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Married to
Elizabeth Kucinich

October 8, 1946

Cleveland, OH

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Walking, Reading, listening, gardening, Elizabeth, playing with my dogs, politics, people, policies of healthcare for all, Elizabeth, peace, freedom.

Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, Michael Franti and Spearhead

Sicko - Michael Moore

Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal, Working by Studs Terkel, Einstein's Dream by Alan Lightman

"If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people." Tony Benn - Sicko

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

"Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me." Walt Whitman

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” Charles Mingus

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now." Henry David Thoreau

"Come, my friends,'tis not too late to seek a newer world." Tennyson

I want to inspire America to take a new path, a different direction. I envision an America which has the capacity to reconnect with the heart of the world; an America which proceeds in the world optimistically and courageously. An America which understands that the world is interdependent, that it is inter-connected, and that what we do today impacts future generations.

I want to break the shackles of fear which have deprived our citizens of rights. We need to change the way this country values humanity, so that instead of fear and lies, we can live our lives based on principles of peace and hope. We need to regain the trust of the American people and we need to have a government which trusts the American people.

It's time for America to resume its glorious journey; time to reject shrinking jobs and wages, disappearing savings and rights; time to reject the detour towards fear and greed. It's time to look out upon the world for friends, not enemies; time to counter the control of corporations over our politics, our economy, our resources, and mass media. It's time for those who have much to help those who have little, by maintaining a progressive tax structure. It's time to tell the world that we wish to be their partner in peace, not their leader in war. Most of all, it is time for America to again be the land where dreams come true, because the government is on the side of its people.

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MY TEN KEY ISSUES:

-Universal Health Care

-International Cooperation: US out of Iraq, UN in

-Jobs and Withdrawal from NAFTA & WTO

-Repeal of the "Patriot Act"

-Guaranteed Quality Education, Pre-K Through College

-Full Social Security Benefits at Age 65

-Right-to-Choose, Privacy, and Civil Rights

-Balance Between Workers and Corporations

-Environmental Renewal and Clean Energy

-Restored Rural Communities and Family Farms

(216) 252-9000

Cleveland, OH