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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
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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.
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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 two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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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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This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
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