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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.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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