Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1934
CityWinsted, CT
CountryUnited States of America
democracy turns ifs
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
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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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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
democracy denial information
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
democracy plutocracy
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
freedom democracies-have democracy
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
draft
These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers,
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I've always been independent, it's a thing with me, ... I don't want to get involved in these internal Green Party disputes, that's for them to settle ... I want to extravert the party's agenda.
free respect
dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech.
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Microsoft doesn't respect the antitrust laws, and it has amply demonstrated that it can't be trusted. The company has shown its contempt for any court-imposed changes in its conduct. If the government ends the antitrust case by seeking changes in its conduct, but not in its structure, Microsoft can be expected to creatively evade the thrust of such agreements.
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You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It's not a spoiler role, it's a leverage role.
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If Al Gore does not change the spectrum of his agenda and broaden it out, he is going to lose California,
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People want positive politics demonstrating changes and reforms instead of the politics of personality and personal acrimony enveloped in sterile media forays about the tactics of the day.