I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school. Jill Stein More Quotes by Jill Stein More Quotes From Jill Stein I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful. Jill Stein powerful sleep war Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students. Jill Stein bail wall students The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up. Jill Stein clock-is-ticking fighting running According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million. Jill Stein names jobs two Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings. Jill Stein saving cost half In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Jill Stein rip real jobs We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism. Jill Stein arms fighting hands To my mind, to say that says to young people "and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably do not have a climate that's going to be here come 2050." And, in my view, the point is not necessarily to win now but it's to begin building our power. Jill Stein views winning people Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding. Jill Stein party winning years There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions. Jill Stein conviction right-now real I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights. Jill Stein law play thinking Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge? Jill Stein voters block party 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. Jill Stein rights jobs thinking In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for. Jill Stein right-to-vote vote country If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly. Jill Stein vote party pigs There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made. Jill Stein community decision player It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking. Jill Stein fracking crisis climate If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics. Jill Stein political sick war Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil. Jill Stein war mean moving It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Jill Stein presidential party two
