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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
Activist
Environmentalist
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Litchfield County
Connecticut
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.
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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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Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.
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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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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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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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The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
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Everything will be solar in 30 years.
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Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
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Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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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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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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