Dennis Kucinich Quotes

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a small group seizes those resources, uses it to buy arms to make sure that they can oppress the remainder, and you get these great inequalities. So Canada is among the better performing of the natural resource economies, but it's still not up to the best performing.

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.

I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.