Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

- Dennis Kucinich

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

- Dennis Kucinich

I believe health care is a civil right.

- Dennis Kucinich

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

- Dennis Kucinich

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

- Dennis Kucinich

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

- Dennis Kucinich

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

- Dennis Kucinich

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

- Dennis Kucinich

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

- Dennis Kucinich

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

- Dennis Kucinich

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

- Dennis Kucinich

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.

- Dennis Kucinich

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

- Dennis Kucinich

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

- Dennis Kucinich

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

- Dennis Kucinich

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

The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so, that didn't have anything to do with 9/11, didn't have weapons of mass destruction.

- Dennis Kucinich

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

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

- Dennis Kucinich

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