Ralph Nader Quotes

• We must strive to become good ancestors.

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  Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’

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• If God hadn’t meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn’t have invented dentists.

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

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• The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

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• The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.

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  Tags in Corporations, Republican, Door, Knock, Difference

• 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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  Tags in Addiction, People, Problem, Crime

• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

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  Tags in Consumers, Legislative, Washington, Corporate

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

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  Tags in Interests, Party, Liberal, Corporate

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

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• Let’s not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

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  Tags in Support, People, Just, Look

• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

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• When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

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  Tags in Like, Neighbors, Strangers

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

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  Tags in Government, Getting, People, Promise, Around

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

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  Tags in Charity, Needs

Ralph Nader (36)

Birth:	27th February, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Lecturer, Political Consultant

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Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government.

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