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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
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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 various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.
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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 are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
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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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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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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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Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
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What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.
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