Dennis Kucinich Quotes on War & Peace (12 Quotes)

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

Theirs is the music of the heart of the world, ... Listen to the drumbeat of our Native brothers and sisters because they will connect us to our own hearts, hearts that long for peace. No more blood for oil.

Iran has worked with the United States after 911. I don't understand why this administration is, once again, leading us towards a war. We need this administration not only to tone down its rhetoric, but stop this belief that somehow the United States should be the policeman of the world,

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq did not have those weapons of mass destruction, ... This administration went in anyway. This war was wrong and we must expose this administration.

It's right here, and it's happened because four members of Congress put aside any kind of differences that we may have had in the run-up to the war and the conduct of the war, and we're saying this is the way to bring our troops home,

If America is to live in peace, it must be the leader in peace by rejoining the world community,

Inspectors general play a vital role in ensuring that taxpayers' funds are used properly, ... The fact that the DOD has not had an IG on the ground in Iraq for at least six months raises serious questions about the DOD's priorities and their ability to handle the war spending in an honest and transparent way.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

We must be the party that brings our troops home, we must be the party that causes us to work with the world community. ... It's time for America to reconnect with the world in a vision of peace.