Quotes from Jill Stein

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office. My job is to do everything that I can to create an America and a world that we can live in and that we can survive in.

We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used against Howard Dean as a peace candidate who was doing well. So, in many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake Left while it moves Right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

We've got a big happy, one corporate family now uniting the corporate Democrats and the corporate Republicans.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.