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
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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Why do you have to stimulate the economy when there's huge unused capacity, when there's plenty of capital around, and when interest rates are at historic lows?
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To shut out legitimate third-party candidates from these debates is to limit the competitive democratic process on which the American electoral system is supposed to be built,
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Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.
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Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, ... it won't matter who wins.
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should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.
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Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.
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Neither party can afford to stand tall for the American people and oppose the takeover of our political government by big business,
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Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!
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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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We're going to prove them wrong in November,
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We grow up corporate, not civic. For example, we were led to believe that most crime comes from the street.
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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.