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Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.
Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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