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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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Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
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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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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.
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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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Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
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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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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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In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?
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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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We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
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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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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
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Everything will be solar in 30 years.
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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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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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We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
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I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.
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