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Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.
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Justice needs money it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.
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Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
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Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
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The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.
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Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.
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I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
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The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.
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It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
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The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
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Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P
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In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?
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Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
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