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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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That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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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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We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.
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It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
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For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
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General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
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I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.
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Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
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The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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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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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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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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You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.
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Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
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