We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.
Dennis Kucinich - Obesity - Fat - Dollar - Food - Advertising - Junk Food - Childhood - Spending

Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur job growth. The Fed’s plan is to give banks more money to finance the private sector job creation. But banks have ample cash now; they aren’t lending, and the private sector is not creating the jobs. That is why we have 15 million people unemployed.
Dennis Kucinich - Republican - Government - Economic - Jobs - Banks - Unemployment - Money - Federal Reserve

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Dennis Kucinich - Republican - Government - Struggle - Democratic - Corporate

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That’s why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.
Dennis Kucinich - Government - Wall Street - Wealth - Democracy - Economy - Shareholder - Regulation - Monopoly - Cheat

We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction of the money on education that we spend on arms buildups. Under a Kucinich administration, education becomes one of the top domestic priorities. We put money into it. We cause the government to be vitally involved in it. And we make sure our children have the love of knowledge.
Dennis Kucinich - Government - Education - Economic - Knowledge - Military

The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined.
Dennis Kucinich - Military - Social - Pentagon - Responsibility - Budget - Spending - Crazy

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.
Dennis Kucinich - Unemployment - Social - Economic - Weapon - Poverty - America

When you consider that a steelworker who’s making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who’s making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.
Dennis Kucinich - Republican - Jobs - Workers - Tax - Rich - Working Class - Unfair

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.
Dennis Kucinich - Republican - Rich - Poor - War - Fear - Tax

This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq, which there wasn't one at the time we went in. I want to state that Mr. Cheney must be held accountable. He is already ginning up a cause for war against Iran. Now, we have to stand for this Constitution, we have to protect and defend this Constitution.
Dennis Kucinich - Military - America - Weapon - War - Lies - Iran - Iraq - Constitution - Terrorism