Candidate for President (1946 -  )

Mr. Speaker, we make war with such certainty, yet we are befuddled how to create peace. This paradox requires reflection if we are to survive. Making and endorsing war requires a secret love of death, and a fearful desire to embrace annihilation. Creating peace requires compassion, putting ourselves in the other person's place, and all of their suffering and all of their hopes and to act from our heart's capacity to love, not fear.

Additional Quotes by Dennis Kucinich

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. 


I believe health care is a civil right. 


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


I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate. 


I have worked to expand the health care de

Dennis Kucinich: The Story

From Cleveland Magazine, May 1996

 

 

It's Opening Day, 1978.

Swarms of Clevelanders descend upon Municipal Stadium, leaving their posh offices and suburban homes with hope in their hearts. It's a new beginning, they think - the suits, the steelworkers, the bubble-blowing kids - as they anticipate the sound that to them is like no other: the crack of a baseball smacking a bat.

Below them, Mayor Dennis Kucinich waits outside the Indians dugout, his famous mop of hair lilting with the wind. His chest is tight on this 43-degree day - not only with anxiety, but within the protective vise of a bulletproof vest he strapped around his body only hours ago. He's had countless death threats. And he's prepared. All he wants now is to throw out that pitch.

"When they called my name, I got a standing boo from about 75,000 people," he recalls.

It's 18 years later, and Dennis Kucinich, on the campaign trail, has traveled back to that moment - his mop of hair thinner, his face marked by time. The 49-year-old state senator sits next to Claudia Jabo,

Dennis Kucinich

American politician (born 1946)

Dennis Kucinich

Official portrait, 2010

In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2013
Preceded byMartin Hoke
Succeeded byMarcy Kaptur (redistricting)
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 2, 1997
Preceded byAnthony Sinagra
Succeeded byPatrick Sweeney
In office
November 14, 1977 – November 6, 1979
Preceded byRalph Perk
Succeeded byGeorge Voinovich
In office
August 9, 1983[1] – December 31, 1985
In office
January 1, 1970 – December 31, 1973
Born

Dennis John Kucinich


(1946-10-08) October 8, 1946 (age 78)
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Political partyIndependent (since 2024)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic (until 2024)
Spouse(s)

Helen Kucinich

(divorced)​
[3]

Sandra Lee McCarthy

(m. 1977; div. 1986)​

ChildrenJackie Kucinich
EducationCase Western Reserve University (BA, MA)
WebsiteKu

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