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“I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.”

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Jill Stein, born on May 14, 1950, is an American physician known for her contributions to environmental health and public health. She served as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and has held leadership positions in several public health and environmental organizations. more

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“We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.”

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“I don't want to revisit history or try to re-interpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that we've had in the last, you know, since 2001, which has been an utter disaster, I don't think it's benefited us. Half of our discretionary budget, right, it's like 54% of our discretionary budget right now is being spent on the military. This is not working.”

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“I think NATO needs to be looked at.”

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“Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?”

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“We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.”

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“There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.”

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“We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.”

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“Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.”

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“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

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“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.”

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