Ralph Nader Quotes

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Ralph Nader

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : February 27, 1934

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

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

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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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

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We must strive to become good ancestors.

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Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

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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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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

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

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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

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

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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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

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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

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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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