Cynthia McKinney

“I am not an American who was born in the South. I am a Southerner who was born in America.”

“Voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.”

“You cannot have a democracy that is not participatory.”

“I've been called a lot of things. 'Maverick' is one of them.”

“Our foreign policy has been hijacked by a tiny group of neoconservatives.”

“The biggest lie that is written is that you can't do it. The biggest lie is that you're not good enough.”

“The media has a responsibility to tell the truth, and not to be a stenographer for the powerful.”

“We have a right to know what's in our food, we have a right to know what's in our water, we have a right to know what's in our air.”

“The Green Party is the only party that is not beholden to corporate interests.”

“We are at a crossroads in our history. We can either continue on the path to war and destruction, or we can choose a new path, a path of peace and cooperation.”

“When you stand for justice, you're never alone.”

“What we need is a revolution of values in this country.”

“The war in Iraq was based on a series of lies.”

“My father's a fighter. My mother's a fighter. I'm a fighter.”

“What I'm fighting for now in my work... is the right of every person to have a say in the decision-making process.”