“The center has shifted in our politics. I'm really at the center. And all the other candidates are to the right of me.”

—  Dennis Kucinich

Quoted in Alyssa Kim, "Kucinich Campaigns for Peace," http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/08/kucinich-campai.html (August 12, 2007). Kucinich was speaking on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News (August 12, 2007)

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