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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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What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.
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Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.
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You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up it's been frozen for so many years.
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I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.
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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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Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
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Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.
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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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The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
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Everything will be solar in 30 years.
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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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Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
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George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.
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There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.
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