Ralph Nader Quotes - Page 6

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• By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

  Ralph Nader

  Imagination, Balance, Culture

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• The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Winning, Law, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Bulls

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• It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Essence, Choices, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

  Ralph Nader

  I Like You, Issues, Labor Day

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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

  Ralph Nader

  America, Leader, Political

  "The Good Fight". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

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• You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

  Ralph Nader

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

  Ralph Nader

  Debt, Want, Conservative

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Progressive Society, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Dollars, Minimum Wage

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Home, Green

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Foreign Policy, Ready

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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

  Ralph Nader

  Order, Crowns, Founders

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• The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

  Ralph Nader

  Home, People, Expansion

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

  Ralph Nader

  Sometimes, Injury, Vehicle

  "Making Government and Business Accountable". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 16, 1991.

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• I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Too Much, Behavior

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Political, Politics

  Ralph Nader (2012). “The Seventeen Solutions: New Ideas for Our American Future”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

  Ralph Nader

  Doctors, People, Choices

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, People, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Oil, Lobbyists

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

  Ralph Nader

  School, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Water

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• [Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.

  Ralph Nader

  Media, May, Mass

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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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.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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