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The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

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 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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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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The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
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End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.
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By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
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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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The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
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Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked.
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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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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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Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.
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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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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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I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
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President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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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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