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Budget & Economy     Howie Hawkins: Income gap between rich and everyone else has grown.     Howie Hawkins: Income gap between rich and everyone else has grown.     Jill Stein: 2011 debt ceiling debacle spurred candidacy.

Civil Rights     Jill Stein: Must follow up direct action with electoral politics.

Drugs     Jill Stein: I support legalization of marijuana.

Education     Jill Stein: Establish basic right to free college education.     Jill Stein: Students are on the receiving end of generational injustice.

Energy & Oil     Howie Hawkins: Green New Deal can close racial income gap.     Jill Stein: Completely zero out climate emissions, as fast as possible.     Jill Stein: We can't wait 4 more years to address climate change.     Jill Stein: National ban on fracking; natural gas is not clean.     Jill Stein: No evidence that carbon sequestration solves climate crisis.

Environment     Jill Stein: Water should be tested for radioactivity and heavy metals.     Margaret Flowers: Water should be tested for radioactivity and heavy metals.     Jill Stein: Restore shorelines, deltas, forests, and grazing systems.

Foreign Policy     Joe Biden: Work with NATO, with U.S. as the indispensable leader.     Jill Stein: Start holding all parties accountable in Israel/Palestine.

Government Reform     Jill Stein: No corporate nor lobbyist donations; just small donors.     Jill Stein: 2002 Clean Elections repeal meant "throw the bums out".

Health Care     Don Berwick: ObamaCare is massive step forward, but we need single-payer.     Hillary Clinton: OpEd: Settling for ObamaCare abandons single-payer.     Jill Stein: What injures the climate's health also injures human health.     Jill Stein: Medical doctor & advocate for community health provider.     Jill Stein: ObamaCare was step backward for goal of single payer.

Homeland Security     Amy Klobuchar: Voted for 95% of military spending bills in Congress.     Andrew Yang: Too much military spending focuses in decades-old threats.     Beto O`Rourke: Supported 11th aircraft carrier; opposed 1% military cut.     Cory Booker: Supports military spending on Foreign Affairs Committee.     Elizabeth Warren: End stranglehold of defense contractors on military policy.     John Delaney: Voted for 25 out of 28 military spending bills.     Tulsi Gabbard: Don't cut military budget; fund weapons systems & ABMs.     Barack Obama: OpEd: Did not prosecute official acts of torture.     Jill Stein: Patriot Act ends the right to judicial review.     Jill Stein: Bloated military budget enables knee-jerk military solutions.

Jobs     Charles Booker: We are going to stand up for organized labor.     Jill Stein: Focus on pink jobs: the jobs of meeting human needs.     Jill Stein: Stimulus spent $220K per job; I propose $20K per green job.

Principles & Values     Charles Booker: Launched "Hood to the Holler" to bridge urban-rural divide.     Donald Trump: OpEd: Trump's rise analogous to Hitler's in 1930s Germany.     Jill Stein: Ran as Green Party nominee for MA governor in 2002 & 2010.     Jill Stein: Silence is not an effective political strategy.

Social Security     Howie Hawkins: The most regressive tax of all is the FICA payroll tax.     Howie Hawkins: The most regressive tax of all is the FICA payroll tax.

War & Peace     Donald Trump: Implicitly approved Israel killing Iranian nuclear scientist.     Donald Trump: OpEd: Israel killed Iranian scientist & Trump approved.     Amy Klobuchar: Supported regime change in Libya; supports Israeli military.     Bernie Sanders: Cut military spending, except F-35 at Vermont air base.     Cory Booker: End intervention in Yemen & Iran, but not Israel.     Elizabeth Warren: No intervention in Yemen; but intervention in Gaza OK.     Jay Inslee: Opposed war in Iraq; opposed use of torture.     Joe Biden: Supported wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, but not Iran.     Kamala Harris: Ok with Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.     Kirsten Gillibrand: Withdraw from Yemen; Withdraw from Afghanistan.     Marianne Williamson: Stop relying on brute force internationally.     Tulsi Gabbard: No regime change in Iran; no war in Yemen.

Welfare & Poverty     Howie Hawkins: Reparations and Green New Deal to close racial income gap.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Amy Klobuchar Minnesota Democratic candidate for President; Minnesota Senator Andrew Yang New York Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor Barack Obama Democratic President (elected 2008) Bernie Sanders Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O`Rourke Texas Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from TX Charles Booker Democratic Senate Challenger Kentucky Cory Booker New Jersey Mayor of Newark; N.J. Senator Don Berwick Massachusetts Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Donald Trump Republican Presidential incumbent Elizabeth Warren Massachusetts Senator Hillary Clinton Democratic Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins New York Green Party Presidential Challenger Jay Inslee Washington Democratic Washington Governor Jill Stein Green Challenger Joe Biden Democratic V.P. John Delaney Maryland Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from MD-6 Kamala Harris California Democratic nominee for Vice President; California Senator Kirsten Gillibrand New York Democratic candidate for President; New York Senator Margaret Flowers Green Senate candidate Maryland Marianne Williamson Democratic candidate for President Tulsi Gabbard Hawaii Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from HI-2