Top 60 Dennis Kucinich Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.”

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

3. “It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.”

— Dennis Kucinich

4. “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.”

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

6. “If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We’re not the victims of the world we see, we’re the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.”

— Dennis Kucinich

7. “I take issue with many people’s description of people being “Illegal” Immigrants. There aren’t any illegal Human Beings as far as I’m concerned.”

— Dennis Kucinich

8. “I believe health care is a civil right.”

— Dennis Kucinich

9. “Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.”

— Dennis Kucinich

10. “There’s a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you’ve believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.”

— Dennis Kucinich

11. “Look, I’ve lost before. And there’s always a tomorrow.”

— Dennis Kucinich

12. “Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.”

— Dennis Kucinich

13. “Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.”

— Dennis Kucinich

14. “America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.”

— Dennis Kucinich

15. “Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.”

— Dennis Kucinich

16. “When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you’re aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy. It’s actually effortless – it’s a flow.”

— Dennis Kucinich

17. “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

18. “Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?”

— Dennis Kucinich

19. “We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.”

— Dennis Kucinich

20. “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

21. “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.”

— Dennis Kucinich

22. “Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.”

— Dennis Kucinich

23. “I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.”

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

25. “Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self.”

— Dennis Kucinich

26. “People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.”

— Dennis Kucinich

27. “If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.”

— Dennis Kucinich

28. “We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it’s oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.”

— Dennis Kucinich

29. “Let’s help people in this country with the resources we have.”

— Dennis Kucinich

30. “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.”

— Dennis Kucinich

31. “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.”

— Dennis Kucinich

32. “Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a ‘buffer zone’ – or a bigger plan? – It’s time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.”

— Dennis Kucinich

33. “The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?”

— Dennis Kucinich

34. “We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.”

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

36. “I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.”

— Dennis Kucinich

37. “We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.”

— Dennis Kucinich

38. “I think it’s inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you’re reauthorizing the war all over again.”

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

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

— Dennis Kucinich

41. “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.”

— Dennis Kucinich

42. “We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.”

— Dennis Kucinich

43. “We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.”

— Dennis Kucinich

44. “The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.”

— Dennis Kucinich

45. “I think the Lord’s Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.”

— Dennis Kucinich

46. “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

47. “My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.”

— Dennis Kucinich

48. “I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.”

— Dennis Kucinich

49. “You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.”

— Dennis Kucinich

50. “America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.”

— Dennis Kucinich