Abortion

"A woman's right-to-choose must be protected as essential to personal privacy and gender equality," Kucinich says. "Only those who agree to uphold Roe v. Wade should be nominated for the Supreme Court."

Climate

The U.S. needs a president who will reinvigorate the Clean Air Act and work to eliminate the air pollution, join world efforts to curb global warming, ratify the Kyoto Protocol, spur research and development into clean-burning, renewable fuels, and move the United States to 20 percent renewable energy use by 2010, Kucinich says.

Guns

"We know that over a period of 100 days, as many people are killed by handguns as died in Sept. 11 in this country," Kucinich told the NAACP Presidential Primary Forum on July 12, 2007. "It is time that we ban handguns. We have to do that in order to protect our cities. It is time that we took a position that says that the 14th Amendment ... that right to life, liberty is just as important as the 2nd Amendment."

Health

Kucinich has called for a national health insurance program covering medical, dental, mental health and long-term care for all, as well as prescription drugs. He authored and continues to promote the United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act). First introduced in the House in 2005, it would establish the United States National Health Insurance Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and in U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, and mental health services.

Immigration

Kucinich has voted against building a fence along the Mexican border, against preventing tipping off Mexicans about the Minuteman Project, and against reporting illegal immigrants who receive hospital treatment. "Our policies and this big debate about immigration ... has ignored one fact, and that is that the immigrant workers who have come north of the border were there because after NAFTA passed, wages collapsed in Mexico, the peso dropped, and people were desperate to survive," Kucinich said in a Jan. 20 speech. "So what happened? So they came north of the border and they were willing to work for next to nothing. It is a blot on American history that we have maintained a system of slave labor, and now we're blaming the immigrants for that."

Marriage

Kucinich said he supports same-sex marriages, saying.

Taxes

In general, Kucinich favors a progressive income tax system in which taxes increase as income climbs. "The 2001, 2002, and 2003 tax cuts have created a tax system that favors the wealthy more than the working class American family," he said on his official House Web site. "These tax cuts have created a more complex tax code that is full of loopholes. Finally, these tax cuts placed the federal treasury in record deficits with little indication of a turn around. The President’s anti-growth economic policies and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are adding to the deficit. The combination of these policies are bankrupting our nation."

Iraq

There's no military solution" to Iraq, Kucinich said during a CNN interview on Jan. 7. "Now, if there's no military solution, why in the world would we want to leave our troops there? We need to begin a political solution. That political solution starts when we determine that we're going to withdraw, that we're going to end the occupation, that we're going to close the bases, that we're going to let the Iraqis handle their own oil assets."