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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.
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We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.
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Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked.
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.
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I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.
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President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.
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Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
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General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
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Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
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We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
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That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
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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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The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
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