Home / Quotes / Quote by Jill Stein

Quote by Jill Stein

“That's in part what the Green New Deal is designed to do. So it's not only to address the climate emergency, but also to address the economic emergency, because the recovery has really gone to the top.”

Quote by Jill Stein

Author

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

You May Also Like

“Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.”

Stills Jobs Three Poverty Average Healthcare Wages

Author:Jill Stein

“All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”

Thinking Way Character Certain Given Objects Intuition Relate Sensibility

Book:Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.”

“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.”

Knows Two Today Jobs Names Deals Millions Example Produce Cost Thirds Billions Barack Academic Packages Stimulus Expertise Philip Harvey New Deal

Author:Jill Stein

“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.”

Knows Ideas Would Be Process Community Decision Becoming Models Remains Decision Making Criteria Budgeting Decision Making Process

Author:Jill Stein

“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.”

Knows Made Play Body Form Community Decision Pay Player Like You Intention Decision Making

Author:Jill Stein

“When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got.”

Knows Years Whole Economy Months Calling Six Transformed Pearls Six Months Harbors Mobilization

Author:Jill Stein

“I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply the same standards across the board. So it's not just Israel. It's also Saudi Arabia, it's also Egypt. It's where there are massive and systemic violations of human rights and international law.”

“Likewise to Saudi Arabia, where we just were selling another billion dollars worth of weapons, and we're not only selling the weapons but we are complicit in the war effort in Yemen where there are also incredible atrocities and war crimes being committed.”

War Effort Crime Weapons Dollars Incredibles Committed Billions Selling Atrocities Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis War Crimes Yemen

Author:Jill Stein

“This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.”

Wells Higher Standards Israel Higher Standards

Author:Jill Stein