It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition. Jill Stein More Quotes by Jill Stein More Quotes From Jill Stein Hillary Clinton, herself, in a leaked State Department email identified the Saudis as still the major funder of Sunni jihad around the world. And we would basically say to our allies that we will no longer support such policies which we, ourselves, have been a party to and that we would put a freeze on the bank accounts of countries that continue to fund jihadi terrorism. Jill Stein support party country I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent. Jill Stein arms mean world We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one. Jill Stein middle-east records track [ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply. Jill Stein afghanistan get-better iraq We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting. Jill Stein growth fighting successful The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency basis, they could adopt a ranked-choice system, which simply allows you to go to the poll, and rather than rolling your dice and deciding whether to vote your values or your fears, you get to rank your choices, knowing that if your first choice loses your vote is automatically assigned to your second choice. It's kind of a no-brainer system. It works very well. Jill Stein voting choices knowing It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan. Jill Stein isis iraq important For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system. Jill Stein support-systems cutting mean Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster. Jill Stein regime-change disaster regimes I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our economic elite but has not been helpful to the cause of democracies around the world. Jill Stein support rights thinking According to international law, in order to use force, we need to feel, we need good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack. And I think we need to stand up for international law. Jill Stein law order thinking As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Jill Stein responsibility war school I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law. Jill Stein law needs thinking It's hard to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because, you know, he will change his mind in the next hour, if not the next day, or whatever. Jill Stein next-day mind thinking We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning. Jill Stein allies warning country We also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production. Jill Stein food-production prioritize healthy I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians. Jill Stein jokes trying mean The idea here is for communities to decide how they meet these criteria for becoming sustainable economically, ecologically and socially.Through a community decision-making process. And exactly how that would be configured, you know, remains to be established. The process of community budgeting, participatory budgeting, is one model that's been suggested. Jill Stein community decision ideas What's going on with [Donald] Trump, you can't even get at, you know, and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening Mafiosos around the world. Jill Stein trump said world They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us. Jill Stein party office thinking
