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I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.
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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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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.
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Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.
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Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked.
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We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.
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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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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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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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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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What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.
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Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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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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