Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Our national security policies should be based more on efforts to wage peace than on efforts to prepare for war. Peace is not the absence of war; war is the absence of peace.
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Our Afghanistan policy should be based as much on listening to the women of Afghanistan as on listening to foreign policy or military experts. It is they who will suffer most from a Taliban takeover of the country.
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Our economic policies should be based on listening to elementary school teachers as much as on listening to economists. The way to have a vibrant economy 15 years from now is to take better care of our children today.
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We’ve developed a political system so disconnected from the heart, so based in economics but devoid of love, that it creates a perilous split between collective decisions and our deep humanity. This is dysfunctional, pathological & destructive to the future prospects of humanity.
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Where fear has been harnessed for political purposes our task is to harness love. This isn’t a flowery concept, it’s a political reality. We can’t defeat darkness but we can overcome it; we can’t stop dog whistles, but we can drown them out with the voices of our better angels.
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“What makes you qualified!?” ... marianne2020.com/video-posts…
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My interview with John Berman on CNN this week youtube.com/watch?v=lXsEfv…
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A council of African-Americans leaders would disburse the money as they see fit to projects of economic and educational renewal. I am reading up and listening to those who have been putting forth ideas about this for years.
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Among many lawsuits filed by Native tribes, the USA should seek to do justice where justice has been withheld for centuries. And the Black Hills of South Dakota should be returned to the Sioux as per a treaty we signed in 1863. The way to free the future is to clean up the past.
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People think politics is so ugly, and part of it is. But there is something else there too, when we allow it to unfold. Something noble and very meaningful.
As someone who has been… instagram.com/p/BtV21EDgh5p/…
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Article in today’s Des Moines Register desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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Here is my interview with the Des Moines Register today (sound begins two minutes in) livestream.com/accounts/7458…
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