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Abortion     Paula Jean Swearengin: Pro-choice, including abortion alternatives.

Budget & Economy     Kathleen Sebelius: Erased $1.1 billion budget deficit without raising taxes.

Civil Rights     Justin Amash: Proposed amendment to curb warrantless surveillance.     Justin Amash: Real threat to marriage & religion is government, not gays.     Paula Jean Swearengin: Worrying about somebody's sexuality is just ridiculous.

Crime     Deval Patrick: Wrote letters to parole board for convicted rapist.     Deval Patrick: I don't need to be lectured about crime.     Justin Amash: Introduced legislation to end federal death penalty.

Education     Rahm Emanuel: Expanded graduation rate at city colleges from 7% to 14%.     Josh Shapiro: $100 million in public money to private & religious schools.

Energy & Oil     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: OpEd: Green New Deal idea borrowed from Green Party.     Green Party: Reorganize society to accomplish Green New Deal.     Howie Hawkins: I'm the original Green New Dealer, since 2010.     Howie Hawkins: Claims to be the "original Green New Dealer".     Jay Inslee: Plan: $9 trillion investment, transition from coal.     Jay Inslee: Ready to support anyone who adopts his climate change plan.     Jay Inslee: Takes a more aggressive stance against fossil fuel companies.     Justin Amash: Voted no on Keystone pipeline for favoring special interests.     Tom Steyer: AdWatch: Do even more with endless supply of wind and sun.     Tom Steyer: CPAC panel discussion: "What Tom Steyer Won't Tell You".

Environment     Bill Flores: Attack EPA ozone standards and power plant caps.     Rahm Emanuel: Let every child have 10-minute walk to park or playground.     Rahm Emanuel: Gentrification can be done right, with active zooming laws.

Foreign Policy     Al Gore: Supports Malaysian opposition leader Ibrahim.

Free Trade     Bill Hagerty: Criticized Walmart for claiming tariffs raised prices.

Government Reform     Andrew Yang: Change Electoral College by proportional allocation of votes.     Andrew Yang: Congress should lower Federal voting age to 16.     Andrew Yang: Electoral College: allocate state votes proportionally.     Andrew Yang: Lower voting age to 16 in federal elections.     Bernie Sanders: Rotate judges on Supreme Court, like term limits.     Kirsten Gillibrand: As U.S. rep held dozens of office hours at grocery stores.     Rahm Emanuel: My position on term limits is called elections.     JD Vance: No government solutions; stop blaming faceless companies.

Health Care     Anthony Kennedy: ObamaCare should be justified by other Constitutional powers.     Rahm Emanuel: I was charged to produce ObamaCare; and it happened.

Homeland Security     Justin Amash: Wants to close Guantanamo prison.     Josh Shapiro: Pro-Hamas college protests threaten student safety.

Principles & Values     George Allen: Conservative alternative to McCain in presidential jockeying.     Justin Amash: Partisanship undercutting our constitutional basis.     Marcia Fudge: Stop limiting black cabinet members to HUD or Labor.     Pete Buttigieg: Tension between capitalism and democracy America's challenge.     Rahm Emanuel: Politicians are usually gray; I am not.     Rahm Emanuel: Washington is not broken; the GOP is broken.     JD Vance: OpEd: Vance explains the economically precarious white voter.

Social Security     Robert Reich: Open the lockbox & throw away key: Better reforms needed.

Tax Reform     JD Vance: Tax "social justice" nonprofits, pay down their endowments.

War & Peace     Al Gore: Supported continuing 1998 air strikes in Iraq.     Al Gore: Supported Bush’s 1991 bombing of Iraq.     Rahm Emanuel: Israel/Palestine framework deal easier than a final deal.     Tulsi Gabbard: Policy allowing women in combat roles long overdue.     Josh Shapiro: BDS (boycotting Israel) is rooted in antisemitism.

Welfare & Poverty     Marcia Fudge: Fought cuts to food stamp program.     Marcia Fudge: Public housing should be a stopping point, not a lifetime.     Rahm Emanuel: Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit.     JD Vance: We spend our way to the poorhouse.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Al Gore Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Democrat U.S. Rep New York-14 Andrew Yang New York Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor Anthony Kennedy Republican Appointee to Supreme Court (retired) Bernie Sanders Independent Senator (VT) amd former Presidential candidate Bill Flores Republican U.S. Rep Texas-17 Bill Hagerty Republican Jr Senator Tennessee Deval Patrick Massachusetts Democratic Governor George Allen Republican Green Party Howie Hawkins New York Green Party Presidential Challenger Jay Inslee Washington Democratic Washington Governor JD Vance Ohio Republican Vice Presidential nominee Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Justin Amash Michigan Libertarian Presidential Challenger Kathleen Sebelius Kansas Former Democratic Governor (1994-2002); Cabinet Sec'y (HHS) Kirsten Gillibrand New York Democratic candidate for President; New York Senator Marcia Fudge Ohio HUD Secretary Paula Jean Swearengin Democratic candidate for West Virginia U. S. Senator West Virginia Pete Buttigieg Indiana DOT Secretary Rahm Emanuel Ambassador to Japan Robert Reich Massachusetts Former Dem. Challenger 2002, and Cabinet Sec'y Tom Steyer California Democratic Challenger Tulsi Gabbard Hawaii Democratic candidate for President; U.S. Rep from HI-2